You have your opinion, and others like Tomase has theirs, so yes it is open for discussion. I myself don’t really care what anything on paper says, and if the standard for this team to open the season is to compare it to the 2020 team to open the season than Bloom has done one hell of a job. Show me results, and not what’s on paper. Lots of times they don’t come close to matching.
We’ve already established that the pitching on the 2020 team sucked, but the lineup to start the season, which was the main point had plenty of talent.
My opinion is that he shouldn’t have been protected at the time of the draft. He got released to play, but I don’t believe the Phillies would have drafted him if they had known that at the time. My biggest interest with Song is that he is a ex Navy guy, so that’s what got my interest more than anything else, and I hope he eventually makes it with someone.
Exactly! He didn’t forget how to pitch, and to me the question is how long will it take him to get back in pitching shape. Someone will find out whether it be Philly, Boston, or another team.
You misinterpreted. He said the least talented team to start the season, and not the finished product. Raffy, Bogey, JD, Vaz, JBJ, Benny, Dugy were some talent. Remember JD lost his binky iPad, and couldn’t hit.
The great, and objective John Tomase said it this way. This Red Sox team is the least talented team in the JH era to start off the season.I don’t think anyone predicted what happened in 2021, nor what happened last year, so I’m not predicting at all. I will say that a lot of things will have to go right for this team to be anything like 2021 starting with good health of the starting staff.
I believe pretty much all players pretty much know what is being said about them, and in Boston that includes Cora, Bloom, Kennedy, and especially JH, and it comes from many different sources. Who knows maybe even Talksox.
All I said was that I was at the wait, and see mode on Yoshida to see how he handles playing in Boston just like I do with anyone, and you guys took it from there. I was agreeing with you that there might not be the same kind of pressure now that there has been in previous years, and that Bloom is under the most pressure. I didn’t know my opinion would cause such a tizzy.