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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    De Leon is of course taking this seriously, but Masa's translator must be struggling, since there's no Japanese phrase for tanking.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Agree with all your choices. Tolle has one pitch. a great fastball, but which MLB batters who make the playoffs can presumably hit. However, he'd a useful one-inning reliever vs. the Guardians, who have the worst offense in the AL... otherwise, trust Murphy more than Kelly. Eaton has earned his spot this month. Sogard doesn't have the wheels of Hamilton, but he's a better baseball player -- solid defender, and even pinch-hit for Rafalea and made walk-off contact. Just can't count on Hammy to do either of those.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's fair... just like a certain Brez subtraction who was a Dombro pitcher with very low trade value -- who as soon as he left instantly morphed back into Cy Young after a half decade of Boston slugitude.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The 2025 Red Sox team going to the playoffs... giving credit where credit's due. Breslow guys: Narvaez, Lowe, Gonzalez, Bregman, Eaton... Crochet, Giolito, Chapman, Wilson, Slaten, Weissert, Matz, Tolle, Early, Harrison. IL: Fitts, Criswell, May, Hendriks, Hicks Bloom guys: Abreu, Story, Yoshida, Refsnyder, Wong, Sogard, Hamilton, ... Whitlock, Murphy, Kelly... IL: Anthony, Mayer, Bernardino, Dobbins, Winckowski... Banned in Boston: Devers (extended by Bloom; originally signed by Cherington). Dombrowski guys: Duran, Rafaela... Bello... IL: Casas, Houck I think that's a 40-man group -- with 30% currently injured, maybe Cora deserves more credit than he's often given by fandom. Just getting this squad to the postseason -- without key core players from the past (Devers, Casas, Houck) and future (Anthony, Mayer, Dobbins) is a feat worthy of the 2021 Covid club.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Narvaez is starting catcher today -- no rest for the carnivore -- that might mean they want Early to work more with the #1 receiver in a potential playoff battery.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A ballplayer doesn't have to just deliver in a playoff game to be considered clutch by his teammates. Any player who helps finish a victory can be clutch -- in any game; there doesn't have to be a trophy at stake. A game-winning hit (walk-off or in a late inning), a game-saving play, pitching out of a jam, hustling on the bases to beat a throw... many of these feats occur in early frames, too, but are more noticeable late in a sport obsessed with chronology like baseball. If you play on enough teams at enough levels for enough years, you notice guys who have a knack for coming through. Most of the time they're the best players -- but not always. Sometimes, the best players are more noticeable for not coming through...
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Early needs a good game to prove he can compete vs. playoff-caliber teams. Gotta think he's in the running for maybe one postseason roster spot along with Harrison and Tolle. Early does have the best repertoire and control, so he's got he edge right now...
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Edgar Renteria. Now there's a guy who repeated his skill of clutch hitting: MVP of the 2010 World Series with two game-winning home runs... after a walkoff RBI single that won Game Seven and a ring in the 1997 World Series. And the latter was only Edgar's second most clutch swing ever... "Back to Foulke!"
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    WHAT? Trout homered to beat the Astros last night! That was clutch for Boston and all of Red Sox Nation after the fact, but let's be honest, something we were all hoping for before our game... and all through the Casey Mize innings... and probably a more likely path to the playoffs in our heads than six relievers shutting down Detroit over the last six innings.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Cora probably didn't think he could afford to play one game without Story's bat in the line-up. Sept. BA: Yoshida .359, Romy .342, Story .315 -- tied with Narvaez with a team-leading 3 whole homers. Amazing that Boston's batting order -- without Anthony, Abreu, and a replacement for Big Raffy -- still made the playoffs. Even if the Sox concede the final two games, they'll finish September at .500, which means they didn't have a losing record in any full month except May, not coincidentally also Story's worst month. Story in May batted .158; the rest of the months combined he hit a solid .285.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Can almost hear Sam from the front office: "The reason we didn't acquire a bat at the deadline was we knew Yoshida would be returning in the second half to bat clean-up, and hit over .400 down the stretch and lead our team in RBIs." Now we know the real reason they traded Devers -- to open up a spot in the batting order for Mass Attacka.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    THERE it is, Moon. You finally admit Ceddanne's clutch walk-off hits CAN be repeatable! Hah, just busting with Rafaela joy this morning. As polarizing as he's been on this forum all season, a quick look at updated bWAR shows our soon-to-be Gold Glover is arguably the Red Sox best position player of 2025: Duran 4.6, Rafaela 4.5, Story 3.8... Btw: as far as resting players today, the one regular who could really use a break is Story, since he has looked more gassed at shortstop this month than any other. Sogard at SS this afternoon, please... Finally, the bullpen -- and not just Chapman -- has been the MVP down the stretch. For those who didn't get Apple, I agree with what the announcers said: "Garrett Whitlock is the most unhittable reliever in baseball right now."
