Red Sox/MLB 2023 Regular Season VI: Hunt for the Wild Card is on

[GahdenRinkRat]

Man, that was ridiculously fun. Duran is so freaking fast

 

[KrejciMVP]

The biggest problem with the Red Sox over the past few years is that there's been very little margin for error. When you start the season with a boatload of dead payroll and no significant contributors making $850,000, you need a lot to go right in order to be competitive. Things went well in 2021, and not so well in 2020 and 2022.

Fielding productive young players and having payroll flexibility gives you a greater margin for error. You don't necessarily need everything to go your way to compete.

They needed to clear the albatross contracts off their books. They needed to gain payroll flexibility. And they needed to start producing young talent. To varying degrees, they've made painful decisions to accomplish all three of those goals, and I think it's starting to pay off.

lack of starting pitching..pedro and Lester aren't walking through that door

 

[GatorMike]

FWIW...

 

[quietbruinfan]

I get the feeling we are not going to see much more this TDL. Another one where they take no direction under gutless errand boy, Bloom.

 

[quietbruinfan]

Under the Radar, Kirby is one of baseball's better pitchers....

 

[Johnnyduke]

I'm going by results on the field. I've said all along this needs to be a team in playoff contention till the end more or less. If Bloom thinks they can do that with guys they have coming back from injury, fine. But it better happen. At the same time, Cora is gonna be pissed if they do nothing. Hell even Devers went out of his way to send Bloom a message that the team needs help. Some fans might be ok by doing nothing but it would be pretty disappointing to a group of players who got to this point.

 

[KrejciMVP]

I'm going by results on the field. I've said all along this needs to be a team in playoff contention till the end more or less. If Bloom thinks they can do that with guys they have coming back from injury, fine. But it better happen. At the same time, Cora is gonna be pissed if they do nothing. Hell even Devers went out of his way to send Bloom a message that the team needs help. Some fans might be ok by doing nothing but it would be pretty disappointing to a group of players who got to this point.

if the GM abandons the team this deadline the players definitely wont be happy. they play baseball, they dont care about Henrys accounting

 

[CDJ]

Brasier has been hilariously good in LA

 

[quietbruinfan]

They are trying tonight, working a very good pitcher. However, somebody wake up Yoshida and tell him he is at Fenway. He folds like an accordion against good pitching on the road.

 

[quietbruinfan]

When will the Chang era end? It cannot be soon enough!!

 

[Johnnyduke]

Middlebrooks is awful

 

[KesselBuiltMyHotrod]

The offense has collapsed.

 

[Johnnyduke]

When will the Chang era end? It cannot be soon enough!!

I do think adding a middle infielder is absolutely something Bloom could do. That's not a huge ask.

 

[CDJ]

Cal Raleigh kills them. Death by big dumper

 

[quietbruinfan]

Dumb decision by Cora to pinch hit for Casas. They need an extra base hit and they need his bat in the game. He is a very good manager who is making a half-effort because he is sick of Bloom and Henry.

 

[KesselBuiltMyHotrod]

The correct move would have been to ph for Masa.

 

[CDJ]

The correct move would have been to ph for Masa.

It definitely wasn’t pinch hitting for the best hitter in the baseball in the 2nd half

 

[KrejciMVP]

The offense has collapsed.

hitters get hot and cold, starting pitching carries the team when the bats go quiet. when is Bloom getting a starter

 

[BruinsFanSince94]

Brasier has been hilariously good in LA

f*** Brasier. Nothing is more annoying than that pud sucking more suck than suck could suck here and going to LAD and being good. Just f*** him and his stupid neck.

Anyways, hoping Jacques can get out of this. Can’t say I’m loving Cora’s choice here. Dudes flown cross country 3 times now in like a week lmao.

Pivetta with an absolute gem.

hitters get hot and cold, starting pitching carries the team when the bats go quiet. when is Bloom getting a starter

A Bloom pitching acquisition just pitched great. Did you miss it?

 

[Johnnyduke]

Casas is only hitting .188 against lefties but ya I don't need to see Rob Refsnyder come to the plate. But the spreadsheet probably said that was the right call.

 

[KesselBuiltMyHotrod]

Maybe it isn't too late to sell.

 

[Mione134]

Pivetta deserved better.

 

[quietbruinfan]

Joe Jacques, the epitome of trash picking, gutless Bloom's garbage or maybe that was Scott or two time waiver-wire loser, Yu Chang or, or, or....You get the point?

 

[BruinsFanSince94]

Cora set Jacques up to fail. Dude’s been flying back and forth cross country and let’s be real, he isn’t a late inning reliever. Schreiber? Martin? Bernardino?

Team needs wins.

I’m over Cora. I cannot wait for them to can him. Give Bloom his own guy. This dude blows.

 

[arider1990]

Hopefully Mayer is working on his fielding because this team needs help defensively.