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  1. smallball

    Winter Meetings 2018: Rumors and Speculation

    They seem to go after the NL batting champ and the Cy Young in alternating years. It a NY conceit that they have the best, the classiest, the most, fill in the blank.
  2. smallball

    Winter Meetings 2018: Rumors and Speculation

    Arod. (And tell me that they didn't go after Belhorn just to shave his ass and make him walk backwards.)
  3. smallball

    Winter Meetings 2018: Rumors and Speculation

    NY always has to buy the biggest rock in the window, especially if they catch Boston eying it too. No surprise at all.
  4. smallball

    Red Sox re-sign Mitch Moreland for 2 years, 13 M

    I'm no Hanley apologist, but didn't he hit some big, late HRs against the MFY's, and wasn't he one of the few guys to hit in the playoffs? My problem is he doesn't seem able to focus in mundane situations.
  5. smallball

    Red Sox re-sign Mitch Moreland for 2 years, 13 M

    Seems like no big deal when a competent first baseman turns a 3-6-3 d.p. or flips the ball to the pitcher covering first on a slow roller ... until some butcher trips over the bag or sends the pitcher stumbling into the baserunner. I'll take Moreland along with whatever defensive metric they...
  6. smallball

    Red Sox re-sign Mitch Moreland for 2 years, 13 M

    Solid opening. Still think there's a big bat coming. Likely going to need additional help in-season: SS? 2b? CF? 3b? I believe that's "mud."
  7. smallball

    Red Sox re-sign Mitch Moreland for 2 years, 13 M

    Oh yeah?
  8. smallball

    Free Agents aren't free, then again nothing for nothing

    I agree with you about Moreland. The FO has been all too in a rush to bring in the next big thing without realizing what they've already got: just look at the revolving door at third base, first base, ss. I disagree with the notion of "positional flexibility." What we've seen trying to move...
  9. smallball

    Let's get crazy (risky acquisitions and offseason plans)

    Yes, yes, yes. We need a real first baseman and a real cleanup hitter. Where Hanley fits in after that is probably somewhere on the bench.
  10. smallball

    The Sox and the First Base Market

    Re-sign Moreland and go after a big bopper. Let Hanley sub. (If he's not the solution at DH, he's not the solution at first, either, all things considered)
  11. smallball

    Let's get crazy (risky acquisitions and offseason plans)

    Guess it's a dogfight in spring training then. Any chance of keeping 3 on the big team for a month until the inevitable injury to a catcher on another team spikes trade value?
  12. smallball

    Let's get crazy (risky acquisitions and offseason plans)

    I mean 3 game-ready catchers; 2 on the MLB roster, one in AAA of course
  13. smallball

    Time for a rebuild?

    Either Hanley has to go or the FO has to forget about staying under the luxury tax. The lineup just doesn't compute otherwise.
  14. smallball

    Let's get crazy (risky acquisitions and offseason plans)

    Conventional wisdom says you need 3 catchers over a season. Who would be #3 then? I feel like in the past few years the FO has traded willy nilly without regard for the larger pic., blocking prospects, creating redundancies, making trades (of pitchers) only to be injury-bit later and needing to...
  15. smallball

    Let's get crazy (risky acquisitions and offseason plans)

    Why does Beni keep getting dangled as trade bait rather than Bogaerts? (And let's not say because Bogaerts is a SS, which he really isn't, or won't be for long.)
  16. smallball

    Let's get crazy (risky acquisitions and offseason plans)

    Not to intrude on your sidebar ... but let's not forget some currently top-ranked farm systems—The Yankees', at any rate—were largely bought and traded for, rather than "generated."
  17. smallball

    Is Bogaerts getting a pass?

    Daylight in the swamp! Instead of fucking around in Aruba all winter he needs to chop some wood up in northern NH. Learn to drive that outside pitch instead of slapping at it. His D is in no way good enough to justify a sub .300 singles approach at the plate. For Christ sake we've gotta watch...
  18. smallball

    Is Bogaerts getting a pass?

    What's to analyze? He can't hit. He needs to sit. If that's self-evident, it reflects on Farrell, not me.
  19. smallball

    ALDS (BOS/HOU) series discussion thread (GM1@4:08PM, GM2@2:05PM)

    Porcello confounds them with slop. Sale Jacked for game 5. (who's long if Porcello flops?)
  20. smallball

    Is Bogaerts getting a pass?

    He should probably be benched for the rest of the post season.
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