drewski6
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Everything posted by drewski6
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1/3 of our lineup is players like him.
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well here is the answer to your question of what this team has to do with previous. Complacency, inaction, settling, trying to win every trade, scared of giving something of value up, gun-shy, fine with letting holes remain holes, no urgency, theres always next year, lies, spin
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id settle for tear 30% of it down! HOw about this, on the 40 man, pick 28 guys. Get rid of everyone else, and i dont care if you replace them with janitors. Just enough of being comfortable with a flawed roster.
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i mean fred has some good points, he muddies them up , but if you ignore the refusal to see that everyone else stinks too - hes making good points on us. Our asks arent absurd. We want more churn. More turnover. More decisiveness. I dont even need them to spend 300m. Just freaking dont look at half-complete roster and say "good enough"
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the deadline has 100% been THE problem We needed to squeeze 4-5 chumps off our 26 and we didnt We're just being saved right now by all the other clown GMs Part of me hopes Yankees and Dodgers win 9 of the next 10 world series. At least they try. None of these cheapskate owners refusing to part with prospects trying to "yes, but" obvious holes. Its not about "playing better baseball" or "doing the little things" or "getting a spark" or "thats just baseball" If you got rid of the yankees, dodgers, and phillies, youd have the nfl. Just nothing but owners all tryiing to stay mediocre to keep payrolls down. I say revolt! resist! get your pitchfork, we're storming fenway
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Okay, what about nate easton having a role on the 26?
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I think you can divorce these two points. I agree with Bellhorn. We're spectacularly mediocre but it doesnt mean the season is over becasue the entire AL is spectacularly mediocre. We arent toast , but what a missed opportunity. 5 years running now! The difference this year, compared to previous, is that the AL is even more mediocre. Are these GMs trolling me. Nobody is aggressively trying to make their team better. We continue (5 years running) allow floundering players to continue to flounder. But we crossed our fingers AND our toes this time! Seasons not dead, because in order to lose you have to be beat. This is more like a race to the absolute bottom and its boring and Breslow is just Bloom repackaged. Theres like 3 teams in all of baseball who are actually trying.
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Why?
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A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part II
drewski6 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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Yeah, not enough room for everybody. People are going to get squeezed on an improving team. For too long, my opinion, the sox were the opposite. Just content to run the same sub-par players out there again and again like Verdugo because of lack of aggression and will to win. I dont like the complacency. This team has been much too complacent over the last 5 years. But I understand many sox fans are fine with how they operate. "I just want a team that I enjoy and can stick in games" "I dont think they did bad at the deadline" "we made a trade? Oh no!! Who did we give up?" This kind of thinking glues you in place.
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We want PW!!
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Higher than Tolle is wild to me.
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Why Arias so high!
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The only trade we should be making involving Duran should be his jersey. Swap out the current one for one with a "C" on it. He is the captain. You dont trade the captain.
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On an 0-0 count, the advice should be the same. To keyhole. Its the execution that is off. Nobody is being told to take more or swing more. Or at least they shouldnt be
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I can see it changing again and then again and then again Right now , the name of the game is hunt. So everyone is trying to punish mistakes. Everyone is trying to mash (pull). Everyone is swing happy (ofc to different extents). So strikeouts go up. And to an extent you live with it. But it kinda makes low and away a blue zone. So if you get something offspeed that breaks away from you, low and away , running away from you, but you are trying to pull and not miss mistakes and it looks like a mistake (until it breaks and runs away) - well thats why you are seeing so many sweepers. They are a great counter for a pull approach. With 2 strikes you kinda have to try to slap that over the first basemans head (assuming righty/righty, or over the 3b head assuming lefty / lefty) down the line. Like splendid said, its kind of a chess match.
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If Tony Gwynn had Ichiros speed or even 70% of Ichiros speed , he would have done it in the nineties (at least once). Granted Tony gwynn had like a .395 BA , with only like a .550 slg which is hard to do. So theres warts in an extreme contact approach.
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Any homerun over 440' gets an extra run.
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It did feel like Raffy contract had a bit of cant let another betts happen, reactionary. I agree.
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Absolutely, its so important right now. Thats why MLB players are playing baseball video games. Gotta put in the time to learn pitcher tendencies (as a hitter) or hitter tendencies (as a pitcher)
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sweeper would never hit 90. A hammer curve might, but dont think ive ever seen it.
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You break your wrist with a sweeper, not a slider. Its not a slider, and its not a slurve either. It use to be considered a curveball (was referred to as a sweeping curveball). It differs from a "sharp" curve (aka an uncle charlie aka a hammer curve) due to its slower speed and (as you correctly note) horizontal break. They renamed it (pretty much just changed it from a sweeping curve to a sweeper) because less of a mouthful and its so different from all other curveball varieties Watching it either as a batter or fan, it looks exactly like you say. A much slower slider that runs away much more than a slider (assuming pitcher/batter same handedness), but its more similar to a curveball. You are breaking your wrist and focusing on max spin at the cost of velocity. Sliders and slurves are thrown hard. You can throw a front hip slider, wouldnt recommend a front hip sweeper, thats gettin crushed
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Ambush hitting refers to only looking inner or outer half of the place. Its not considered sneaky or negative , thats just what its called. Modern hitting coaches preach it. Its different for jumping on the first thing straight, and taking advantage of a % first pitch fastballs. Im not sure what people call it, but I sometimes refer to it as blitzing. Again, its not anything cheap or shady. Its just new school. Cuz thats my whole point. Things change and gotta stay up on it. Jumping on first pitch fastballs, "ambush" hitting, so hot right now. Staying back and trying to just put the ball in play is dated philosophy. Stay current or get left behind. New school baby!
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Do you know that Giolitto started playing the show earlier this year? It works. I think more for pitchers, but hitters too
