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  1. Old Red
    The Red Sox have no depth. I keep hearing the farm is better, but they can’t even bring up anyone to play SS who can field, and hit better than 083. Wouldn’t a Jeter Downs have looked good, but he sucked big time, and never made it. What a haul Bloom got for Mookie. The best option for an OF to be brought up is the Butterfly Man, so for a farm that’s supposed to be better I’d say it’s still pretty thin.
  2. Old Red
    Being 7th in runs scored is not the telling of what the offense has been to start the season. They hadn’t faced very good pitching going into Tampa, and outside of Duvall, Dugy, and Raffy there wasn’t much else going right for any other hitters, so to call it thin would be to generous.
  3. Old Red
    Sale got knocked around by a good hitting O’s club, and looked a little better against a weak hitting banjo lineup in Detroit. A Sale day, or A For Sale Day we will find out tonight.
  4. Old Red
    I think getting swept by the Pirates at home was a lot more telling about this club than sweeping the banjo hitting Tigers, so to say the Red Sox looked promising going into Tampa is something I don’t buy.
  5. Old Red
    Bogey hit his 4th HR of the season last night. On the other hand Kike doesn’t even have 4 hits. WOW!
  6. Old Red
    What ever you want to call it still wasn’t good for a guy 29, who has played lots of baseball. I’ll repeat something I’ve reported before that Yoshida had 9 hits in the WBC, and 8 of them were on pitches under 90 MPH, and the other hit was on a pitch at 91 MPH. He may adjust to faster pitches, and he may not. For $100M he’d better
  7. Old Red
    Noshida has been playing baseball for a long time, and is 29 years old, so not a good comparison. The pitching he’s facing is better than in Japan.
  8. Old Red
    Might as well just draw the lineup out of a hat at this point.
  9. Old Red
    The way the Sox are going right now I don’t think it matters who bats where. Like I said Kike gets an xtra AB tonight, and a chance to suck even more, which he did.
  10. Old Red
    Kike was sucking batting 9th, and now Cora has moved him up to leadoff, so he can possibly get 1 more AB, and suck even more.
  11. Old Red
    A lot of the Red Sox hitters wasn’t hitting before they got to Tampa, so it’s not just Tampa’s pitching.
  12. Old Red
    I’m not agreeing with anything. Tampa wins with Bloom, and wins without Bloom, so I don’t think Bloom built anything. He was just one of many Nerds in the room, and maybe the Red Sox picked the wrong nerd. Now he’s out in front of the room in Boston, and it has shown. He big league club has suffered.
  13. Old Red
    Noshida must have payed a lot of ping pong in Japan.
  14. Old Red
    Tampa hasn’t missed a beat since Bloom left, and the Red Sox big league club, which matters the most has gotten worse since Bloom arrived it town. Not a coincidence to me.
  15. Old Red
    I agree with the first two parts, but I can’t answer the last part. It just seems like Bloom just adds players, and it’s up to Cora to make them fit. Even Schwarber was a good example of that.
  16. Old Red
    Who’s going to play SS? I would rather just go to a platoon in CF right now with the Ref Man, and Tapia if they are just going to stay with what they got.
  17. Old Red
    So why do you want him in CF, or anywhere else? The good old eye test says it’s actually worse than just saying he hasn’t hit.
  18. Old Red
    When is the last time the Red Sox had this many stopgap players to start the season?
  19. Old Red
    But Kike can’t hit,and hasn’t hit much for two years now.
  20. Old Red
    Bloom did build the team in the offseason just not to sure the build will hold up.
  21. Old Red
    I don’t answer those questions, because I don’t get paid to do so, and once again I’m not doing Bloom’s job for him. For good, or WORSE that’s what he gets paid the big bucks for. They definitely need someone to field SS adequately, but what I don’t get is why everyone says the answer to CF is to move Kike there. I’m not just out on seeing Kike at SS, but I’m out on seeing him playing at all. He’s 3-31, so how much worse can he get He can’t hit so far this year, and he couldn’t hit last year, and yes that was before he got hurt too. Yes he plays a good CF, but JBJ could too, and the Red Sox are still sending him paychecks. I questioned if the Red Sox could have done better with $10M when they resigned Kike, and I was told by more than one poster on here no. People are fixated on Kike’s hot streak in the 2021 postseason, but hasn’t done much with the bat since. I know Kike is not this bad with the bat, but at the moment he stinks to high heaven, and to me is no part to any solution.
  22. Old Red
    Bottom line is I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for Bloom to do something to help the club. If he does something to help the club that would be great, but I’m not counting on it. What you see Chang, Tapia, Ref Man, Bobby D, and Kike may be all you get.
  23. Old Red
    I would want to know what it would take to sign Reynolds first.
  24. Old Red
    The Kut Man has been optioned to Worcester.
  25. Old Red
    It’s only 10 games into the season, but with Duvall going down it’s apparent to me the Red Sox need help. The question is if Bloom is going to do anything this this year, or sit on his hands like he did last year for a couple of months. Any combination of Yang, Tapia, The Ref Man, Bobby D, Duran, and KIKE i don’t see cutting it to be somewhat productive. Things wasn’t good up the middle to begin with, but at least Duvall was mashing.
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