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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't take a drink from him!
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe the problem on 2011 is that the pitchers drank but didn't let anyone else in their club. The only names I ever heard were Beckett, Lackey and Lester (we can only guess what stuff Buch was into that year). Those cliques can crush chemistry. Contrast to '04 -- it's hard to imagine Millar or Damon not offering a snort to anyone... in the whole ballpark.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Interesting tidbit in the Cora press conference today regarding analytics: he gave the example of Game 4 of the World Series 2018, when he let ERod pitch to Puig, and it resulted in a 3-run homer. Cora's decision was solely driven by pre-game info that said Puig was better vs. righties than lefties. But then Cora mentioned that he knew this wasn't the same Eddie, who hadn't started a game in 16 days. Translation: Cora's gut said yank him, but he stuck with the plan and got burned. Of course, he added that that was the same game that Roberts pulled Rich Hill too soon (according to media, fans and lame ducks everywhere). Btw: i was ok with letting ERod pitch to Puig, but the one decision I was totally against was letting Eovaldi pitch to Puig with two outs, first base open, Austin Barnes on deck, and the typing run on second in the 13th inning of Game 3. Kinsler misplayed Puig's grounder (I didn't use the "c" word!) and the marathon lasted another 17 hours...
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    My step-father was a pro ballplayer and he was all about character and chemistry. His mantra: the team that drinks together wins together. I used to counter that the A's and Yankees, who won half the World Series in the 1970s, were always fighting among themselves. But he argued they were extremely talented exceptions -- and that New York won two rings only after signing two of Oakland's Hall of Famers (he was a Mets fan).
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Of course you recall the famous match-up between Johnson and John Kruk in the '93 All-Star Game; Kruk couldn't wait to get back to the safety of the dugout. But no, I wouldn't be surprised by any competitive athletes up for the challenge of trying to prove themselves vs. the best -- at whichever level they're playing. It's why we keep score. It still doesn't mean big leaguers used to being overconfident don't lose it at times or even forever; for every Steve Blass or Steve Sax whose careers go mysteriously South, there have to be hundreds or more guys who briefly make the majors and then never again. Do you really think Benintendi's problem last July was ultimately overconfidence?
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But Cox owns the all-time record... for getting ejected. What a fighter!
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Even when the very words of Mookie and Joe Kelly in the game in question implied the opposite? I would bet you'd lose that bet if you polled batters who faced Randy Johnson in his prime...
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Plankton thinks they're snow globes.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not quite -- the players all got amnesty as long as they gave Manfred his scapegoats.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Fans all over the country have been debating all day which is worse: a drunk holding the wheel of a moving vehicle capable of high speeds on public roads... or a coach holding a trash can lid in a dugout.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Some are even worse: grocery store plastic bags that idiots throw in the ocean and seals think they're jellyfish. Is that Bauer driving the loud garbage truck, banging gears and scraping driveways, waking us up early in the morning?
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yes to Hendriks; no to Osuna baggage. I'd take Kela -- he actually just said he'd love to play for Cora.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We need both Hand and Hendriks, but as a fan I'm just not that interested in watching a team built on bullpenning, and not even knowing who's starting the next day's playoff game (if there is one). The Yankees assembled "the greatest bullpen in history" according to the NY and national media, but how far have their recent clubs built on strikeout pitchers and home run hitters gone? Boston's bullpen was certainly worse the last few years because of overuse due to unreliable starters. Plus, I'm still exhausted from watching a summer of failed auditions for the rotation. Give me inning eaters, please, even mediocre ones. Otherwise, Hand/Hendriks/Pap/Koji/Eck/Mo will burn out, too. MLB.com just ranked teams by talent and Colorado finished dead last; the Beantown doormats were 13th? But the Rox' entire starting rotation is under 30, under control (cheap) and maybe underrated, as in Coors battle-tested. That would be where I'd look to make a deal asap.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And this thinking with the gut (or human brain) finally secured Roberts his managing ring. It also makes me wonder how he really felt two years ago being forced to bench his top three HR bats in starts by lefties Sale and Price... ... I was one Red Sox fan who loved LA's analytics that year.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Aren't Quintana, Odorizzi and Desclafani all starters? I like Hernandez at second, but prioritize a legit closer first for more immediate improvement.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Let's say it's the 9th inning of the final game of the World Series, and there are three guys warming up in the pen to close it out: one who tries to spit but nothing comes out, another who's bouncing every other pitch to the backstop, and the third who says, "Just gimme the freakin ball" (we'll call them Barnes, Kimbrel and Sale). Is there any computer program that can differentiate such qualitative data? Does anyone really think it doesn't matter -- to the manager, coaches and teammates -- which pitcher he chooses?
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    First, Bloom has few really good MLB trade chips beyond maybe a couple prospects he doesn't want to deal. Bogie is one that can bring back a good return for a rebuild; yes, he has an opt-out, but that also might be a reason to trade him sooner rather than later -- remember, how we had to get something for Mookie before he walked. Second, as far as replacing/upgrading X, there is no doubt that the best players soon available on the free agent market -- and maybe for the next several years -- are all shortstops. But that fact doesn't necessarily mean Bogaerts is a goner, as Bradford's column today seemed to echo what some of us have been toying with the past two months: maybe, just maybe, X moves to third and Rafie moves to first. The whole idea is how the Red Sox can best facilitate the transition to acquiring better players to make a better team.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In contrast, say, to more than half the AAV that inked Eovaldi two years ago... after just one All-Star month.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I like the metaphor -- and allegory to dinosaurs like us who insist on defense first in building title teams.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But doesn't 8M for 1 year set a bar of sorts for starting pitching? Ray is coming off a bad year, but is under 30, a one-time All-Star, and a better bounce-back/upside guy than someone nearly a decade older. Unless his arm is cooked...
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... unless he has a tired arm from overuse, or an opponent has seen him enough times in the same series to have figured out his stuff; but aren't both these risks part of the argument for removing a starter after two turns through the order?
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Probably J., because I want as many MLB pitchers as possible. But I disagree with a lot of dollar projections, and can see $35M possibly yielding all of Stroman, Odorizzi, Hand or Hendriks and a cheap CFer. Plus, I think it's 50-50 Morton retires, and even less he'd want to finish in crappy weather Boston after moving down to Florida.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Dodgers were loaded this year; the Red Sox played like they were fall-down drunk. I don't view guys like Bogie and Vazquez as guys Bloom would want to replace, but as trade chips who could be replaced (or even upgraded, depending on market availability), while bringing back the best possible returns in other areas of need.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    https://www.radio.com/weei/sports/red-sox/why-i-thought-of-lindor-when-red-sox-brought-back-alex-cora I approve of this message.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What about the qualitative data from Joe Kelly (post #96)? "... that was the only way we were winning... he got taken out and it turns into instant, ‘Oh, there is no way we lose now. They just did it for us’ type thing.” Maybe a number can't be put on positive thinking (or negative thinking), but if professional players believe it's a factor, then it just may be. Or as Steven not-the-knuckleballer Wright once said: "In school they taught us 'practice makes perfect', but then they said, 'nobody's perfect.' So I stopped practicing."
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