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Post by chrisfromnc on Feb 16, 2024 8:13:12 GMT -5
www.mlb.com/redsox/news/brayan-bello-pedro-martinez-pitching-adviceAn Ian Brown article on MLB.com talking about how Pedro helped Bello over the offseason. Apparently the focus was on Bello’s slider. “ The 24-year-old Bello, perhaps the most talented member of Boston’s young starting rotation, felt instant improvement after Martinez’s tutelage.”RDLR was Pedro’s last binky if memory serves. Not a ton of long term success there, but let’s hope for a “wicked slidah” from Brayan Bello this year.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Jan 19, 2024 6:56:14 GMT -5
I wonder how much impact there might be on a free agent professional athlete if you can add to your pitch, “Your a fantastic player. We want you to come to Boston and play. We want to win championships with you and we have the staff here to make you even better than you are.”
I’d guess that has some appeal. I’m sure every team offfering a FA contract says something similar, but if you actually have guys like Boddy on your payroll that has to matter at least a little. This is a great addition.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Jan 15, 2024 15:58:39 GMT -5
If the Boston Red Sox plan, after cruddy showings in 2022 and 2023, is to make a big push for 2026 while continuing to bridge build in 2024 and 2025, I’ll stop watching. Really. I’m as diehard as anyone and have been since I was 10 years old in 1975, but I need the team to show some loyalty to me and put teams on the field that will contend. I’m emotionally invested in the team. I don’t have the patience to wait for 2026 to get a return on that investment.
I already pull for an NFL team (Dolphins) that disappoints year after year. I don’t need another team doing that to me. Call me fair weather, I don’t care. I’ve got all the scars between 1975 and 2004 to prove I’m not. Call me an entitled spoiled Sox fan… I won’t argue that.
So to make this post relevant to the thread, I’d like to see them sign Jordan Montgomery but not get ripped off in so doing. Stop building bridges and start winning playoff games.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Dec 18, 2023 14:42:01 GMT -5
If he signs elsewhere, I already hate him. If he signs with the Red Sox, I’ve always loved him.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Dec 9, 2023 8:14:31 GMT -5
All I’m seeing is that he can’t ever be a candidate for BSOHL. Dude is/was jacked.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Nov 13, 2023 17:31:24 GMT -5
I want championships as much as anyone. I’d also like to win the division regularly while winning close to that 95 game threshold that I fondly remember Theo talking about. I pine for division titles and win totals for the pretty simple reason that it’s more fun for me as a fan to get to enjoy 95 days of “win satisfaction” than it is to only get that 88 times. I get the math…it’s only seven games or seven days of “win satisfaction”. That’s not a big difference. But it feels better. Winning individual games is fun. I get it that it isn’t Breslow’s goal. I don’t want it to be. But I do hope he builds a power team capable of putting up big win totals and championships.
I mean, how freakin fun was 2018? Again I don’t expect him to try to win 108 games, but as a fan, only 2004 exceeds the joy of that season for me. Frankly, the regular season of 2018, for me, was the most fun regular season by miles.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Oct 28, 2023 5:47:22 GMT -5
The question burning in my mind is how does he feel about HS shortstops, particularly those from California.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Sept 21, 2023 10:35:06 GMT -5
Apologies for thread drift. I agree with the names Mike threw out. I was also convinced Casey Kelly was going to impact the team in a huge way. If I start listing the prospects I thought would be at least decent MLB players, who didn’t pan out, it’s too long a list. I think following prospects means being wrong a lot. At least if you approach as a “fan”, like I do.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Sept 21, 2023 8:34:24 GMT -5
SP is literally my favorite place on the internet. Since I found the site (I think fairly soon after it was founded) there have been very few days in my life that didn’t include at least a few minutes spent here. I’m a fan that has never lived anywhere close to New England and being able to have so much information available about a team I have loved since I was a ten year old boy has been such a wonderful, meaningful experience.
Very sincere congratulations to Mike and the entire staff. You make this little piece of the internet a great place to be.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 21, 2023 19:34:30 GMT -5
Paxton is not at all sharp.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 20, 2023 15:48:51 GMT -5
Suck on it, Yankees!
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 20, 2023 15:33:14 GMT -5
Where is the wheel barrow that JT uses to carry his balls around in?
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 20, 2023 14:40:40 GMT -5
Keep walking Raffy.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 20, 2023 14:25:32 GMT -5
Pivetta from the pen is a stud.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 20, 2023 14:24:29 GMT -5
Story is useless though. Christ, might as well put Chang back out there each day. Story’s defense is a ton better than Chang. He’s gonna hit eventually.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 20, 2023 14:06:02 GMT -5
Hit em hard, right now !! Crush these bums
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 20, 2023 14:04:28 GMT -5
I badly want a Cycle for Devers today.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 20, 2023 13:42:07 GMT -5
I’d like to have Cora go out and calmly tell this goober umpire how awful he’s been. I want him to politely beg the ump to toss him for speaking the truth to him.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 20, 2023 13:37:47 GMT -5
Freakin ump sucks.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 20, 2023 13:15:16 GMT -5
You can’t even demote theses fools who can’t even call a pitch that’s right down the middle. He sucks at his job.
It’s actually a terrible pitch it’s SO middle middle.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 20, 2023 13:12:35 GMT -5
There’s no way he just called that a ball. No way. Possibly the worst ball/strike call of the year. Not hyperbole.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 20, 2023 13:00:33 GMT -5
On pace to win this game 9-0.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 19, 2023 14:46:31 GMT -5
“Crush your enemies!”
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 19, 2023 14:31:13 GMT -5
Pay Raffy! Oh wait…never mind. 😀
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Post by chrisfromnc on Aug 19, 2023 14:17:00 GMT -5
L O L
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