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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Duran and Casas are going to play for USA in the Olympic tournament for the next two weeks. It's the perfect opportunity for top prospects to experience playing against the best competition -- at their own level. Continued development is the main goal for each of these guys; we don't need either struggling through growing pains in the bigs yet, not when the Sox are already a first-place contender -- and with Santana just promoted. The prudent plan is to let Duran and Casas dominate the minors, maybe get a taste as September call-ups, and then definitely battle for MLB roster spots in Florida next winter.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I was just referring to his last two HR distances -- at supposedly 480' and 475'. Ted Williams' mythical red seat is 502' from the plate; remember when a frustrated Ortiz couldn't come close to reaching it in BP using an aluminum bat? Does that mean that minor leaguer Jarren Duran can already hit them as far as primetime Papi?
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The last thing you have to worry about is Bloom trading prospects. If anything, he'll trade free-agent-to-be Barnes to another contender for two future closers making the minimum.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You should see us old fossils at Little League games... where every coach cares way more about baseball than their own kids (who just want to be kids, before getting full rides to D1 colleges, and then signing with pro teams for kajillions so their parents can retire early).
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Way more... there wasn't any legendary power/speed hype when Betts was on the verge of being called up. Mookie hit 5 homers in 45 games in Triple A before his call-up. Duran has 7 in 17 games. Betts was more a contact guy who could fly: 61 BB vs. 50 Ks, with 33 SBs his last minor league season. Duran's '21 so far: 10 BBs vs. 20 Ks, 4 steals, 2 CS.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    As diehard fanatical baseball followers, we probably need to remember that sometimes, we care more about every single game than some of the guys who work in the uniforms at their jobs every single day... especially, on Getaway Days (with a day off tomorrow).
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No one's ever scoring against them again, no-hitters and triple plays every night. They're a jugular nut.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Totally agree on Eovaldi. When he was the best pitcher in the 2018 postseason, announcers raved about his new, unhittable cutter at 93 mph. When he used it to strike out Bregman (who had posted videos of Houston lighting him up when Eovaldi was with Tampa), cameras showed Price mouth, "Post that."
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    First, he'd have to play two more years to reach the required minimum of 10 MLB seasons to be eligible... In that regard, maybe Kirby Puckett is a better comp than Rice; Puckett only played 12 years and finished with 51.2 bWAR, so Betts would have to average 1 WAR for the next four years to pass him. Kirby and Mookie each have three Top 3 MVP years, two World Series rings, one batting title, multiple Gold Gloves. Puckett led the league in hits four times, Betts led the bigs in runs scored twice. Kirby has an RBI crown, Mookie led in slugging, and tied a record with six career three-HR games (at age 27).
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Right now, Chavis' hustle needs to be in the lineup. He has been a spark since his call-up, and is just flying around the bases. He also had a clutch oppo hit in the 9th last night; maybe he's adjusting (or just swinging late?).
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Jim Rice career bWAR: 47.7. Mookie's current bWAR: 47.3. And Betts is only 28... Now Betts' fans may call both great hitters, but note that Mookie is also a Gold Glover and elite baserunner. Here's an interesting comp on baseballreference: the most similar batter for each at age 26 is Duke Snider, Hall of Famer.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He is... immortal. We're just immoral.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In just his Boston years -- through age 26 -- Mookie already had more career WAR than Harold Baines.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm looking forward to the trade deadline, because I think it will answer a lot of questions about Bloom.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    People will always talk about Mookie because he's going to the Hall of Fame. And they'll always be talk about the trade because it's a big deal -- and a rarity -- when a big market club trades a homegrown Hall of Famer in his prime.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    People did pay him that -- a salary at the top of his industry, for a top of an industry player. Speier article on Dombrowski today says Dombro may have kept Mookie around longer than his bosses wanted, reportedly telling John Henry, "They'll burn my house down if we trade Mookie Betts." But if you re-watch the movie Moneyball, the scene where Henry tries to sign Billy Beane as GM really says it all. In the script, the Henry character salivates at how Beane could build a winner in small-market Oakland with meager funds. Of course, Henry's impatience eventually brought Dombro on board, until the owner once again sought Moneyball machinations (and the ways of the Rays).
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Great lists, thanks. I would take A, but would defy the digits by flipping a few guys (mainly from my own personal preferences). For example, I'd take Maddux over Johnson, solely because I hate walks so much; I know RJ settled down after leading the league three straight years, but Greg had the best BB per 9 for 9 seasons. And just for big games that I had a rooting interest -- for or against -- I'd take Pedro over Rog, Schilling over Mussina, and Pettite over Brown.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In the preseason I heard Mike Greenberg and co. putting the over-under on the Yanks at 103... and everyone on his show laughed and picked the over because of how unstoppable they were.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Schilling did it, too, in Boston; I remember, because ARoid got him one game in Fenway. Eovaldi moved to the pen in '19 for a spell -- I think after a stint on the DL.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Geez, good thing the Bronx Bombasts have a hot hitter this year in Stanton --- whoops, injured... agaaaain?????
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Watch Sale become that late-inning option leading to Barnes... sure, he makes too much dough to be a reliever, but it might makes sense when they begin to ease him back into a workload, throwing an inning or two a couple times a week.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Was that where he met Suzie Q-Anon?
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Recur is one that keeps barking, over and over. Incur is the stuffing from the bed he bit to pieces out of frustration, from being forced to take a catnap (which is a misnomer in any language).
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He's never seen rain.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I concur (an odd compound word that in dual languages translates to "with a dog"). The trick may be to add a veteran reliever with a pennant race pedigree and not someone who's 2021 hot that will cost a legit prospect... which I personally can't ever see Bloom parting with for a bullpen piece.
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