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The Boston Offenders are 3-16 when they score one run this season. Winning nearly 16% of the games when you only score one run is a testament to your elite pitching. But when the BooSox score zero runs, they are winless: 0-4. -
Sounds like the pitching match-up is Gio vs. a guy letting the air out of Boston's balloon. Start huffing and puffing, Bosox...
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Ya, I guess the Red Sox need to see if Casas can reach his potential thump at a position where it's sorely needed. It's a lot cheaper than blowing big-time bucks on Alonso -- although a consistent home run threat has been lacking since the Devers Dump. When a team's strength is pitching, but its offense struggles vs. good pitching, the longball decides a lot of games. Lowe's 7-year career 162-game average for HRs may be 21, but he's only reached the 20-mark once.
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Breaking news The main culprit in this forum's idiotic, biased Campbell-Mayer debate has been exposed: the clubbie -- whichever one was doing laundry on game days. It's so obvious... someone accidentally switched Kristian's and Marcelo's uniform jerseys and hung them in opposite lockers pregame. The two rookies, still trying to adjust to big league life, may have even noticed, but wore them anyway, thinking it was routine new guy hazing set up by the veteran players. So whenever idiotic and biased front office personnel, uniformed management, and club-affiliated media described one rookie as smooth as silk at three different infield positions, they really meant the other guy. As for we dumb fans who know nothing about a game we all played -- some at various competitive levels most of our lives -- the only thing we know for sure is that we watched one neophyte second baseman this year that was as smooth as 24-grit coarse sandpaper.
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No politics, dammit!
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Maybe, but I've been there several times every year this decade. The wind is always blowing out. Worcester always get the worst weather, compared to nearby cities like Springfield, Hartford, and Boston. Higher elevation equals heavier rain, heavier snow, and a lot of double-headers from cancelled games (where presumably taxed bullpens throw more meatballs).
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Red Sox should leave Arias at Portland for a year and then if he's hitting great, promote him to Boston. Skip Worcester altogether, so it won't inflate his stats and make him think he's a home run hitter, which can lead to making him a strikeout whiffer in the majors -- if he's deluded enough. I don't know why I just said that, I've only seen it with Campbell, Mayer, Anthony and Garcia so far this season. Then again, Arias needs to show he can hit the best possible pitching before he leaves the minors -- so the Red Sox should just make Woo their Double A park, and use Portland for Triple A.
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If the Red Sox still make the playoffs and somehow win their first series without Anthony, it's going to be hard to keep him out of the line-up for the ALDS when he gets wrapped up in the excitement and insists he's ready. Fans and media will also clamor for his return, and the front office will smell the financial rewards of advancing in postseason rounds. Someone with longterm sanity will have to step in -- and hopefully that's someone influential from the organization... and not just Anthony Anthony or Anthony Anthony (though Lia Anthony can make anyone pay attention).
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Red Sox (N/A) vs Day Off: 9/4/25
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to Brandon Glick's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
I just don't get how Warren with the 2nd worst WHIP in the AL is ranked ahead of Bello and Gio? They each have at least twice the WAR... even Schmidt and Schlitter have better stats at the back end of NY's rotation. -
Or even if people who spend time typing under an alias to faceless friends they'll never see even go out in public. Much.
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Semantics. Today, Boston fans are asking if we are well enough.
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Void where prohibited. But not amateurhibited (just once I'd like to see some MLB team recruit a replacement player off the street who actually performs better than a big leaguer with a negative WAR -- until then, no one can ever prove guys like Kristian are worthless or worth less...).
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A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Braves won without Acuna in '21. But that summer Atlanta's GM acquired four sluggers who combined for 12 postseason home runs. Two of them were the World Series MVP and NLCS MVP. That's getting things done. -
They should make a new rule: anyone who breaks a batter's foot or toe with a dumb pitch should automatically have to spend the same amount of time on the IL.
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I agree he needs one position, but I'd argue that athleticism may be all he has right now. Remember how he wowed the coaching staff with a running, diving catch in LF that popped out of his glove when he hit the ground? Management has moved him all over the diamond, trying to contrive versatility -- maybe make him another Marwin Gonzalez -- but KC's just not smooth enough anywhere. I saw him in CF in Worcester fall down trying to catch a pop-up. Kristian Campbell is a professional athlete. Nick Sogard is a pro ballplayer.
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And it looks like that may be anywhere in the infield. What position will Campbell play in the majors at a major league level? Seriously, I'm not worried about KC becoming a good MLB hitter, as much as I just can't see anywhere on the field where he'll fit in as a core member of sustained contenders in Boston. Right now, it may be more likely he'll be traded and wind up as the steady leftfielder for some mid-market city. Does anyone think the Sox are going to instead trade Duran and Abreu and Garcia to open up a starting spot for Kristian Campbell?
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A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Hitting a baseball in the majors is harder than ever. Batters in the first half of last century didn't have to face integrated pitching staffs or fresh arms throwing in the 90s coming out of the bullpen at night half the time. There were no such things as analytics departments breaking down video or check-the-check. Anthony looks great, a guy who can work a pitcher and slug a pitcher. He also struck out about 6 times every 20 at bats. As for another tall lefty swinger, the MLB's all-time On Base leader -- Ted Williams (career .482) -- in 19 years, for every 20 ABs, he struck out... once. For a more recent comparison, here are the Red Sox' two best homegrown players this century, who both debuted at age 21: Mookie Betts...........291 BA in 52 G, 5 HR, 18 RBI, .368/.444/.812, 14.6 K-rate, 2.3 WAR Roman Anthony: .292 BA in 71 G, 8 HR, 32 RBI, .396/.463/.859, 27.7 K-rate, 3.1 WAR That's encouraging... and he's extended. -
Should be able to feeble their way through adversity subtract versity.
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Good times never felt...
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Four weeks from last night is Sept 30 -- when the wild card playoffs begin. Just so this is not all doom and gloom, Shea Langeliers went on the IL with an oblique strain on June 5 and was reinstated on June 30. He played in three rehab games before that. In August, Langeliers just led the American League in slugging and total bases, was second in OPS, hit 11 home runs and had 22 RBIs. If it takes the same amount of recovery time for Roman Anthony, he should be rocking by Game Seven of the World Series. Let'sgo!
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Don't worry about a power shortage with Abreu and Anthony on the shelf. They brought up Sogard. The only plus there is that means Rafaela will now be firmly planted in centerfield for the rest of the year. Right? Right??!?? The existing outfield for the contenders is now Duran, Ceddanne, and that one-hit wonder from the Sixties band: Eaton, Ref and Yoshi!
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Plus, I don't know if you saw him pinch-run last week -- when the pitcher threw away a pick-off to 1st -- but Password can fly... as he did sprinting all the way to 3B on the play.
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Nothing yet, but tv blabbers speculating -- after researching the World Wide Web -- that the typical timeline for a batter's oblique injury might have him ready again by the postseason... unless the brass shuts him down for the year. All we can do is shift speculation: Password, right? Hint: Campbell is slated to play 2B in Woo tonight.
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If they move Duran back up vs. righties, Lowe will bat 3rd, and Masa 5th. Geez, hurry back Abreu, already.
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I vote to no to Ali Sanchez as the new leadoff batter.
