Ugh, I think that’s it.
Crazy things can happen, but I have a feeling tonight was the nail in the coffin.
Crazy things can happen, but I have a feeling tonight was the nail in the coffin.
Totally. He’s a great 3-tool player but getting paid like a 5-tool player.It is insane how fast I went from being pumped they signed a young, franchise cornerstone for a decade to really, really dreading what the future of that contract looks like. I hope it's that he's been hurt or just pressing all year because he feels like he is the star and needs to do it all, and that he turns it around next year, but man, that could be a really bad one.
Yep. Raffy’s a damn good ball player and he’ll be a big contributor for us for a long time. He’s not in the top 10 of things that worry me about the future of the Sox.He’s a defensively challenged 3B with a 850-900 OPS. Same as he’s always been. Maybe he gets a bit better as he enters his prime, but I am really baffled as to what people are expecting.
Can you put a manager on waivers?Well, I'm glad Cora saved all the arms yesterday for today.
If Bloom wasn't so cheap, he'd have gotten the club a bunch of top-flight managers. Instead of dumpster-diving for a suspended Astro's castoff.Can you put a manager on waivers?
The front office painted themselves into a corner and pretty much had to pay Raffy. They had a legitimate five tool player, an MVP and reported all around good guy, but when he got close to free agency they dicked around with him, didn’t want to pay him, traded him and got peanuts in return. Then they dicked around again with their face of the franchise shortstop, made all kinds of noise about how signing him would be their #1 off season priority, but in reality never we’re serious about it and lost him too. After that the fan base was on fire, and both Henry and Bloom were both booed by the fans at the Winterfest. There were even signs at the Bruins game at Fenway on New Years Day, that were confiscated by security, calling for Raffy to be extended. The front office was perilously close to losing their fan base and had to do something big.Totally. He’s a great 3-tool player but getting paid like a 5-tool player.
Gonna have to at least split that four game series. I’m afraid it will be Bronx northeast then and we don’t have the HFA in reality.Finish ahead of the Yankees and all is well.
This isn’t a good team.
Wow. I had never heard that story. I wasn't that thrilled with the signing and felt that it was the FO trying desperately not to lose the fan base. Now, it may have had the opposite effect. But will the fans who booed Henry take any responsibility? (Just saw @Papo The Snow Tiger's post above covering the same topic more fully. However, I wouldn't be as upset as y'all if the team went all-out Tampa in its approach, not paying huge salaries, developing young ones more, especially pitchers.)When they signed him, I am pretty sure the one thing I posted here that gave me pause was about Alex having to bribe him with tacos to take pitches. It always was reported as an isn’t-this-cute story, and maybe it is. But it nagged at me and I think the question I asked tongue in cheek is what happens now that he makes 30 times as much as Alex and can buy a Taco Bell.
His failure to recognize what this team was at the trade deadline will hurt this franchise next year and for years to come.6.5 games back before September starts
Another Chaim Bloom masterclass.
I’m mostly being tongue in cheek. The truth according to fangraphs is that his plate discipline is actually a little better this year than prior years.Wow. I had never heard that story. I wasn't that thrilled with the signing and felt that it was the FO trying desperately not to lose the fan base. Now, it may have had the opposite effect. But will the fans who booed Henry take any responsibility? (Just saw @Papo The Snow Tiger's post above covering the same topic more fully. However, I wouldn't be as upset as y'all if the team went all-out Tampa in its approach, not paying huge salaries, developing young ones more, especially pitchers.)
I wasn't at this year's Winterfest (but I have some friends who were and confirmed the booing, and even told me the video clips of it didn't do it justice). If I were there, I probably wouldn't have actually booed anyone, but I would have withheld any polite applause.Wow. I had never heard that story. I wasn't that thrilled with the signing and felt that it was the FO trying desperately not to lose the fan base. Now, it may have had the opposite effect. But will the fans who booed Henry take any responsibility? (Just saw @Papo The Snow Tiger's post above covering the same topic more fully. However, I wouldn't be as upset as y'all if the team went all-out Tampa in its approach, not paying huge salaries, developing young ones more, especially pitchers.)