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9/18-9/20 Red Sox @ Yankees Series Thread
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Post by sarasoxer on Sept 21, 2018 9:12:05 GMT -5
This year's final Sox record may never be broken. Just unbelievable. Make a T-shirt with the final record and year and put it in the family time capsule.
If Yanks get by Oakland, it will be a dogfight. McCutchen and Voit were huge additions, relatively young, cheap and greatly extended their lineup.
When do Hanley and Panda come off our books? Love to get Ramos.
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Post by wcp3 on Sept 21, 2018 11:04:11 GMT -5
I know the regular season won’t matter as much if they don’t do anything in the playoffs. But if Cora is gonna go with the “win 105+ games” strategy every season, then I think he’s a keeper.
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Post by ericmvan on Sept 21, 2018 11:40:26 GMT -5
O'Brien and others keep saying this is the first time we've won the AL East 3 years in a row. I think I actually heard someone say it was the first time they had finished first 3 times in a row since divisional play started.
It's the first time the Boston Red Sox have finished first three years in a row, period.
5-4 earns the 3rd best record since the DH began, eclipsing the '75 Reds and '86 Mets (two teams I remember well for reasons I can't quite recall). It ties the '61 Yankees and '69 O's for 3rd best record since expansion.
5-4 also gets Cora a tie with Ralph Houk for the most wins by a first-time manager. But Houk had previously managed in AAA for three years (before spending three years as a Yankee coach, on top of two as a player-coach to finish his career), so you have to give the tiebreaker to Cora.
6-3 of course breaks all of those ties, and gets us to the nice round 110, and the .679 Win% would put us in the top 20 teams of modern baseball (19th, to be exact). To go just 5-4 we'd have to lose one of the final three series, and not sweep the O's.
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Post by ancientsoxfogey on Sept 21, 2018 13:05:36 GMT -5
I know the regular season won’t matter as much if they don’t do anything in the playoffs. But if Cora is gonna go with the “win 105+ games” strategy every season, then I think he’s a keeper. I know, I know, I've said this before, but I'll say it again: I don't buy this. I think regular season accomplishments are foolishly undervalued in today's sports society. Somehow everyone has gotten fixated on "if you can't figure out how to get through a month-long postseason, it partially or totally invalidates what you did the previous 6 months." Not only don't I buy it, I don't like it, either. In particular, (1) Baseball is a game of statistics, and statistics are overwhelmingly regular-season-based. Individual records, which form much of the bases of discussions about who was the greatest this and that, are overwhelmingly regular-season-based. There are playoff records, but they are terribly skewed by the relative opportunity or lack thereof that players have to accumulate them, whereas everyone has the opportunity to play a full regular season every year (2) As people have pointed out, this Sox team looks as though it will set a franchise record for wins in a season, if not winning %. This is a record that may well stand for decades and Sox fans will talk about this long after I am dead, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS IN THE PLAYOFFS. If the Sox happen to win the World Series this year, fine. That championship will take its place alongside 2004, 2007, and 2013 as a testament to a decade and a half of pretty consistent baseball quality, but the aura of a 2018 championship in and of itself will last for -- one year, until it's time to find out who the 2019 champion will be. And in Sox fans' minds, 2018 will probably never match 2004 in importance, because of the drought that preceded it. I've seen the championships. Just once in my Sox-following lifetime (62 years now) I wanted to see a dominant, 100+ win team. This year I've seen it, and I don't care what others say, as an invested fan this means at least as much, and probably more, to me as any individual championship. Seasons like this are RARER than championships, and to be savored.
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Post by Mike Andrews on Sept 21, 2018 13:45:22 GMT -5
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Post by jimed14 on Sept 21, 2018 14:08:38 GMT -5
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radiohix
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Post by radiohix on Sept 21, 2018 15:02:40 GMT -5
I know the regular season won’t matter as much if they don’t do anything in the playoffs. But if Cora is gonna go with the “win 105+ games” strategy every season, then I think he’s a keeper. I know, I know, I've said this before, but I'll say it again: I don't buy this. I think regular season accomplishments are foolishly undervalued in today's sports society. Somehow everyone has gotten fixated on "if you can't figure out how to get through a month-long postseason, it partially or totally invalidates what you did the previous 6 months." Not only don't I buy it, I don't like it, either. In particular, (1) Baseball is a game of statistics, and statistics are overwhelmingly regular-season-based. Individual records, which form much of the bases of discussions about who was the greatest this and that, are overwhelmingly regular-season-based. There are playoff records, but they are terribly skewed by the relative opportunity or lack thereof that players have to accumulate them, whereas everyone has the opportunity to play a full regular season every year (2) As people have pointed out, this Sox team looks as though it will set a franchise record for wins in a season, if not winning %. This is a record that may well stand for decades and Sox fans will talk about this long after I am dead, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS IN THE PLAYOFFS. If the Sox happen to win the World Series this year, fine. That championship will take its place alongside 2004, 2007, and 2013 as a testament to a decade and a half of pretty consistent baseball quality, but the aura of a 2018 championship in and of itself will last for -- one year, until it's time to find out who the 2019 champion will be. And in Sox fans' minds, 2018 will probably never match 2004 in importance, because of the drought that preceded it. I've seen the championships. Just once in my Sox-following lifetime (62 years now) I wanted to see a dominant, 100+ win team. This year I've seen it, and I don't care what others say, as an invested fan this means at least as much, and probably more, to me as any individual championship. Seasons like this are RARER than championships, and to be savored. This! Thank you!
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