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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The new CBA agreement won't be remotely close to the deadline for JD to decide, so the only hope is that Boros has some inside insight about the upcoming negotiation wars and advises his client to act accordingly.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No, Adam doesn't ruin everything. It was all NESN's fault. Franmill had just fouled off two outside fastballs and had a full count with two outs in the 9th. There was no way he was taking the last pitch, unless you bowled it. Another fastball even higher would've ended the game with a pop-up or strikeout. And then... NESN flashed a graphic that Ottavino was the best Red Sox pitcher since 1945 to go a whole season without allowing a home run. I just shook my head... apparently, Vazquez did, too, and was compelled to call for a hanging slider... because, you know, when a batter can't quite catch up to your gas, then you throw the next pitch slower so he can time it.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    There is no way JD is opting out, because no one is giving him a raise. If fans cringe when he flails at low and outside breaking stuff off the plate every at bat, every single game, then you know pro scouts and front offices are seeing the same thing. And the Red Sox are going to have to pay market value to keep Schwarber out of pinstripes. It will definitely be worth it, because Schwarber's definitely worth it, but when it comes to Bloom making a Godfather offer, I'll believe it when I see it.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Buying Seabold, just from what Sale said he saw in his rehab: "Ridiculous... plus fastball, plus breaking ball..." Selling Peacock, ridiculous in the other direction: cut from AAA, picked up by Boston, and is 0-1 with a 19.29 ERA in 2.1 IP here. Is bringing up Seabold for a few stints one of those safe "What do we have to lose" scenarios? If he could only sport an ERA of 17 or 18, that'd be an improvement.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's a good list of guys we dealt, and it's interesting that the 10 pitchers combined to win a combined 499 MLB games (...so far; Montas and Kopech are still active in the bigs, while Espinoza has yet to make it). That's an average of 50 wins per arm, but that figure is more like a median, since Sanchez, Pavano and de la Rosa won just over 100 each. Now compare the list to the four aces the Sox acquired for most of them: 685 career victories from Martinez, Schilling, Beckett and Sale (the latter, of course, is back atop the rotation, with already as many Ws as any of the 10). That's an average of 171 wins per stud... each traded to Boston for lesser prospects... when the time was right.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I think a lot of fans of the Lester-Buchholz era forget the Red Sox also drafted, signed and developed Johnathan Papelbon, because he converted to closer. Pap was a wingnut, but definitely the best closer for the longest tenure in Sox history. There's probably a good debate whether either Lester or Papelbon is deserving of enshrinement in Cooperstown, but they each certainly earned plaques in Boston's Hall of Fame.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Casas' 3 HRs yesterday traveled over a quarter mile. I'm not saying bring him up, but at least don't trade him.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    So much of the modern game is determined by the effectiveness of bullpens. Good or fresh arms = death to rallies; bad or tired arms = feeding time. Last century, when complete games for starting pitchers were not only expected but routine, batters had the benefit of facing the same stale guy four times through the order (nowadays, many pitchers aren't allowed to go through lineups three times). Maybe that explains the real reason so many legends from yesteryear made more contact and struckout so much less.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I mean, they're just guys on a website like us, right? We know there are also market values that clubs are happy to invest in (like on eBay, where the only true value of something is what someone is willing to pay for it). A lot of Sox fans didn't like the numbers that Mookie Betts set for himself, but after contracts to lesser players like Machado and Harper, the simple reality is that Mookie was worth more in the industry.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'd like to take this time to congratulate the 2021 Red Sox for their 78th victory. I knew they could do it, and my preseason prediction has come true. Now I'm really rooting for them to achieve other posters' prognostications...
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Now, why would we want to call up a guy who's having success in the minors when we instead, we could sign Brad Peacock? Ok, he was 0-4 with a 7.68 ERA in Triple A, but at least he was bad enough to face 12 big league batters this week. And dang-yo -- he may have a 19.29 ERA in the MLB, but at least he got out 7 of the 12 he faced!
