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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.

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.