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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Big leaguers making the adjustment.
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    Franchy with the... OPPO!
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    He's fooling no one. Whitlock is a lock to pitch today.
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    He just made a great pivot on a DP try (runner safe at first)... after a spectacular diving stop and good feed by Devers.
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    Mullins leads the AL in batting. Vazquez is second, JD fifth.
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    Ump blew the call; Arroyo should've known better than to watch the next one.
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    Vaz double, third XBH of the 1st. The Dock Knight is a Lite Day.
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    "Guns or knives?" Rafie: "I don't wanna fight with ya, Harvey." 1-2-3-go! Two to nothing!
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    Oppo double, Verdirtdawg! Also, someone tell Eck that Baltimore is south of Boston...
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    Pipeline Inbox: Sizing up the Draft WWW.MLB.COM I am immersed in the 2021 Draft right now and enjoying every minute. I had a lot of fun getting scouts to compare Vanderbilt aces Jack Leiter and Kumar Rocker and am enjoying a deep dive into my half of the country as we work on our new Draft Top I just read this story on MLB that says that depending on who goes first, Rocker would be the heaviest pitcher in draft history, and Leiter would tie for the shortest... Both have the genes of pro athletes (though one is a baseball player and the other is a football player). It also says Lawler's K-rate is up in high school, and Davis is raking; he also has a cannon arm, but most scouts rate him below avg. as a catcher and wonder if he should be moved to rightfield (like Harper).
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    I'm not insulting the guy, but he actually gave up an unforgettable HR in a forgettable season. Some posters choose to actually talk Sox here -- in the language of fans at the ballpark or like at a bar -- about good and bad times watching the Red Sox. For most of us, the threads spark memories we share in the discussions. There are only a few here who constantly pick on anything they disagree with.
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    Maybe Mazza wasn't "one of the worst" -- I should parse my adjectives since there are posters ready to pounce on every single word -- but his WHIP was worse than Osich, Covey, Triggs and Tapia, among others, and he was definitely on the long list of Bloom's bargain bin failures. He is also immortalized in my living room for one moment: giving up the longest home run my son and I have ever seen on live TV (495' to Ronald Acuna). When history recaps the 2020 Sox, this will be the clip Fox and ESPN show over and over.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Red Sox may have been ready to start the season, just not ready to face John Means' 83 mph change-up. Means' Opening Day outing may turn out to be the best start vs. Boston all season (we hope), and along with Cesar Valdez' 78 mph change-up, may have just put Sox batters in a temporary funk. If you don't believe me, Means and Valdez also silenced the Greatest Batting Order in the history of Never in the Bronx just last night...
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    I'm psyched the Sox swept Tampa, but also can't shake this perspective: the '21 Rays pitching staff includes Mazza and Springs, two of the worst of the '20 Red Sox from the worst pitching staff in team history. Time will tell if the Rays really are magical in getting the most out of other club's castoffs... or really desperate.
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    Thanks. I wondered if Tampa was just better at drafting pitchers or developing them. Since '01, they used first round picks to get two Cy Youngs -- Price (#1 overall) and Snell (#52nd overall) -- plus Ryne Stanek, who was their first regular opener. Those three are basically the Rays' only top pitching picks who made good; more recently they drafted McKay in '17 and Liberatore in '18 (who they traded for Arozarena). Looks like Tampa is just better at acquiring pitchers.
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    Taking MLB ETAs into consideration for a desperate franchise, I'd opt for the best baseball player over the best athlete any day. Right now I think Leiter is at the top of the draft (though there's a long way to go).
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    It pretty much was 40 years ago, when the early '80s Sox staff was all homegrown. Hurst (1st round) and Tudor (3rd) were drafted in '76, Ojeda signed in '78, Nipper (8th) and Boyd (16th round!) were drafted in '80. The pinnacle came in the '83 draft when the Sox picked Clemens 19th overall. Leave it to Duquette, Epstein and their ilk to deem that using draft picks on pitching was too unreliable; better to load up on positional talent and make trades or splurge on free agents whenever pitching was needed to make a run.
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    It's ok, I've never considered myself modern, even when my hair was down to my shoulders; I just used "modern" because if I didn't, someone here would dig up a pitch from a game back when Ruth was a Red Sox. Let's just say, to me, that whole at bat for the Mets' Mookie was the worst ever. I like the saying that the best era of comic books is when you were 13 years old.
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    Yup, the hardest play for an outfielder is a rising liner hit right at his head. It gets even trickier when a batter goes oppo, because their drives tend to curl away towards the lines -- and we could see Randy get twisted the wrong way on that play. The lights and time of night (zzzzzz) are also factors...
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    Except: "it would be inaccurate to say we are going for it with an all-in approach". Sending Houck down because of service time considerations should make Bloom boosters happy, because Tampa doesn't care about using up young guys they know they'll trade before they have to pay them. Of course, Bloom also knows a player with more years of control is a better trade chip...
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    Ironic that all the NESN employees love the new "gold" and blue uniform shirts. Even the dinosaurs think they look sharp. Everyone wants to be a yellow-belly? Yaz would wear one... if he wasn't too cowardly to look too cowardly.
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    Hey, Crawford was the only other Sox pitcher besides Hurst to win a World Series game in '86. Sox paid Steve Crawford $330,000 that season. Somehow, that seems a better Crawford value than Boston paying Carl $115,171 per HIT in the 2011 regular season.
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    Dobnak "saved" the arms of the guys in the pen they'd rather not use in a blow-out... he "saved" the Twins' relievers for the late innings of the next close game (as long as it's not in the playoffs; then, they might as well just activate Bert Blyleven's bronze plaque for all that matters).
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Worst pitch in modern Red Sox history. The official scorer called it a wild pitch, because it almost hit Wilson... and how history could've changed if it did. There are plenty of contenders for worst nightmare: the Leephus to Tony Perez in '75 that tied Game Seven (Yaz called it "that slop curveball by Bill Lee"); Torrez' meatball to Dent; maybe Wakefield's floater to Boone or something by Pedro -- (probably the one Matsui ripped after the mound conference; Posada tied it with a pop-up)... but both those guys are thought of as heroic for their efforts. Stanley's to the backstop had to be the biggest letdown, one out away from a world title. That was worse for me than Buckner's E, because once NY tied it -- and the way they tied it -- we all knew the outcome was inevitable. But I remember my step-father, who was a catcher and a Mets fan, just saying, "That had to be a cross-up."
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    These make sense, but what accounts for movement of pitches? Like, why does Eovaldi sometimes get roped throwing 100 mph, and why can't the Sox hit Means at 83? Richards said he made good pitches the other day... then why did the O's rip his fastball and spin his spinners to beat the shift?
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