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

    I thought they would be about the same with Giolito and I think they'll be the same without him. Even with him healthy I still didn't think there was enough depth of talent on the pitching staff to get this team more than 81 wins. Even if he was lights-out all season, that still leaves 80% of...
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    Following Former Red Sox 2024...

    Phillies designate Ort. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/02/phillies-designate-kaleb-ort-for-assignment.html
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    Following Former Red Sox 2023

    Sean Casey hired as hitting coach for MFY https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/37990346/reports-yankees-hiring-sean-casey-new-hitting-coach
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    So long, Framingham Lou (and other WEEI discussions)

    I listened to part of the game on the radio yesterday. Lou seems to be getting better in the booth. I get that it's radio and you don't want dead air, but there have been times in the past that he seemed like he was out to prove he was the smartest baseball person on air and wouldn't shut-up in...
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    4/6 (Day) Game 7: Tigers/Sox.

    Or the guy who once was an ace.
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    4/6 (Day) Game 7: Tigers/Sox.

    Sale picking up right where he left off.
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    Following Former Red Sox 2023

    Plawecki got a minors deal with Washington. He seemed like a good clubhouse guy when he was here. I have a soft spot for back-up catchers. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/04/nationals-sign-kevin-plawecki-to-minor-league-deal.html
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    March 30, Year of our Pedro 2023, OPENING DAY

    It was 16f when I took the dogs out this morning, but it's opening day so it felt a lot warmer. I've missed having game threads for meaningful games. Let's go!
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    How do you feel now about this team, as opposed to earlier in the off-season?

    I voted for same. I don't have much hope for a better than .500 season. Offense likely to be about the same as last year. Production from 1B should be better, provided Dalbec doesn't ever play again. Production from SS will be lower. I expect the outfield production to improve. DH will probably...
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    Joe Castiglione Cutting Back

    I didn't listen to a lot of games on the radio last year, but the ones I did catch with Flemming on the call were not fun. He just struck me as not a student of the game. Not that a PBP guy needs to be a historian, but it seemed like every time there was a dialogue about something that happened...
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    Who Will Be the 2023 Opening Day Starter?

    Hopefully, a healthy Chris Sale. The pessimist in me says they'll re-sign Rich Hill in early February and he'll be the opening day starter.
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    Bruce Sutter splits

    I saw him in Cooperstown this summer. He didn't look well. You would have thought he was 89, not 69. I recently learned that Sutter had his own Bonilla-like contract. https://fansided.com/2020/07/01/atlanta-braves-bobby-bonilla-contract-bruce-sutter/
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    The Brady (Anderson) Bunch

    I'm not sure if this fits the definition. Matt Clement had a great first half in 2005 going 10-2 and making the AL All-star roster for the only time in 9 seasons. Then he got hit in the head shortly after the all-star break and was never the same again.
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    Stars that faded away...

    Stephen Strasburg seems to be on the way to making the list of stars who have faded away. He signed $245m/7 year extension after 2019. He has pitched 31 innings since then. View...
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    La belleza de Brayan Bello

    The home plate ump last night was awful (Eck was beside himself a few times), but Bello did lose it in the fifth. At one point he threw seven balls in a row and it would have been eight had it not been for terrible home plate umpiring.
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    Following Former Red Sox 2022 Edition

    Jed Lowrie DFA'd https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/08/as-designate-jed-lowrie-select-cal-stevenson.html He had a nice bounce back last year after a couple of injury-plagued years, but it looks like that was the last hurrah. He's struggled this year at age 38.
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    The White Sox have traded catcher Reese McGuire & Taylor Broadway to the Red Sox for Jake Diekman

    I guess that makes sense even if I don't like it (the lottery tickets for Vazquez part).
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    The White Sox have traded catcher Reese McGuire & Taylor Broadway to the Red Sox for Jake Diekman

    Why? I have no idea what Bloom is doing at this deadline. He traded a solid catcher and character guy for prospects. Then he goes out and gets the opposite of that. I hope there's a better long term plan that's yet to be revealed.
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    After Babe Ruth ... who?

    Wade Boggs leaving was the hardest one for me for many reasons. All of those reasons came flooding back when I saw Boggs a few times in Cooperstown last weekend. I learned about baseball and became a Red Sox fan in the early-mid 80s and Boggs was a cornerstone of the franchise. In 89 when he got...
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    Obscure MLB rule(s)

    I wonder if it was created on the heels of the 1919 Black Sox scandal as an anti-gambling measure. After a quick Google search, I found this Rob Neyer article addressing the reasons for the rule: https://www.sbnation.com/2011/5/13/2169858/why-mlb-officially-frowns-upon-fraternizing