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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Just don't let him near Papelbon.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You just knew that the team that leads the league in strikeouts and was second last year would only fan three times yesterday. But no one should underestimate the condition of the rotation, with three starters already rehabbing down in Worcester or at physical therapy. The bullpen looks decent so far, but we all know that won't last if the starters don't do their jobs; we've seen that movie over and over again every August for the past three seasons.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I mock "it's early" because someone says it every month in baseball, or if something wakes them up at 3 or 4 AM, or even 2 AM if you fell asleep at 7 or 8... but if you get home at 2 AM, it's late.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    There are plenty of players who move to easier positions as they age. Mookie moved from right field to shortstop.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Raffy's wearing his letter jacket from Manny Being Manny High School!
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And ever since Mookie signed that contract, he's outperformed Trout -- and everyone else on the WARometer (that hasn't dropped a fly ball in a World Series-losing inning).
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    team-provided video? Like from Houston's analytics department, when they created the sign-stealing system that got them all promoted -- and their manager and coaches suspended for using it.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They're all interrupted by ties, on guys who wear them on my TV screen to look really important at sweaty sporting events with lots of hollering. None of the women ever have to wear them, though. How sexist.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Campbell's not Sunshine nor the Colonel nor Soup the Second. When he joined Mayer and Anthony's pinata party last summer, they called him Barry Bonds... but that's been taken (though I do like "Barrel Bonds"). It's final. In Bregman's postgame interview, he called Campbell "KC" -- that's his nickname.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In a must-win for a playoff spot in 2021, Houck only threw a perfect game vs. Juan Soto's Nationals (yanked after five innings): 53 pitches, 8 Ks, 0 BB. Raffy's homer gave him a 1-0 lead, but the bullpen blew it until Kike and friends pulled it out in the 9th. It all happened in October, when everybody cares about fall stats.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Like they're swinging underwater. Torpedoes.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Pitchers have no egos. They know they're entirely in charge out there, but once in awhile their inhuman abilities are so precise that a delivery ricochets directly off the sweet spot of a chump's bat with such reciprocal force that it splits the defense and finds grass. It's entirely unlucky when a pitch results in a hit, but that's part of this mercurial sport.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Campbell moved so fast through the minors last year, he didn't have time to earn the entire minimum salaries at each level: $27,300 High A, $30,250 Double A, $35,800 Triple A. Say what you want about his agent, but $35 grand has three zeros, and $60 mil has SEVEN zeros...
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Regarding locking up Mayer and Anthony, here's what AI said: "A player signing a contract extension before their MLB debut renders them ineligible for the Prospect Promotion Incentive (PPI), meaning their team won't receive an extra draft pick for their performance..." ... so Brez may wait on the Dynamic Twouo in WOOuo. (and I just quoted a robot, who used plural pronouns for a singular entity, which would get it fired by the government, if only that used actual people to erase things)
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Fixed it for you. But Ceddanne is great in Florida! Just you wait until the Sox visit the Yankee Bay Rays and the Mahlins.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    $60M is like half of what Jackson Merrill just signed for... Anthony is a year younger than Campbell -- how much more will he get?
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sly dog. Bloom wore the crushed face at the airport when Bogey signed with SD, then turned around and used the comp pick to nab Kristian Campbell (after selecting four others in front of him).
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Idiots. Mookie didn't want Mike Trout money, but knew he was better than Machado and Harper, who each signed $300 million dollar plus contracts in 2019. He still is: 2020-2024 WAR -- Betts 27.8, Machado 20.6, Harper 18.8... Trout 13.8.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hey, this is like the biggest scandal in the history of something that's always been an accepted part of the game: sign stealing! Some sharp reporter should write a book about it, and then Manfred should suspend only R&D and management types who created and introduced such innovations, and didn't try to stop the players from using them. Oh, wait... they can't; it's the Yankees.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's what the Stooges said at the cocktail party, before they started chucking pies.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They knew Mookie -- the all-time leader in three home run games -- would get so sick in five years that he'd only hit two HRs in a game when he returned.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But do GMs even think that way anymore -- or is it closer to "what we pay is for 4 good years at the front of a contract, and worth 3 dead seasons at the end"...
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    When I was a junior in high school, I skipped school with three buddies and drove up to Fenway for the home opener. The game got colded out, so we had lunch and went home. But you better believe we skipped again the next day and went back up... except for one guy, who refused to miss two days of school in a row. I always wondered if he remembers what he learned in class that day... At least my grampa took his ticket, and let me drive his caddy to the game. Sox beat Cleveland, Fisk homered, Rice tripled, Evans hit two doubles and threw out Joggin George Hendrick at third.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not giving either Bloom or Brez a pass on the the last three seasons, when Boston had winning records in all three first halves and losing records in the second half (9 games below .500 in '22, 11 below in '23, and 10 below in '24). In that respect, they're still the same guy -- for whatever reasons: not building a rotation with enough depth or talent, or a bullpen with the same, or monitoring and adjusting accordingly mid-season. You can't just keep blaming bad luck on Trevor Story's bad luck... The anticipated hope this season is the starting pitching will have more quality, and thus conserve relievers' arms for the dog days. Unfortunately, we opened with three starters already on the IL. The potential hope for a better stretch run rests on a line-up infused with the energy of all three Big Three, or as soon as possible. Anthony and Mayer already have as many home runs (3) in Worcester as the entire Boston club in five games... provided entirely by Abreu and Campbell.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A torpedo is an underwater missile, so it very well could help Sox' batters hit those curveballs and splitters in the dirt they keep chasing.
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