5GoldGlovesOF,75
-
Posts
14,229 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
21
Content Type
Profiles
Boston Red Sox Videos
2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking
Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
Guides & Resources
2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker
News
Forums
Blogs
Events
Store
Downloads
Gallery
Everything posted by 5GoldGlovesOF,75
-
Burt won't be home Blyleven. -
Ceddanne should play center whenever a fly ball pitcher is on the mound. But we also need him in the infield with a lot of traffic on the bases, like when a guy like Hicks has his good foot finder working.
-
SD couldn't take Cease out because he'd be considered damaged goods at the deadline. The Pads needed to show all the other GMs that he was still right in the head. Or what was left in his head.
-
Red Sox 3-4-5 hitters' batting averages with baserunner on 3rd with 0 outs, 1 out and 2 outs... in the top of the first inning in Minnesota this year: .000. Yandy Diaz' career batting averages... with baserunner on 3rd and two outs: .295. and with baserunner on 3rd and less than two outs: .352.
-
I'd love to turn FOX offffff......
-
No, he got $250 million in bonus points.
-
This means the Twins are open for business. Bregman and Crochet just put Ryan in another headlock.
-
I still don't know how those old-timers functioned without black raspberry. The Black Sox didn't throw the 1919 Series for just money, but the promise of gelato from their Italian sponsors.
-
If he's the best player at two positions, he can only be at one at a time. When Mookie plays shortstop, he can't be in right field. When Payton Tolle pitches -- in the pros -- he can no longer bat clean-up. Why can Ohtani? A: marketing.
-
And no microplastics in beer!
-
Remember a year ago at the deadline when Brez upgraded the catching corp with Danny Jansen? Me, neither. Now the guy is batting in the middle of the order for Tampa. That's what's out there: 11 HR, .204 BA, 26% K-rate.
-
Not if you want to pay an app... Lee has a cameo on the mound in "Eephus" -- a movie about a bunch of extremely decrepit ballplayers. Besides still competing in old-timer tourneys, Lee also survived having a heart attack warming up in a Savannah Banana uni, But your points are valid. My cousin the history teacher once summed it up when a student complained: "Why do we have to study the past?" "Because we can't study the future."
-
This is why I didn't buy ranking Montgomery as the Red Sox' #5 prospect last year when he hadn't even played an inning of pro ball... or Kyson Witherspoon #5 last week when he hadn't thrown one pro pitch after getting drafted out of college. Can we at least see a guy compete vs. professionals before we rave about his professional potential?
-
Even though most of us know that managers don't promote or demote prospects, we all know the Cora ruined Duran so much that he turned him into the All-Star MVP last year!
-
The Yankees. They're always the perfect choice to be favored in the preseason to win the American League and go to the World Series. They're the favorites every year: my favorite team to root against, my favorite to see not win it all, my favorite to have their rabid fans choke on their own foaming saliva... ... just not my favorite to watch broadcast on any national network with a Judge Cam.
-
Right, my first thought was 1999 or 2000 Sox, with Pedro and anyone else. Don't know for sure who the other guys are without looking them up, because it doesn't matter.
-
Hicks Clicks Volume 1 Boston 7/27/25
-
We need better pitchers to throw late innings in the playoffs. Whether they are called starters or relievers, many will be used out of the bullpen for the best teams trying to play deep into October.
-
Points taken, but subjectively, I've played all three outfield positions for a long time, and center is the easiest in getting good jumps for the reasons I listed. Generally, fly balls hit right at you aren't as hard as line drives hit right at you, especially rising liners, but that holds true anywhere in the pasture. The throw to third is tougher than from LF, but the longest, of course, is RF. For me. right field is definitely the hardest -- or most unfun -- because of the longer throws, and mainly the opposite curves off barrels of right-handed batters (which are the majority of hitters). Center field is also a blast because you get more chances at making diving or sliding catches, since there is always a corner outfielder backing you up; not so much for them, though, on shots down the lines...
-
That's more like it. Tolle, Arias and Password are the top three prospects in the system (not counting the Big Three who have all made the majors at some point this year). Crochet was a 4-for-1 trade, but none of the prospects were quite that high at the time... and Joe Ryan is not Crochet. I get that it's a multi-player deal, and quality costs more in July than the winter, so no one should be surprised if Brez shifts his focus to pitchers with less stardom who are merely serviceable. For all we know, they may be planning on promoting Tolle -- at minimum wage -- for the bullpen down the stretch. It wouldn't be unusual to use a big lefty starter in a reliever role to begin his MLB career, like Chicago did with Sale and Crochet.
-
Sell what -- sell out fans for another year?
-
In the last at bat of the game, it looked like Mookie had a necklace break -- he removed it from his neck and stuck it in his back pocket. Was it the famous bat-and-ball necklace he's been wearing en route to his Hall of Fame career since 2018? Will this be a turning point in his career? Were any Sox fans unhappy Chapman struck him out?
-
Those aren't something you can teach, and why Mayer is a big leaguer -- when he can stay on the field. Of all the bus loads of shortstops stockpiled since the Bloom Era, Arias is the one guy Soxprospects gives "a good chance to stick at shortstop."
-
I like Yandy because he's a righty bat that doesn't strike out (14.9% K-rate) who can hit to the opposite field, which helps balance the line-up. Even if he doesn't have flyball pull power, he's a lifetime .317 hitter at Fenway in 207 PA. But here's a stat that shows maybe Diaz won't fit in with the current Red Sox: man on third, less than 2 outs -- career .352 in 161 plate appearances. Sardonically speaking...
-
Let's get something straight about centerfield. It's easier to play than the corners. You get a better a jump because you have a straight-on view of the direction of each pitch and swing. Guys playing left field and right field can only see the plate from angles, and balls hit to the opposite field down both lines are especially tricky because they curve in opposite directions. Hall of Famer Robin Yount said as much in an interview today on MLB Sirius. He said he struggled trying to play LF, but was much more comfortable in CF when the regular centerfielder got hurt (which happened when they both called for the same fly, and Yount accidentally broke the other guy's toe when he spiked him -- then he made the Hall of Fame). Jarren Duran isn't a star centerfielder, he's just better in center than in left. There is certainly more ground to cover in the gaps, and someone with his wheels can run them down -- and also outrun poor jumps or initial first steps.
