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... when they should've acquired more bats -- with good hitters attached to them. The Sox team batting average with runners in scoring position straddles the DuranStoryline and reveals a lot. I don't care about team OPS with RISP since On Base includes walks, which are sometimes intentional with 1st base open and don't drive in runs unless the sacks are loaded... ... (OBP also includes hit by a pitch and catcher's interference, but those are usually only issued by Boston pitchers in tight spots to opponents). Through all this ineptitude -- bad enough the last few seasons but now at an all-time Red Sox low -- I admit I'm starting to come around to this forum's consensus about "clutch." Correct me if I'm wrong: clutch hitters are really just the best hitters doing well... Oritz wasn't really clutch, just really good. If so, then the 2026 Sox bats aren't unlucky hitting atomballs or facing Cy Youngs every night -- not for two straight months, come on... they just suck. -
Or non moves. Saying you need to add a righty power bat and trying to land one just isn't good enough. How many companies in how many industries tolerate an employee who tries to do his job but fails? Teams are competing to create the most colorful posters. New York and LA always buy the most expensive varieties of Magic Markers (but the Mets spilled water on theirs). John Henry is in, but only gives Brez enough to buy a pencil. "But if he presses hard enough," lies Sam at the press conference, "it will look darker -- especially when the sun shines brighter in the summer."
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Early Trade deadline deals the selling Sox should make
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to southpaw777's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I'm not opposed to trading off expiring contracts, but skeptical that Breslow can get commensurate value in return from actual contenders. Why would a team that is going for it give up a legitimate big league power bat or an All-Star hitter not whiffer... because those are what this franchise needs in multiple spots in the batting order today, tomorrow and next season. We don't need more low-level prospects to overhype for another half decade and then ruin their swings by ordering them to pull their heads and step in the bucket. -
Come on. It was obvious to the smartest men in the front office in front of all the other offices on the same floor of the same building that once he was past his prime, Mookie would pull an oblique after he won three more World Series.
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He wants the Sox to come in last so they can have a top draft pick... ... don't all fans want to base their hopes on signing top prospects who someday -- in seasons years from now -- might be good enough to make the majors... and help their favorite club (if they don't get injured over and over)... ... you know, instead of winning as many games as we can now -- and upgrading the roster with quality big league talent to give us the best chance at contending THIS YEAR WHEN I'M STILL ALIVE.
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That's why I never bet on football. Every week the odds are based on what happened the week before.
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Agree. Just read somewhere the Sox' one untouchable in trade talks -- even for Alvarez -- should be Tolle. Love him, but can't see why Tolle won't blow out his elbow in the next year or two. Early? Maybe not; he seems to have a more mechanically sound delivery.
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And yet people on here and other forums and even a few in the media were predicting the Red Sox to win 90+ games and contend this year. And even as bad as the Sox have been, even Yankee fans -- whose team goes for it every single year in the name of every straw that stirs the drink -- know that NY is ever only a Judge injury away from sucking like everyone else. Just Sox fans knew for 20 years the biggest difference between New York and Boston wasn't Jeter, but Rivera.
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A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
To unofficially see if Tay can be a monster at the MLB level for the next month -- in case Brez gets an offer he can't refuse for Chapman in July. -
The decade might be cooked if the Red Sox have to count on middle of the order hitters who keep hurting themselves doing the one thing they're being counted on: to swing hard.
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Zero than ever
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Historical friction
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The Red Sox may not make the postseason this year even if they trade for legit bats, but here's the thing: There are none in the pipeline that are going to balance the lineup and make them contenders next year or maybe not even the year after. Boston needs star power now and for next year and the next season of actual ring contention. Someone posted a list of next winter's free agents -- it's not good, with not much help for the batting order there. So if a legit bopper in his prime is available now, why wouldn't anyone trade from the system's number one depth -- minor league pitching? Is it because we're all looking forward to more years of pitcher's duels trying to scratch out meager runs or praying for an average stick to reach the seats once a game with someone on base?
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They were afraid he'd become a complete superstar and they'd have to trade him to the Dodgers after refusing to pay him fair market value when he entered his prime. They weren't afraid to risk $60 million over eight years, knowing they'd probably lose that to him in a few rounds of arbitration if he lived up to his Barry Bonds nickname. A multi-billion dollar company can afford to pay the IKFs of the world $6 million per to sit on the bench.
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A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Hey, teams can win without home runs (they just don't wear red socks). In the two games in KC won on HRs by Contreras and Duran, Boston was 1-for-5 and 2-for-11 with RISP. They don't just need one more bat, they need about five more corked ones. -
I saw a kid bunt for an inside-the-park home run once in Little League. Is it possible for a batter to get hot vs. a bad team and sustain the heat for another week? If so, Duran's club could be in a wild card spot soon... ... or he can at least up his trade value -- if you read Theo Epstein's quotes this week, Brez is working right now on adding a bat. Hope it's an Alvarez model.
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When the Sox played Milwaukee, Pat Murphy had nothing but good things to say about Durbin. That manager must know a little about baseball, since the Brewers are always in first place.
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Yep, but I saw him rip a line drive RBI-single up the middle last night, head right down on the swing like a good baseball hitter. Maybe it's because he didn't pull his head, drop his shoulder and uppercut, trying to pull the ball in the air!
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I have no idea if either has made a difference on their new teams, but the club Suarez joined is in last place and the one Bregman joined is in first place. We can compare batting stats or WAR or games played, but there's just no way to quantify their total effect on won-loss records. I learned this from the Driveline guy the Red Sox didn't fire.
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Yeaaay STATS! Let's pick some more off the cherry tree: Story as a Red Sox, 2022-26: 8 WAR Bogaerts in MLB, '22-26: 14 WAR We all know Xander is overpaid in SD, and we all know Trevor has been a bust in 80% of his Boston career and easily one of the worst Sox free agent signings of the century.
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Yup, there's really no sense anyone can argue against Father Time, but I liked reading Shaugnessy last week remind all that Xander Bogaerts always was, alway is, and will always be a better ballplayer than Trevor Story.
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On a team that stinks at hitting, the last thing I want to see as a fan is the front office trade the only sure threat in the batting order because they sucked so bad at their own roster construction. Of course, also-rans that don't dwell in Boston regularly deal desirable parts for prospects every summer. But after what we've seen from the team-extended faces of the franchise these days, do we really want to see some of the only good Red Sox get swapped for more "can't-miss" heroes of the future (that none of us know will ever come)? Ready to hurry up and wait again?
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Bullpen gets a Blow Minus, and the rotation gets a Be Positive. There's always that one challenging kid in class like Bello who diverts 90% of the teacher's time to attempt to "reengage" him, thus robbing all the other students of instructional opportunities in an otherwise a positive learning environment. At least during assessments, Bello gets extended time and setting... with no pitch counts.
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Witty post.
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A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Does the front office? How much does fandom trust them to know? Tolle and Early are evidence that Brelsow and Bailey's Flying Circus knows pitching. But consider the injury-prone or injury-affected performances of the position player prospects touted to be the core of the next great Red Sox team. These strapping young studs should be regulars on the field, not the IL. At least Rafaela seems durable enough; maybe because he's wiry and not muscle-bound? Good pitchers always have a disdain for batters; it's part of what makes them effective... does this make ex-pitchers in charge less effective to evaluate position players? I don't know, but I do know that The Password led the entire Red Sox system in home runs combined the past two years on a club desperate for power even last season... and Brez traded him for more pitchers.
