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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    SIGN ME UP! I'll even throw Hamilton in either trade package. And count me out on including Early in any deal for a so-called Number Two. His left-handed stuff and poise kinda reminds me of another young southpaw when he first came up... although it took this guy from the Boston area about 100 starts before he became a Cy Young Hall of Famer.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What I've noted over the years about Bichette: 1. too inconsistent at shortstop for a contender, because he heaves away too many throws; 2. takes home run cuts on his first two swings of every AB (mostly vs. the Red Sox), but with two strikes shortens up and makes solid contact. Bo also fits well into a batting order with a big bopper like Vlad Junior. Bichette would be a natural hitting after Anthony.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If he's blowing cigar smoke into the fireplace, it will give us a clear picture since it won't cloud the camera lens.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Soxtalk speculators always include The Password Garcia in proposed trade packages. I say keep him -- bats righty, hits homers. Boston Organizational Home Run leaders 2024-25: Garcia 44, Devers 43, Abreu 39, Duran 37, Anthony 36, Campbell 34, Rafaela 31, O'Neill 31. Some say another promising young outfielder on the roster is redundant, but the real reason most want him gone is it's too hard to learn how to spell Jhostynxon. Break it into two parts: Jhost (for typing sake, the letters almost rhyme with Ghost) then -ynxon (wordscramble for a president forced to resign by Congress, back when there were still checks and balances). Jhost-ynxon Garcia. Soxprospects report: "Power is legit... substantial impact ability, especially against lefties... solid defensive profile, plus arm... potential platoon outfielder" Sounds like an ideal partner for Abreu in RF, with Roman and Cedanne in LF and CF.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Boras will pilfer as much time as possible before letting Bregman sign anywhere -- which basically pilfers all the payroll plans for other upgrades. Overwhelm Bichette with a swift offer and then focus all winter on trading for a starting pitcher and a first baseman with pop.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Noooo -- you can't trade Yhoiker before I even learn how to say his name. Plus, he's still a teenager, and bound to lose a consonant as he matures. Guaraneed,
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No MORE big whiffers. Toronto finished in last place last year, and changed their offensive approach. I'd rather have two .300 hitters who can go yard 25 times each instead of one 50-HR man who strikes out 200 times.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They shouldn't. The Red Sox shouldn't spend any more of my time telling Sam Kennedy to tell me they're all about championships. And the last thing I want as a fan is for my team to sign another free agent who will suck the life out of the line-up or rotation because he's getting paid so much that they have to play him, even if he's a dud. Boston only has a fanbase of parts of six states, so doesn't have the luxury of a big market franchise that can just cut a guy who doesn't work out. That last phrase has a double meaning that I didn't mean...
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I bet no Series ever had two spectacular defensive gems prevent Game Seven walk-offs. Rojas saved the Series twice in the 9th, with his HR and that stop up the middle, and underrated off-balance perfect gun for the force at the plate. The Pages catch was even more unbelievable, jumping over Kike -- lying down facing away from the plate... Roberts had just put him in the game, and no one else in either dugout could make that play covering a hundred yards with his strides. Poor Clement.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Someday when baseball expands and puts a franchise on the moon, all the good alien ballplayers will sign with the Green Cheese because they want to stay closer to their home planets. It's just not fair.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    For a front office driven entirely by projections, there are always the prospects of paralysis by overanalysis. Where are the statistics that measure a man's heart and guts? Can anyone even imagine a Breslow-Henry regime allowing a George Springer to risk the rest of his career by playing in the World Series when he's so beat up he probably needs a clubhouse guy to tie his spikes for him? Springer's side injury that nullified his power swing looked similar to Roman Anthony's, and we know there's no way they'd let Anthony play in that much pain. Too much invested in him at age 21; Springer's 36 with only one year left under contract for $24 mil. (I know they let Schilling limp around on the mound in '04, but those were hungrier times, and he was acquired specifically to win a ring that year)
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And please, no more "we're so lucky we're not burdened by the second half of his contract" crap -- Mookie Betts could have his knee blown out by Machado and sit in a folding chair at practices for the rest of his career like Pedroia, and his LA contract will still be worth it. But there's probably one Sox fan or Sox employee somewhere celebrating staying below the tax line today, thinking he's glad it was the Dodgers who won three more World Series in the past six years instead of Boston...
