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I still can’t believe they paid $35M to Sale, and Gio to do it.
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If Mayer was healthy, and ready I believe he would be the starting SS, and Story would be at 2B. Story still has a good glove, but I’m not so sure about his bat.
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So they paid Gio, and Sale $35M this year for a hope of more innings pitched? I don’t think they had any big sort of faith in what the rest of the rotation would look like, and the most likely part of it to me was that it was a cheap option, which was all the better.
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Out of the kindness of his heart JH is paying Sale’s full salary this year, and threw in an extra $1M as a bonus. What a guy.
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All he had to do was get out of Boston, and that bad karma, and stay healthy.
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Despite striking out 15 times last night the Red Sox offense exploded for 2 runs, and still couldn’t get a W. What’s it going to take?
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He did it again last night. Chris Cy Young Sale picked up his league Leading 16th win scattering 6 hits over 7 innings with 9 strikeouts without allowing a run lowering his league low ERA to 2.46. With those 9 strikeouts he also leads the league in that category too with 206. What a steal, and what a deal for the Atlanta Braves courtesy of the Boston Red Sox with Brez making the deal, and JH footing the bill of $17M to make it happen.🙈🤭
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Cora is still being raked over the coals for this outside of here. The consensus is if Cora is just going to be part of a plan to be drawn up before the game, and said he wouldn’t change it then what are the Red Sox paying him $7M+ for. If the analytics said to bring in a 44 yr old Little League coach who had pitched the day before to pitch to Detroit’s murderers row LHH who the NESN announcers said all weekend how weak the Tigers bats were then better gets some new stats. The Tigers being so weak with the bats most likely had something to do with Caswell’s success.
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It’s all what have you done for me lately, and not the overall stats, and lately Devers has been Never Devers. Of course that could change with one swing of the bat, and he’ll go back to being Devers Forever again.
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Haven’t heard peep about any Casas extension talks lately. Do you think this pretty much lost season for Casas has changed the offering price, or the asking price?
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Story, and Casas going out early didn’t help, but I agree. Starting pitching started out good, but that was too good to be true, and couldn’t last. D has been a big problem once again, and there doesn’t seem any effort to try, and fix it such as something simple as a glove first SS. There just doesn’t seem to be an urgency as much as bad D has cost the team. Cora has said he makes the lineup out according to who the opposing pitcher is. The Offense as good as some of the season long stats look have been a Big problem too at times like the past few weeks. It all adds up to a record either side of 500, where I guess they should be. It’s just frustrating how they play after the AS break once again.
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So when you add things up the Red Sox just aren’t in it to get in it, and are just going to flounder again like a fish out of water at the end of the season for the THIRD year in a row. I agree.
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Well said. Brez was just driving down the lane he picked after a few months of analyzing' and just happen to notice Paxton, and Hill hitchhiking, and decided to stop, and give them a lift to Boston.
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Low bar was set, and a low bar was gone over. Low expectations, and low results, but not enough to really matter.
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Sam said all of baseball ops failed Two years ago. What more can he say, but to repeat it again?
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It’s not a line it’s a fact. As it turned out Boston wasn’t the place where everyone wanted to be like Sam says when 10+ candidates turned down to be even interviewed for the CBO job. Fact, and not fiction.
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There was nothing to suggest Casas was going to be any immediate help with the bat after missing so much time as he usually starts the season off slow anyways. Raffy is what he is being Devers Forever for a stretch, and Never Devers for a stretch.
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Breslow was a 12th round pick to be CBO, and he may never be anything more than that.
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Cora has walked on water around here pretty much since 2018, and while I like Cora even though I was called a hater, because I said I would have never hired him back for the cheating scandal I think he is way overrated especially on here. John Farrell won a WS in his first year too, so it’s not like Cora is extra special that some make him out to be. They can win with him, and they can finish in last place, and out of the postseason with him too.
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There is plenty of Blame to go around, but three years in a row now is more than just coincidence, or bad luck at the end of the season, and Cora is at the helm of a sinking ship once again, and Cora just saying we got to do better just doesn’t cut it.
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Right now the Red Sox are LLL. Lifeless, listless, and LOSING. Three years in a row now the Red Sox have been like this at the end of the season. Underdogs, underwhelming, and undeserving of the fan base, and all under the leadership of Cora. This team has been a bad fundamental team also for the last three years, and yes under the leadership of Cora. I know he walks on water to some on here, but he has to get some of the blame for what’s gone on the last 3 years. Bloom, Henry, Brez, and yes Cora has all had something to do with it.
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Cora did say WE made the plan, and not I. He also said WE got burned, but didn’t take the blame. Counting on a 44 yr old who wasn’t even in baseball a few week ago was not a very sound plan to begin with. Worrying about the Tigers big LHB didn’t seem like a problem to Caswell.The problem seemed to be Caswell was the problem for ALL the Tigers hitters.
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Being a lifelong Red Sox fan, which you are not since I can remember from 1960 it gives me a different perspective., which is not as long as Max, but longer than some. The 60’s up until the Impossible Dream of 67 were not very good at all, and Fenway was not a big destination like it is now with real small crowds. Not once though did I never think I would not see the Red Sox win a WS. 67 was never going to happen, because of some guy named Gibson. 75 was close, and a great WS, and 86 was close too. I knew eventually the Red Sox would win a WS, and they finally did in 2004, and have won 3 more after that. JH has been a good owner,but now I believe it’s time for him to go. I believe the Red Sox would have eventually won one without him. I don’t think expecting the Red Sox to field a competitive winning team every year, and even winning another WS as being entitled either.
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I’m sure JH is not impressed with the active 26 man payroll compared to what the total payroll is either, which doesn’t help matters any.