Or when your starter’s yanked after 80 odd pitches over 4 innings and the bullpen larder is bare. Mystifying Pitcher usage patterns today for a team on the razor’s edge. Oh, and LA would seem to have a superior coaching staff; taking our underperformers and restoring them to near peak performance levels. Oh well.
Yeah thats because he misused the staff in the weeks prior. See you can't galaxy brain away us Never-Cora-ers. He is the worst manager in baseball and at least 2k of our membership base is fully qualified to outmanage him. We know because we tell ourselves that all the time!!!!
He is pretty close to the best player in the league, for sure. Just an absolute offensive force, and excellent defender, and tops it off by really seeming like one of those "glue" guys. He also seems like one of the best people in sports, based off of what I have read about him, or seen in interviews and stuff.
Your posts are so predictably negative that I guess you are pretty unhappy. I feel that you need to stop watching for a while
Yeah, pretty simply saved their bullets for the Astros and crucial head to head games.
We've gone 4-4 in this stretch.
80 percent of the posters here believe they could hit one out of Fenway under the right conditions
He could be really satisfied with the four titles, the most of any team this century.
Haha.... of course he has plenty of other reasons to be satisfied.
I will move on because there is no other option, but management fucked up on letting a generational player go is where I am at.
If the conditions were right, I couldn't even hit one out of the infield.
I know right?! It's almost like he signed it at the beginning of a global pandemic when the future of organized professional sports was seriously in question!
Lol is this what we're going with? COVID made the Red Sox and Henry botch this?
There is no bigger Mookie fan than me. The only way I accepted letting him go was that Henry decided to reduce salary, stop paying the luxury tax and stop paying the highest team salary in the sport. They did unload David Price's salary as well.
This is absolutely correct, but as you can see from the snarky response you received, there's a ton of willful ignorance from the Mookie über alles crowd on the substantial role the pandemic played in how things ended up. The consistent message that winter was that Mookie was absolutely determined to test free agency. To the extent that the Sox had a shot at negotiating an extension with him (if it was even possible), it would have been far larger than the deal he ultimately took from the Dodgers. He was traded just over a month before Covid was declared a pandemic and became a global emergency. If there had been any snags in the negotiations of that trade which pushed things off by a few weeks, it's possible it never even happens. Mookie signed his extension with the Dodgers in July, right before MLB started up playing that bizarre bubble season and when the world had been turned completely upside down with no vaccines and pretty limited visibility on the near future. It's absurd to think that his priorities, and desire for immediate security over getting top dollar on the free market, hadn't changed dramatically by that point.
Sure. Of course there is something between highest team salary in the sport and where they are now.
Everything you are saying could be correct and it was still a bad move, unless there is simply no chance he was staying. I don't think it was going to take 400M+ if COVID never existed.
