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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    At age 22, the last Red Sox outfielder some evaluators called baseball's top prospect had 20 home runs, 20 stolen bases and 90 RBI. The next year he scored 103 runs, batted .290 and had a 4.8 WAR. Sure would like to see numbers like that for Anthony before calling him a star. Andrew Benintendi hasn't came close to those early years, but hasn't been a total bust, making an All-Star team and winning a Gold Glove despite injuries and uniform changes. And note to Brez -- it's no coincidence that young Beni was able to produce those Boston stats because he was surrounded by legitimate big league TALENT.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    With THIS org? His face will be on t-shirts, press guides and pocket schedules -- they're printing next week! Arias had better stats at two levels than Anthony's last seasons at Portland and Woo, and Roman was instantly anointed MLB leadoff -- even though he didn't bat there for Epperson or Tracy or WBC manager DeRosa, who hit him 6th. But even if Arias blasts 30 HRs per in the majors, you're right. They'll bat him 2nd... because that's where analytics tells them to.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I just wish announcers would leave Ramone alone. And the Sox stop batting him leadoff. Anthony is not Betts and he's not Ellsbury and he's not Damon and he's definitely not Remy. And he's absolutely not Ohtani or Schwarber because he's not going to blast 50 HRs without striking out 300 times a year pulling his head at sweepers until both his hands fall off at the limp wrists. What he maybe could be is a Lynn-type lefty with almost Boggs-type hand-eye targeting the Great Wall of Monster... which is better damage done with somebody else on base in front of him... ... so let's all admit -- not only does Boston badly need a Yordan-Rice-Caminero of their own in the heart of the order (which an entire Nation covets) -- but the Sox also need a legitimate leadoff man to get consistently on base in front of their best hitters. It would be great if the latter is Arias... unless he turns into a middle order impact bat and not a pumpkin like all the recent prospects except Chase Meidroth.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Your post makes sense... unless Tracy was ordered by the FO in advance to pull his starting pitchers before they faced Yankee batters a third time each night. Can you even imagine Cora doing that -- and giving the ball each time to Miller, a guy who sucked for a month. If you recall, Crochet fell behind 1-0 in last year's WC, just like Tolle and Gray did... except the only reliever Cora used that night was Chapman to nail down the W.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Team stat totals is certainly one way to look at it. I see baseball as the sum deeds of isolated individuals. All it takes are two clutch guys who have been there and done it over 800 times combined in the regular and postseason, two NL HR champs (including the current king)... ... like Schwarber and Harper, who in what would've been their final ABs of the year went back-to-back to tie it up in the 8th, until another All-Star went deep to win it in the 10th. And of course Dombro's club had the lockdown starting pitchers to keep them in the games so the big boys could keep on cranking on. Must be nice to have 3 of the top 4 pitchers in NL WAR, all at 6 WAR or better... (not to mention pitchers as the top 5 on your own team WAR list, just ahead of your two future Hall of Fame sluggers). Btw: such arm depth is why the Phils could let another All-Star like Suarez walk (but not to the mound in the AL WC).
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And the Phillies -- also on the WC road with a record similar to the Red Sox -- live another day because of home runs. And lost the day before on a homer. But where Brez pivoted to run prevention, Dombro has always been about starting pitching and HRs (Price, Sale, JDH Martinez). We all know which plan costs more and why Henry changed CBOs.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Breslow has spent big on exactly one hitter: Bregman. And some poster thinks that overpay was entirely worth it to ownership for one year in a master plan to dump the 10 year contract of their only established HR power.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Red Sox just need one bat: the one that Manny Ramirez swung from 2001 to 2008... with '01-08 Manny swinging it.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Complain all you want about usage of the Red Sox pitching -- they used 10 pitchers and 8 gave up runs (all but Chapman and Weissert)... ... but this sums up the diff between NY and Boston: the Yanks' legitimate offense was so deep they could overcome the loss of their Hall of Famer, and not even start another 30-home run slugger -- Garcia, the NL slugging leader acquired in trade for 4 prospects. The Red Sox' ghastly batting order, in contrast, slotted two players cut by non-contenders in key spots -- two years in a row: Romy clean-up in '25, Jones leadoff in '26. In Beancounter Town, it's cheaper to pay an office full of Asst. VPs to scour the waiver wires than it is for established bats.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    At least the Sox gave him a driver back to Boston. They didn't want the kid to tear a pinky using the blinkers. But no excuses from Roman -- gotta respect that. In an interview with J.Webster he admitted his wrist wasn't healed when he came back but then said no one is 100% this time of year.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Mead replaces the Face Plant of the Franchise.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And another HR in the 10th! Power in the Playoffs? Who knew.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "new? strains to different? muscles" Anthony and Casas went to high schools about 24 miles apart in FLA... ...query for any classmates also suffering from similar nutrient deficiencies: what exactly do they serve for lunch in Broward County?
