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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You're probably right. But I'm none of those... especially trying to get older during a pandemic.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's what he looked like when he ran out of room at the wall on Dent's pop-fly. At the plate that day, I also remember Yaz pulling a home run off Guidry, the best pitcher in the world in '78, and a drilling an RBI-single off Gossage in the 8th.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But to CP's point, fans are initially pumped by new seasons when new impact players make an impact. Initial success often wears off, but by then casual fans or front-runners are already invested in advance ticket sales... and actual hope.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Thanks, 75, for providing thoughts upon which to reflect. Fans through the decades have no choice but to move on, but some cases are never easy... or like you suggest, some are just never, period. Posters can insist and implore we move on, but it's not an instantaneous process for everyone. Especially while we languish in suckitude, and our ex is dating the quarterback of the football team, parading around the class party. That's a scene best to not attend. In the meantime, we research the rescue sites, looking forward, to get a new dog -- not to replace an old bud who passed on, but to get back that old sense of companionship... and familiarity.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't forget Ned Martin, quoting Hamlet: "... when sorrows come, they come not as single spies but in battalions.” I'm nostalgic, but I'm refuting Springsteen: "Someday we'll look back at this, and it still won't be funny."
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Good effort, Moon. The Rays might do it, but Ben would just be basically replacing Tall with Baz, and Bell with Chavis. I don't know if the money numbers would be worth it, or if he could get more for those Pirates. I can see Bloom swinging some sort of deal with the Rays this winter, based on his deep knowledge of their surplus, sleepers and needs.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Forget it; LA wouldn't even give up a Double A pitcher for a Hall of Famer who's worth 350 million dollars to them.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ya, I wouldn't give up a promising young pitcher for any of those Red Sox players, either. We're pretty much screwed. The only prospects close to the bigs from Boston's entire system I'd insist on right now are Casas and Mata. Lower down -- and here's where Bloom has an edge over Dombro (as in push "end-call") -- I'd suggest Lugo, Yorke or Juan Chacon... as a throw-in.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That had to be an alias. In college my pal Phil was given the last name Dubowl -- Phillip Dubowl... please.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's ok, not a lot of other Sox talk to talk about lately... except the signing of a hitter who batted .156 last summer. Of course, this article was gleefully written on a Dodgers site. But it got me to wondering: was the LA outrage over the way the Cora-led Sox supposedly won the '18 World Series ever addressed with their new superstar? We never once heard or read anything about the losers pointing fingers or asking for clarifications or explanations from Mr. B, once he changed sides... (maybe it was done in private, but some local or national reporter must have questioned the bowling elephant in the room).
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Especially since the Reds already dumped Downs once before in the Puig trade. They're not taking him back for an ace pitcher. Yet, J.Downs (can't say his first name) would be the first prospect I'd part with. Casas is maybe the last.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    My legs feel that way from too much sitting; the winter of our disconnect. But ah, the days when Epstein or Dombrowski would target someone in the autumn, talk turkey, then outbid themselves to make things happen. For the record, the only Dombro deal I was really against at the time, besides the Price contract, was Pomeranz for Anderson Espinoza (but only because from what I read, the guy was supposed to be the next Pedro). He isn't even the first Anderson Espinoza to make Double A.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    All the more reason to strike this winter, when the Reset Sox can really outbid and outspend those hurting mid-market clubs... instead of acting like one. Bloom may just be very, painstakingly deliberate... but wonder what a young Epstein would've done at the helm in this kind of opportunity (assuming the curse was broken by someone else, and Theo was just getting his first chance at assemblage).
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Again, depends on your definition of "better" or "value". I'd take the guy who was a top 6 Cy Young vote getter and All-Star for five straight years at a bargain market rate over a guy who made one All-Star team so far.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I like Castillo and the Sox need Castillo. However, his 9 career WAR maybe doesn't justify investing more in talent than Sox trades for the better guarantees of Sale (30 WAR) or Pedro Martinez, who had 20 WAR through age 25.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And yet, MLB.com today poses a Bogaerts trade to Philly centered around a minor league pitcher -- Dombro's #4 prospect. My first thought: seriously, is that the best you can do (as in, you professional writers who supposedly know the industry)? My second: is, uhhhh... is that the best we can do?
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's a fair point, but I also remember that 39M for 3 is part of what made Sale such a hot commodity at the time: team control at a then-bargain rate. To Moon's point -- some (most) of us complain about moves the Red Sox make or don't make, but how much must it suck to be a diehard Reds' fan right now? They just had one of the top MLB rotations, guys in their primes, but because of current economics (and a market that may never recover), they can't sign their Cy Young and are willing to trade their other two aces... Can they ever afford to open a window again?
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Any deal like that, anyway: arguably the Red Sox two best position players, plus two more projected regulars -- that's already way more than Dombro traded for Chris Sale, who had earned 30.1 WAR through age 27. Castillo is good, but through the same age only has 9.1 WAR so far. Despite numerical values that a website assigns, there are also practicalities that factor into decisions made by humans. It's why I was sure Bloom would insist on at least getting Verdugo back for Betts (when the site and several posters were saying, "No way"). The Reds should shoot high, but they'd be lucky to get, say Bogaerts and Dalbec, with maybe a minor league arm or two that can throw hard. No GMs are giving up four everyday players for one guy who pitches every five days.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Fair point. He is a monster that some pitchers will want to avoid. And Dalbec's honest, since all his outcomes are true; we held a mini-celebration one game when he hit two singles.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    According to recent quotes by scouts, Beni has no current trade value. It would be more worth it, to me, to hang onto him and see if his talents get rejuvenated under Cora. Duran and Dalbec are good enough prospects to actually yield something decent coming back, perhaps players with more promise than the mediocre or injury-prone free agent targets in the Sox news. Duran is expendable because Jimenez may be as good or better as the Sox centerfielder of the near future. Dalbec is expendable because Casas is Boston's number one prospect. Dalbec is also redundant as a big whiffer, along with Chavis, Renfroe, and all the other 100+ K-men in the lineup. We are the Sultans of Swing... and Miss.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He only knows what he wants to do: not get killed.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I was thinking the exact same thing. I prefer players who are described with words like "fundamentals" and "consistency".
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No wonder Bud Black hates the DH; he played in over 300 games in the American League and batted zero times. At least he had a craptacular NL: .145 lifetime, no dingers.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "It won't happen but banning batting gloves would help lessen the excuse for stepping out." "Ban batting gloves, mandate pine tar (offensively and defensively)." ... listen you radicals, "batting" gloves have been around for over 50 years, when Mantle wore a golf glove on Home Run Derby, and then Hawk Harrelson kept his on for real games after a few rounds of 18. But Velcro wasn't invented yet, so no reason to constantly readjust. Players only used their bare hands for a century before that. It's amazing that any batter ever got a hit for one hundred years.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... and ban Velcro!
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