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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 23, 2024 17:22:28 GMT -5
What's taking the Sox so long to get on the phone to Cron or Garrett Cooper to get them to come over to a team that needs a regular 1b for the new few months?
With Cooper he's already been playing s other so there wouldn't be any real rust factor. I really hope they don't go with Dalbec until Casas is ready.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 21, 2024 17:45:52 GMT -5
White Sox fall to 3-18. Position players at -1.6 WAR as a w hole, led by Benintendi's -.8 (before today's 0-4). Pitchers are at 0.2. This team might be an all-timer. How do you go from a 23 year old two-hole hitter on an all-time great World Series team to *gestures to whatever Andrew Benintendi is* Hit too many grounders to 2b? Or are we talking about Verdugo?
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 20, 2024 22:23:02 GMT -5
That was a costly win. So much for Casas being a good bet to hit 35 HRs. Why cant we have nice things. The whole damn infield went down as did Tyler O'Neill. Sounds like Wong could play some first, but if Devers and Casas are out for awhile, my hope is theyd bring in both Cron for 1b and Longoria for 3b, as I have no desire to see Dalbec play regularly. It's not ideal but that went out of the window a long time ago. Other than that Crawford continued to be excellent. I cannot recall another time where the presumptive starters at all four infield positions were hurt at the same time… Me neither and that covers more than 40 years. The whole infield plus Tyler O'Neill at the same time. Ridiculous.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 20, 2024 20:59:17 GMT -5
That was a costly win.
So much for Casas being a good bet to hit 35 HRs. Why cant we have nice things. The whole damn infield went down as did Tyler O'Neill.
Sounds like Wong could play some first, but if Devers and Casas are out for awhile, my hope is theyd bring in both Cron for 1b and Longoria for 3b, as I have no desire to see Dalbec play regularly.
It's not ideal but that went out of the window a long time ago.
Other than that Crawford continued to be excellent.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 20, 2024 8:14:36 GMT -5
With another gem, Spencer Turnbull seems to be living up to his potential. For $2mil the Phillies may have gotten the best free agent SP deal. Turnbull wasn’t on anyone’s radar. I didn’t even know he was a FA Look at Dombrowski finding a hidden gem, lol. Thought he wasnt supposed to be able to do that.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 19, 2024 20:36:34 GMT -5
Great game for a lot of players who needed a great game. Even Dalbec hit. Abreu went deep as did Rafaela. Great to face bad pitching.
Casas went deep again. He seems like a good be to hit 35 homers or so.
Bello was excellent and Booser did a good job. Good for him. I already like him better than Jacques and Joely.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 19, 2024 20:31:25 GMT -5
RIP Dave McCarty, gone way too soon.
I remember him having a walkoff HR in 2004 and taking up pitching in 2005. I remember him being the guy that used for late inning defense for Millar until Mientkiewicz was brought in.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 19, 2024 20:17:41 GMT -5
Noticibly absent from that list: 2018 They only homered when it destroyed or demoralized their opponents. That 2018 team just had the knack.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 18, 2024 21:20:45 GMT -5
Hope they dont have to use him. His numbers are just ugly and pretty much just have been, even in the minors.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 18, 2024 20:07:53 GMT -5
O'Neill on the IL and Refsnyder has been activated.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 17, 2024 20:13:03 GMT -5
That was an old timey type of pitching performance.
Houck worked quickly and pounded the zone. No five and dive here.
Obviously 0 run in 9 innings > 2 or 3 runs in 7 innings, but the point is pitchers should be able to find a way to make it through 6 or even 7 more consistently.
Houck was extremely efficient. Absolutely magnificent.
Maybe, just maybe, he might make it as a front line starter throughout the season after all finally. Great performance. That was an absolute pitching clinic tonight.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 17, 2024 20:02:02 GMT -5
What a gem! Tanner Houck has arrived!
