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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Totally agree. Like the Sox with Sale, the Astros have Verlander out for the year... and yet, Houston just threw two young pitchers at us with better stuff than anyone in the Boston rotation.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... just imaging this with Casas at 5. and Duran at 9 or 1; how many months before they provide more consistent contact with power and/or speed than Kike/Marwin/Santana/Dalbec? Twelve months from now? Nine? Three???
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    For clubs that prioritize pitching (which should be all of them), it's always more important to have a good catcher instead of a good hitter who plays catcher. Davis' main skill is with the bat. Most reports rate his arm as his best asset behind the plate, but wonder if he'll remain at catcher as a pro. Worst-case scenario sounds like a guy named Sanchez, whose team may be finally admitting they'll never win with him as their No. 1 backstop.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How could you not love Verdugo -- his performance, hustle, style, quotes. It's just sad that modern fans don't get to grow up and grow old with guys like him playing for the same team anymore, and then slapping high fives (or elbows) with him when he jogs a retirement lap around the ballpark.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    These next two weeks could be key in sustaining the Sox' unexpectedly great start: 14 games vs. Houston, New York and Toronto -- all clubs that could wear out an overachieving rotation and overworked bullpen. The first seven are on the road in Houston and the Bronx. Prediction? .500? 6 and 8 wouldn't knock Boston out of contention... remember, the Sox play NY and the Rays again at the end of the month. What is a realistic record for the next two weeks? If the Sox hang in there and go 3-4 this week in parks full of anti-social (distanced) crowds, I say they come home and start dominating again in Fenway: 8 Ws, 6 Ls.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I have a feeling there may be different outcomes if the staff and defense continue to provide the same opportunities to the Astros in the SEVEN games with Houston in the next two weeks... not to mention the other seven vs. NY and the nomadic Jays.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sox could use another good outfielder -- maybe Bloom could unburden the third-place Dodgers of Betts' contract if they throw in a couple of top pitching prospects.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nick, you contribute a lot of perspectives on many aspects of the fan experience. I also have one on the "strike zone box" outline forced upon modern viewers of every televised game: it is vastly overrated because it's inaccurate -- both in camera angle and proportions; one size does not fit all -- the distance from the "letters to the knees" or the more realistic belt to the knees depends on the individual (ask Judge or Altuve). All that "box" really does is create more stress for diehards -- because we want to believe we know what we're seeing. It may help guide opinions for casual fans, but it doesn't enhance, and only mars, my experience. If you watch one of those vintage telecasts from 15-20 years ago, notice there was no fake outline around the plate... and discerning fans and announcers did just fine assessing the calls.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I got Matt Cain, but thought the other guy was Dallas Braden (now MLB analyst); wrong. I forgot all about the third guy: drafted by New York, then New York, and basically a .500 guy for four clubs before throwing his perfecto... the next year he went 0-8 for a fifth team and was done.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You mean up on Downs. It's like the effects of alcohol, a depressant, which slows body/brain controls and filters, causing the user to initially appear "rowdy"... until, the drinker crashes, mentally and physically (hopefully not operating machinery). Smart baseball men sell high. But I just don't understand why the Red Sox, with an obvious need for a full-time starter at second base -- maybe even this year, in a possible pennant race -- aren't playing their Number Two organizational prospect (one ahead of Duran on SoxProspects.com) there now in Triple A.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I wouldn't be surprised if Downs is traded for a big league need if the Sox hang in there and decide to go for it. They've been playing him regularly at shortstop since Spring Training, which doesn't look like a fast-track way to groom what some people thought was the second-baseman of the future (or second half of this season, if they flop). Maybe he's being showcased at short. Keeping a top prospect at a position blocked by a franchise face like X doesn't make sense, either... unless they fear Bogie will opt out. Ugh -- imagine a guy wearing #2 in homage to his boyhood idol (who wore pinstripes), and then being replaced by Jeter.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ya, I saw Roy in there, too. And obviously -- barring scandal -- Verlander, Kershaw and Scherzer will also be in Cooperstown someday. But that's still, what -- 5 in 50 years, so an average of one Hall of Fame pitcher drafted in the first round per decade. Could this be the year of the decade for Boston???
