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TheYellowDart5 replied to the thread Red Sox Trade Deadline 2022.Hard to argue that right-handed relief help shouldn't be at the top of the list in terms of needs. Zero good options beyond Houck and... -
TheYellowDart5 replied to the thread How to get back in this thing.For what it's worth, Boston's playoff odds per FanGraphs bottomed out at 19.3% back on May 15; they're all the way up to 39% as of...
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TheYellowDart5 replied to the thread Bullpen ‘22.If nothing else, Barnes is throwing harder; he was averaging 95.3 mph with his fastball last night, a mile up from his season average...
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TheYellowDart5 replied to the thread Red Sox in season discussion.I imagine a lot of Verdugo's issues as a hitter can be tied to the fact that he's got average power at best and either smashes the ball...
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TheYellowDart5 replied to the thread Bullpen ‘22.Andrew Politi is getting the bump to Worcester along with Bello after 13.1 IP with 20 strikeouts and three walks in relief. I would...
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TheYellowDart5 replied to the thread Red Sox in season discussion.If anywhere Dombrowski and company fell down, it was the draft. They're going to get nothing out of the 2016 class beyond whatever...
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TheYellowDart5 replied to the thread Red Sox in season discussion.And to go off JA's point: Where is this team's equivalent of Holmes, or Andrew Kitteredge, or JP Feyereisen, or Ryan Thompson? Hell, the...
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TheYellowDart5 replied to the thread Red Sox in season discussion.All fair points, particularly that it was designed to be temporary thanks to the short spring; I really do think the lockout and...
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TheYellowDart5 replied to the thread Red Sox in season discussion.I think the big issue right now is that, for whatever reason, the farm system has yet to produce the kind of hard-throwing, cheap and...
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TheYellowDart5 replied to the thread Red Sox in season discussion.Honestly, if you want to complain about a bullpen decision that really has not worked out: using Houck and Whitlock as piggyback arms...
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TheYellowDart5 replied to the thread Red Sox in season discussion.Again: not the point. Hill and Wacha are illustrative of a particular roster-building approach that Bloom took: avoiding expensive...
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TheYellowDart5 replied to the thread Red Sox in season discussion.And he's also on the injured list a month into the season; that's why he was available for virtually nothing. That he pitched well...
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TheYellowDart5 replied to the thread Red Sox in season discussion.Is the problem that they took Whitlock out of the bullpen and made it weaker, or is the problem that they brought back the same bullpen...
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TheYellowDart5 replied to the thread Red Sox in season discussion.Why is Matt Barnes still being asked to get high-leverage outs? Why is Hansel Robles still being trotted out in the ninth? Why is this...
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TheYellowDart5 replied to the thread How to get back in this thing.Because John Henry doesn't like being separated from more money than he deems appropriate.