Spring training tickets went on sale at 10am this morning. In years past, they were sold out within minutes. Not so today. At 8 pm there were plenty of good seats still available for every game except the one game against the Yankees. Green monster seat still available. That's unheard of.
With mgt. doing a carful value assessment of 3-4 roster spots, there doesn’t seem to be any excitement. A team that lost so many fan favorites from last year is going to take some time IMO.
According to Jack Vita of Apple Sports, if spring started this week, the Boston lineup is more clear. I still think they make a marginal signing for another infielder.
1) LF Masataka Yoshida (Rookie, JPL)
2) SS Kike Hernandez .222/.291/.629
3) 3B Rafael Devers .295/.358/.879
4) DH Justin Turner .278/.350/.788
5) RF Alex Verdugo .280/.328/.732
6) CF Adam Duvall .213/.276/.677
7) 1B Triston Casas .197/.358/.766
8) 2B Christian Arroyo .286/.322/.736
9) C Reese McGuire .269/.307/.677
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on January 18, 2023, 12:52:54 PM
According to Jack Vita of Apple Sports, if spring started this week, the Boston lineup is more clear. I still think they make a marginal signing for another infielder.
1) LF Masataka Yoshida (Rookie, JPL)
2) SS Kike Hernandez .222/.291/.629
3) 3B Rafael Devers .295/.358/.879
4) DH Justin Turner .278/.350/.788
5) RF Alex Verdugo .280/.328/.732
6) CF Adam Duvall .213/.276/.677
7) 1B Triston Casas .197/.358/.766
8) 2B Christian Arroyo .286/.322/.736
9) C Reese McGuire .269/.307/.677
Looking a litle better than before, but I repeat, a little better and not a lot better. Too many LH hitters in the lineup and they better be able to hit LH pitching or we could once again be in trouble. Seems I said similar things in 2012, 2014, 2015, 2020 and 2022. That's a lot of failute for a big market club.
The fans’ displeasure was spoken in volumes at the Sox Winter Weekend in Springfield Friday. Y’all have read about the heated festivities. I can’t think of any of the MGT team that spoke who wasn’t booed. One observation I saw, besides extending Devers, the Sox crew fiddled through the off-season by essentially replacing an all star icon in Bogey with a 1 year deal for an aging veteran coming off a season ending injury (Duvall).
Bloom did not win any friends, insisting how far the team has come since 2020.
I hope Henry now realizes that the path he embarked on after the 2018 title is a dead end. And that Bloom is incapable of getting this team out of the hole Henry has put them in.
One comment I just read in an article on MLB.com. Bloom said, "I'm from Philly, I get it." He added that Red Sox fans have similar fire in the opposite direction when the team is winning, “and that’s wind in our sails.â€
No, he doesn't get it. Not at all. If he thinks the Red Sox Nation is enraged because we only won 78 games this past year, he is further out of touch than we thought. Winning cures a lot of ill will, but I will tell you this. To this day, it still hurts to think of Freddy Lynn and Carlton Fisk being jettisoned for the sake of profits and fealty. This is the era and group that lost Betts, Bogey, Benny and Vasquez. 40 years from now, some old guy is going to lament that a helluva lot more than they will remember winning 108 games when the band was still together.
We really loved this team, and that was taken away from us. JH and CB - YOU took it from us.
On Tuesday Bloom said, in so many words, Mondesi would not be available to start the season. He is recovering from ACL surgery to his knee. Last April with Royals he was almost caught in a pickoff move at 2B, and injured his knee getting back to the base. You might say he is a fragile player with a multitude of injuries over last seven years. He is 27 and started playing in KC at 20.
With him on the IL, SS goes to Kike’ and Arroyo’s backup at 2B is likely Refsnyder and E. Valdez.
“ He’s still rehabbing that injury. We’re going to take over that rehab. He’s going to come from the Dominican to Florida later this week. There is still a ways to go with that. Our expectation is that he may be a little delayed to start the season, but opening day is still a possibility. With an athlete like this, I wouldn’t rule it out. ... We are expecting him, whether he’s on time or not to contribute for the bulk of the year.â€
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on January 25, 2023, 02:45:28 PM
On Tuesday Bloom said, in so many words, Mondesi would not be available to start the season. He is recovering from ACL surgery to his knee. Last April with Royals he was almost caught in a pickoff move at 2B, and injured his knee getting back to the base. You might say he is a fragile player with a multitude of injuries over last seven years. He is 27 and started playing in KC at 20.
