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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Sell what -- sell out fans for another year?
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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?
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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."
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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...
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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.
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I'm starting to worry about Arias' name included in all the latest trade proposals. With Mayer taking his annual IL trip, Arias is looking more and more like the dependable shortstop of the near future. But Dorion Soto may only six or seven years away... he's 17. We should be good by 2032!
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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
The difference in most was that the opponents hit more home runs. That's also how the Red Sox won their two games. Few of us are unhappy that Boston's selfish $300-millionaire is gone, but his power has been missed in a batting order still loaded with swing and miss, and where hit parades are a rarity. We all expected this to happen, and since there are too many weak contact hitters to replace at once, the priority in this week's trades is pitching, pitching, pitching. -
But not when he fought the Spiders from Mars. Ziggy played guitar.
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Gotta give the board credit - no one threw a fit when Naylor was traded to Seattle. It's pretty obvious pitching is the priority to make legitimate upgrades for a legitimate run.
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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
We actually have a sign for the fake bunt/steal third -- it works so good, sometimes there's nobody covering to take a throw (name of team withheld since we're still in the state playoffs). -
A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Not always. A sac bunt is so rare in Red Sox games that a shocked opposing pitcher might field it and throw it away down the right field line, allowing the ghost runner to score on the very first AB of the inning. At least, that scenario is 50-50 at any level of amateur ball these days. Watch high school or Legion ball, where coaches often put on the bunt sign in close games -- or daily to batters who can't make contact. The bunters aren't very good, but unless it's a one-hopper back to the mound, panicked fielders are just as prone to make throwing errors as they are to nail a runner at a bag. -
I only did a quick Google search of Ruth and Gehrig barnstorming, and immediate links appeared for tours recapped on SABR (from 1927), MLB.com (1927), the Hall of Fame (1928). and Lindenhurst Memorial Library from Lindenhurst, LI... where the boys dined at Barnacle Bill's on the Montauk Highway and played Addie Klein's Lindy Nine (1930).
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What about all those barnstorming games Gehrig played in the offseason to supplement his reserve clause wages? You don't think dodging all those cow patties in the pastures made him a rugged dude?
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Lynn averaged 135.5 games and 5.2 WAR in his six seasons in Boston. Evans averaged 132.3 games and 3.4 WAR in that same span, 1975-80. Nobody ever called Dewey fragile. Rice was the iron man in those years, averaging 150 games and 4.4... but he DHed in a third of his games, so wasn't subjected to the daily rigors of outfielding. For a modern slant, Mookie averaged 133 games played and 6 WAR in his four full years in LA. Though there is some concern about his current struggles, no one connected with the Dodgers regrets acquiring him (but everyone connected with the Red Sox regrets giving him away).
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Hicks is one of those guys you're glad is on your team for two reasons: when he has control he could be good, and when he's wild, his teammates are safer than opposing batters who have to stand in there against him.
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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
If batters can't touch the ball when they swing, I want them all squaring -- drop a few down, then mix in a few fakes with game-winning slashes slapped past or over charging fielders. -
Lay off Sam. He said, "We like our starting staff" but strategically left out "when they are pitching."
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I knew you'd point that out being from Chicago... so you also know Crochet, Gio, Cease and Liam Hendriks all pitched for the team the year before that only lost 101 games -- before they really fell apart.
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But the dumbest baserunners! That's gotta be on Cora, because a good manager knows how to get behind his guys and give them an extra push -- even if he has to disguise himself as a pizza box delivery man to sneak past the umps to do it.
