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Post by Captain Obvious on Jun 20, 2022 7:04:00 GMT -4
RS are 24-11 their last 35 after a series win vs a good St.Louis team. Big test coming up starting July 4th with 14 straight vs TB and NY.
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Post by bois on Jun 20, 2022 10:42:02 GMT -4
i'm not expecting much out of him going forward to me he's done I think he is starting a rehab assignment tomorrow, so I doubt he is done. Apparently he was shut down with a medical scare about 7 weeks ago. not literally done as in never to pitch in the majors again done as in the ace that they thought they were acquiring
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Post by Captain Obvious on Jun 23, 2022 13:24:06 GMT -4
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Post by Captain Obvious on Jul 11, 2022 11:36:23 GMT -4
Great series this weekend splitting 4 with the Yankees in the context of starting 3 rookies and missing Devers, hope the returns give them some momentum to get hot vs division teams...
Sale is coming back tomorrow, Eovaldo is close, Whitlock as well, hopefully Wacha is back after the ASG. Winckowski and Crawford have put together some good starts, though Winck was off on Thursday. Whitlock Schreiber and Houck gives you a nice RH back end of the pen with Sawamura in the 6th/7th. Davis, Diekman and Strahm are all pretty good LH options plus Taylor is close as well. Danish gives you a nasty option vs RH once he returns from the DL. Sale-Eovaldi-Pivetta-Wacha-Hill/Winckowski/Crawford rotation.
I would not mind adding a young closer with control, but they may use Whitlock there...
They definitely need a big OF bat with control or 1B could work as well, Dalbec Cordero Bradley have had good spots but not enough consistent impact.
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Post by bois on Jul 17, 2022 18:18:01 GMT -4
and in completely expected news
Sale injured again
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Post by Captain Obvious on Jul 18, 2022 8:00:55 GMT -4
and in completely expected news Sale injured again I know he has broken down at different times, but a 106MPH line drive at 45 feet will injure anybody hit by it.
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Post by Captain Obvious on Jul 23, 2022 16:58:19 GMT -4
RS can't seem to catch a break...DL list piling up...Sale Hill Wacha from the rotation and Devers Story and Hernandez all on the DL and JDM apparently day to day. Those are all key regulars.
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Post by Captain Obvious on Jul 25, 2022 7:03:26 GMT -4
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Post by bois on Jul 25, 2022 13:05:44 GMT -4
no positive spin to put on this sad sack group
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Post by Mika on Jul 26, 2022 15:12:21 GMT -4
no positive spin to put on this sad sack group Yup. I had high hopes going into this season, but the team is just so embarrassing right now. They can't even do the very basics. 28 runs in one game, lazy efforts, and the best players aren't playing like it. On the bright side (for me anyway) European soccer leagues kick off in about a week.
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Post by bois on Jul 27, 2022 9:27:30 GMT -4
no positive spin to put on this sad sack group Yup. I had high hopes going into this season, but the team is just so embarrassing right now. They can't even do the very basics. 28 runs in one game, lazy efforts, and the best players aren't playing like it. On the bright side (for me anyway) European soccer leagues kick off in about a week. i had no hopes going into the season but the hot run they went on for a 5-6 week stretch when their schedule was easy made me excited to actually have a team to follow thru the summer a few games of watching them last month quickly changed my optimism and i don't care what anyone says...... operating this team like it's small market by nickel and diming (relatively speaking of course.. salaries are overall ridiculous) their own home grown talent (Betts, Boegarts, Devers) just makes no sense.... could care less about prospects in baseball.... 90% of them never develop into anything
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Post by Jack Bauer on Jul 27, 2022 9:33:22 GMT -4
could care less about prospects in baseball.... 90% of them never develop into anything Couldnt agree more. A guy like Soto becomes available and people hesitate to throw in top prospects as if they're all future all stars when the history of the sport is generally prospects rarely reaching their ceiling and add in injury factor in pitching and its mostly a crap shoot when it comes to farm systems.
