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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Who's a bigger factor in the second half: Houck or Sandoval? I vote Harrison...
  2. 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!
  3. 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...
  4. 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.
  5. 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).
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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?
  10. 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?"
  11. 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?
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Dodgers and Giants fans can't believe Wong and James Tibbs The 3rd might someday play together in Boston.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't call me a laborer. I sweep sheetrock scraps and drywall dust into piles at a construction site. (next thing you know, they'll want me to shovel it into the dumpster).
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Irked at everyone. Since when does anyone on the coaching staff or in the front office have to "ask" a player to play a different position? Pregame tradition has managers post the starting line-up on the dugout wall. If a skipper wants to extend a courtesy to one of his veteran regulars, he might privately inform him of a change so he won't be surprised -- or omg, offended. But when someone who doesn't follow sports meets a guy at a family function, or even in a stuck elevator, and asks, "What do you do for a living?" -- I'll bet no one in history has ever answered, "I'm a DH." I'm a baseball player.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Right now there are 27 batters with more home runs than current Boston HR leader Wilyer Abreu's 13. There are 45 players with more homers than the 11 for the Sox' next most powerful, Bregman. In Slugging, 37 guys have a higher percentage than Abreu. I'm not saying they're all available, but some will be in the next month (though not Raffy). The longball isn't everything -- unless you're on the Yankees and in first place. Again.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They all suck, but if the Sox don't use their resources to make moves in the next month that upgrade their chances, then we'll know the front office was full of crap when Breslow said they weren't waving the white flag. We'll see about that, because if Boston -- with its overrated offense clearly depleted -- loses more than it wins between now and the deadline, it will give Brez and Kennedy the perfect excuse to sell rather than buy.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A line meant to project progress for the rest of the season is on a big graph on a white board in the Sox analytical dept. It's actually two lines: one colored red pointing straight down, another colored green going up. Red stands for Boston's position in the standings. Green represents sales of new City Connect merchandise. The latter is the bottom line...
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Raffy even volunteered to captain small craft to sail into the Frisco bay and retrieve any baseballs from the water he cranks out of the park. He invited his new teammates to join him in their choice of kayaks, canoes or submersibles, but when they consulted Bregman and Story for opinions, the Red Sox vets warned: "Be a landlubber."
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Giants are batting Devers third in their order? Red Sox analytical department genius execs who never played in the majors must be laughing at the gross misuse of all-or-nothing Raffy. What does San Fran GM Buster Posey know anyway? Besides how to win MVP, Rookie of the Year, Silver Slugger, Gold Glove, batting crown, and three World Series... And what does Devers' new skipper Bob Melvin know about optimizing batting orders? Besides how to win over 1,600 games in 22 seasons, and be named Manager of the Year three times...
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What keeps bothering me: were Breslow and all his other highly-educated front office minions so collectively dumb in the offseason that they really couldn't find a way to properly communicate with their highest paid player on how they planned to improve the team defense? Raffy may be an immature big kid, but such characterization is typical for anyone who's only job is playing pro sports. Often these guys -- who've been top dogs at every level and told how great they were for most of their lives -- are sensitive and emotional when things go badly. Not recognizing Devers' type, and the possible repercussions of alienating him, is unforgivable. It's also unlikely by Boston's THINK TANK. This is a group that considers all angles. Maybe what just happened was their angle.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm going to admit right now that a year ago, the southpaw Kyle Harrison was high on my list for starting pitcher candidates with potential to trade for. This was when Bailey was Boston's new magic pitching coach, and I assumed he had some familiarity with Harrison from his SF days. Plus, Harrison had the rep for being tough on lefties -- a commodity the Sox were lacking pre-Crochet... We can always use another one.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The President admitted he made a mistake? Beautiful.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Because he opened his mouth. Just a week ago Sam said Raffy will be ready to play 1B when needed. He must have been cut off before he finished, "... for San Francisco." Beetle on Sportstalk TV just summed it up: "Every time the front office talks in public, it never makes fans feel better."
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "Chaim, we discovered this guy in Japan who is half the size of Ohtani and hits the ball half the distance!" "Classic! If I can sign a player half as good as Ohtani for 1/10th of Ohtani money, it will make me look like I got my Yale degree in Classics."
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No one wants to say anything that can get them fired like the Red Sox scout or shipped 3,000 miles away like Raffy. Luckily, they have fans who can post for them, and never let liars get away with how their deflection points just don't seem to malign with their malignments.
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