Red Sox/MLB 2023 Regular Season III
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BruinsFanSince94
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Good game to go to, so far. Great seats. Mom is enjoying. Lines are not long and Sox are winning.
Paxton pitched well. Crawford on. Hold it!
ENMANNY!!!! Yes, CDJ.
Paxton pitched well. Crawford on. Hold it!
ENMANNY!!!! Yes, CDJ.
BruinsFanSince94
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BruinsFanSince94
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Need a lot more from the BP. It needs to be stable to have a season we contend for a playoff spot.
**Double play literally seconds later lol**
**Double play literally seconds later lol**
BruinsFanSince94
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quietbruinfan
Salt and light
He's been very disappointing this season. He needs to stop the big HR hacks, and go back to basic hitting. Moving players. He's killing the offense trying to hit homers every at bat.
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McGarnagle
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This team really has a knack for clutching defeat out from the jaws of victory
Sign of a bad team. At 28-27 I am now looking at Bloom replacements again. Slave to the scoreboard.
smithformeragent
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Now the only show in town.
You look at them on paper and they’re not great.
They’ve played will at times and have shown glimpses.
However, too many bad series losses.
You look at them on paper and they’re not great.
They’ve played will at times and have shown glimpses.
However, too many bad series losses.
BruinsFanSince94
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LouJersey
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They have a super tough schedule coming up it will be interesting to see how they shake out. They can certainly score some runs.
Bats have been cold since the end of the padres series
72 to 92 wins!
72 to 92 wins!
Dennis Bonvie
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Its June now. No longer way too early.
Still early, but I've seen enough to feel like this team will not challenge for a playoff spot.
Only consistent part of their game is defense. Consistently bad.
Bullpen looks good at times. Starting pitching good at times, offense good at times. Then there are all the other times.
Enjoyment comes from watching Yoshida hit. Sale looking like old Sale. Casas as my official whipping boy. Would like to see Tapia play more.
Still early, but I've seen enough to feel like this team will not challenge for a playoff spot.
Only consistent part of their game is defense. Consistently bad.
Bullpen looks good at times. Starting pitching good at times, offense good at times. Then there are all the other times.
Enjoyment comes from watching Yoshida hit. Sale looking like old Sale. Casas as my official whipping boy. Would like to see Tapia play more.
They’re similarly talented to last years team imo, they are just more consistently competitive in games and actually have some fight. IMO they’ll finish a tick above .500. They have wild card potential but it would be tough given the AL. Never know though, rotation seems to be figuring things out and that will dictate how far they go imo
McGarnagle
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Their record right now seems to be a fair reflection of what the team is. Slightly over .500.
They show flashes of good things offensively, and we've actually seen some good work from Sale and Paxton. Then there are series where the bats go ice cold, the bullpen falls apart, or the back end of the rotation gets blown out. Defense is a problem too.
They seem to be finding ways to lose winnable games more than the opposite. Honestly, I think the dark clouds started when Kenley blew consecutive games in the Cardinals series. They really haven't recovered fully.
I do think that once they get healthier they'll be more consistent overall - Duvall back in center, Story at short, Kike back into a position he can actually field in, that's a really good lineup. But it probably is too late considering the division they're in. If they were in the central, they could go out and acquire some pitching at the deadline and be a division winner. But from where we are we're fighting with 6 teams who are within eyeshot of the 3 wild cards and are already 4 games out of the 3rd WC.
I'm curious as to how Chaim will play the deadline this year given where they are. They could get really aggressive and make a charge at a wild card run, or be very conservative and use whatever they have to add to the farm system. Or a hybrid of some lateral moves. Either way the same people are going to complain.
They show flashes of good things offensively, and we've actually seen some good work from Sale and Paxton. Then there are series where the bats go ice cold, the bullpen falls apart, or the back end of the rotation gets blown out. Defense is a problem too.
They seem to be finding ways to lose winnable games more than the opposite. Honestly, I think the dark clouds started when Kenley blew consecutive games in the Cardinals series. They really haven't recovered fully.
I do think that once they get healthier they'll be more consistent overall - Duvall back in center, Story at short, Kike back into a position he can actually field in, that's a really good lineup. But it probably is too late considering the division they're in. If they were in the central, they could go out and acquire some pitching at the deadline and be a division winner. But from where we are we're fighting with 6 teams who are within eyeshot of the 3 wild cards and are already 4 games out of the 3rd WC.
I'm curious as to how Chaim will play the deadline this year given where they are. They could get really aggressive and make a charge at a wild card run, or be very conservative and use whatever they have to add to the farm system. Or a hybrid of some lateral moves. Either way the same people are going to complain.
Chevalier du Clavier
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Red Sox roster: Jorge Alfaro exercises opt-out; team has 48 hours to decide on his future
Red Sox catcher Jorge Alfaro has triggered the opt-out clause in his contract. The team has 48 hours to add him to the roster or let him go.
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Sox have 48 hours to act.
McGarnagle
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Red Sox roster: Jorge Alfaro exercises opt-out; team has 48 hours to decide on his future
Red Sox catcher Jorge Alfaro has triggered the opt-out clause in his contract. The team has 48 hours to add him to the roster or let him go.
Sox have 48 hours to act.
Don't see a spot for him unless McGuire happens to come up with an injury that'll put him on the 15 day IL so he can have a little tryout. Hitting .310 in Worcester isn't exactly predictive that you'll hit at the MLB level when you've got no track record of doing so over the last 6 years.
Wong seems to have secured the catcher spot, and McGuire is a decent but not great backup who is capable of getting on hot streaks.
I don't care what he chooses to do as long as the team remains in playoff contention the whole year. That has been my threshold all along.
KesselBuiltMyHotrod
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"They're not mathematically eliminated yet" will be the battle cry of the summer.
Walkenthewalk
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A wise man once said 'you are what your record says you are.' If so, this team are not very good. Hopefully they can get on a roll.
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