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Im not sure you can fire him. As in, I dont think he'd believe you if you fired. Kind of like office space, um, we actually fired that guy years ago and he jsut kept showing up. When Breslow is told things to his face, he accuses the person of lying/bluffing and hes too dense to communicate with. How do you fire someone who cant be communicated with?

On. Fire. All. Day.

He might be super 2, and his arb years wont be cheap. But its not like they are the pirates, they might not give away players as soon as they cross into double digit millions.

wow

steal 100 bases. Also forgot he was lefty.

I expected a sophmore slump but didnt know it would come this early in the season and be this bad. I didnt mind Anthony in the lineup , he did earn his spot....BUt I hated how much he was expected to carry. You work in your "suspects", you dont live/die by them. Like in basketball how rookies and sophmores typically come off the bench or in hockey when they play on third lines. Id even be fine with RA at leadoff but we needed more proven good hitters so when the young kids show growing pains or the vet streaky hitters get streaky (story, cedanne) - you have at least 1 or 2 consistently very talented hitters. This team is not built top down, and thats a problem. Top down = get your stars in place then build around them.

At least everyday vs righties.

I mean you joke, but...

They should be running more too. To win despite a lack of power, I would argue you need both athleticism + baserunning smahts (stolen bases), xtra base hits (2Bs + 3Bs)

I think it was Alsoason poster in the game thread - but he said this base to base crap suxx. And I believe hes onto something. If Durbin cant drive it over the wall, he should be able to air-pull profile: doubles down the line, drive gaps. That could be enough for him to hold the spot , but we need to see it. If you are hitting single digit HRs, you need 40+ doubles

Mr play it safe was afraid to lose a trade He got sacked for inactivity Isnt it ironic? Its possible he learned and grew. In hindsight, Blooms biggest problem is he created an 8 year plan in a job that comes with 3-4 yr security.

Right too much value chasing and WAR/$$ and not enough targeting. Too much settling. You are on fire this AM. This post that Im responding to is like the forth one Ive read this morning while nodding my head.

I do not sit here, wishing we had Paredes. Pick a sexier name. CJ Abrams? Seager? Schwarber?

Paredes is neither a star nor a stud.

Stars and studs change teams all the time.

Because this team settles too much. And trades backwards too much. There are times to trade backwards (by that I mean identify the guy to be traded , not the guy you are getting first). So like, hey this isnt our year, lets circle our upcoming free agents and see what we can get = fine. But enough of this , I think we should have traded Duran! For what? Well, I dont know - maybe Paredes. Go the other way, circle the best infielders. Go get them. Overpay if you have to. Take a big salary if you have to. Be the driver. Paredes only makes sense if you work backwards. I think that passive approach is the problem.

And I typed my comment in between your 2 haha

F all this positional alignment. The sox did not go out and get stud hitters. Change your mentality. Paredes is not going and getting a stud hitter. Its more of the same. Oh , we have Masa so we cant get Schwarber. Oh we need 3b/ss that dude is more of a 2b. Noooo the problem is the batting order, yeah, thats it. The problem is a lack of elite baseball players. And we have enough versatility that we can fit an elite baseball player at really any position (even DH). Look up the top 15 baseball players and daydream going after them. Paredes is closer to Durbin than he is Schwarber.

Is it becaus of the position(s) he plays (poorly)

But why is Paredes your daydream?

Story is a much better player than Paredes. Mayer was a top prospect waiting in the wings but certainly could be sent down. Durbin was a reactionary move in an offseason full of them. I dont understand why any of this matters. Its like you are 1/2 accepting positions are dead by lumping all these guys together, and then fall back to we needed to make a trade because positions. Mayer and Durbin, Durbin and Mayer oh nooooo. The Red Sox have enough versatility where they can fit in a stud hitter almost anywhere. Cuz guys can and do move around. Cuz positions are dead.

Paredes has a 0.1 WAR, thats not exactly moving the needle.

It use to be 2b are your 2b and your ss are your ss and every player can only play the one position Then like LF/RF became interchangeable, as well as 2b/ss and maybe even some 1b/3b Now its 2b,3b,ss (interchangeable) but not interchangeable with lf,cf,rf (who are all interchangeable with each other) And even though the trend is towards positions are dead and optimized defense is for the birds....We are still talking about 2b vs 3b , oh if you play a ss at 2b or trade a lf for a 2b Or talking batting order Its all tiny potatoes stuff. Positions are dead. Best 9 hitters. We just dont have enough good hitters. Its not about swapping positions. Like MVP told you we are 2-9 in games Masa starts. And the problem is Duran should have been traded for Paredes, right? Well we are like 2-9 in games Duran doesnt play and Paredes aint a star. What we need is star players. Big contracts. Proven studs. Paredes is not.

And Paredes himself was a settle, so I dont see that as the one who got away.

Run differential = Runs Created - Runs allowed Runs created = hitting + manufacturing (bunting, stealing, sacrificing) Runs allowed = Pitching + Defense Run differential = hitting + Manufacturing - (Pitching + Defense) , basic algebra: Pitching + Defense = hitting + manufacturing. When it comes to winnning the game, using all 4 elements above, what percentages would you assign (note: both sides have to equal 50%) because that is implied working under an assumption that "run differential rules" (which I am not disputing). The other element is the crapshoot element. So I believe that because pitchers are more likely to get hurt (or fall apart or underperform or be effected by external factors), the return on pitching is not as stable as the return on hitting. So this further, in my eyes, makes it wise to build bat-first team. However, Im more of a shade of gray guy than a black/white guy. So I understand that sometimes if you are drafting 12 overall and 8 hitters off board vs 3 pitchers you may go pitcher there. And I also want to acknowledge that top of the market for a stud hitter is higher than a stud pitcher. I do not think pitching nor defense is irrelevant. I would say Pitching (38%) + Defense (12%) = Hitting (43%) + manufacturing (7%). But I think the wisdom in building bats first vs pitching is more than the 43% vs 38% expressed above because I think pitching has a larger crapshoot element. And I think everyone kind of knows the simplest and highest percentage chance one has (generally) to improve their club is through their hitting. This is why hitters make more, get drafted higher.... Now again, Im not a black/white guy so I acknowledge that if you have 1 good pitcher and 6 good hitters and the FA market is making pitching relatively more affordable , then it makes sense to swerve to pitching there. I understand that an all glove, no bat guy is cheaper than an all ba,t no glove guy, so you can get a defensive stud ss or cf on the cheap = sure that has budget saving value elsewhere. I acknowledge all this stuff and dont believe that we shouldnt invest in pitching and defense, and I believe there is even a time and a place to prioritize pitching and defense over hitting (for example if you already have 5 very good hitters). But this 2026 offense was a settle job, and that has been our biggest issue.