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    Rafael Devers: post extension performance

    Rafael Devers has had a strange season so far in 2023, and I thought it might be time someone started a thread to talk about it. Overall, Devers has not quite been himself this year. He is still hitting bombs, but his OPS+ (111) and wRC+ (108) are at their worst levels since his short 2020...
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    What are your best offers to Devers and Bogaerts?

    There's been an awful lot of discussion about contract offers for Devers and Bogaerts over the last few years, and much of that is ongoing with X's opt out kicking in this offseason and Devers set to hit free agency after next season. These discussions are ongoing in various places on this...
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    Why are the Red Sox struggling against the AL East this year?

    It's clear that the Red Sox are going to have a very difficult time succeeding this year if they can't figure out how to perform better against the AL East. What I'm curious about is why the Sox are having such a difficult time beating the other AL East teams. Last year the Sox won at a .539...
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    Divisional Balance and the historic 2022 AL East

    One of the things I like to track year over year is how good each of baseball's divisions are. Given the unbalanced schedule, divisional strength plays a fairly large role in overall records and it can be challenging to compare teams across divisions. I think that looking at overall divisional...
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    Red Sox as Buyers, In Season and Beyond?

    Ehh, I'll just get out in front of this one and start a new thread on the topic. In other threads we've seen some nice analysis of potential trade targets as well as outlines of how dire the FA class this offseason looks to be. With that in mind, I'd like to point to catcher as a position that...
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    Divisional quality and playoff team/player assessment

    One of the things that sticks in my craw year after year is the way that the sports pundits analyze the relative strengths of playoff teams as if one can easily compare stats between teams in different divisions. Few if any make a serious point of looking at the competitiveness of divisions as a...
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    Openers

    It seems that openers have fallen out of favor a bit, but I can't help but wonder if some of the Sox starters could benefit from an opener. While Eovaldi and Perez have been pretty steady performers regardless of which turn through the order they are on, Richards, Pivetta and Rodriguez have...
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    2017 Divisional Performance

    A huge portion of discussion about baseball ultimately boils down to trying to figure out how good players and teams are. We all love spinning our wheels on this topic, or else we probably wouldn't post on this forum. One of the things that frustrates me about this topic is that it's relatively...
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    Competitive (im)Balance: Division by Division Performance

    We live in an era of baseball history that is much lauded for its competitive balance. Loads of teams are in contention for a playoff berth until very late in the season. Each season, I like to look at the relative performance of baseball's leagues and divisions as a whole to get a better sense...
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    2014 Season Expectations and Fan Satisfaction

    This thread isn't so much intended as a prediction thread as it is a place to discuss how the team's performance last year has shaped and influenced your expectations for this season and what you think the team will need to do in order to make you happy.   The Sox winning it all in 2013 was...
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    Baseball writing, data driven analysis and anxiety management

    In my years of reading baseball writing in general and this forum in particular it has occured to me that fans put a huge amount of mental and emotional energy into managing the anxiety that comes with not knowing for sure what will happen in the future -- how players and teams will perform, who...
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