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    Who Should The Sox Extend?

    The thing keeping me from wanting to extend Pivetta is his age. He's adding new pitches, too, that will cause him probably to need to torque his elbow more. It's possible he stays healthy, of course, but he seems like a candidate for an arm injury pretty soon.
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    3/28/24 - Opening Day 2024 - Red Sox at Mariners

    Yeah, JBJ accumulated close to 20 WAR in his career. That's a really good player. I would be thrilled if Ceddane put that sort of career together. I think Ceddane probably has the better bat-to-ball skills, whereas JBJ had the significant edge in discipline. When all's said and done, I wouldn't...
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    3/28/24 - Opening Day 2024 - Red Sox at Mariners

    Well now nobody gets to make that crack. I hope you're happy
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    3/28/24 - Opening Day 2024 - Red Sox at Mariners

    My dear friend, it's all just a choice to hope. I'm fully aware of how things could break badly: Pivetta's arm falls off, Triston Casas is sucked into a plane's turbine while tripping on acid, etc. I'm just choosing to ignore that, because if it in fact happens, I'll just spend my free time...
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    3/28/24 - Opening Day 2024 - Red Sox at Mariners

    I mean, you see what the main board has devolved into, right? Anyways, I'm optimistic about this team if health breaks right. I think the Pivetta is going to have the best season of his career with this new sweeper, I think Bello is going to throw 190 innings or so of 3.5-4 ERA ball, and...
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    FanGraphs Positional Power Rankings by Team - Shortstop

    I'm really excited to see what he does this year. He's healthy, he's raked, the K rate has been at about 25% this spring rather than the 30-32% he put up in his first two years in Boston. Allowing myself to imagine a 3-4 win season or more if he has a great defensive season. Why not us? Or him...
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    Pritchard Extended

    For what it's worth, I was the idiot who compared PP to FVV way back when. So y'all can thank me for this digression if you'd like.
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    2024 Red Sox Spring Training

    Interesting thing for me will be if Wong continues to keep up his very low K rate -- just 14%, a massive, massive improvement over last year's 33%. he really adjusted his timing mechanism in the offseason, and we'll see if it will continue to pay dividends. Obviously 42 PA is a very small sample...
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    2024 Red Sox spring training games

    Kutter with one of the worst breaking balls I've seen from him. Gets out of the inning without too much damage, though. And Casas with an outstanding stop at first. God he looks so much better over there.
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    2024 Red Sox spring training games

    It did not look like little Rafi got a piece of that. Out regardless.
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    Remaining Free Agent Speculation and Signings (Trades, too)

    Yes, that's my understanding as well. I think he gets the spot since Dalbec still has options, and it'd be better to have that depth at AAA then forego Cron (who's got a career ops+ of 111) and posted one around 129 as recently as 2021. He might be cooked, but if so, he's just there to backup...
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    2024 Red Sox spring training games

    I suppose I wouldn't either, but I think they need him as a backup outfielder right now. If Yoshida is primarily at DH, it's some combination of O'Neill-Duran-Rafaela, right?
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    2024 Red Sox spring training games

    Me too. His discipline doesn't seem to slump, regardless. That's an advantage of his approach and I think it's one the FO doubtless appreciates. 9 walks in like 65 PA is nothing to sneeze at.
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    2024 Red Sox spring training games

    I doubt it. He's had a rough spring but with Refsnyder out there's room for Ceddane and Wilyer, isn't there? Wilyer has also suffered from a miserable BABIP this spring. His numbers would look a lot better if he was batting .300 on balls in play rather than .200. But Wilyer might be platooning...
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    Remaining Free Agent Speculation and Signings (Trades, too)

    CJ Cron says hello. I think he's probably more likely to take that roster spot.