9/23-9/25 Red Sox @ Blue Jays Series Thread

I had em at 81-81.  And I don't think the .500 magnet was even invented in the pre-season!  Just a hunch.

I wasn't able to tune in until the 7th, but did it look like Houck was pitching more to contact?  I ask because of the 0 K's and the workload management.

The plan is to have Guerrero start throwing from the left ?

Kidding aside Guerrero/Booser look like potential late inning mirrors to me.

It's been a bit of a slog, with Crawford and Houck visibly wearing down. I'm hopeful they build on this. I think reinforcements are finally on the way and that should help.

There’s so much weirdness where in some scenarios you want team X to lose and then others where you want the same team to win because they set up an inside straight of tie-breaker luck when paired with other teams haha. Let’s just go 5-0, finish on a good note, and see where the chips land. Maybe if the team finishes 1 game out of the playoffs (or loses because of tiebreakers), that will be enough that Henry and Werner can be convinced (and/or shamed) to spend

Better late than never! 😂😂

How do you know he's not early?

This is one for the Off-season 2024-25 thread that we are sure to have but I'll mention it here.

If they are serious about taking a big step forward next year, I'd expect them to try and package MM and some other pieces (Wilyer?) for a SP and keep Story at SS.

That way they'd:

- Have a superb defender at SS, an UTM position, something they badly need.
- Be able to play Little Raffy in CF and have another great defender UTM.
- Hold onto a RH bat.
- Get some value out of the last three years of Story's contract, instead of trying to trade him and eating some AAV.

I think fans have an outdated view of what kind of player $20-25 million/year gets you. It doesn’t get you a star player, it gets you a good player with flaws—in other words, an above average regular. The downside risk isn’t really mitigated, since you can still end up with 10% of your payroll out for the year, and those flaws keep the upside from being too high.

That’s why John Henry and co. need to grow some stones and be willing to bet big on something, or else he’ll keep seeing the same results (and his much-desired playoff revenues will remain out of reach).

huh,  3 game win streak.  probably cuz i wasn't putting the mush down.

The Blue Jays network puts its each hitters OPS+ on the screen. Grissom entered that PA with a 1. That's the first time I've seen that.

Man is Story smooth as silk at SS.