With him on the IL, SS goes to Kike’ and Arroyo’s backup at 2B is likely Refsnyder and E. Valdez.
“ He’s still rehabbing that injury. We’re going to take over that rehab. He’s going to come from the Dominican to Florida later this week. There is still a ways to go with that. Our expectation is that he may be a little delayed to start the season, but opening day is still a possibility. With an athlete like this, I wouldn’t rule it out. ... We are expecting him, whether he’s on time or not to contribute for the bulk of the year.â€
Oh, holy crap!
Tomase eviserates Bloom over the Mondesi signing. Tomase writes "Mondesi is the perfect Red Sox player talented injured tantalizing cheap undervalued and flawed" The article goes on.
My view Bloom is acting as if he is the GM for some nearly bankrupt barnstorming team of the 1930s trying to cobble together enough players to attract the yokels in Dirtwater Nebraska to come and see these once good players perform one last time. Bloom would have made a great GM of the House of David that barn stormed rural America in the 20s and 30s not the Boston Red Sox.
Oh, my! Yeah, I bet they're lining up and/or tripping over themselves to write the same old thing after what, 3-1/2 years of this nonsense?
That player to be named later had better be something special.
No doubt the Sox, a major market club, are likely headed for another disappointing season. The Bloom era will be remembered for all kinds of bad moves, but for me he was the guy who broke apart maybe our greatest team in just three years. Only Devers and Sale (two more years) will be left. You could count Brasier, but he will be DFAd in or before Spring training.
Red Sox tv ratings fell by 35 percent last year. Without a competitive team and no Eckersley in the booth, how low will they go?
Quote from: elktonnick on January 27, 2023, 08:27:46 AM
Red Sox tv ratings fell by 35 percent last year. Without a competitive team and no Eckersley in the booth, how low will they go?
With Dave O'Brien boring fans to death with mundane and useless information, well you asked it Elk----JUST HOW DAMN LOW CAN WE GO???????? the depths could be infinite. IF and I say IF our team checks in and most have surprisingly good years and play a little over their heads we could actually climb to third place or maybe even second since the Jays and Rays look to maybe fall back this year. But I am not putting any money of that happening right now.
Bloom watches Major Leagues like it’s a documentary and Henry hasn’t figured out that the owner is the villain.
It’s about time to gear up for Jet Blue. A list of NRI’s who will pop up in early games:
Red Sox announce 10 non-roster invitees to big league camp:
RHPs Dan Altavilla, Taylor Broadway, Durbin Feltman, Victor Santos and Chase Shugart
INFs Christian Koss and Matthew Lugo
INF/OFs Ryan Fitzgerald and Nick Sogard
C Stephen Scott
As far as the WBC baseball tourney, Matasaka Yoshida will miss ST for two weeks playing for Japan. Yikes.
Triston Casas was selected for the WBC Puerto Rico roster, but has declined to play and will report on time to
I get how important it is for a lot of these guys to play in WBC, but a guy like Yoshida with zero MLB time should be trying to not be a liability to his new team. Just another bump in the road of this offseason I guess.
I’m not a fan of the WBC tourney. And especially this year when most of the Sox from 22 have been turned over into a new lineup, missing approx two weeks of time in Ft Myers could be detrimental. Also a quick physical ramp up to play in the WBC could result in medical issues later on. It is what it is.
Expected to play,
Jorge Alfaro, Colombia
Richard Bleier, Israel
Rafael Devers, Dominican Republic
Kiké Hernández, Puerto Rico
Nick Pivetta, Canada
Ceddanne Rafaela, Netherlands
Ryan Sherriff, Israel
Alex Verdugo, Mexico
Masataka Yoshida, Japan
Red Sox players who could participate:
Christian Arroyo, Puerto Rico
Kenley Jansen, Netherlands
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on February 01, 2023, 06:14:32 PM
It’s about time to gear up for Jet Blue. A list of NRI’s who will pop up in early games:
Red Sox announce 10 non-roster invitees to big league camp:
RHPs Dan Altavilla, Taylor Broadway, Durbin Feltman, Victor Santos and Chase Shugart
INFs Christian Koss and Matthew Lugo
INF/OFs Ryan Fitzgerald and Nick Sogard
C Stephen Scott
As far as the WBC baseball tourney, Matasaka Yoshida will miss ST for two weeks playing for Japan. Yikes.
