BEST DAY OF MY LIFE! Thank you @RedSox for an unforgettable season, this will forever be a memory I will cherish for the rest of my life. WORLD CHAMPS 2018 #DamageDone
The organization’s refusal to be honest with itself about who can ever realistically start MLB games and who has no chance but still doesn't get developed as short relievers in the minors makes the idea of selling quality, controllable bullpen arms scary as hell.
Notice how Mexicans love this guy
It’s only liberals who cry about cultural appropriation when everyone’s having a good time appreciating each others’ cultures
Breslow Babble™
Mickey Gasper leading off isn’t a lineup decision. It’s a post-Moneyball, catcher-adjacent, switch-hitting ambiguity lever engineered to disrupt Jack Leiter’s first-inning proprioceptive sequencing.
By elevating Mickey into the one-hole, we’re maximizing top-order epistemological friction, platoon-fluid uncertainty, and pre-pitch cognitive tax.
We see an undervalued biomechanical run-creation node with asymmetrical batter-box optionality.
You fire him asap. Allow a wider range of opinions weighed at the trade deadline. Is it a bad look, yes, you pathetically couldn’t get a top choice/whiffed on Toboni. Does it hurt your reputation around the league more, no, they are openly mocking what you have right now.
This morning on WEEI: Sox keep asking Pedroia to join org, he keeps saying no.
This afternoon on 310 To Left: "This hit Pedroia hard. It hit a lot of guys hard. They built the foundation of the Red Sox, when they see it going the other way, they take offense to it."
Rival evaluators just flaming the Red Sox offense in @alexspeier’s new piece:
“I can’t believe they are content going with so many [Triple-A] players — utility infielders — at the bottom of the lineup.”
“Lot of guys on the team who satisfy the model but are role players who are being overexposed.”
“I’m still confused on the Red Sox roster construction and truthfully how they thought it would turn out any different than it has. The holes that were there at the start of the season are still there.”