Recent content by Amos Otis regrets

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    Let's Predict the 2024 Red Sox Season

    88-74. A vastly improved defensive team allows the pitching staff to take a big step forward. -Team leader in Wins? Pivetta -Team leader in Losses? Bello -Team leader in Saves? Martin -Team leader in ERA (qualifying)? Crawford -Team leader for Batting Average (qualifying)? Yoshida -Team leader...
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    Immaculate Grid: Show Off Your Useless Baseball Depth Knowledge!

    An opportunity to remember two Red Sox catchers of my youth: and (he of the .400 lifetime batting average). If I remember correctly, the latter was on the roster for all or most of the 1982 season and Houk found him 10 plate appearances.
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    Challenge: The Gift that Keeps On Giving. . .

    Going way back, long before my memory begins. August 1926: Red Sox sign Danny MacFayden (7 yrs, 13.9 WAR) as free agent. Traded in June 1932 to the Yankees for: Ivy Andrews (2 yrs, 2.4 WAR). Traded Dec. 1933 to Browns (with Smead Jolley) for: Carl Reynolds (2 yrs, 2.3 WAR). Traded Dec. 1935 to...
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    Challenge: The Gift that Keeps On Giving. . .

    Sort of fun to connect Tony C to Bill Buckner. 1962 - Red Sox sign Tony Congliaro as free agent. 1970 - Red Sox trade Tony C. (and Ray Jarvis and Jerry Moses) to the Angels for Ken Tatum, Jarvis Tatum, and Doug Griffin 1973 - Red Sox trade Ken Tatum (and Reggie Smith) to the Cardinals for...
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    2024 - Path to 90 Wins

    I want to look at this in a runs scored/runs allowed framework. From that Pythagorean perspective, the 2023 Sox were essentially a .500 team: 772 runs scored, 776 runs allowed. We’re already at 81 wins! To get the rest of the way there, we’d need to improve our scoring and run prevention. It...
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    Tyler O’Neill traded to Red Sox

    According to Baseball Reference's similarity score, the hitter most similar to O'Neill is... Wily Mo Pena!
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    The Other Grid Game... Crossover Grid

    I had the same issue but with Hideo Nomo.
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    2023 LCS Game/Discussion Thread: Battle of Texas, Philly vs NL West WC Redux

    Let's hope it doesn't turn out like that.
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    The Other Grid Game... Crossover Grid

    Yeah, there seem to be some glitches. A few weeks back it rejected Dick Drago as an Angel with more than 300 career relief appearances. It also struggles to add decimals accurately. The gods of useless baseball knowledge stuck in my head were kind to me today - every square was less than 0.64%...
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    Cutting the Cord Early. How Have the Sox Done?

    The loss of Mike Lowell for the ALCS was also a big blow. Watching that series, it felt like Mark Kotsay was always making outs in big situations.
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    The Uniform

    It's surprisingly easy to picture Mario Guerrero as part of a radical militia. I can almost convince myself I've seen pictures of him with Patty Hearst. Bravo.
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    Extreme Makeover: The Jarren Duran Edition

    One of my favorite old baseball nicknames. Not quite as good as Death to Flying Things Ferguson or Pebbly Jack Glasscock.
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    Extreme Makeover: The Jarren Duran Edition

    https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jacobba01.shtml
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    Let's Predict the 2023 Red Sox Season

    88-74, which is good for the third wild card. September is exciting, the sort of month where you bring a radio outside when doing yardwork. October is not so good. -Team leader in Wins? Kluber -Team leader in Saves? Jansen -Team leader in ERA (qualifying)? Sale -Team leader for Batting Average...
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    The New Math (I’ll gladly pay Justin Turner today not Bogaerts in 9 years)

    Thank you for the kind words. I changed the dividing line from ages 27/28 to 29/30. To ensure that I selected a comparably talented group of players, I required a minimum of 28 WAR by the player’s age 29 season. Again, I limited it to the past 50 years. As before, the details are long. They are...