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Enough about Tracy pulling Tolle -- if you watched his strike location, most were right down the middle. That's how you get beat by the bottom of the order. Maybe the best we can hope for for an October, besides a shutdown Gray, is that Fried gets a lot of ground balls and his defense throws a few away. Sox can't hit nor score, but they definitely play better D than the hosts.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hey, those two may have helped us win this year -- the one we're all still alive to see and enjoy -- but won't you be relieved years from now that the billionaire that owns our favorite team doesn't have to pay them when they're older (and we might be too, if we're lucky)?
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    So did 29 other teams because neither were first rounders. I'm already sick of both of them, and would give NBC credit for turning off the Judge cam (morose in his hoodie all night) -- but now we have a Rice cam. And he deserved it for having a better game than Judge ever did in his entire postseason career. But where NBC blew it as a network was showing too many fans and not enough game. I get they have to constantly rub it our faces by showing rabid escapees from Three Stooges prison episodes banging on foam padding all night, but how about shots of players instead of just sour pitcher and whiffers?
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Need TONIGHT'S Game Thread so we can flush Game 1 and forget crap like Tracy pulling Tolle -- as if that mattered, since we all knew the Sox were getting shut out. Nobody expected NY to lose Game 1, not even MLB Channel blabbers trying to sound cool who picked Boston to win this series.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The difference between Rice and Anthony is that the Yankees' young star is a legitimate big league home run hitter. The Red Sox' young ster is just sore. The big problem wasn't NY pitching -- the Astros, at home with their MVP batter, lost to the White Sox and Boston mound rejects Hicks, Newcombe and Sandlin. Red Sox management told their players to take it easy in September in order to rest up for October. The issue is that it's still September until tomorrow. Someone push that button, quick!
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Watching NBC's promo and holy -- did you know the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees? And there's Buckner, because it happened in New York! A lot of crap from last century, but not one single highlight of Sox-Yanks since 2004? THIS CENTURY! Why does NBC have the game on so late when only old men still watch baseball? Who's going to buy sponsor products when we're already asleep?
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We're Number None.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yes -- summer sound effects. Better than lanternflies.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Batting Order. Slower power hopefuls at the top: Anthony, Adley, Contreras then Abreu as the transition guy to serious speed/smallballers: Rafaela, Sogard, Duran, Story, Durbin (with no one to clog up the bases)... We'll miss Playoff Cora but Chad is ready to make things happen. He won't sit on his hands waiting for someone to go deep.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Chad waiting to post the starting line-up gives NY less time to look at video and gameplan -- doesn't matter, I'm putting this into the air right now: Sox will swing at strikes and not chase balls. There's no place like zone, there's no place like zone, there's... no... place...
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Meanwhile, here's what you're missing on sports TV in New England: NESN has a Bruins show on, YES is telling us how great the Yankees best players are from Massachusetts, and NBCSportsBoston -- broadcasting from a football stadium -- is still blabbing about how much the Patriots suck.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Red Sox went 32-46 then 32-5 then 23-24. Yankees went 47-31 then 17-20 then 29-17. Paging the mid-summer teams.
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