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Zero pitchers chosen in the first round in the first 25 years of the June draft made the Hall of Fame. edited: Mussina 1990 (good thing I checked; I read an article posted before he made it).
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I just hearing John Henry say, "We need to find out if Mookie wants to spend the rest of his career in Boston." For some reason (and posters feel free to hammer away at me) I always wondered if that statement had to do with more than -- gasp -- just money.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    By my count, in the first half-century of the baseball draft, there were 11 players picked in the first round that became Hall of Famers. None of them were pitchers...
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    As far as pitching prospects, Leiter and Rocker have been consistently projected to go 1-2 or 2-1, with not much separating either since the past winter. Having a father who was an MLB pitcher vs. an NFL defensive lineman has to be a consideration for some baseball minds. Anyone who thinks that is impossible probably also thinks that every single front office employee for every single franchise graduated from the same analytics school.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The key was that Fenway could keep selling beer all night because the delay came before the end of the 7th inning. If they tarped the field after the 7th, they would have to call it, because everyone would go to bars.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But isn't the Olympics the exact kind of higher-level competition that will help these guys prepare for the bigs? I'd almost bet the Sox hierarchy welcomes the possible struggles Duran and Co. may experience in do-or-die stress going against the best amateurs (non-MLBers?) in the game...
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ...maybe when he's older, maybe when/if he becomes more outspoken; reasons for wanting to leave don't all have to revolve around social issues, but could just be weather-related (as was rumored). Betts doesn't look to be a player who returns to Boston after his playing career as an announcer or ambassador (like a lot of ex-Red Sox) -- he won't miss the adulation, which he already has in LA, and certainly won't need the money. Then again, who would have ever thought Rice would become part of the media?
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm actually ambivalent about Mookie's performance going forward. I don't wish him bad tidings in any way, but I'm also not interested in rooting for him to perform at a high standard. He's just not a Red Sox player anymore. But I'll never get over the fact that Boston traded its best homegrown player in a half century when he was 27 years old. It would certainly help fans move on if someday, Mookie or a family member admits that he wasn't going to re-sign in Beantown because he didn't want to play the rest of his career in New England. It would be a lot easier to accept, and make Bloom and Henry look even better with what they were able to get in return from LA (which already surpasses most superstar salary dumps). Plus, the deal also allowed the Sox to axe Price.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They need more liveicated pitchers!
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It seems like a lot of us agree, but what kind of data do the analytics departments use to justify mixing in a low OPS guy in between all the .900 stars?
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I agree with getting Devers as many at bats as possible. Batting him in the top 3 guarantees he hits in the first inning of every game, and even though he comes out hacking at everything, he's still the one guy most likely to give Boston an early lead. I don't understand the new thinking about the top 5 spots in the order... if the best hitter bats second, why wait two more at bats -- and risk two more outs -- for the next-best guy to bat fifth? I do get the Sox' presumptive logic in batting Devers fifth, after all their other good hitters: 1) more chances of guys on base for him to drive in; 2) he provides protection for JD and Bogie, who both may get better pitches to hit; 3) Rafie doesn't need protection, because opponents know they can't pitch around him and probably don't want to, since he just swings away at almost anything all game.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Do you mean this season? I just can't see counting on Sale to be consistent, regular-turn-through-rotation Sale again until next year. But I will agree that finding/developing/acquiring another Sale-type should always be the priority -- and if we're honest here -- the Sox' best hope to both qualify for and have a chance of advancing in this or any postseason (maybe this should be in the prospects thread on the draft).
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    White Sox are going nowhere with LaRussasaurus calling out players in the media. Bet on the inferior Guardians, whose skipper knows how to manage modern athletes.
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