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The play that you defend when Eaton despite being half way home, turned around and went back to third.

Third base

Eaton shoulda tagged.

It was a joke about the infamous non-tag.

A good team "pharmacist", anyone got Andy Pettites boys number? Maybe some torpedo bats too or was that a one year and done thing?

What this team needs is 2 things. 1. Cream and 2. Clear

A sprinkle of drugs may

Fair. A side of turnips is not going to save a lousy meal.

Just make sure you pinch run Durbin for Eaton though (sorry, Notin, just trolling you, bud)

Does he actually use child sized bats?

What you are missing is that debating Durbin vs Eaton is like debating turnips vs beets.

He asked about sandal, not sandoval! Joe Montana was a QB I know, thats why I said Joe Montainya

At least as a supersub/platoon after Romy went down, I wanted him to make the team. But then he cooled as spring went on.

Lou Gorman and I are both from Providence

well you shouldnt give strangers on the internet the power over you to change your mood

Thats close.

Yup, and I think you are looking at the result of worrying about filling positions efficiently over chasing elite talent.

Is this the worst RS roster since 2004? There are some last place finishes in there to contend with.

Pitching is more of a crapshoot, and good pitchers revert to crap or get hurt more often. Reason number 418 why its better to build around your bats.

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Are you sure that would be worse than what we've got?

Bailey has our pitchers throwing less fastballs, which is strange when teams are destroying us with fastballs. But part of the reason we are getting destroyed by fastballs is because we arent swinging early in the count enough.

The mess that the Red Sox are in , is of their own making. They traded Devers after things were smoothed over. They revolved their offseason around Bregman than double dog dared him to take an offer that they thought didnt exist. They chased efficiency and making use of the people here rather than accepting sunk costs and getting better players. They intentionally de-prioritized offense and now our wRC+ is in the toilet.

Bregman has played well this year and was willing to take a discount to play here. We just had to not insult him to his face and give him a NTC. D'oh!

I dont understand this desire to look at the failure of this roster through the lens of who we still have and shouldnt vs who we dont have and should. I was listening to Merloni talk about this. As a player, we cared about who we got. I have friends who panic at the thought of trades because everyone wearing our laundry gets the homer benefit of the doubt. I see a roster with 0 elite hitters, 0 offensive stars, and the names that come to my mind who could help are elite hitters. And they tend to play LF or DH but we couldnt go that route (according to some) because of all the efficiency chasing.