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  1. Margo McCready

    The Homefield disadvantage

    The sequence of Hamilton’s non-double play opening the door for Santander’s Fenway homer would be a textbook example. Obviously the Red Sox offense benefits from this too, but if they’re making more mistakes in the field than the visiting team, that has to put them at a serious disadvantage over...
  2. Margo McCready

    The Homefield disadvantage

    Fenway is particularly cruel to teams that do not play major league-caliber defense.
  3. Margo McCready

    SS possibilities going forward

    Boy, this would be a fantastic if Breslow could pull it off. With Grissom a solid bet to replace Story’s production with the bat, a wizard like Mateo at shortstop would really help reward the pitchers for keeping the ball on the ground. Take my opinion with a grain of salt, but I think a glove...
  4. Margo McCready

    SS possibilities going forward

    With the sinker/slider guys in the rotation, the inconsistent Rafael Devers at 3rd, and the unknown of Grissom presumably at 2nd, it seems absolutely essential to have an above average defender at shortstop in order to have any shot at competing this year. I really hope they can find and plug in...
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    MLB Mount Rushmore

    Bonds Clemens Manny ARod …kidding (I think?) Ruth Aaron Mays Williams
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    The TrevorEnding Story: needs shoulder surgery, out for the year (4/9 update)

    I hate taking Rafaela out of center but this is probably best for the team if Story’s out. Plus, I think it may be a bit premature to pull the plug on Abreu. This gives them a chance to see what he can do.
  7. Margo McCready

    Let's Talk About MLBTV

    Always. Sometimes I even get obnoxiously loud audio from commercials blasting during the actual game too. Quite maddening. Anyone happen to know a way to make PIA VPN work with MLB.tv again? The last few years have gotten very difficult to get around blackouts with a VPN, but now this year it...
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    George Will's Baseball Quiz - Spring 2024

    28/41
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    Let’s Talk About These New Uniforms

    These uniforms look like wardrobe in a made for TV movie about baseball on UPN.
  10. Margo McCready

    Let's Talk About Bello

    This play really stood out to me. Bello and the rest of the staff will have so much more leeway with outfielders willing to hit the cutoff man this year.
  11. Margo McCready

    The Frailty of the Modern Pitcher

    Seems to be. I wonder if targeting starting pitchers with 20 to 40ish or so healthy post-TJ starts in trade and free agency may be a better bet than a guy who just put up 5 healthy seasons.
  12. Margo McCready

    When Is It Okay To Worry About Triston Casas: An Attempt at the Reverse Jinx

    Humility as well as confidence. I think what he’s saying in a very diplomatic way is that he’ll be ready to address a contract extension once he’s established the leverage of elite production on his resume.
  13. Margo McCready

    Should the Sox sign a right handed bat? If so, who?

    In lieu of a Jordan Montgomery signing, let the kids play. Is Abreu a starting caliber outfielder? Can Rafaela lay off enough pitcher’s pitches to let Roman Anthony become our very own Kyle Tucker out in right field? If they’re not bolstering the starting rotation, then I think finding answers...
  14. Margo McCready

    How much better can we get by just not playing stupid?

    Ok, now *this* is a goddamn interesting thread idea. So I gotta admit, the 2019 and 2020 seasons were the first that I’d completely checked out on the Red Sox since I was in my late teens/early 20s.It wasn’t that they were bad in ‘19 and ‘20, it was that the ‘18 team satisfied every single...
  15. Margo McCready

    The Average Fan’s Perspective

    All fair questions. And for clarity, I would very much like for them to spend smartly and start opening a window now. I think that can be done without mortgaging the future, but maybe the FO doesn’t think so. I don’t know. They’re in charge, I’m not. - I would hope we’d have a sense of whether...
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    The Average Fan’s Perspective

    If the majority of Bello, Casas, Mayer, Teel, Anthony, Rafaela and Abreu mature into a productive core and ownership still doesn’t spend to put that team over the top, then I’ll go grab my pitchfork. Until then, I’m not so fired up about payroll based on their overall track record. And besides...
  17. Margo McCready

    Should the Sox sell high on Jarren Duran?

    I love hearing that Anthony can stick in CF because that skill paired with an actual bat in Fenway Park’s RF is huge for the Red Sox. Good Duran is so much fun to watch so I’d hate to lose that for the 2024 season. However, I’m hoping they’d prioritize keeping Rafaela over him longer term due...
  18. Margo McCready

    How much does winning and losing affect your fandom?

    There’s some great posts in here highlighting what makes baseball so special compared to most other team sports, which is usually just some variation of advancing up and down the playing surface and putting the ball/puck/whatever into the goal more times than your opponent does before time runs...
  19. Margo McCready

    Offseason rumors

    You’re right, most players prefer playing both sides of the ball, but the the opportunity to stay off his blown out knee while also getting to tee off toward the Monster could possibly be appealing.
  20. Margo McCready

    What is the Minimum Level of Success You will be Satisfied with from the 2024 Red Sox?

    Gun to my head, I want to see pitchers who nail the corners with strikes, batters who don’t swing at shit in the dirt, heads up base runners who don’t stumble around to the Benny Hill theme, infielders who don’t throw the ball around like children out there, and please God, I wanna see...
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