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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And easiest place to blow money. The highway of bullpen carts is jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive. Borne to runs.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm sure he'd tell us through multiple platforms of social media. Would he welcome the challenge of Boston, where knowledgeable fans, columnists and color commentators might hold him accountable for his actions and words? At least we know he'd love the Green Monster, an easy throw from the mound when he gets mad.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's not my dream, just hypotheticals of who Bloom may want or need to invest in to get the team back to contention. He can state his goal is to build long-term sustainability, but you can bet his bosses will want quicker results, especially if the Sox tank and ticket sales don't rise back to pre-pandemic numbers. I don't know what those three pitchers are seeking for contracts, but I was just estimating a going-rate of about 5 years for 100 Mil apiece. None of them will ever be Cole or Sale pre-TJ, but at least they're established big league starters... which, I think we all agree, is the biggest area of need for the Sox to get back to respectability.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not advocating signing three big money free agents in one winter, but an owner with the finances to make it happen might. Would you re-do 2009 and not sign CC, AJ and Tex?
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The single most important thing for a student is to get a good book to read.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Festivus goes down check-swinging.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    An overrated villain on Batman was The Dribbler.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Any re-broadcasts without expressed, written consent are strictly verboten.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He'd be trade bait on Bloom's Rays, but the Sox have no one close to Vazquez' D/O combo in the pipeline. And I'm not counting Connor Wong, because if he was a legit MLB catching prospect, there'd be no Swihart comps.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Best On Base % in history...
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Beni, Mookie, Vazquez all 5'9"
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Shipping prices -- it's New York. But I bet we see a whole pallet at Baltimore...
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Evolving into a leader... I admit I was worried about his actual catching last season, but all the sign-stealing/sign-changing throughout the league certainly produced its share of cross-ups.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm liking what I've seen from Arauz. This kid looks like a player: last night's bare-handed DP, the tag at second, barreling up at the plate -- he has skills, and I'm glad they kept him.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Average won-loss records for 162-game season (per bbref): Bauer 13-11, Stroman 12-11, Ray 11-11... ERod 14-8, Sale 14-9, Eovaldi 9-11.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Say the Sox reset and over the winter Henry orders Bloom to blow all Mookie's money on the three best free agent starters: Trevor Bauer, Marcus Stroman and Robbie Ray -- $300 million in Covid times should be more than enough, right? Will those moves even be enough to make Boston a contender again? (we won't get much out of Sale in '21, and who knows yet about ERod's heart and Eovaldi's elbow). This is what we're up against. Just hoping our openers won't all be castoffs from teams with worse records...
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This was the key point in rejecting Brudstar; the Sox said the medicals didn't project for him to be a starter (which must entail innings per outing and durability). Bloom -- despite all the Tampa rep. at openers -- is thankfully focused on the value of dependable arms that can record the most outs. The Rays did sign Charlie Morton, after all. The whole opener idea seems to smack of desperation, as clubs have to hope that many pitchers will win assigned match-ups -- instead of one starter with a repertoire for enough longevity to at least get through lineups twice through the batting order. Granted, the former is how bullpens are built and used, but very few relievers shine night after night without getting burned out. Remember how good Barnes was at the beginning of 2019 and then how unreliable he became?
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    VAZquez!
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But he (or his org) hit on Nick Anderson, the best reliever in the second half of '19. Then again, he whiffed on cutting Daniel Hudson, who closed out the Nats' World Series win. Relievers aren't too mercurial. Did I say ephemeral?
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I agree; I didn't say a live body...
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He hit zero batters. That's like hitting 0 X 2.4 in a regular season. Although his facial expressions round to 300 per year. Clear the benches! Kelly aiming at Astros suggests three things: 1) he's a loyal Dodger; 2) he's still a loyal Red Sox, who lost to the trash-can bangers in the '17 playoffs; 3) he must be pretty confident his '18 champs did things clean.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I was casting doubt on the actual length of his hot start. But I hope he hits to left all summer; JBJ (and just about every batter at every level) is so much better when he tries to go oppo... which keeps him from pulling his head. Unlike Betts, I do think Jackie is committed to testing free agency, so the Dead Sox will surely flip him for a body before then.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Technically. But as we now know, the Dodgers traded for Betts with the specific intent of making him the face of Hollywood for the next dozen seasons.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I think Verdugo and a pitcher or two are worth 13 years of Mookie.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I didn't have a problem with the Sox rejecting Graterol if they suspected he was damaged goods. But I had and have a huge problem they didn't insist on another legitimate pitching prospect.... from the Dodgers' actual system. For Bloom to have to agree to someone from a third party in the first place tells me how desperate Boston was to unload Price. As far as how much LA really wanted Betts -- well, I think we know now that Friedman wasn't just doing his old pal a favor. Bloom coulda and shoulda demanded pitching.
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