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 17, 2024 19:50:40 GMT -5
Houck better be given a chance to finish this.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 17, 2024 18:51:40 GMT -5
Do you a moment for my Bagwell gripes….? Jon Lester for Cespedes was certainly a chef's kiss of awful moves. At least they converted Cespedes into Porcello who won a Cy Young and contributed in 2018. The bigger mistake was not extending Lester followed by not signing him as a free agent.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 16, 2024 21:50:48 GMT -5
Well that was a waste of time. They blew that one. Oh well. Doesnt really matter. They're not going anywhere anyways
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 16, 2024 21:48:39 GMT -5
Wonder what Masa's gonna do (groundout to second)... He might ground out to 1b
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 16, 2024 21:24:37 GMT -5
That happened against the Angels in 1986. Todd Fischer balked home Dwight Evans I believe.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 16, 2024 21:24:02 GMT -5
An infield chopper would do.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 16, 2024 21:22:28 GMT -5
I mean, we’ve had some lean teams over the years, but I am struggling to remember a team as flawed as this team is fundimentally. That’s where I’m at now. 2012 was horrendous, but talent-wise that team was much, much better than this current version. For me, 2014 is standing out as particularly bad, but that was coming off the magic of 2013 so those guys get a bit of a mulligan. I don’t see any strengths on this team, or anything that they do even slightly above average The worst era was the 1920 - 1933 post Babe Ruth rape of the Res Sox era. The next and last real prolonged stretch of being horrible was the 1959 - 1966 ers, which was quite dreary, 8 losing seasons with a 100 loss season among them, or basically the Pinky Higgins era. The Butch Hobson managerial era was bad but luckily brief (92 - 94)). After that I'd say Sept 2011 - 2015, except that 2013 somehow happened, so somehow it was kind of worth it. I mean they won more championships in that brief stretch than they did when they had 16 straight winning seasons from 1967 - 1982. Then there's this period of mediocrity, not as bad. Just kind of mind numbing and frustrating.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 15, 2024 10:57:08 GMT -5
Love Abreu is RF with Rafaela at SS with story out. Let’s Rafaela work on versatility and give us a better SS and we get Abreu in the lineup with Duran and oneill Also give us a meaningful look at what we have in Abreu I think this is something they needed to try. Get Abreu some ABs and see if he's really part of their future. And if Rafaela is truly their best SS, then they have to try this although understandably there will be a defensive dropoff in CF. If it dont work- they can cross that bridge when they get to it.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 15, 2024 10:07:54 GMT -5
Most teams have strong stretches of starting pitching for about a month. They also have month long struggles too. I'm not convinced it will hold up especially as some of these guys pass 120 innings. To be honest most of these starts are five and dive which still overworks the pen. It doesnt overly impress me, but I know that's more a statement of the modern game than the individual Red Sox staff, as all staffs do five and dive these days. It seems like you're already somewhat on this wavelength, but the team with the longest average starts last year, Seattle, only posted around 5.5 innings per start. If they can 5 and dive effectively for 120 innings the team should be in pretty good shape even if a few guys drop off; 120 IP is 3/4 of a season at 5 innings per start. The Red Sox are usually fine for hanging in about 108 to 120 games. It's been the last 40 - 54 games that have been a doozy the past couple of seasons.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 14, 2024 23:00:36 GMT -5
I know it's only 1/10th of a year, but since I have been critical of the front office for a lot of things I have to say it looks like they got the O'Neill signing right. Where would this team be without him? Even if he cools off, you have to think he will end up giving the team at least as much as Duvall (who as I recall also started out hot) did last year. I liked the O'Neill trade from the start. It's really early. Let's just say he's done nothing to alter my opinion that if he stays healthy he's going to have a damn good year, 30 plus homers. Hard to imagine the Cardinals didnt want to keep him around. Jordan Walker in RF, sure. But for LF and DH, they had clearly better options?
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 14, 2024 22:56:17 GMT -5
Looking at "paces" this early in the season is kind of next to meaningless unless the fact that the Yankees are on a pace to win 120 actually means something- hint - it doesnt. 2 games ago they were on a pace to finish .500. Just 4 games previous it was a 114 win pace. Now it's 91. Personally I still think they're a 70 something win team who happens to be off to a respectable 9-7 start. If the sample size gets a lot larger and they're doing well and the mounting evidence starts pointing in a different direction, then I'll revise my opinion. Haven't really seen anything that dramatically alters my opinion of what I think they are, but like I said if I start seeing mounting evidence to the contrary then I'll revise my opinion accordingly. A 9-7 start isnt a big enough sample size of evidence to sway my original opinion of the team. You were always expecting the exceptional starting pitching, I take it? Agreed that it's very early, though.
Most teams have strong stretches of starting pitching for about a month. They also have month long struggles too. I'm not convinced it will hold up especially as some of these guys pass 120 innings. To be honest most of these starts are five and dive which still overworks the pen. It doesnt overly impress me, but I know that's more a statement of the modern game than the individual Red Sox staff, as all staffs do five and dive these days.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 14, 2024 21:22:18 GMT -5
If Kenley Jansen is right and the baseballs are inconsistent and messed up and difficult to control I'd be very concerned that one of these many flamethrowers will lose control and we could see a serious unintentional beaning. If Jansen is right and these baseballs are difficult to grip this could be a very dangerous thing with worrisome consequences.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 14, 2024 21:17:43 GMT -5
Looking at "paces" this early in the season is kind of next to meaningless unless the fact that the Yankees are on a pace to win 120 actually means something- hint - it doesnt.
2 games ago they were on a pace to finish .500. Just 4 games previous it was a 114 win pace. Now it's 91.
Personally I still think they're a 70 something win team who happens to be off to a respectable 9-7 start.
If the sample size gets a lot larger and they're doing well and the mounting evidence starts pointing in a different direction, then I'll revise my opinion. Haven't really seen anything that dramatically alters my opinion of what I think they are, but like I said if I start seeing mounting evidence to the contrary then I'll revise my opinion accordingly. A 9-7 start isnt a big enough sample size of evidence to sway my original opinion of the team.
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