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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nope. There was no "that's gonna be Ball 4" -- after a walk, or "they're gonna take the lead" -- after the go-ahead run scores, or "he's going to be sick" -- after I throw up.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Garcia is a good outfielder with right-handed power. As much as we like the current outfield crew, it makes more sense to give the Password the opportunity to become part of the core of Boston's next sustained contenders.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    All these defensive comparisons started 60 years ago with the standard model, Brooks Robinson. His nickname was "Hoover."
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    NESN team of Emma and Alanna announcing tonight's game... hope they keep in present-tense. No OB "He's gonna walk him," after Ball Four has already been called. He's gonna listen to announcers calling a game in real time.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe, but a $16 dollar beer anywhere is nothing to joke about.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's drafting too many shortstops. We need to draft more third basemen, so they can convert to first basemen. Happens all the time in the majors (well, almost)...
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Tolle -- he'll be groomed as a reliever for the stretch run.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "And we took all the resources that the organization provides us, and we added... Kiké Hernandez... Hunter Renfroe... Adam Ottavino... Garrett Richards. We did all those things." said Chaim, to fans at Winter Weekend. It's like a list of Russian students who went hiking at a place literally called Dead Mountain and were never seen alive again.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not true -- Alcala still has the option not to throw pitches into the damn backstop. He's tied for the bullpen lead in wild pitches with 3 in 16 IP, but the other relievers have pitched two or three times as many innings.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Cora's too busy asking himself will Bailey Falter ordering Dustin May to throw more sweepers.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Password is on the 40, so he could still be brought up in case of an outfield injury. From all evals, including old eyeballs, he's at least a better defender than Yoshida. And now Notin will reply, "So is my golden retriever" and I will counter, "Even my rescue border collie/hound mix that somebody in Arkansas said was half husky, just so dog peeps from Connecticut would adopt him, even though we all know there are no huskies down there. But he catch a lacrosse ball on a bounce."
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Seattle is so sexy. The M's have the Big Dumper and a solid rotation, and also have JRod -- who everybody loves with the same amount of homers as Abreu! They also just bulked up their offense by trading for two guys who anchored the batting order of a team below .500.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Breslow is already talking up Sandlin. Why can't these fresh arms replace some of those that will be burnt out when rosters expand in September (or is that now-limited number not enough room)? I'm not talking high-leverage guys like Chapman, Whitlock, Weissert, Wilson -- or maybe Matz -- but all the interchangeables. Can Slaten return and not get sore again?
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's possible Early gets some spot starts in September, with Sandlin used in multi-roles of starting and relieving. Payton's place is in the bullpen for the fall. His rise could be similar to Calvin Schiraldi in 1986. Schiraldi was a starter in the minors before Boston acquired him for that season and converted him to closer. He was called up for the stretch run and made an immediate impact -- most on the positive side (despite what he's remembered for, at the end of the World Series).
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Now we know the rest of the Story: healthy Trevor is a prime-time shortstop who has been solid if not spectacular in big game moments all season. His glove never fans on grounders in the clutch, even when hit at him like low and outside sweepers.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How dare Alex Cora play ballplayers from international origins and cultures, and shame the names of Boston racists like owner Tom Yawkey and his GM Joe Cronin -- who refused to let their scouts sign all-time greats like Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays to contracts, and doom the Red Sox to AL basement regions for two decades... before the last MLB team to integrate finally recruited enough blacks and Latinos to help win a pennant in 1967. Good thing Manager Dick Williams from St. Louis, Missouri, was biased enough to regularly include the likes of George Scott, Reggie Smith, Joe Foy, Elston Howard, Jose Tartabull, John Wyatt and Jose Santiago to help make the Impossible Dream come true.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If Story didn't have huge power numbers in Colorado, and the Sox didn't pay him elite money, expectations in Boston would obviously be more sober. Finally healthy this year, he has more home runs than any shortstop in the league. But for an above-average shortstop, Story's swing-and-miss at the plate is still below average for a SS: AL: Story 18 HR, 126 K; Volpe 17, 104; Witt 16, 93; Neto 15, 102; Seager 15, 71. NL: Lindor 20 HR, 94 K, De La Cruz 19, 117; Adames 17, 120; Swanson 16, 125
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Good pitching staff comparisons for '18 and '25. Hopefully, Matz will be this year's Eovaldi, and May will have a week in October like Price did. Maybe even Harrison will find it by then. Bad generalization on deadline reactions, though -- no one said Matz and May doom the Sox to failure. But a lot have said they expected Boston to get more reinforcements and pay for more talent... only because the CBO and President told us they would.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Who knows how good Anthony could've been a hundred years ago when guys like Ruth got to play in a league vs. extremely limited competition due to segregation. The Babe didn't have to face the best pitchers from international hotbeds of baseball mania -- like Anthony does today. Ted didn't either, for the first half of his career, but at least he proved himself later in more inclusive contests.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's fair, you're probably right. AC always supports his guys, but at the same time I sometimes think he makes a point to show the world that this is the roster he's been given.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The 3-4-5 batters are called the Heart of the Order. Right in the middle is the clean-up man, and if you watched last night's game til the end, you know you were just hoping the top of the order could keep the rally going so our Number Four batter could clear the bases... Honest Abe Toro, with 5 home runs, batting Fourth for the playoff-bound Red Sox. At least his .393 slugging percentage is higher than anyone in the starting line-up born in the Far East. Did anyone else suspect Cora was sending a message to the front office with his line-up card, the day after the trade deadline?
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Boston didn't dump Ted Williams, he enlisted in the Navy and became a figher pilot during World War II. And the Sox only got better when he returned: 93 wins in 1942, 68-71-77 in the three years he missed... and 104 and a pennant when came back!
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I didn't say they were better with Devers, but all of sudden other guys started blasting HRs. Remember, the Sox hit 15 in the 10-game winning streak -- and a lot of those dingers either won games or turned them around. Then after the Break, the good teams that beat Boston hit more homers. This is modern baseball: good pitching still beats good hitting, but since every staff is now populated with guys who throw 100 with some kind of killer offspeed stuff, there are less and less hits. Look at the BA leaders -- there are only 6 guys hitting over .300 in the AL, and only 2 in the entire mighty National League. Less hits mean less baserunners and less scoring. I'm glad Duran is hot legging out doubles and triples, but there's a lot less chance to strand him if subsequent batters park one out of the yard.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Home runs. That rating includes Devers -- their top longball threat the past half decade -- who they did not replace in the batting order. Yesterday, 6 PM EST.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But Brez said it takes two to fandango. Was he tacitly admitting no one wanted our prospects? Do we overrate -- gasper -- our own prospects???
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