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Post by notstarboard on May 18, 2024 20:48:43 GMT -5
As it turned out, PHing Refsnyder for Abreu gained 1 run and cost several
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Post by kevfc89 on May 18, 2024 20:49:36 GMT -5
when is rock bottom
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Post by soxfansince67 on May 18, 2024 20:50:20 GMT -5
We went from behind to tied to brutal. Life comes at you fast.
At this rate, we will be back at one error per game - which is pathetic.
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Post by radiohix on May 18, 2024 20:53:52 GMT -5
Any updates on Yoshida?
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Post by soxfansince67 on May 18, 2024 20:58:32 GMT -5
Tyler was batting .157 in May before that single.
What is tragic is that we are wasting so many great starts.
Poetic justice for Smith to end it with a GIDP - looks nice alongside his 3 Ks.
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Post by kevfc89 on May 18, 2024 20:58:39 GMT -5
can that please be Smith's last at bat in a Sox uniform?
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Post by julyanmorley on May 18, 2024 20:58:48 GMT -5
Why not just make that Dom Smith's last plate appearance with the Boston Red Sox
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Post by radiohix on May 18, 2024 21:00:28 GMT -5
dom Smith with 3 K and a game ending DP. Give me Kavadas
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Post by dirtdog on May 18, 2024 21:01:27 GMT -5
This is a bad team that is putting a beat down on them. Will be 5 losses in 6 games. I wonder when fans will start giving Henry the middle finger by staying home and watching something else?
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Post by soxfansince67 on May 18, 2024 21:01:44 GMT -5
So, that's 5-11 in May.
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Post by soxfaninnj on May 18, 2024 21:03:58 GMT -5
I’m probably in the minority but I think they should sell now.
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Post by soxfansince67 on May 18, 2024 21:04:54 GMT -5
37 errors in 46 games.
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Post by cheers on May 18, 2024 21:06:25 GMT -5
I'm saddened by the likelihood that 90% of us are not surprised by the outcome. At 2-2, I felt very little hope.
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Post by soxfansince67 on May 18, 2024 21:07:01 GMT -5
I think it's easier to identify the core - who to keep and build around from the current active roster,including a few key currently injured. For me,that would be Casas,Devers, Wong,Rafaela,Duran and Abreu for position players,and Bello, Houck, Whitlock, Crawford and Slaten for pitchers. That's 11 out of the active roster. I'd listen to offers for all others. It's ruthless, but to me, realistic. I posted this well before the game today. It shows my impression of many of the players on the current roster.
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Post by dirtdog on May 18, 2024 21:09:06 GMT -5
I think it's easier to identify the core - who to keep and build around from the current active roster,including a few key currently injured. For me,that would be Casas,Devers, Wong,Rafaela,Duran and Abreu for position players,and Bello, Houck, Whitlock, Crawford and Slaten for pitchers. That's 11 out of the active roster. I'd listen to offers for all others. It's ruthless, but to me, realistic. I posted this well before the game today. It shows my impression of many of the players on the current roster. I'd listen to some on the list too.
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Post by greenmonster on May 18, 2024 21:15:06 GMT -5
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Post by Guidas on May 18, 2024 21:19:58 GMT -5
They are saving up for Soto (ducks). I wonder if Breslow will trade some of the prospect wealth for a controllable 1/2 or even 2/3. Mayer/Teel/Anthony are probably off-limits, but there's some big upside pieces who are still far enough from MLB where a lot of POBOs can dream on them. We went through this last offseason. Bloom and then Breslow seemed to have big ideas about landing a controllable #1 starter through trade without touching the top prospect troika and then it turned out that you can't get a #1 starter without giving up a top prospect. I’m not saying they’d do it, but three or four of Bleis (4)/Cespedes(5)Gonzalez(7)/Perales(8)/Yorke(11) might work depending on who the #1/2 controllable starter is. He'd have to be entering his arb years and on a cheap team still 3-4 years away from contention. Kind of moot until we see Breslow make a big deal. Otherwise, his “willingness to make a big deal” (paraphrasing from one of his post-hiring interviews) is just talk along the lines of, say, “full throttle.”
