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You cannot possibly win this one. Giving a slumping player a day off is fine. That happens all the time. Benching a good hitter after a slow start almost never happens. Players on the bench don't adjust, and you will never get a signal that a hot streak is about to start. Just from guys on my fantasy teams, before and after splits: Naylor .390/1.210 JRod .503/.860 Raleigh .511/1.116 Turner .481/.756 Busch .377/.774 Tork .566/1.622 Jose Ramirez .464/.975 And I could easily find another 20 names. Players get hot, and players get cold. But they generally revert to their career numbers.
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I have no idea why, but I am forever interchanging those two names. But I expect Duran to out-perform Yoshida.
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Before the week is out, there will be calls for Mayer & Durbin to be our 3/4 hitters.
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Most of the team started off slow. I tend to think the idea of a hitting savant is overrated.
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In other words, it is early. And I agree. But the downside of veterans returning to form is that they will decline. If you don't get excess value in the first year or two, then you are really unlikely to catch up. If Bichette + Bregman combine for a 6 bWAR, and Mayer + Durbin combine for a 4.5, then B&B is an unmitigated disaster.
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A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
JoeBrady replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
For the cost involved, Durbin is currently a better choice than Bichette, Paredes, or Marte. -
I doubt DD gets fired this year. Maybe next year.
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Over the past 14 days: Narvaez .945 Mayer .844 Monasterio .783 Durbin .726 Basically, the 4 players with the most complaints.
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No. I see very little chance that Yoshida provides more offense (including speed) than Abreu.
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You forgot Bichette instead of Durbin.
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No, no doubt in my mind.
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And the one hit was a soft s*** with the fielder playing way off the line.
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It also takes a long time to develop a fan base. Folks in LV are already fans of other teams. This will take time.
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105 pc. I wouldn't mind another inning, but I'm hoping Weissert can finish this off. Save a couple of bullets for tomorrow.
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FWIW, the Narvaez HR raised his OPS from .575 to .647. That'll give you some idea of the sample sizes we are dealing with.
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Bad move, imo. He had lost the zone in the previous inning, and was already close to 100 PC.
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If it helps, Mayer + Durbin have a combined higher OPS than Bregman + Bichette, at a savings of $80,000,000 per year.
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For the record, most players don't change that much from year to year.
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It's Boston. He got a hit in the opening game of the series, and they assumed he was a 1.000 OPS hitter. He's the same Hammy he has always been. A very good bench piece but a marginal fulltime piece. Folks in here must Olympic figure skaters from the number of 180s I've seen.
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I don't who said what to whom, but just to put this to rest, over the last 3 seasons, Duran has an .811 OPS out of the lead-off position. He should automatically lead off every game until at least the ASB.
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Everyone does. You can't learn to hit lefties in the minors because there are very few good lefties in the minors.
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That whole thing, like most other small sample analytics, make no sense. Hamilton played much, much, much better for us than he has for Mil.
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Romy was every bit as bad in 2024, and became passable in 2025. Boggs led the league in errors in 1983 and 1984, and went on to win a GG.
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We need a good performance from Suarez today. We need to get the rotational consistency. Good games from Early, Tolle, and Crochet. If Suarez can start turning in consistent QS+, then we can get by with Bello's badness until Gray returns.
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I think everyone is over-analyzing it. He got brought up to play 2B because we needed a 2B. He figured to be below-average at 2B, but not awful.
