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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Well, counting the 2018 ALDS, Eovaldi has won more games in Yankee Stadium than any other ballpark in the bigs (I know he was a Yankee for two years, but he's now been a Red Sox for parts of four).
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Perez was maybe the only offseason move I was in favor of that has worked out... well, the Sox also did well that Bloom didn't listen to me to sign Ozuna, Rosario, Odorizzi, Springer, Yates, and an actual centerfielder (albeit a cheap one). Note to OB: fans could care less about relievers' ERAs. Where are the stranded runners stats???
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm using this speech before our Little League game tonight. But I'm not letting them swing into the shift (which, against our club is to position the catcher behind home plate). Belt is the bunt sign; "B" for bunt!
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Unless you're the GM in Moneyball and freak out all the old bird dogs sitting around the table (or if you're a GM who really likes that movie).
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He went. He read too many posts here about how he wasn't a good outfielder, even though the MLB used metrics for Gold Glove nomination in the past.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't forget Price was 0-4 vs. NY in '18, including the playoffs, with a double-digit ERA.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Re. player development: what we just saw on the mound for three nights in Houston couldn't possibly be attributed to any widespread rule-"bending" (see comments from Cards' Manager Schildt) -- but how did the Astros' coaches teach three starters to throw offspeed pitches that break three feet??? Nobody on the Red Sox has stuff like that; and obviously, nobody on the Sox can hit stuff like that.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Another player one letter off in Boston was Pablo SUX (there's probably more in that family, at least one or two a year, except 2020 when it was an entire family reunion, catered by Bogaerts and Verdugo).
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I like notin's idea of drafting pitchers and then spinning them while they're still highly-regarded prospects for quality position players. Liberatore had a great rep, and the Rays wasted no time in trading him for Arozarena, the star of the '20 postseason and a possible MLB regular for the next five years.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We can say at least three of those names will be available with the Sox' #4 pick. The intrigue -- for Bloom, anyway -- is that so will all the other draft-eligible amateurs in the baseball world.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sub-.200 averages are the .250s of yesteryear (yesterdecades?). If it makes anyone feel any better, a Yankee relative of mine said he did a scan of batting orders the other day, and the Sox were the only team that day with zero sub-.200 guys. The Bronx bummers featured FIVE below the Mendoza Line.
  12. 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.
  13. 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???
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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???
  24. 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).
  25. 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.
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