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Post by soxfansince67 on May 18, 2024 21:23:03 GMT -5
How much more time can they afford to give Grissom? His bat has been beyond bad. But then again, that is not unusual on this team with so many black holes right now.
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Post by soxfansince67 on May 18, 2024 21:25:43 GMT -5
Sox were 26-20 last year after 46 games. 22-24 this year.
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Post by Guidas on May 18, 2024 21:25:46 GMT -5
Tyler was batting .157 in May before that single. What is tragic is that we are wasting so many great starts. Poetic justice for Smith to end it with a GIDP - looks nice alongside his 3 Ks. Smith should not be on an MLB team at this point.
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Post by bosoxnation on May 18, 2024 21:26:11 GMT -5
How much more time can they afford to give Grissom? His bat has been beyond bad. But then again, that is not unusual on this team with so many black holes right now. I would put Kavadas in for Dom. In about 2 more weeks if Grissom is struggling I'm going to send him go AAA to get some confidence and give Sogard a chance. I feel like this is a year we can give a ton of kids a chance and see what we got.
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Post by congusgambler33 on May 18, 2024 21:27:58 GMT -5
cora with his words of wisdom at the end of the game. We have to score more runs. NS sherlock. You can't build any innings with how you hit. I aint happening. Many starting pitchers have ended up either losing or being deprived of a win when a reliever gives it up. We are not supposed to think of individual achievements though..Right!!! these pitchers are starting to fail because you have no offense they can depend On!!!
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Post by redsox04071318champs on May 18, 2024 21:54:53 GMT -5
What a boring mediocre team.
They surprisingly get great starting pitching, but they offset it with bad defense, a mediocre bullpen, horrendous situational hitting with too many strikeouts in key situations and bad baserunning as well.
This will be their fifth meh season in 6 years and they'll miss the postseason yet again in an era where almost half the league makes the postseason.
They're a dull team to watch, too, unfortunately.
Smith is horrible. Grissom has been terrible. Smith should not be playing every day. Grissom might be better served going to AAA and getting his legs underneath him. Not having a spring training and then dropping all that weight in a short time has wreaked havoc with him. Ultimately I still believe this dude will rake, but it won't be now.
I dont hate the Rafaela signing. Its ultimately utility man money and he'll at the very least serve in that capacity. I think he coukd be JBJ like in CF, but I'm not convinced at this point that he will make it as an every day CF, but he's RH and has major defensive skills so he'll be useful, particularly if the OF winds up all lefty as in Anthony, Duran, and Abreu, although Anthony is still a bit away.
Making this season even more frustrating is the success of the Gerit Cole-less Yankees who are not letting the excuse of not having their Cy Young award winner around prevent them from playing well. I also dont like seeing Schmidt succeed because the Sox could have had him for Verdugo last year had Bloom pulled the trigger and I particularly dislike seeing him and Gil succeed while the guys they sent San Diego have done little as they pilfered Soto, a big bat I wish the Sox had. So yeah, that makes me all the more irritable.
The good news is that normally it would piss me off that they wont be on accessible TV for me, but they're so dull to watch it's less bothersome not to see them play.
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Post by Don Caballero on May 18, 2024 22:02:56 GMT -5
How much more time can they afford to give Grissom? His bat has been beyond bad. But then again, that is not unusual on this team with so many black holes right now. I don’t think they should move on until Mayer is ready. This season is toast and Grissom is KIND OF a guy they could have for the future, I wouldn’t give up fast on him.
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Post by incandenza on May 18, 2024 22:07:23 GMT -5
Sigh. I feel like they needed to take advantage of that miraculous starting pitching in the first quarter of the season to get to about 10 games over .500 so they could ride out a stretch like this. But instead the whole infield got injured, every replacement was comically dreadful, the clutch hitting was comically dreadful, and they were barely able to chug along at .500 *before* hitting the skids.
Getting Casas back would be so so huge but at least a few of the nails may be in the coffin by the time that happens.
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