Triston Casas was selected for the WBC Puerto Rico roster, but has declined to play and will report on time to
For the record in case some of you missed or ju st plain forgot about him but Durbin Feltman was paraded four years ago as our possible "closer of the future", a term I hate more than most any o ther term used in baseball. Well Feltman never came around as he joins a whole list of flops in our never ending quest to develop a good starter and a good reliever. And I don't know why Yoshida is going to be AWOL for two weeks. He got a lot of cash to sign with us and his ass should be at Fort Myers for Spring Training so he can get the lay of the land and understand the responsibility he must show. If he flops early on his ears are going to be fried by the fans at Fenway because from what I've heard and read Red Sox fans are going to be very short tempered if the team resembles the pig show of last season. And hooray for Casas.
Tons of Spring training tickets still available. Unheard of! Sox fans are voting no confidence in Bloom.
Feltman lost a lot off his fastball a couple years ago and his stats went to hell. All's that was left for him to finish developing was consistent control. IIRC, every 4-5 games he came out and laid an egg with walks and such. Nowadays I'm surprised he's still around.
As an example of Sox MGT being completely tone-deaf, the website has listed newly signed Justin Turner wearing No 2, the same number worn by departed Xander Bogaerts and by legend Jerry Remy. Could Turner actually get booed walking to the plate?
Tone deaf indeed. If they any sense at all, they'd retire the No 2 jersey in honor of Remy. Another "no duh!" moment for the brain dead front office.
I was really hoping that was some sort of typo.
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on February 05, 2023, 04:07:10 PM
As an example of Sox MGT being completely tone-deaf, the website has listed newly signed Justin Turner wearing No 2, the same number worn by departed Xander Bogaerts and by legend Jerry Remy. Could Turner actually get booed walking to the plate?
I had seen rumblings about that earlier. Maybe not a number to retire, but also not one to issue when two of the most favorite players to ever wear the number have "left" the team.
The joke is that the bus broke down on the way to Ft. Myers. Bloom fired the driver and hired two teenagers, one with a learners permit and a broken arm but good potential.
Quote from: longgame on February 06, 2023, 08:48:10 AM
The joke is that the bus broke down on the way to Ft. Myers. Bloom fired the driver and hired two teenagers, one with a learners permit and a broken arm but good potential.
Good one Ted. Seems to fit the Bloomer boy to a tee. On another note, it seems Justin Turner seems to be very pleased to be a member of the Red Sox. On MLB this morning he was very upbeat and believes he can be a good fit for the team this season and next. He takes good care of himself and is a very upbeat guy. He also has the swing that can put some balls over the green monster. Good health is needed from him but I worry less about him than I do some of the other members of our cast.
IIRC, he seemed to be able to step up under the brighter lights of October baseball. Always nice to have a professional hitter as long as they can still catch up to the ball. I thought this was one of the better signings of Blooms' tenure. Time will tell.
Quote from: SeaBeachFred on February 06, 2023, 05:11:20 PM
Quote from: longgame on February 06, 2023, 08:48:10 AM
The joke is that the bus broke down on the way to Ft. Myers. Bloom fired the driver and hired two teenagers, one with a learners permit and a broken arm but good potential.
Good one Ted. Seems to fit the Bloomer boy to a tee. On another note, it seems Justin Turner seems to be very pleased to be a member of the Red Sox. On MLB this morning he was very upbeat and believes he can be a good fit for the team this season and next. He takes good care of himself and is a very upbeat guy. He also has the swing that can put some balls over the green monster. Good health is needed from him but I worry less about him than I do some of the other members of our cast.
Interesting. about Turner.. The Sox season has been said to pivot on who can protect Devers in the lineup. Gone are Bogey and JDM with their .300+ avg. Can Turner and Duval at the 3 hole and 4 hole keep Raffy from getting a free pass to 1B each at bat like Aaron Judge?
News today Sale is out at Jet Blue running sprints. Meaning . both legs are working, but nothing to say about arms or wrists.
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on February 07, 2023, 03:50:12 PM
News today Sale is out at Jet Blue running sprints. Meaning . both legs are working, but nothing to say about arms or wrists.
Did they say how far behind Stanton was, or did he already catch him? ;)
Or do you mean Sale was not being chased?
Keep him off bicycles and make sure there are no mole hills in those fields!