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That is only a possibility hatched here. I doubt the Red Sox plan to keep him on a bench anywhere. It may be too late for him to be Grady Sizemore, who had four great MLB years by age 25 (and then dropped off the flat part of Earth until he was out of baseball at age 32)... but to improve, Duran needs to be playing every day, somewhere.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Best record in September.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The roster of a contender without one of the many high quality defensive outfielders who were available last winter does seems absurd. Nobody here is arguing about replacing Kike -- our WAR leader -- but how about for one of the two DHs we're suddenly forced to use in the outfield to protect a lead in late innings? At least we now know Schwarber can be shifted to first base, though we should assume a left-right platoon there, even with Dalbec currently on fire.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I lived it, and at the time '78 had the worst outcome of the one game I cared more about than any in my life. But by '03, so many more Yankee fans had crawled out of their lairs to hammer us with their entitlement, new generations like children of gang members or terrorists, indoctrinated and defined by our misery. Even Remy said '03 was the worst, and he actually played (well) in the '78 game.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    whatsamatter notin, don't you get your news from FOX? Ruth/Dent/Buckner/Boone are one long continuous narrative. They still try to revive that s*** whenever they feature NY vs Bos. Unfortunately, casual viewers half our ages only know that the Red Sox have won the most World Series this century. ... and '03 was the worst as a last straw accumulation of angst for long-suffering fans who couldn't take it any more.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Gotta agree; if the Sox make it to the '03 World Series, they don't fire Little and hire Francona for '04. So it was absolutely essential that Red Sox Nation suffer its worst defeat so it could revel in its greatest victory.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Typical irony in the Covid age that the Sox' fastest outfielder can't go into late innings as a defensive replacement. But it shows how much Bloom really thought about his club's chances last winter when he wouldn't sign a cheap, glove-first centerfielder to protect leads... despite the talksox miracle of virtually every poster agreeing to pay one. Jake Marisnick cost $1 million. Michael Taylor, who leads the big leagues in outfield dWAR, cost $1.75 mil. There were others.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The mortal sin wasn't relying on Pedro; it was Little changing the plan and messing with the psyche of his players, who had all their adrenaline drained, five outs from the World Series. In an interview, Pedro said he was relaxing in the dugout after the 7th and suddenly asked if he could get Nick Johnson out (soon to be leading off the bottom of the 8th). He agreed, and delivered... and then the plan changed again -- when the guy who was supposed to come in to face Jeter (probably Timlin) was left in the bullpen. The rest is infamy.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's fair. But be honest, how many times have you've said "JBJ woulda had it" -- at least thought it -- on balls that also eluded Kike and Dugo? I know I've also had "Mookie would've had it in his pocket" moments on pop-ups that Renfroe and even the second basemen or first basemen couldn't get to.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    From what I've seen, Duran hasn't missed any catchable fly balls. I've seen Renfroe miss a few, and of course JD and Cordero, and remember a couple deep drives over Kike or Verdugo when they didn't look so good early on. With apologies to Christian Vazquez -- who NESN tells us was recently voted the AL's best defensive catcher (Sal Perez, anyone?) -- the outfield has been the Red Sox' defensive strength this year. Maybe someone can explain dWAR: Duran and Renfroe are each -0.5; Hunter leads the league in both outfield assists and errors. JD is -0.7... Cordero is somehow better than all three, at -0.1 (no penalties for being way out of position?). The only positives in dWAR are Kike 1.6, and Dugo 0.2. In comparison: Bradley 1.1, Betts 0.3, and Benintendi 0.2.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Kudos to ERod, Richards, and Cora (or letting GR finish). Cora detractors may argue he had no choice, since Whitlock and Otto were used Wed, but old fans can appreciate a manager who knows to ride a hot arm to nail down a big win -- and go against the modern book of contriving different relievers for the 8th and 9th when there's no guarantee if either will "be on" on any given night. When he brought in Richards in the 7th, my son and I looked at each other and wondered who'd pitch the 8th and 9th; we could only predict Davis and Robles. It was the best and worst we could come up with.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    When I put my car in neutral, sometimes it's inclined to let gravity take over. When Dalbec -- or just about any Red Sox batter -- hits to the opposite field, it's always a good thing.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nobody is wrong about Pedro. He was obviously the Red Sox' best pitcher and had had a great Game 7 for seven innings in '03. And before entering the dugout he was obviously done when he tapped his heart and pointed to the heavens (like he always did after punching out his timecard). The most underrated part of what followed is how nigh impossible it is for any pitcher who shuts it all down -- physically and mentally -- to ramp it all back up again, especially in the biggest pressure inning and game of the season. Yes, Posada hit a freaking blooper, but that was only after three other Yankees smoked Martinez: Jeter, Williams and especially Matsui -- after Grady's mound visit, when Pedro's bobblehead eyes told us not to look. That double by Godzilla, when Little didn't escort his ace back to the bench after handing the ball to Alan Embree, is the exact moment that got the manager fired.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    At bat, Duran has obviously been overmatched in his first month in Boston. But I've seen progress in just the past week, when he made two adjustments in his batting stance that resulted in MLB hits: one with a split grip to go the other way, and last night raising his hands to pull the game-winner. As for D, I just haven't seen the part where Duran "cannot" field. In contrast, Cordero looked incompetent at times this year trying to catch fly balls or pop-ups in both the outfield and at first base.
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