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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yoshida, the hot Boston clean-up man down the stretch, is a better bet to make solid contact off Fried and Rodon than Abreu right now. Wilyer can be a key all-or-nothing pinch-hitter late vs. bullpen righties, maybe for... ... ex-Yankee Refsynder, who should be able to handle RF in the Stadium (or hopefully his bat off the lefties can compensate for his defense). Sox have a lot of ex-Yanks, batteries included: Weissert, Whitlock, Chapman, Narvaez.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Super amped the Sox made the postseason. Even if it's quick, the young core -- most who won't play -- still get to experience the suspense and pandemonium of the playoffs. Re. the WC series with all games in NYC: just watching one in the Bronx is a grind, stressing on every swing the entire night that a Yankee won't pop up to right field. The Yanks have five guys with more homers than any Red Sox, and eight with at least 19; Boston has two. But regular season head-to-head doesn't matter, except to the boys who can carry the confidence of their accomplishments into October. Does a longer series give the best team more time to shine and emerge victorious? If so, a short series can favor a club with superstars who can make instant impacts. The Red Sox have two: Crochet and Chapman... even though it's Best-of-3, it still feels like Game One is the Wild Card GAME.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Casas' injury also completely destabilized home run production, since his injury directly caused the loss of both his longball potential, and our 35 HR, $300 million dollar baby. Casas and Devers have identical career 4.7 home run percentages. Story's is 4.6, Abreu 4.1, Bregman 3.9.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nope. Unless Cleveland -- down 2 in the 7th -- can rally to win, AND Toronto blows a 4-run lead, AND the Yankees win... ... we're going to New York. So might as well nail down a W in the last regular season game at Fenway.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Can't be Eovaldi, Sale or ERod because their teams are toast. Porcello? Price? Wait, you didn't say he pitched for Boston in '19, just won somewhere. 2019... Kashner! He must have won four in his old-timers league.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Please tell him he needs to hit one line drive before a big fly.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    De Leon -- five frames with the lead -- is now qualified for his first big league victory since... last decade ('19)! But who has to get 12 more outs on the mound? De Leon.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hammy's trying to make the postseason roster, and doesn't care if it's in New York. Mic'd down, he said, "I can hit a pop-up in the Bronx"
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The org may have simply decided the most difficult way to win a Wild Card series is to play three games in the Bronx, and the easiest may be in Cleveland, since the Guards have the AL's worst offense, and the Sox' strength is clearly pitching. If the Red Sox have to play the Yankees, they certainly would like a longer series later in the postseason with some games guaranteed to take place in Boston. They're still trying to win it all by trying to choose that path.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    De Leon is of course taking this seriously, but Masa's translator must be struggling, since there's no Japanese phrase for tanking.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Agree with all your choices. Tolle has one pitch. a great fastball, but which MLB batters who make the playoffs can presumably hit. However, he'd a useful one-inning reliever vs. the Guardians, who have the worst offense in the AL... otherwise, trust Murphy more than Kelly. Eaton has earned his spot this month. Sogard doesn't have the wheels of Hamilton, but he's a better baseball player -- solid defender, and even pinch-hit for Rafalea and made walk-off contact. Just can't count on Hammy to do either of those.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's fair... just like a certain Brez subtraction who was a Dombro pitcher with very low trade value -- who as soon as he left instantly morphed back into Cy Young after a half decade of Boston slugitude.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The 2025 Red Sox team going to the playoffs... giving credit where credit's due. Breslow guys: Narvaez, Lowe, Gonzalez, Bregman, Eaton... Crochet, Giolito, Chapman, Wilson, Slaten, Weissert, Matz, Tolle, Early, Harrison. IL: Fitts, Criswell, May, Hendriks, Hicks Bloom guys: Abreu, Story, Yoshida, Refsnyder, Wong, Sogard, Hamilton, ... Whitlock, Murphy, Kelly... IL: Anthony, Mayer, Bernardino, Dobbins, Winckowski... Banned in Boston: Devers (extended by Bloom; originally signed by Cherington). Dombrowski guys: Duran, Rafaela... Bello... IL: Casas, Houck I think that's a 40-man group -- with 30% currently injured, maybe Cora deserves more credit than he's often given by fandom. Just getting this squad to the postseason -- without key core players from the past (Devers, Casas, Houck) and future (Anthony, Mayer, Dobbins) is a feat worthy of the 2021 Covid club.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Narvaez is starting catcher today -- no rest for the carnivore -- that might mean they want Early to work more with the #1 receiver in a potential playoff battery.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A ballplayer doesn't have to just deliver in a playoff game to be considered clutch by his teammates. Any player who helps finish a victory can be clutch -- in any game; there doesn't have to be a trophy at stake. A game-winning hit (walk-off or in a late inning), a game-saving play, pitching out of a jam, hustling on the bases to beat a throw... many of these feats occur in early frames, too, but are more noticeable late in a sport obsessed with chronology like baseball. If you play on enough teams at enough levels for enough years, you notice guys who have a knack for coming through. Most of the time they're the best players -- but not always. Sometimes, the best players are more noticeable for not coming through...
