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Post by gregblossersbelly on Sept 8, 2023 19:55:32 GMT -5
Why are there so many garbage pitchers like Joe Jacques, Bear Claw, Brandon Walter on this team? Bad luck or just poor draft/development, or incapable of identifying good pitching in FA, this is on GM. Bloom refuses to draft power arms early.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Sept 8, 2023 19:48:13 GMT -5
This is it. White flag time. Separation between these 2 teams is significant. Play the kids Given good health, when is the next year we can reasonably expect to be better than them?
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Sept 8, 2023 10:50:14 GMT -5
2/3 of the earth is covered by water. Ceddanne has the rest!🤟
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Sept 5, 2023 20:22:09 GMT -5
I so hate the Rays. They have this great record blah blah… where do those wins come from?? Add: I’ll say it: finishing behind them eats at me as much as finishing behind the Yankees. Just a hunch. Balco…
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Sept 5, 2023 20:21:13 GMT -5
TB doing EVERYTHING they can to give this game to the Sox. Neither team seems to want the W. We’re bringing them down to our level. Monkey see. Monkey do.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Sept 2, 2023 22:52:10 GMT -5
If Perales ends up flaming out at Greenville, some people would say there's a woman to blame. Not if he learns how to breathe through his eyelids 😉
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Sept 1, 2023 9:22:29 GMT -5
Nola's stuff the last year or so should give the Sox pause on signing him long term at big money. They probably don't sign him, Snell or Yamamoto but I'd prefer Yamamoto over the other two due to age. I just hope they don't double down on the opener approach. They need an innings eater in this rotation Nola pitches 205 innings last year with. 3.25 ERA and whip under 1. And 235 k’s. Certainly not as well this year. But hard to disregard last year if you think he’s on a downward spiral. HR’s are hurting him this year. Maybe, stuff is diminished. Let’s see how he finishes the year.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Sept 1, 2023 7:03:44 GMT -5
I like Nola over Snell. I just think Snell is a dink. I need mines interview in 2020. Gives me a David Price 2.0 vibe.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Aug 25, 2023 8:51:34 GMT -5
Not an excuse. But, I’d like to point out that this is his first year here. Travel in the US is much more than Japan. We play 20 more games. And, he played a huge role in WBC.
He probably has to get stronger. And, he’ll a year’s experience on how to handle travel load. I want to see him next year before giving him a final grade. I looked up Hideki Matsui’s stats. His OPS first year in MLB was .788 It increases to; 912,863,887&855 in years 2-5.
This guy seems like a big-game player who wasn’t ready for the mundane stretches baseball. Casas and Devers simply must get better on defense. Way too young to DH either of them. I can live with a meh LF playing 81 games at Fenway. For now.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Aug 24, 2023 16:27:34 GMT -5
Just when you’re out. They pull you back in.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Aug 23, 2023 18:56:39 GMT -5
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Aug 20, 2023 15:58:10 GMT -5
Fabulous sweep. Yankees on an 8-game losing streak, 60-64, dead last in the East, 6 games behind us. Seattle and Toronto both won again, but the bright side is that Seattle's destruction of Houston has made it a four-horse race for two spots: Houston: 70-55 Seattle: 69-55 Toronto: 69-56 Boston: 66-58 38 games left. 7 of those are against Houston, and 3 more are against Toronto. Huge 10-day stretch coming up. Just need to go 6-1 against the Astros and 3-0 against the Blue Jays to leapfrog both of them. No sweat! Just win baby!
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Aug 18, 2023 15:08:32 GMT -5
Kiké-->Story is a pure gain. But Rafaela in CF is a bit of a rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul situation, because then presumably you're pushing Duran to LF and Yoshida to DH, which means you're effectively replacing Turner's bat in the lineup with Rafaela's. Plus you'd lose Turner's flexibility in backing up 1B or 3B and then we're only one injury to Casas or Devers from having a major hole in the lineup. On the other hand they could bring Turner back, but then we're back to crummy defense in LF and CF. So how do you improve the defense, other than Story at SS?