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A ghost typed this on my keyboard the day he was traded: "Boston losing Betts can't be as bad as losing Babe Ruth... but I fear it will be the biggest Red Sox mistake since" And only shallow fans will point out Mookie's batting stats when misjudging his overall value. The guy played Gold Glove shortstop for the world champs, and turned a double-play by himself with the tying run on third to win the World Series.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Here's a true sentence: When he was 22, Harper led the majors in a major offensive category (OPS). When he was 22, Devers led the majors in a major offensive category (Extra Base Hits). Since XBH is basically half of OPS, does that count? Wait a minute: did you mean your initial statement only? Can I substitute Sh for the F in Famer? Or can I buy a prefix and put an un- in front of willingness? Raffy just called and said substitute positions with teams and call it a post.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Harper could go on NESN and get even with Papelbon with a Will Smith slap at the Oscars... or a Will Smith tag at the plate...
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The front office blew that with Mookie, because every time they made him a "competitive" offer, it was a year too late for what his market value had actually become. And this was when Dombrowski was GM, and then presumably when Bloom took over... two different guys in charge, with different agendas. The common thread: the dozens of Assistant Vice Presidents -- who are still there -- haunting the conference rooms with their spreadsheets and projections. But the extensions for Bello, Rafaela, Campbell and Anthony, among others, show that at least they learned something...
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Teams signing superstars longterm are all about contracts half full -- they know they're paying for the first half of contracts, with the understanding that the back-end won't be as productive. Mookie led LA to three World Series in the first half of his contract. The Dodgers have won 35 postseason games in those years. They got what they paid for. The Red Sox won zero playoff games in those years.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    All those quality pitchers they constantly invested in, and a spectacular rookie like Yesavage could be the difference in finally winning a ring. Toronto started recruiting quality arms around the same time Boston stopped, trading for or signing Berrios, Riu, Ray, Gausman, Kikuchi, Bassitt... every year this decade they paid someone at the top of the market. Jays fans can't complain they didn't try to win the past six years. Of course, inking their homegrown superstar longterm is also key to the core. I can definitely see GMs and CBOs -- and their bosses -- looking at this model and thinking the best bet is to just hang onto all their top pitching prospects in the hopes they'll discover the next Yesavage.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Betts coming off a 7.2 WAR at age 26 making $20 mil in arbitration needed to be salary-dumped by Boston. But Bregman coming off a season of 4.1 WAR at age 30 was worth $40 mil AAV to the Sox. I know, it was six years later, and we have to account for inflation -- and we all must admit that our own incomes have doubled in that time, too...
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How can you use anything for comparison in Boston, where Mookie wasn't even worth fair market value? (according to the smartest idiots in the history of the franchise)
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    At age 32, Mookie made himself a Gold Glove worthy fielder at the most difficult position on the diamond that doesn't wear the tools of ignorance. And his team won the pennant. Anyone here really think Betts won't make adjustments to become a good hitter again?
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Great interview on MLB channel yesterday with Toronto's batting coach David Popkins and his job of optimizing the strengths of each individual to form a balanced offensive attack. When questioned on his use of the word "clutch" -- since modern metrics dispute its existence -- Popkins said it's real, there are numbers to show it, but players and coaches can see it, based on observation. He mentioned certain hitters whose heartbeats slow down in big moments, when they come through more than others. Popkins cited guys like Clement, Gimenez and Kirk. This is a professional coach and former professional ballplayer who may know more about actually batting than a front office employee running analytics on a computer. I recently spoke with a guy who played against Ernie Clement in college. He said Clement wasn't a star in any one thing, but "did everything right in baseball."
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yoshida will be in his element by the start of next season, because there's another WBC, where Mass Attacker is a stud! Everyone forgets he led the World in RBIs for the World champs in 2023. Predicting right now that Yoshi will reach career highs in homers in 2026; previous high is 15 in '23 and he will shatter that -- 16, 17, maybe even 18!!
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But that one win difference could be also be attributed to Hancock beating Boston and Sean Newcombe at Fenway back in April. There's more than ZERO VALUE in that for the M's...
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He pitched for a third-place team. Seattle handed the ball to Hancock in 22 games, so he had value to someone over there. Hancock only had a -0.2 WAR, but that was still better than -0.8 Mariner Bryce Miller, another 26-year old. I'd still take either over broken-down Buehler at this point.
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