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Re: 2016 Red Sox Regular Season
« Reply #105 on: May 12, 2016, 10:40:29 PM »

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This team is on fire... add to that the potential of the 3 young guns (JBJ, Xander and Mookie) and shaw if you want and we could be really good this season.

Re: 2016 Red Sox Regular Season
« Reply #106 on: May 13, 2016, 12:14:21 AM »

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I've been pleased to see the Sox right the ship after some warning signs at the start. They are unreal offensively. Hard to believe Ortiz is getting ready to retire. He looks like he's still in his prime.

JBJ, Xander, Mookie, Shaw... Quite a young positional group they've got.

The lack of a guaranteed good start anywhere in the rotation still worries me, but if they stay healthy I feel good about at least being in the playoff hunt in September.

And Benintendi and Moncada are obliterating high A. Benintendi really could be ready by the end of the year; how crazy is that? Imagine an outfield of Benny-JBJ-Mookie. That would be the best outfield in baseball for a decade.

 It's kinda early to get excited about this, but don't forget about Espinoza too. He's got ace potential written all over him.

Yep, he's an elite prospect as well. He just turned 18 and can hit 100! I focused on the other two since they're dominating, while Espinoza's results have been less impressive so far.
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Re: 2016 Red Sox Regular Season
« Reply #107 on: May 13, 2016, 01:26:07 AM »

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Sox are hitting .293 as a team... I doubt it stays that high but that's amazing

I was just looking at their averages—6 of their regulars (Pedroia, Bogaerts, Ortiz, Hanley, Shaw, and Bradley) are hitting better than .300. That's nuts.

Crazy... And another 10+ run game

According to MLB.com, Boston has a whole bunch of crazy streaks going right now.

Some people have started to talk about the Angels considering trading Trout, since they're so bad and figure to be for a while, and saying that Boston is one of the few teams with enough assets to make that trade ... but I'm not sure I'd want that. If Bradley, Betts, Bogaerts, and Shaw continue to develop—man, I know that Trout might be the best player in baseball, but he's only one guy, while those four would go a long way toward filling out a great starting lineup.
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Re: 2016 Red Sox Regular Season
« Reply #108 on: May 18, 2016, 04:45:27 PM »

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Congratulations to JBJ on extending his hitting streak to 23 games.

Too bad the Sox offense wasted a complete-game 5-hitter from Steven Wright.
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Re: 2016 Red Sox Regular Season
« Reply #109 on: May 24, 2016, 11:11:03 AM »

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So Carson Smith is undergoing Tommy John


 
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Re: 2016 Red Sox Regular Season
« Reply #110 on: May 25, 2016, 02:06:21 PM »

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So Carson Smith is undergoing Tommy John

Disappointing news.
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Re: 2016 Red Sox Regular Season
« Reply #111 on: May 25, 2016, 02:26:10 PM »

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So Carson Smith is undergoing Tommy John

Disappointing news.
Not any more disappointing than Dombrowski talking about moving someone not named Clay Buccholtz out of the rotation.
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Re: 2016 Red Sox Regular Season
« Reply #112 on: May 25, 2016, 10:04:55 PM »

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So the offense is still a machine

Re: 2016 Red Sox Regular Season
« Reply #113 on: May 25, 2016, 10:06:14 PM »

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So Carson Smith is undergoing Tommy John

Disappointing news.
Not any more disappointing than Dombrowski talking about moving someone not named Clay Buccholtz out of the rotation.

So true...

Re: 2016 Red Sox Regular Season
« Reply #114 on: May 25, 2016, 10:16:21 PM »

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This team is pretty clearly the best in the AL, which is awesome, but I don't know how confident I am in a rotation of Price-Wright-Porcello-Rodriguez-Kelly. Hopefully Dombrowski can bring in another solid arm. There are plenty of good options out there: Rich Hill, Pomeranz, Teheran, Salazar, Gray. The list goes on and on. There are front, mid, and back of the rotation guys available, and maybe Dombrowski will be able to package Swihart and some non-top-four prospects for one of them.
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Re: 2016 Red Sox Regular Season
« Reply #115 on: May 26, 2016, 08:30:47 PM »

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I'm surprised people show up to games that Clay is pitching at

Re: 2016 Red Sox Regular Season
« Reply #116 on: May 26, 2016, 09:00:09 PM »

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So Carson Smith is undergoing Tommy John

Disappointing news.
Not any more disappointing than Dombrowski talking about moving someone not named Clay Buccholtz out of the rotation.

So true...

I really don't know how Buchholz still has a job with the Red Sox. I honestly can't fathom even a wild guess as to why they haven't gotten rid of him yet. He's terrible 95% of the time.

And it's a little disappointing that the Sox haven't roughed up Gray more, what with his above-6 ERA.
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Re: 2016 Red Sox Regular Season
« Reply #117 on: May 26, 2016, 09:37:59 PM »

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I'm surprised people show up to games that Clay is pitching at

He was amazing in our World Series year (not the ALCS, though) - I think there are a lot of people who will forever stick with him for that.

Re: 2016 Red Sox Regular Season
« Reply #118 on: May 27, 2016, 09:55:13 PM »

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Koji, Koji, Koji. It may finally be time to hang it up.  :(

And I see Joe Kelly came back to earth.
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Re: 2016 Red Sox Regular Season
« Reply #119 on: June 01, 2016, 08:27:09 PM »

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Mookie is silly hot!
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