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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "Another name to watch out for is Ryan Weber, according to Peter Abraham of The Boston Globe." Outfielders -- put on your batting helmets before heading out to pasture!
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Verdugo's the centerpiece in the Betts' package!
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He was hugged by Papi, our dali yomama, it was staged on NESN -- the torch has been passed!
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Reading your post and thinking: The season didn't even start yet! Then again... if the team starts out 2-8 again, I don't think we'll be hearing too many players or coaches muttering, "It's still early..." But... what if Verdugo miraculously recovers and lights up the AL because no one knows how to pitch to him yet, and leads the Sox to an 8-2 start? THEN, I think we'll all be saying: "Small sample size."
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Take it easy, have some confidence in how the Red Sox are handling this! Sale is in pain after throwing 15 pitches, so they're going to rest him for another week and then reassess. Before this, he was only shut down for half a year... so I'm sure one more week off will heal what ails him. In the meantime, I'm going to reassess what ales me; maybe a red or brown ale -- nothing too hoppy, because I've had enough bitterness this offseason.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    From Bradford on the latest signing: "McHugh recently underwent a procedure to help alleviate elbow concerns after the righty missed the final month of the 2019 season." We all might have to start comparing our own procedures to alleviate elbow concerns; mine will probably be a New England style IPA...
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    More like management is hesitant. They still want New England families to blow a thousand dollars each for one game worth of tickets, concessions, souvenirs and parking... and watch NESN all summer and switch to Chevy. So for now, Sale's elbow is on the IL recovering from ammonia -- which was used to clean out loose boogies, wipe off virus germs and wipe-out sliders.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I can appreciate that point, and it will be interesting to see the market for Betts if his 2020 stats in the NL are close to those of Yelich. Look at the past two years (when all Yel broke out)... bWAR: 2. Betts 17.7 (10.9, 6.8), 5. Yeli 14.7 (7.6, 7.1). Yelich was the batting champ both seasons (Betts once), and had a slight edge in power and speed, with more HRs and steals. Runs:1. Betts, 5. Yeli BA: 2. Yelich, 4. Betts OBP: 2. Yelich, 3. Betts SLG: 3. Yelich, 7. Betts OPS: 3. Yelich, 4. Betts Obviously, Mookie has been the top right fielder in baseball the last half decade, but Yelich is solid out there, despite his dWAR (which some say stands for dubious WAR), having won a GG in Miami. The comparisons are worthy, but for someone who has watched Red Sox games forever and knows how many positive ways Betts can impact the game, I'd still take Mookie. But at twice the price?
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not a chance, unless he gets hurt; Betts reportedly already turned down 300/10. Yelich "settled" for an AAV of 24 mil per... and Mookie wouldn't even accept 30 mil per to stay in Boston. Their offensive values have been very similar the past two years (surprisingly, Yeli has more SBs); does Betts' D really make him worth upwards of 25% more money per?
