Jump to content
Talk Sox
  • Create Account

5GoldGlovesOF,75

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • 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

  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    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!
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    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.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But not when he fought the Spiders from Mars. Ziggy played guitar.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    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.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    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).
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    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.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    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).
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    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?
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    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).
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    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.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    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.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Lay off Sam. He said, "We like our starting staff" but strategically left out "when they are pitching."
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    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.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    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.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Agreed. Hand-eye coordination just isn't what it once was before shaky blue screens on laptops and iPads, and especially iPhones, with miniaturized viewing and texting while trying not to swerve off the road, step into traffic or walk off a cliff.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Good post -- OB was quoting Ortiz last night, saying the reason he retired at the top of his game is that every bullpen throws 100 mph now with secondaries in the 90s. I'd actually like to hear Big Papi admit that himself... not saying I don't believe an announcer, but then we just had Jim Rice last week say that the pitching was better when he and Lynn broke in, 50 years ago. Of course, everything was better last century: giant walkie-talkie phones with antennas, computers the size of entire walls, sports team nicknames, etc.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That was over a decade ago -- Hill was only 55 that year! (or maybe that was his fastball)
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Crochet is great, but geez -- Crochet, Giolito, Cease... is it wise to rely that much on guys who all pitched on one of the worst teams of all time?
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Red Sox batters struck out 44 times in three games in Philly. That's more Ks than Dustin Pedroia in his rookie year, Nomar the year he won his first batting crown, and Fred Lynn in his last season in Boston. Wade Boggs, who led the majors in plate appearances when he played for the Red Sox, struck out 44 times or less in seven years.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He might turn into Bronson Arroyo -- not a deadline deal, but the worst Epstein trade, acquiring Wily Mo Pena, who gave the Red Sox negative WAR in the equivalent of a full season. Arroyo started at least 32 games for the next eight years in Cincy, averaging 211 innings, winning over 100 games, and posting 20.6 WAR. And he was never injured playing his guitar.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe the worst post-Bagwell was Eric Gagne in 2007 for three players to Texas. He was a heart attack reliever down the stretch with a negative WAR, but the Sox still won rings despite the deal. Outfielder David Murphy, who the Ranger got in the swap, had a solid career, posting 10 WAR in 10 years.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A disturbing thing I heard is that the reason the Red Sox don't bunt in extra innings on the road is because one run usually isn't good enough and they don't want to give up an out when they need a rally. Objectively, I can see how this can make sense to management -- especially upper management calculating percentages. Subjectively -- as in, I'm constantly subjected to watching whiffers who can't touch the ball with their bats -- I say this: there are, indeed, times when one run is not enough to win in extras... ... but there are absolutely positively with-out-a-doubtly EVERY TIME, THAT ZERO RUN IS NOT ENOUGH!
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A lot of intangibles we're hearing about Bregman right now favor the Red Sox for extending or resigning him: leadership on and off the field, coaching players like Rafaela in the cage, prepping himself on a night off and insisting on pinch-hitting -- then homering, disdain for opponents and loyalty to teammates... ... many of the same traits Schwarber supposedly brought to Boston. JD brought a valuable iPad culture to the offense -- but Schwarber was a batter with an attitude. Cora, a guy who played the game, noted his appreciation for that publicly. For those upstairs who never made it, Schwarbs might only be a body and a dollar sign.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I said the same thing about needing reinforcements asap to get through this toughest stretch of the sked. Unfortunately, all the GMs are stubborn as hell and ask for heaven and purgatory to deal any useful trade candidates one second earlier than the damn deadline. And by then, it's always too late. Chaim.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Cora is known as a players' manager, but that's not always a guy who doesn't force his men to play hurt or hammer them to the media. Some athletes need a pat on the back sometimes; others need a kick in the butt. Knowing how to reach each individual and earn their trust cannot be overstated.
×
×
  • Create New...