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Post by Mika on Jul 27, 2022 9:51:20 GMT -4
Yup. I had high hopes going into this season, but the team is just so embarrassing right now. They can't even do the very basics. 28 runs in one game, lazy efforts, and the best players aren't playing like it. On the bright side (for me anyway) European soccer leagues kick off in about a week. i had no hopes going into the season but the hot run they went on for a 5-6 week stretch when their schedule was easy made me excited to actually have a team to follow thru the summer a few games of watching them last month quickly changed my optimism and i don't care what anyone says...... operating this team like it's small market by nickel and diming (relatively speaking of course.. salaries are overall ridiculous) their own home grown talent (Betts, Boegarts, Devers) just makes no sense.... could care less about prospects in baseball.... 90% of them never develop into anything There was plenty to be optimistic about going in. They were only like a game or two from playing in the World Series last year, most of that same team was coming back with that added experience. And I do not understand the whole nickel and dime thing. They lost one of the best players of the current generation with Betts, a player you can really build a strong team around, a player other players want to play with. They lost him all because they decided to become the MLB's version of Melnyk. Sadly if this is how they're going to run the team, I think it may be a long time before we see another Red Sox World Series win. And there's absolutely no need of it.
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Post by Captain Obvious on Jul 27, 2022 10:35:01 GMT -4
could care less about prospects in baseball.... 90% of them never develop into anything Couldnt agree more. A guy like Soto becomes available and people hesitate to throw in top prospects as if they're all future all stars when the history of the sport is generally prospects rarely reaching their ceiling and add in injury factor in pitching and its mostly a crap shoot when it comes to farm systems. The issue with a guy like Soto is, as good as he is, he is a corner OF, which limits how much he can impact a game. Whoever trades for him will have to throw around 400M his way over 10 years and still have to give up 3 of their 5 best prospects. Perospect in baseball are similar to hockey, yes they don't all work out, but guys that are top 5 on a team like LA(or another with a strong farm system) have a more than 60% chance at being MLB regulars. Those guys you get to keep for 6 years at a lower rate, very cheap for those not Arb eligible(700k-1M). You can't win in MLB with a bunch of guys making 20-40M alone, you run out of money very quick. Winning teams like LA and NY have deep pockets but also a strong farm system supplying cheap talent to fill out the second half of the core. www.spotrac.com/mlb/new-york-yankees/payroll/NY for example has cheaper guys like Cortes Loaisga Luetege King Holmes Taillon Montgomery Torres IKF Carpenter Higashioka Trevino, those are all good or great contributors at under 10M/year...some are from the farm system, others reclamation projects that they helped make productive players out of. The Angels are the poster child for being top heavy with big stars and not being a good team. They are at the other extreme. There are times to take swings at a rental or at a younger guy with term, but it's not the no brainer you guys are making it seem. Even for very deep pocketed teams, big salaries and prospects are not in infinite supply.
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Post by Captain Obvious on Jul 27, 2022 10:40:59 GMT -4
i had no hopes going into the season but the hot run they went on for a 5-6 week stretch when their schedule was easy made me excited to actually have a team to follow thru the summer a few games of watching them last month quickly changed my optimism and i don't care what anyone says...... operating this team like it's small market by nickel and diming (relatively speaking of course.. salaries are overall ridiculous) their own home grown talent (Betts, Boegarts, Devers) just makes no sense.... could care less about prospects in baseball.... 90% of them never develop into anything There was plenty to be optimistic about going in. They were only like a game or two from playing in the World Series last year, most of that same team was coming back with that added experience. And I do not understand the whole nickel and dime thing. They lost one of the best players of the current generation with Betts, a player you can really build a strong team around, a player other players want to play with. They lost him all because they decided to become the MLB's version of Melnyk. Sadly if this is how they're going to run the team, I think it may be a long time before we see another Red Sox World Series win. And there's absolutely no need of it. Betts made it pretty clear that he didn't want to sign there long term. They tried to sign him long term a couple of times before he was traded. as good a player as he is, the contract he signed is ridiculous and will be very ugly in a few years. The RS are constantly in the top 3-5 payrolls in baseball, not sure where anybody gets the "nickel and diming" thing. I think they definitely need to keep Devers. Give him 30+M over 7-8 years and get it done. Bogaerts at 3 years and 20M/year, if he opts out I would let him walk and take a swing at Correa or Turner with Swanson as plan C. Bogaerts is a good player, but he is average defensively, he is a good hitter, but moving from Fenway would sap some of his power and turn him into a 15 HR guy.
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