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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I think if we're all honest here -- and from the time this roster was assembled -- if the 2021 Red Sox are going to be an actual contender, they need at least one more starter -- period. It was always unreasonable to expect Pivetta, Richards or Perez to evolve into a stopper, or for Sale to return with immediate pre-TJ dominance in regular turns (all those are hopefuls, but unreliable beyond uneven contributions). Another starting pitcher with proven postseason experience will most likely have to come from a deadline deal... if Bloom & Co. deem the cost worth it.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The key is how far technology has advanced the modern beer can. Lugging cases of cans is so much safer than bottles, with the risk of broken glass, severed tendons, and other lacerations. Mobile canning operations now drive right to craft breweries on canning day, eliminating the necessity of growler refills (nothing's more depressing or dangerous than an exploding glass growler, slipping from hands onto pavement).
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Baseball fans fanatical enough to hang out on sites like this all year are very discerning. We can see flaws in the Red Sox' offense, defense, pitching, coaching, and general managing. But after the first month or 1/6th of the season, all other clubs in the MLB have just as many -- if not bigger -- flaws. Even the mighty Dodgers are whiffing, just three Ks away from the worst swing-and-miss team in the NL. The Sox were seven games over .500 for April. If they can maintain such a reasonable rate -- and go just 71-64 the next five months -- it's an 88-win pace. In an overrated, mediocre division, that should be enough to contend for a playoff spot all season... and to keep us watching all summer!
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ah, the Kennedy Assassination of Boston baseball... until/if we ever know the truth, guys like us will always debate. One thing we all agree upon is that Chaim Bloom didn't suddenly join the Red Sox and decide to trade Mookie Betts on his own. But if you believe ownership indeed forced his hand, then you have to at least consider that dumping Price was also an order. Packaging them together may very well be the only way Bloom could move Price. And chances are, trading Mookie on his own would have netted an even better return.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Amateur coaches at many levels are now requiring players to listen to the wisdom of Pivetta: https://www.audacy.com/weei/sports/red-sox/the-nick-pivetta-quote-red-sox-fans-seemed-to-love
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe he was afraid they'd all boo or cheer his way? It was weird seeing thousands of unmasked people sitting shoulder-to-shoulder, as if Texas has a force-field protecting it from everything happening across the rest of the planet. Cora mentioned that the team will be very wary this weekend. Meanwhile, my son's Little League requires that kids wear masks in the batter's box... even though hitters face the pitchers -- away from catchers and umps behind them (who only have to wear equipment masks). Once the batter reaches base, though, masks are optional. Batters didn't have to wear masks last summer or fall...
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You're lucky if you missed Bagwell for six weeks of Larry Anderson.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I live in New England, and joined this site because nobody talks much baseball or Red Sox in any offseason anymore. As a matter of fact, sports talk shows on TV and radio spend 99% of the time discussing football, 24-7, year-round.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    As usual with these decade-long contracts, teams are more investing in the first half as their "long term"; in Lindor's case, for the next five years, the Mets are set -- having the best shortstop in the majors for his entire prime. If they win a title, it's worth it.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They also offered him $200 mil a few years before when Mookie's mom talked him out of accepting it because he was already worth more. And I'm pretty sure they once offered him $100 mil or something close when he first hit arb., trying to lock him up.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Red Sox always lowballed Betts. Boston's offers, while large compared to mere mortals (in and out of baseball), were always aimed at locking him up through years where they knew -- if he signed and continued his HOF pace -- he'd be making less than fair market value.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Renfroe can also contribute consistent outfield defense at the big league level.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Re: not trading Betts and the subsequent spending options; the '21 Sox would definitely be worse because Price is done (and his attitude would be intolerable), the new bullpen trio is a huge improvement, and Marwin's D all over the infield is underrated. The farm as-is would also be worse (though another tank finish would yield higher draft picks). Future spending remains to be seen...
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Lindor is .000 on BABIPTOMARWIN
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He sucks. What would take to get Freidman to convince Bloom to take back Mookie and that 12-year albatross contract for such a small body due to break down (unlike Judge and Stanton)? LA would have to include young pitching, but would even May and Gonsolin get it done? BrudSTAAAAH? Maybe... those three... and Lux?
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I've been saying this for years, but it's still a joke that the main reason Higgy is in there is because of Sanchez' bat. We'll see what happens the next time Gary hits two HRs in a game? A smart organization makes Higgy the personal caddy of Kluber.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Unless the analytics dept. takes him out before he faces batters a third time! But good hitters do love to face good pitchers who throw strikes, because they know they'll get more hittable pitches... unless the guy has an unhittable pitch: blazer that moves up and in, change-up that dives down and out, swooping slurve released from a Sale/Houck lefty/righty angle, etc.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The most: Alex Cora.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This is a common claim whenever a team splurges big on a single player, and sometime it proves to be true (we're looking at you G.Stanton in Miami... or maybe ARod in Texas?). But there are exceptions... which either shows an owner's true wealth or willingness to invest... or maybe, how much others might be raking in, while they're pleading hardships. When the Padres inked Machado -- after the Hosmer deal -- I heard and read how they'd never have anything left for pitching. Then in the past year they've been stockpiling quality pitchers: Clevinger, Snell, Darvish, etc... and that was before they exteneded Tatis for kajillions.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    McNeil won't be next.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Richards was Mr. Fantastic tonight. As for OB, I don't despise him, but he's gotta stop living in the past. Even if he's grammatically correct, mix in a few future tenses. When OB says every on deck batter "would be next", does any other viewer say, "No, he WILL be next" (unless there's a pinch-hitter, since this is the NL, after all; then he would've been next... before the change).
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    One-hundred sixty pounds of attitude. Who do you believe? Pedro: "Wake up the damn Bambino and have him face me. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." Ottavino: "I would strike out Babe Ruth every time."
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He's human. I've read and heard talking heads trying to compare him to Pedro's prime. Let's see... circa 2000: smack-dab in the ass of the PED Error, roid-raging monster muscles grinding bats to sawdust in every at bat... vs. 2021: worst MLB batting averages all-time in recorded baseball history.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That was Bloom's first priority coming in. Cora's is to win with the big league roster. Both are doing well thus far.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It wasn't just the NY papers, but every single media outlet that covers baseball. They had me wondering if they knew something that I didn't, like the Yankees had some secret weapons who were actually a good catcher, a sure-handed shortstop, and three starting pitchers who sat out 2020 and would all be healthy and lights-out.
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