Dirty Water - the tale of the 2023 Boston Red Sox

Great job for the next guy, but I gather this is typical FSG class wrt their GMs. Didn’t they run all the other guys out of town?

Someone at the press conference ask if they are going to root out the anonymous front office sources that were in the Globe stabbing Bloom in the back.

— Red Sox Stats (@redsoxstats) September 14, 2023

Passan cooking the fraud Henry

Over the 15-year stretch during which they won four World Series, here were the Boston Red Sox's payroll ranks in those years: 2nd, 2nd, 3rd, 1st.

Over the last four years, they have been under the CBT three times and their payroll this year is 11th.

But it was the GM's fault.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) September 14, 2023

bloom did a bad job but he wasn’t set up to do a good job. ownership is pretty much absent at this point.

Ownership hired him to eat shit basically and he did that. Next guy will benefit

According to @BNightengale, Sam Fuld has emerged as one of the leading candidates to replace Chaim in the Red Sox front office.

Fuld was a finalist in the Red Sox managerial search the last time around. Has worked as Dave Dombrowski’s right-hand man and GM with the Phillies.… pic.twitter.com/drhUKRtI3i

— Tyler Milliken ⚾️ (@tylermilliken_) September 25, 2023

Can 'Superman' save Sox??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4UaxlOoxAM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ9QpRnO6nM

Season so far:

+Story at short
+TRISTON CASAS
+ Chris Martin
+ the bullpen 99% of the time (what’s that stat? 51-3 when leading after six innings)
+ Chris Sale when healthy
+ Bello mostly
+ Abreu & Rafaela
+ Jarren Duran most of the time
+ Justin Turner
+ Masa 90% of the season
+ Kutter Crawford
+ first half Verdugo

- Houck/Sale injuries
- Paxton second half
- Cora not playing Pablito at short enough before Kiké trade
- Duran/Casas injuries
- RISP problems
- JT getting injured and performance falling off a cliff as he tried to play through it
- Duvall cold stretches
- Masa being gassed in August
- Day game Bello
- second half Verdugo :(

Have I missed anything?

+ Connor Wong behind the dish
+ Bernardino (and his story)

- The entire bench staff. Dave Bush. Febles. How come Brasier is good for the Dodgers now? How come Kiké is good. What is going on.
- the fuckin barbells
- Kenley not being the same guy after his 400th save
- the Houck starting experiment
- the Matt Dermody game
- the Kyle Barraclough game
- the baserunning
- the defense

Kiké really isn’t good now, classic change of scene job. He’s reverted to his earlier year performance

https://i.postimg.cc/NMkx9rmM/IMG-9979.jpg

Brasier is a classic Dodgers pitching lab job, supposedly he showed up and Mark Prior was like “Will u throw a cutter” and now he’s elite I guess? Chris Martin credits the Cubs pitching lab with improving him last year so it’s not 100% but yeah the approach is impressive.

Oh yeah Dermody was disgraceful! Every time I see that José Ramirez three homer highlight on mlb.tv I’m like GOOD FOR YOU JOSE!!!

Kenley has been good post-400! Where he’s been bad is due to Cora doing bullshit like running him out in back to back games or two games of a double header. The walk off in SF was insanely bad luck, giving up a homer to JD Davis (the D stands for DFA this guy) in the bottom of the ninth was like a one in a million thing cos that guy can’t hit for shit this year.

I will have a little stats dive in a minute but just watching the games, he puts too many guys on

His recent splits haven’t been great but he’s been sick and playing less so the sample is a bit skewed iirc

His season splits seem to largely follow our known info about him: he pitches badly on short/no rest but also when he’s rusty (which is why Cora has used him in non save situations before)
https://i.postimg.cc/T1LP11ks/IMG-9980.jpg

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https://i.postimg.cc/prwLFv4L/IMG-9981.jpg

And crucially he pitches badly in non save situations
https://i.postimg.cc/3rVR6jNQ/IMG-9982.jpg

His two worst OPS against are in 1-run or tie games!

Check the ahead/behind split though - more closely correlates with pitching in a loss or going into the top of the ninth behind (ie a non closing situation)

Lmao…uh…?