Maybe they put Rafaela in RF a la HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED. He certainly has the range and arm for it, and he could also probably pick up a lot of right-center in doing so. Also, there may be a couple or three hitters not named Ohtani that give you as much offense or more than Turner, some defensive flexibility (in at least two cases an improvement) who are FAs, younger and with better fWAR. Not that I'm advocating any of these guys but: Cody Bellinger .327 AVE/.379 OBP/.554 SLG, 149 wRC+, 3.9 fWAR so far. Allows you to have a plus OF of Duran/Bellinger/Rafaela with Duran/Yoshida/Bellinger getting opportunities at DH. Jeimer Candelario (he avoids the QO because he was traded mid-season, right?) .273 AVE/.355/OBP/.490 SLG 128 wRC+ 3.7 fWAR (so far), plays both 3rd and 1st, so you get same flexibility as Turner in a younger player. Whit Merrifield .301 AVE/.346 OBP/.428 SLG 115 wRC+ 2.8 fWAR (so far) gives you positional flexibility between 2nd, OF and DH. RF is like CF in many stadiums. Drew, Victorino and Mookie are basically CF’s we played in right. Could a package of Verdugo, Hauck and a prospect not in our Top 5-6 land a good starter?
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Aug 17, 2023 19:05:53 GMT -5
Ceddanne with a 2 game walk streak!
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Aug 15, 2023 18:53:25 GMT -5
I want to say Story and Rafaela at SS but shouldn`t. Bingo! You got Bingo!! Story is moving to 2b once Marcelo is ready anyway. Why delay inevitable? I wonder if Story would have been ready sooner this year if we put him at 2b with Ceddanne at SS.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Aug 13, 2023 17:14:30 GMT -5
Phillies are totally gonna select him again It would really be a shame if they did. He needs two years in minors of development. Maybe, we put him on 40 if he finishes strong.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Aug 13, 2023 15:56:44 GMT -5
No help from the Cubs or Marlins today Not so fast my friend. WFAN gonna be a blast the next few days!
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Aug 13, 2023 4:36:05 GMT -5
Verdugo sitting at .269 BA 8 HRs. “All Star” At least his arbitration number won’t be high😁
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Aug 12, 2023 6:36:34 GMT -5
Unfortunately yes he does. Totally believe this though. After the guys I named I’d say the closest would be in order: Beckett, Schilling, Buchhoz. I vaguely remember a sequence in which Sox would win with Clemens, lose the next four, win w/C, lose the next four? or was that Pedro? Early in Roger’s career he pitched every 5th day. Not every 5th game. With rainouts and off days our pitching was great til Memorial Day. He literally carried the staff.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Aug 11, 2023 8:30:54 GMT -5
Ya’ll know we’re signing Severino for 5m with a team option for 13m. That’s the way Chaim rolls. I feel Price and Sale contracts spooked the front office.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Aug 11, 2023 8:27:58 GMT -5
Playoff odds 13% Sox, 9% MFY. We are on the rise. Gonna need 80-100 quality innings from; Sale, Whitlock and Hauck. Be nice if the offense woke up too. Might need a shot of Ceddanne.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Aug 9, 2023 18:34:02 GMT -5
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Aug 7, 2023 7:20:38 GMT -5
We don’t have the starting pitching. We used two openers in the biggest series of the season. We spent a lot of money to shore up the bullpen. Bullpen is showing signs of fatigue and using a reliever as an opener removes him from a possible key spot later in the game.
Zzz Duct tape doesn’t last 162. We don’t draft starters. We don’t trade for em. We don’t have em in MLB, AAA or AA. We have some nice young Latin arms coming along. But they’re a ways away and no sure thing. We better sign a good starter and trade for a good starter this off-season. It will cost $$$ and prospects. We’ve got a lot of young positional players in Boston. And, more on the way. Kinda similar to 2015. We traded for Porcello and signed Price. Then, traded for Sale the following year.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Aug 6, 2023 15:08:16 GMT -5
Our payroll is going to be in good shape, just worried the Mets are going to outbid us for pitching this offseason lol Sox aren't going to be bidding on top end pitching such as Ohtani. Mets will. Playing in a different sandbox Ya just know we’re gonna sign Severino. Pedro helped him before. Now, he’s going to again😂😂
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Aug 6, 2023 10:59:04 GMT -5
Trevor Story might be my least favorite Sox player since Pablo Sandavol. The Sox need him today and he'd rather get a few more reps in AAA? As Colonel Potter might say. He’s a rifle dropper.
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