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    True check swings resulting in ball calls would extend at bats, and since pitchers will no longer get strike calls for making batters flinch, they'll be forced to throw more pitches in the zone. If that doesn't increase contact rates, it will certainly mean higher pitch counts for pitchers, which could also lead to fatigue and more mistake pitches that big league hitters take downtown. Plus, higher pitch counts that lead to tired arms also means an increased workload for relievers, whose arms would also wear out quicker. It can have a trickle downtown effect.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I gotta see Yoshi take one off the Monster, then I'll agree. It's too much to ask him to reach the bullpens -- especially after they shut him down from lifting those inflatable dumbbells during his post-op rehab.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I welcome an entire robo ump system for balls, strikes and especially check-the-check. If analytics can somehow establish an official bat angle (for instance 45 degrees) and line in the sand -- let's call it the front of the plate -- that can't be crossed, as measured by the same electronic eyes that measure the strike zone, then the concept of a true check-swing will return to baseball. I honestly think such a system will eliminate literally half the wrong calls of "he went" from a baseline ump slanted 90 feet away -- and the majors will double the .300 batters overnight. And offense has always been what fans crave most, and why the MLB has juiced players and baseballs over the decades...
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It was Bello's last game of the season, and despite walking his usual tightrope, he had a shutout through 5. I figured Cora would leave him in until/if the Sox took the lead -- and then go to his good bullpen. AC rightly knew Bello, until he was cooked, was a better option than the two guys who coughed up gopher balls in relief. Management knows it just needs one win to get in. The Sox will keep Whitlock and Chapman in reserve until it's absolutely time to absolutely clinch.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    could be the last game he pitches in his career... or he's pitching for a new contract... either way, he won't try to lob meatballs
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You mean the fake outline rectangle that's the same size and in the same place on my screen no matter how tall or short the batter or if his stance is standing straight or bending at the waist?
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Mass Attacka!
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Quick -- someone please start a game thread vs. Detroit -- the Red Sox aren't just back in Boston, they're home at Fenway, where they'll be cheered by a loud crowd so intent on celebrating, many students are already skipping Friday classes to begin the party asap (some haven't even gone to sleep yet from last night). Doesn't matter if the Sox are swinging banjoes, or using bobble-heads in the field, or throwing pitches off batter's toes -- the rowdies will carry hosts around the diamond on waves of enthusiasm... ... rooting for players wearing walk-off greens!
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I might compare their WARs if they both played outfield. But Cal's defensive position is only the most important of all regulars on the diamond -- and he backstopped a division champion.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Exactly -- Cleveland is 18-3 in the past 21, but who have they been beating up on? A: Central casting. And let's not forget who gave the Guards two Ls to start the month... Meanwhile, Detroit is 5-15 in September, after tangling with both New York teams, and two others with winning records this month, the Braves and Marlins. Last year the Tigers made the playoffs with 86 wins, and were one of three Central teams in the postseason -- who coincidentally played in the same division as the losingest club in big league history.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I've considered this term before: it always describes someone with wheels, and often with strength of arm and/or swing (exit velo, distance, hard hit rate, etc). But if the guy just isn't a good hitter and whiffs a ton -- like O'Neil Cruz, for example -- does that mean he makes poor swing decisions or does he have poor hand-eye coordination? If it's the latter, that kinda cancels out some of the athleticism... In that case, I'll take Jacob Wilson any day -- for his sheer baseballisms. Maybe his 7.2% K-rate makes him the modern freak.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Anthony update: Roman has made significant progress... at breakfast -- from using his hands to eat wake-up wraps to a metal fork to eat blueberry flapjacks. However, only training staff are currently allowed to wield butter knives to pre-cut the flops into bite-sizes.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And fans in Washington would freak if Toboni came in and traded Wood -- even for Boston's Big Three... ... and fans in Boston would freak if Breslow traded a haul of org-hyped future for one freak.
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