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Early needs a good game to prove he can compete vs. playoff-caliber teams. Gotta think he's in the running for maybe one postseason roster spot along with Harrison and Tolle. Early does have the best repertoire and control, so he's got he edge right now...
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Edgar Renteria. Now there's a guy who repeated his skill of clutch hitting: MVP of the 2010 World Series with two game-winning home runs... after a walkoff RBI single that won Game Seven and a ring in the 1997 World Series. And the latter was only Edgar's second most clutch swing ever... "Back to Foulke!"
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    WHAT? Trout homered to beat the Astros last night! That was clutch for Boston and all of Red Sox Nation after the fact, but let's be honest, something we were all hoping for before our game... and all through the Casey Mize innings... and probably a more likely path to the playoffs in our heads than six relievers shutting down Detroit over the last six innings.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Cora probably didn't think he could afford to play one game without Story's bat in the line-up. Sept. BA: Yoshida .359, Romy .342, Story .315 -- tied with Narvaez with a team-leading 3 whole homers. Amazing that Boston's batting order -- without Anthony, Abreu, and a replacement for Big Raffy -- still made the playoffs. Even if the Sox concede the final two games, they'll finish September at .500, which means they didn't have a losing record in any full month except May, not coincidentally also Story's worst month. Story in May batted .158; the rest of the months combined he hit a solid .285.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Can almost hear Sam from the front office: "The reason we didn't acquire a bat at the deadline was we knew Yoshida would be returning in the second half to bat clean-up, and hit over .400 down the stretch and lead our team in RBIs." Now we know the real reason they traded Devers -- to open up a spot in the batting order for Mass Attacka.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    THERE it is, Moon. You finally admit Ceddanne's clutch walk-off hits CAN be repeatable! Hah, just busting with Rafaela joy this morning. As polarizing as he's been on this forum all season, a quick look at updated bWAR shows our soon-to-be Gold Glover is arguably the Red Sox best position player of 2025: Duran 4.6, Rafaela 4.5, Story 3.8... Btw: as far as resting players today, the one regular who could really use a break is Story, since he has looked more gassed at shortstop this month than any other. Sogard at SS this afternoon, please... Finally, the bullpen -- and not just Chapman -- has been the MVP down the stretch. For those who didn't get Apple, I agree with what the announcers said: "Garrett Whitlock is the most unhittable reliever in baseball right now."
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    True check swings resulting in ball calls would extend at bats, and since pitchers will no longer get strike calls for making batters flinch, they'll be forced to throw more pitches in the zone. If that doesn't increase contact rates, it will certainly mean higher pitch counts for pitchers, which could also lead to fatigue and more mistake pitches that big league hitters take downtown. Plus, higher pitch counts that lead to tired arms also means an increased workload for relievers, whose arms would also wear out quicker. It can have a trickle downtown effect.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I gotta see Yoshi take one off the Monster, then I'll agree. It's too much to ask him to reach the bullpens -- especially after they shut him down from lifting those inflatable dumbbells during his post-op rehab.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I welcome an entire robo ump system for balls, strikes and especially check-the-check. If analytics can somehow establish an official bat angle (for instance 45 degrees) and line in the sand -- let's call it the front of the plate -- that can't be crossed, as measured by the same electronic eyes that measure the strike zone, then the concept of a true check-swing will return to baseball. I honestly think such a system will eliminate literally half the wrong calls of "he went" from a baseline ump slanted 90 feet away -- and the majors will double the .300 batters overnight. And offense has always been what fans crave most, and why the MLB has juiced players and baseballs over the decades...
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It was Bello's last game of the season, and despite walking his usual tightrope, he had a shutout through 5. I figured Cora would leave him in until/if the Sox took the lead -- and then go to his good bullpen. AC rightly knew Bello, until he was cooked, was a better option than the two guys who coughed up gopher balls in relief. Management knows it just needs one win to get in. The Sox will keep Whitlock and Chapman in reserve until it's absolutely time to absolutely clinch.
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