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  1. Whoop-La White

    2024 Red Sox: Better, Worse, or About the Same?

    I think both the ceilings and the floors of most of the roster are higher than last year. Casas won't need a month to adjust to ML pitching. O'Neill can produce better than Verdugo. A full season of Abreu. Duran will come down to earth but with Rafaela coming he will also play less. Wong and...
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    2024 Red Sox spring training games

    The radio broadcast has old friend and UPS Employee of the Month Dana Kiecker telling stories.
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    MLB Expansion Watch

    There's the elevation factor. Mexico City is 2,000 feet higher than Denver. The first of the two games played there between the Giants and Padres last year ended with a score of 16-11. Monterrey, which has hosted games three times previously, at 1,770 feet might be more manageable (though some...
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    Let's Lay Off That Throttle

    Never wished I had been in the room more than when Pedroia interrupted an executive’s dinner to tell him he’s an idiot to his virtual face.
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    When Is It Okay To Worry About Triston Casas: An Attempt at the Reverse Jinx

    I like how the thread title has taken on a new significance completely different from when the thread was started last April.
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    Sox trade John Schreiber to KC for minor league right-hander David Sandlin

    If the other team picked up the $16 million and the Red Sox still came back with Sandlin, I would call that a heist by Craig Breslow.
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    Sox trade John Schreiber to KC for minor league right-hander David Sandlin

    It’s the kind of trade you want to see your team make in a rebuilding year. Schreiber had all the makings of someone who offered a different look out of the pen and could dominate for a stretch so long as he threw strikes, but who would lose his value the more he was exposed. After acquiring...
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    2024 Red Sox Spring Training

    This reminds me of when they opened the season with Bradley in 2013. His defense was already superb but he was overmatched at the plate for practically a whole season's worth of PAs across three seasons. I agree that working on pitch selection at the AAA level, where the competition isn't...
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    2024 Lineup (What we actually have - no trade speculation.)

    Brittany Ghiroli has a good piece at The Athletic today on the trend around baseball toward playing prospects and younger players earlier at the ML level. For the Red Sox’ purposes, this makes me wonder about Rafaela. Duran seems to me a like a perfectly cromulent option for now in center, which...
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    Offseason rumors

    I imagine all 30 teams are looking for potential "rotation depth options." Meanwhile players and their agents might be holding out until Spring Training, when teams find that someone who had been penciled in for a rotation slot shows up with a tired arm or for whatever other reason looks like...
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    Offseason rumors

    https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/02/red-sox-lucas-luetge-agree-to-deal.html Cornering the market on Lucases this winter.
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    Potential Bright Spots in Fenway Tire Fire

    Wong missed a lot of ST last year with a hamstring injury, then found himself getting a lot of the starts after McGuire went down. I think by September he was running on fumes. The strikeouts need to be cut down--there were times he seemed to be conceding the at-bat so he could get the gear back...
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    Theo’s back????!!!!

    I imagine FSG also knows their approval rating is kinda in the shitter right now and Epstein is trusted and adored by a lot of fans. This can only be a win-win.
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    Offseason rumors

    I believe this came up during reports that the team was interested in Teoscar Hernandez. The Athletic reported "But according to one person with knowledge of the talks, the Red Sox prefer to tackle other areas of the roster and reduce payroll before committing to the free agent." Hernandez is...
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    Offseason rumors

    Except Pearce was brought back the following year (and he stunk).
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    RIP Jimy Williams

    You deserve all of the good things. May we all wear a polyester jacket with the bottom snaps undone in his honor.
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    Let's Lay Off That Throttle

    I mean, I understand the idea in theory. I am typically bullish on prospects and given the inflated prices of starters, why not put money into coaching, trust your ability to develop one or two rather than overpay for one on the wrong side of his prime years. But you've then gone and given...
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    Offseason rumors

    The search for pitching is beginning to have the feel of the Trevor Story negotiations—there are still guys out there, but the Sox aren’t overly interested in one of them over the others (or don’t believe they are so much better than what they have in Houck, Crawford, etc. to be worth...
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    Offseason rumors

    Wasn't it just a week ago the team was looking to sign Robert Stephenson? I know rumors fly all over but this one led to speculation they would deal from the bullpen surplus, which actually made some sense. If staying under the threshold remains the priority then it has to impact every potential...
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    Chris Sale (plus $17mil) traded to Atlanta for Vaughn Grissom

    I never thought of Sale as tradeable so the fact that Breslow was able to pull this off feels like a coup. Grissom seems to show good command of the strike zone which is impressive for someone as young as he is. The power may come around. I admittedly get bullish on prospects (especially when...