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The name of the last doctor the Red Sox are consulting about Sale is Dr. ElAttrache. We should all view this as a positive. At least he's not Dr. Re-Attache.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In the meantime, he'll have us dripping in sarcasm. Patience required is harder for patients retired.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I was suspicious when Sale jumped at the Sox' offer a year ago. Remember, he was underpaid as an annual Cy contender in Chicago. If Sale had opted not to re-sign before '19 and produced a full season like his first half of '18, he would've made twice as much in the free agent market. But unlike Mookie, he chose not to bet on himself. Maybe he was happy enough with 150 mil instead of 300 (it's possible, since all of us poor folk always wonder how many millions are enough millions)... or he knew something.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I agree. To replace Evo with another free agent, you'd have to commit to at least twice as many years. Look at how many years decent pitchers signed for this winter: Cole 9, Stras 7, Wheeler 5, MadBum 5, Ryu 4, Pomeranz 4, Gibson 3, Harris 3, Keuchel 3. The best starters in next winter's free agent class are Bauer, Stroman and Ray... all will be pushing 30, and looking for 5-year deals. I'd know I'd rather have Eovaldi for the next 3 years than 4 for freaking Pomeranz.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The only thing wrong with the spending part of that last line is if it's free agents -- as in pitchers, which most fans and scribes agree is 90% of Boston's needs -- then you're right back where we started after forking over all the surplus funds. Because quality has a price, and in baseball contracts that equates to years... as in payroll maxed out for years. Another way to use the money is to hire more scouts to scour all quadrants of the orb, and provide them with signing cash to recruit, lock up and stockpile international prospects (following the legal parameters, with the blessing of Manfred, of course). Then sit back and watch the small market Red Sox evolve and maybe improve for the same amount of years the big name free agents could have been contributing.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Fair enough... but Mantle supposedly got around that -- when his vision was TRIPLED from the night before -- by just swinging at the ball in the middle.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ha, I didn't mean this could be the worst Sox team in a hundred years, just this century -- as in, the 2000s, opposed to the 1900s. A better label, as someone pointed out, would be the Henry-Warner ownership era. The first time a Red Sox team came in last in my lifetime was 1992, when they won 73 games. I honestly think this version could challenge that mark of ineptitude. Luckily(?), Baltimore should have a hard time winning that many, as well. Sale, Price and Porcello may have combined for mediocrity in '19, but they still provided over 400 professional innings pitched at the big league level. Who is going to replace them in those 400 frames this year???
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If it's a fact that alcohol impairs judgment, how can one be held responsible for actions while under the influence?
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Speaking of... if Manfred takes away our top draft picks, what is then more likely: trading Verdugo, Downs and Wong for minor league pitching, or spending our new flexibility on Bauer, Stroman and Ray next winter (yes, all of them)? Either way, I think the Sox are waiting until Judgment Day before making their next move...
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sorry, but the MLB needs to do anything it can to help the Yankees get back on top -- like ensuring they get off to a great start by scheduling them to play Baltimore and Detroit the first 25 games again, like they did last year (while sending the Sox on a cross-country road trip for a month).
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If we're not draft-pick penalized, keep in mind that Bloom is a new wave officer. I wouldn't be surprised if he cleans house to tank for higher picks. Still can't believe he couldn't coax one stinking minor league pitcher from his buddy in LA -- in two trades for Mookie Betts (except for someone else's damaged goods).
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I picked 67. Expectations really haven't been this low this entire century. Even in last place years, no one expected the cellar. Going into 2012, they had just missed the postseason, had a lot of talent returning and figured to be right back in the mix. In '14, they were coming off a title. Going into '15 was probably the lowest expectations up until now, but the Sox still had two borderline HOFers, and exciting, young talent that brought the promise of improvement. All we have now is a new GM, who told us all: "We expect to be worse..."
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's going to be bad, and Boston guaranteed that when they gave up before the season even began by trading their best player in his prime... ... who I blame for all of this: if Mookie hadn't hit 3 HRs off Paxton before the trade deadline -- giving the Nation false hopes of contention -- we could've dealt him last summer for a better return. Imagine what LA would've given up for a year and a half of Betts?
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Prospects! Yessssss. Guys that might be good or might even make the big leagues some day... Let's swap Devers to the Yanks for six years of Devi Garcia; New York just might make that deal, because Rafie could maybe reach their RF fence. You never know, though, because NY never overrates their minor leaguers. Maybe they can throw in Jesus Montero and the honorable Justice Sheffield, too.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Guys, I think we should all agree with a Yankee fan and trade off all our good players so the Red Sox f***ing suck for years so New York has a better chance of finally getting back to the World Series.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not arguing at all. I never agreed with the cliche that Mookie will break down and miss time with injuries just because he's almost a foot shorter than Judge and Stanton... because, you know how durable they've been the past couple years. I'm still trying to figure out which player in history was the poster boy for the short-guy myth -- it started way before Pedroia, and he's a bad case because anyone of any size can have a knee caved in. But the narrative can't go back too far, because ballplayers and people in general were shorter in the days of Mel Ott (5'9, 511 HRs) or Big Poison Waner (5'8, 153 lbs. -- but 20 pounds heavier than his brother, Little Poison). Maybe this whole baseball fabrication evolved from other sports, where size really does matter in competition where athletes constantly smack into each other at full speed.
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