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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's where the disappointments of this decade have carried over. Everyone acknowledged the acquisitions that would lead to improvement -- and most of them have played like All-Stars: Chapman, Crochet and Bregman. Unfortunately, the Big Three rookies have been less Lynn and Rice, and more snips and snails and puppy dog tails. Somehow, Boston leads the league in errors again without Raffy playing a single inning in the field. There's still time, obviously. But before the season, if fans were told the Sox would be 40-40 at the end of June after just losing Devers forever, the outlook would have to be more on the gloomy side.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Fans who use stats to make a point often miss that which cannot be calculated. Not every batter who reaches base on an error or advances on an error scores. But every extra out a defense gives up puts more stress on their pitchers. And higher pitch counts always either expedite a pitching change or expedite the chances a more tired pitcher will make a mistake and get clobbered for it... which will eventually tax more arms in relief. Yes, Es can kill a pitching staff -- and that includes miscues by guys on the mound like Bernardino, who has more errors in 15 less games than Chase Meidroth.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't Trust Anyone Over 30 (Sixties poster from my youth). This is why Breslow and Bailey -- MLB pitchers in a past life -- shouldn't even think about trading Tolle or Clarke or Harrison for some swing-and-miss past-his-prime first baseman... as was suggested in some clickbait "article" (I think it was Tolle for Hoskins -- wanna see some real uproar here?).
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    As much as you'd like to separate defense from pitching, they are directly connected. Both are on the side trying to prevent the opposition from scoring. Unless you have a pitching staff full of Nolan Ryans striking everybody out, the fielders have to touch the ball a lot. Teams that build around pitching are smart enough to put just as much emphasis on having a tight D. This year in Boston will be remembered as the season the Red Sox traded Devers, but that scandal is what masks what the media should really address: in 2025 the Sox lead the majors in errors -- without Raffy playing a single inning on defense. Sox fans often ask how Tampa always wins. Good pitching, good manager, but look at that batting order... Let's get right to it: Boston has 69 Es. Tampa has 37.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Has he seen his crappy minor league fielding percentage???!!!!???!!!???! And I'm talking at third base... in 48.1 innings, Mayer's % is .933! He made an error in Portland! Even Raffy was higher at the hot corner, with a career .944 -- in the big leagues! And he only led the league in Es for all seven straight full seasons of his MLB life. The Sox are doomed with Clank Mayer flashing his leather like Swiss cheese.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Just cut out the scam, Sam Your words are just spam, man No need for more flim flam Why don't you all scram... ... and set ourselves free
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Dusty puts together good play lists of Seventies Rock on pay radio (for those not flippant through the channels).
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I Noah Song. "50 Ways to Leave Your Loafer" "Dont gimme no mora, Cora" "No need to be Prez, Brez" "I wanna be gone, John" "Just tap the keg, Breg!" (... and set yourself free...")
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Totally agree. Mayer doesn't profile as one of those slick-fielding banjo hitters, either. He's a big guy with obvious pop, currently listed as 6-3, 188 at age 22. I can see Mayer's ceiling maybe like a Matt Chapman: Gold Glover, with relatively high K numbers, but an OPS always hovering around .800. Chapman is listed at 6-1, 225. His annual average through nine seasons is 6 bWAR... I'll take a decade of that.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Second base in Boston isn't just a struggle; it's fricking haunted. The ghost's name is Dustin Poltergeist, and he's been disrupting defense and causing chaos at 2B since demonic Machado spikes ruined the Red Sox. How else to explain the Sox utter futility for half a decade at the position closest to the first baseman, where the shortest, easiest throws can assist in what should mostly be automatic force-outs? The Bosox don't need an exorcist to play second, but just someone with enough fortitude not to be possessed by evil spirits. At this point, we'll even take a stubborn agnostic...
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I can't find the actual statistics on bb-ref or fangraphs, so let's poll the board: For anyone who has ever played or watched Little League... what percentage of the best players would you say played shortstop -- when they weren't pitching or catching? 1. 75% 2. 85% 3. 95% 4. kajillion
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How many pints did you drink today before the Red Sox started looking good?
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    While the Red Sox front office is notorious this decade for a pretension of contention, Alex Cora has been vocal for caring more about playing in October than Wait Til Next Year (or the Year After That, or a Future He May Never See). The manager's job, after all, is to win now with what he has. Cora may be a lot of things to a lot of people, but he's not some front office secret agent disguised in a Sox uniform infiltrating the dugout and pretending to try.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You nailed the reason KC got demoted -- he needs to play everyday somewhere. And it's definitely an indictment on Campbell's D that he's been replaced lately by Hamilton -- a guy who needs to play neveryday. If the Sox want to get serious about going for it, when Bregman returns they'll move Story to 2B and insert Mayer at SS, at least for the rest of the season. And they will also add a power bat at 1B -- hopefully before the deadline. Campbell may still return this summer, but it won't be at 2B. Maybe he's the 1B... or a corner outfielder... or DH. His job is to rake; he wasn't the Minor League Player of the Year because of his glove...
