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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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...
  4. 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...
  5. 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...
  6. Margo McCready

    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...
  7. 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...
  8. 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...
  9. 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.
  10. 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...
  11. Margo McCready

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

    What’s better than a Casas post-game recap interview after a win at Fenway? The dude was made for TV. I don’t worry about him backing up this social media post. His elite plate discipline alone keeps his floor pretty damn high as an MLB hitter.
  12. Margo McCready

    The Red Sox Payroll Poll

    Seemed to me the bullpen was really strong last year until the injuries to rotation forced them to be completely decimated by the endless bullpen games. Closer to normal injury luck (no guarantee there) and God forbid adding another starter should really help that same scenario not playing out...
  13. Margo McCready

    The Red Sox Payroll Poll

    I’ll grant that it’s absolutely not something to bank on, but does a bullpen as strong as Boston’s is likely to be give them a realistic chance to outperform their Pythag? If I remember correctly, the Orioles were able to greatly outperform theirs last year on the backs of their wipeout bullpen.
  14. Margo McCready

    How to Add a Starting Pitcher

    I think this team can give us some fun baseball to watch and maybe even make some noise this postseason with one more solid starting pitcher and a right-handed bat with power. If I were in Breslow’s shoes, I’m signing Jordan Montgomery because he’s a good bet to solidify the rotation for the...
  15. Margo McCready

    2024 Team and Player Projections (Mostly Players We Have.)

    If the roster as of today is what we roll with this April, Yoshida is my DH. I’d be looking to give Duran, Rafaela, Abreu and O’Neil all roughly equal playing time. Two LH and two RH bats let you play matchups and use the bench liberally. There’d be opportunities to optimize defense with close...
  16. Margo McCready

    Offseason rumors

    I’d love to see the Red Sox try to give us fun baseball to watch this September and (God help us) maybe even beyond. As bad as the backend may be, Jordan Montgomery helps make that a little bit more realistic. He also fills in a rotation slot in ‘25 and (fingers crossed) ‘26, which to me looks...
  17. Margo McCready

    Offseason rumors

    Bite the bullet and sign Montgomery. Keep Martin for the 8th. Trade Jansen to anyone willing to take his salary. Houck is the closer. Sign Soler with Jansen’s money so he and Yoshida can complete The Bushwackers DH/LF tag team. Dump Refsnyder. Stay under the Luxury Tax and avoid QO guys to not...
  18. Margo McCready

    Offseason rumors

    Who really cares what any of these guys write? Like, really? Do we really want to be on the hook for Blake Snell’s age 37 season and watch him walk the ballpark? Do we really want to suffer Jordan Montgomery’s 5.2K/9 age 35 season while a hobbled, washed up Aaron Judge tees off on him like it’s...
  19. Margo McCready

    Following Former Red Sox 2023

    To go back to being The Rangers.
  20. Margo McCready

    2024 Lineup (What we actually have - no trade speculation.)

    This is where I’m at. I’m all for playing up defense in CF and RF when can while playing half your games in an extreme doubles park like Fenway.