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The 2026 Red Sox really do make a good case for why its great to go pitching , pitching, pitching.

Cora would have but thats dead now.

dress for the job you want

Not the first relationship that has gone south under mr stiff aka mr boop bop beep aka mr pompous

I dont need Tek to be a great coach to want him to knock Breslow the F out.

In JH's defense , saying nothing might have been better than Breslow's "we expect you to do what we pay you do do" which is akin to "shut up and dribble". JH may have hired the only dude in baseball who is a worse communicator. Maybe that was the strat. The ole you dont need to outrun the tiger , you just need to outrun the other people also running from the tiger

Game within the game

I didnt say that I dont understand, I said that I dont care. Breslow has to have accountability.

We tell you all the time that you are just way too optimistic in general

Sure, but not all of the problems are the same size. For example if we had 7 proven mashers and were in first place, then Anthony's struggles at the plate would not be as magnified. Every hitter slumps and the key is to have enough good hitters so when one struggles, someone else picks it up.

Correct, whether it was the original plan or the team we wound up with due to not being able to execute on the original plan - the issue is that we went into the season with too much expected of Anthony (and Duran). Thats why we argue back in forth over which one should hit first and third. Because we need them to be the primary producers. Now I do believe that Anthony will ultimately be fine at the plate. Guys who hit as well as he did last year, at 20 years old, have a very very good track record. Now, that doesnt mean hes not without his current warts. For example, he looks for walks too much and is often down in teh count after letting fastballs go by. Regardless, sophmore slumps are very common, and the team absolutely should not have put this much on Anthonys shoulders. The problem isnt how hes hitting, its how much we need him to hit. Most sophmores have to adjust, and Anthonys struggles are magfified due to how much importance is placed on him producing. I dont think Anthony himself is a problem, I think the problem is not having enough hitters or established hitters or elite hitters, guys who you can count on to hit, so when promising youngsters hit a very likely and very foreseeable rough patch - the producing established guys hide that.

Looking at underlying metrics to put results into perspective isnt math. Its valid context, but it isnt math.

Nobody cares about the guys we didnt sign except for those who gave the team an A+, the offseason an A+ and want to perform enough mental gymnastics to justify a victory lap.

K/W is a bit dated these days because modern hitting science is about swinging away on fastball counts, which includes 0-0. The good hitting teams are putting the ball in play with less pitches / at-bat. Because they are jumping on fastballs. Which we dont do.

We've been way too passive as a team. Thats what happens when you have count - workers and not mistake pitch attackers. We are actually NOT swinging enough, especially early in counts.

Things arent necessarily how they appear. Both last year and this year, our OBP rank among teams is significantly better than our power metrics. In addition, our strikeout metrics arent nearly as terrible as our xtra base hits/slugging/homerun metrics.

I dont want Tek to be offered a job from Breslow, I want Tek to swing on him.

Tek is better off farrrrrrr away from Breslow the stiff

Nobody wants to work for that stiff.

Trace Thompson and The Genius have in common: They both have wayyyy cooler brothers.

also beau beverlys former manager

Did you know thats macho mans brother ^

I think Fatu would be better for the bruins, because they are all breaks, no gas.

I didnt know

Eddie Morero Guerrero 4 CBO. Jacob Fatu 4 manager. ALL GAS, NO BREAKS