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Who's a bigger factor in the second half: Houck or Sandoval? I vote Harrison...
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Watching Raffy busting down the line on a grounder to second last night... I'm just glad that his groinknee finally looks fully healed -- wouldn't you know it, the instant he left Boston for San Fran. Maybe the nightly Bay breeze blowing at his back made him look faster, but only an elite talent such as he could use it to his advantage. Devers is a baserunning savant!
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not trying to start any trouble, but have a feeling one may be off Raffy's leg. Red Sox can't be happy their ex-teammate just said he'd play wherever his new team needs him. I don't know Raffy's relationships with his former teammates, but I assume Dobbins -- the no-nonsense rookie Yankee hater -- is no Xander Bogaerts...
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Every announcer who watches Marcelo Mayer calls him smooth, solid and composed at whatever infield position they see him play. That also includes ex-pros like Lou Merloni, who played all the same spots on the diamond: second base, shortstop, third base. Mayer's defense makes him the best all-around player of the Big Three so far, and the best bet to be a big league regular for the rest of the this season (and maybe beyond). Using minor league fielding stats to compare Mayer and Campbell, who at best has been awkward the past three months, is futile. Campbell is an athlete, and should improve with reps, but no one connected with professional baseball calls him polished right now compared to Mayer.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Devers trade also depleted by 85% the Red Sox me-first there-is-an-I-in-my-TIME. (Casas was the other 15%, because he refused to swing at strikes that he called balls above his zone).
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bogaerts hit .320 and won a Silver Slugger in his second full season in the majors. It may hard now for fans to remember he was the AL Silver Slugger shortstop five times. That's almost half a decade! In comparison, Nomar only won one Silver Slugger (playing in a much stronger SS era, with ARod, Jeter, and Tejada). Story won two in Colorado.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Well, if you combine Yoshida and Refsnyder's contact, they might hit HRs as far as Raffy. But if you combine their swings and misses, they still wouldn't generate Devers' windmill innocent-bird fatalities.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The first two reactions to the writer show quite the contrast -- which is what makes a good board. One allows his hatred for the manager to call the current CBO a "godsend." The latter is also a Deverssend, sending his team leader in extra base hits, runs scored, runs batted in, and walks (1st in AL) to San Francisco... after alienating the guy the past four months. The other is glad the Red Sox still have the same manager who is known and respected for interpersonal skills -- which in modern baseball is often said to be more important than making out a line-up or choosing the best late-inning bullpen match-up. Maddie deserves praise for another honest article, covering the already-controversial stint of Boston's latest front office genius. I am still intrigued about the fired scout's choice of Zoom insult. He didn't call Breslow any number of overused swear words; he called him a stiff -- as in, dead body.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Max, even you know that citing the Red Sox' ranks in offense can't mask their season-long inconsistencies -- and that was with Devers. Boston is 3rd in AL runs per game at 4.73, just behind Detroit with 4.84. But the Sox have scored three runs or less 35 times -- almost half their games -- while the Tigers have scored three runs or less 27 times... and have the best record in baseball. I'm pissed that Raffy forced Breslow to trade him, and just as pissed the front office beat him like a bongo to get out of his contract. But just because he was a platoon rookie in 2018 doesn't mean he wasn't a special hitter that stepped up more than just about any human with a bat. Let's not overlook the stretch run of 2021, when an injured one-armed Raffy basically homered the Red Sox into the playoffs. Who's going to do that -- with two good arms -- now?
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Managers don't ask players where they will play on the field. They write out line-ups and assign positions. They may talk to a guy individually to help soothe his ego, but the dialogue usually starts with a statement: "Casas blew out his knee; I need you to play first base tonight." If the player is super sensitive and someone you don't wanna lose, you might end with a question to make him feel wanted, and let him know you're counting on him (with an arm around his shoulder, to keep him from shaking): "Can you do that for me?"
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Red Sox brass are all highly-educated execs, and while that doesn't necessarily mean any have common sense or sound social skills, is it even feasible that none of the 89 Assistant Vice Presidents could concoct an acceptable plan to mollify even the most immature man-child multi-millionaire?
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