Alex Cora said he’s “not ready” to be a GM, that if he felt he was, he would’ve wanted to be a candidate - but made clear to ownership he’s not in that position. He received assurances from owners last week he’ll be back as manager and will be part of the GM search/hiring process

— Alex Speier (@alexspeier) October 1, 2023

https://www.sporcle.com/games/zFordesi/every-2023-red-sox-player
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m o n d e s i - incorrect

40/56 😩

I scraped 49 - and one of them wasn’t Yoshida

i forgot about arroyo 🫢

Besides that five hit game of his and that weird double play against the Braves I understand that

says something dunnit.

also i have no shame in forgetting the parade of ineffective relievers

I got most of the relievers! Blanked out Dermody the homophobe, Walter (!), Lamet, Barraclough (!!) and someone else

i mean… “nick robertson”? obviously made up

zack little? tayler scott? come on

Zack Little I missed. Tayler Scott I remembered from the cubs series, he came in with a big lead and almost blew it and they had to warm up Kenley 😭

Nick Robertson pitched the other night! I think he came over in the Kiké trade

Stats has a questionnaire up:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_UYLdjkRjI1MV00mbtL_44ekmbUsbiW5azd7MNzFQVQy-SQ/viewform

I saw that but haven’t done it, any good?

Ok I’ve done it now, some interesting questions in there. What SP did you think they should go for

i want Shota!

He seems good, Yamamoto is clearly The Guy but who knows if John Henry will crack open the wallet?

I personally like Montgomery. Tough lefty, pitches deep into games, increasing the himbo quotient, what’s not to like

I just checked his Instagram and the first three words on the profile are “follower of Jesus”. His doctor wife is right, he really is dumb

Ya know, I really should have known religious discrimination wasn't beyond you, but there you go

I thought about seriously responding to this, as a Catholic from a family that was always socially liberal in a country that was not so when I was growing up, and then I realised I’d be wasting my time.

as opposed to when you post religious discrimination

It’s not obligatory to interact with my posts, so how about you don’t?

yeah please don't shit up multiple threads H.P ffs

Also not obligatory to post religious discrimination so how about you don’t?

Thanks tracer! Happy to when gyac stops posting garbage

H.P. - as one of the original moderators of this board, fellow baseball lover and - afaict - only other woman on this board, I am asking you nicely, can you please not engage in this creep behaviour of following gyac around multiple threads and picking/reviving beefs and threatening to continue until she meets your demands?

It's incredibly unpleasant, controlling and typical harassing behavior that I promise you every woman online has experienced and is sick of.

Dude, I am sorry for whatever is going on in your personal life, but if you love baseball at all, can you please take a good look at what you are doing? Maybe try to incorporate some sportsmanship and good character into your own posting?

You've earned a FP from me. Please drop it.

Weird narrative you've spun? If this is the board where religious discrimination is cool and a good thing to post then sorry, I missed that memo. Stoked to see many posters backing up that type of behavior.

Love the personal life stuff being put in too (which has no factual basis). I consider calling out religious discrimination good character, but maybe we just have different value systems and we'll have to live with that.

HP, I don't know if the threadban function works, but I've just given you one for this thread, so we'll find out. Please stop chasing gyac around ILB and picking fights.

Thank you WmC.

TH, the survey results are in and RSS published here

73% of people want Brayan Bello and Triston Casas to both receive long-term contracts from the Red Sox this winter, with only 6% wanting to extend neither. 17% are ready to extend Casas, but want to hold off on Bello.

92% say there needs to be changes made to the Red Sox major league pitching coaches.

higher chance of that than kennedy having any interesting answers but i will try to stay open-minded

Abreu included by SK in discussion about extending young players

What I would dearly love in 2024 is for Cora’s guys to actually have a set role for more than about 5 minutes. Who’s playing center? Who’s a starter? Am I batting 8th or second? It changed all the time, drove me crazy. I know, injuries, but still

JT is such a guy

Turner, who played with the Orioles and Mets in the early years of his career, credits players such as Nick Markakis, Adam Jones, Ty Wigginton and David Wright for instilling the idea of a mutually respectful relationship between teammates, regardless of age. Rather than following the concept of “making them earn it,” Turner believes in embracing rookies and making sure they’re comfortable.

“I always say I’m like the bumpers on a bowling lane,” Turner said. “I don’t want to interfere with them or stop them from doing anything, I just want to keep them moving in the right direction, make sure they don’t wind up in the gutter.”

Back in 2019, @jcmccaffrey wrote an article about how the starting pitcher typically chooses the jersey for the day. I wanted to know if that was still true. Maybe it's a coincidence, but it looks to me like certain pitchers have clear preferences.

James Paxton is a real one pic.twitter.com/WbZgUOih8G

— Sox & Shoes (@soxandshoes) October 5, 2023