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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe Cashman can find a salary dump in Boston. Of course, Bloom would insist we also get Jasson Dominguez.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    There's no way Marwin gets cut this year. Not only is one of Cora's guys, but he's actually been as good with the glove as everybody else was supposed to be. Marwin has made better plays than starters at short, second and first. We love Cora, and of course he knows way more about baseball than fans do... but when he said Kike was the best second baseman in the league, most of us knew that statement was made, in part, as a confidence-booster to the player. Marwin's just better, and will be the defensive replacement in late/close games down the stretch.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sox have the best Garrett. No matter what, he's a letter better than Gerrit.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Devers looked shocked Cole threw him another fastball for a strike. That may explain Rafie's trouble with heaters a month ago -- like the rest of us, he was wondering why anyone would ever challenge him again...
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A lot of poster complain watching Marwin hit. But in a red sea of underwater defense, he bobs about the waves. JD just hit one to the Cole-colored seats.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Judge hits HRs to right field all the time, so doesn't get to whine about outside strikes near the corner. Meanwhile, it's 4-0, but Cole has only 35 pitches in 2 IP. ERod is at 857 pitches.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Good line. But I'm envisioning the colored-in diamonds in my scorebook that signify runs.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ball in the dirt with the Yanks' good catcher... and no stick-em? Rut-row
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Go ahead, play the infield in vs. Devers... he doesn't hit the ball that hard.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Melting down like Montgomery Burns trusting Homer to run a nuke plant...
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe for some fans, it's not as much the actual number Kike signed for, but that of all Bloom's recruits, Kike got paid the most...(for two years)
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    So does Tampa, apparently. If we look at recent history for Bloom's Rays, they treat closers as fluid assets to use every season to swap for upgrades. Here are Tampa's yearly leaders in saves since 2013: Rodney, McGee, Boxberger, Colome, Colome, Romo, Pagan, Anderson, Castillo... it's been a different guy every year but one.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I was envisioning someone more unproven, even a minor leaguer, that the front office may be eying as ready to emerge as an MLB weapon. This is only based on recent history with the Rays, who seem to roll out endless no-names in every series who throw 98 mph vs. the Sox. I wouldn't be surprised if Tampa keeps a list of flame-throwers to consider acquiring at every level from every team; Bloom must remember a lot of those targets.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not opposed to it, but Braves' fans would be. Trading the reigning NL MVP would certainly look like surrender and may signal -- not a rebuild, but a revamp -- for underachieving Atlanta. If the Braves are willing to deal, then I'd expect Bloom to expand it to include one of their young arms... Acquiring a star like Freeman also opens up a lot of questions here. Does the 31-year-old have another five years of production approaching his career averages of 28-98-.293-.889? If so, is he the guy Bloom tries to extend longterm? And then... which top-rated pitching prospect does he trade Casas for?
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Agreed, which is how I think Bloom will feel when he gets back a haul for Barnes. Sox fans who have watched Barnes' inconsistencies every summer (often after having great springs) won't necessarily view it as surrender -- especially if another live arm is part of the return.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Boston traded the face of the (failed) franchise -- NoMAAAr -- at the '04 deadline. The Sox were in second place, got better, and still finished second (but first in the postseason).
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    With the uncertainties of the upcoming labor dispute and a new CBA, this may be the summer for a lot of movement by GMs trying to extract value from impending free agents.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yup, just throwing it out there. I'd bet the front office will be huddling together looking at many options in the next month. I know some posters want internal moves, but I just can't see Bloom letting Barnes and ERod walk for nothing if he's not prepared to sign either to longterm deals at market value -- which he has not done with one single player yet since he took over.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Red Sox lead the majors in errors. In a scoreless game with a runner on second in the 7th inning they pinch-hit a guy batting .194. It's time to make some moves or wait until next year. Since I believe Bloom will trade Barnes in the next month, here's one way to shore up the D, fill two glaring holes, and lengthen the batting order: Barnes, ERod and Downs to KC for Carlos Santana, Whit Merrifield and Michael Taylor. Boston would instantly have three reliable big leaguers at three positions where they currently don't: 1B, 2B and CF. A club like KC may not be able to sign both Barnes and Rodriguez, but maybe they like Downs' future (p.s.: this deal was an exact match on baseballtradevalues' simulator).
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The MLB has put itself in a sticky situation with the fans. First, the MLB shocks fandom with a report blaming a league-wide practice on a very small terrorist cell of nefarious Houston villains, who led astray the poor Astros players (grown men apparently irresponsible for their own decisions). And now the league continues to tarnish its rep by actually trying to clean it up by banning another "tradition" -- according to Cole, NY -- smack-dab in the middle of a season. It's not all Richards and Scherzer, but nobody is in the mood to hear millionaires bitching and moaning about it, either. And it certainly affects the pennant races, and obviously the fate of Boston... where we thought Bloom's admirable "grinders" on the mound were getting by on "grit" to overcame their lack of superstar talent (sorry, couldn't resist the pun).
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Typical reaction from a front-running Red Sox fan (I agree).
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We bitch because we watch, and see ineptitude in many facets of the game. It comes with being a fan of a contender; fans of doormats just stop watching.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This shouldn't be an issue; the MLB owns a major manufacturer of the baseballs it uses.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's no coincidence that "spin-rate" and "Spider Tack" both became phrases in MLB lexicon the past few seasons. I've been a fan for over 50 years and never heard of either before that. Richards made his money as a product of that culture. Right now he's like one of the deflating steroid goons at the turn of the century forced off the juice.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He said he felt fortunate to extend his career this far before the crackdown. What he meant that he was able to get paid millions of dollars before the banned stuff he was using was actually banned... Richards has been worth less since the change, and if he doesn't develop a new pitch ASAP, feel free to combine the compound word into "worthless". Also, moderators: please close down the thread about Who Gets Bumped From the Rotation When Sale Returns.
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