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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Like they're swinging underwater. Torpedoes.
  4. 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.
  5. 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...
  6. 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)
  7. 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.
  8. 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?
  9. 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).
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's what the Stooges said at the cocktail party, before they started chucking pies.
  13. 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.
  14. 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"...
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Absolutely hated the hiring -- not the man -- because it represented a total shift in the Red Sox philosophy of rebuilding. It was obvious Bloom was hired to trade the best homegrown player of our lifetimes, and fairly impossible he'd receive commensurate talent in return (especially when it was also obvious he was forced to include sourpuss Price in the deal). But if you're swapping a Hall of Famer like Betts from a club in dire need of pitching to the most pitching-rich team in the business, it is unforgivable not to land at least one acceptable arm.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I saw this and thought: maybe he doesn't see live pitching as well as he used to. Has anyone tested Raffy's vision lately? This was the main career downfall of Jim Rice, a guy who never lost his strength, and still whacks golf balls a mile... but they just sit still on the grass, waiting to be punished.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Except Bloom studied the Classics at Yale. That explains why he traded for Schwarber, whose speciality is to Homer, but also the Odyssey of Chaim's yearly bargain bin pitching staffs.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Just guessing: Monday was Baltimore's home opener, so they left Tuesday free in case of a snow-out or freezing-rainout in March.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It is a measured fact that modern pitchers on average throw harder than ever. I'm not a physicist (though the one I watch on TV knows nothing about baseball), but doesn't a timed swing that barrels a fast pitch usually make the resultant hit go farther than off a slow pitch? If true, then batters don't need to swing with all their might... and should instead use a little less violence and a little more precision. Maybe they do, and when they whiff, it's the physical momentum of a swing and miss that just looks like they're trying to pulverize the pill... They all made the majors, but hopefully some recall amateur advice on the best approach vs. fastballs: don't swing harder, swing sooner... ... the question is: do professional coaches remember this?
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If Crochet wins the Cy Young, there's a clause that allows Giolito to opt out. Just in from NBC Sports Boston blabbing heads, explaining the Red Sox' offensive offense: Raffy originally hurt his shoulder in Spring Training 2024 hitting weighted baseballs slipped into pitching machines by Driveline coaches hired by Breslow. Nerd scandal!
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He'll do better in THE SHOW than he will in the concealment.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's April Me Day.
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