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Sell what -- sell out fans for another year?
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In the last at bat of the game, it looked like Mookie had a necklace break -- he removed it from his neck and stuck it in his back pocket. Was it the famous bat-and-ball necklace he's been wearing en route to his Hall of Fame career since 2018? Will this be a turning point in his career? Were any Sox fans unhappy Chapman struck him out? -
Those aren't something you can teach, and why Mayer is a big leaguer -- when he can stay on the field. Of all the bus loads of shortstops stockpiled since the Bloom Era, Arias is the one guy Soxprospects gives "a good chance to stick at shortstop."
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I like Yandy because he's a righty bat that doesn't strike out (14.9% K-rate) who can hit to the opposite field, which helps balance the line-up. Even if he doesn't have flyball pull power, he's a lifetime .317 hitter at Fenway in 207 PA. But here's a stat that shows maybe Diaz won't fit in with the current Red Sox: man on third, less than 2 outs -- career .352 in 161 plate appearances. Sardonically speaking...
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Let's get something straight about centerfield. It's easier to play than the corners. You get a better a jump because you have a straight-on view of the direction of each pitch and swing. Guys playing left field and right field can only see the plate from angles, and balls hit to the opposite field down both lines are especially tricky because they curve in opposite directions. Hall of Famer Robin Yount said as much in an interview today on MLB Sirius. He said he struggled trying to play LF, but was much more comfortable in CF when the regular centerfielder got hurt (which happened when they both called for the same fly, and Yount accidentally broke the other guy's toe when he spiked him -- then he made the Hall of Fame). Jarren Duran isn't a star centerfielder, he's just better in center than in left. There is certainly more ground to cover in the gaps, and someone with his wheels can run them down -- and also outrun poor jumps or initial first steps.
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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!
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A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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. -
But not when he fought the Spiders from Mars. Ziggy played guitar.
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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.
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A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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). -
A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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. -
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).
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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?
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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).
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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.
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A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part II
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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. -
Lay off Sam. He said, "We like our starting staff" but strategically left out "when they are pitching."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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That was over a decade ago -- Hill was only 55 that year! (or maybe that was his fastball)
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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?
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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.
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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.
