How Good Can This Sox Team Be?

[harmony]

From Fancred columnist Ian Crimmins: "Red Sox continue to wipe floor with the rest of baseball. Are they really this good?"

https://fancredsports.com/articles/r...th-the-rest-of

[BillyWilliams]

Remember the good old days when Yankee fans bragged that if they didn’t win the World Series, the season was a failure? It’s getting really funny how far that bar has fallen.

“If the Yankees get the Wild Card and just advance farther than Boston, the season is not a failure!!”

I never said that and completely disagree.

Any season that doesn't end in a championship is still a failure in my book.

But I don't see what that has to do with whether or not the sox are good enough to win a playoff series this year .........

[moonslav59]

I loved that team as well. I'm still convinced that Doug Griffin would have had a great career as our second baseman had he not been beaned. I also think that Siebert and Culp were better than that. Once again that pitching staff looked pretty good on the proverbial paper.

The pitching staff was good, especially after moving Tiant into the rotation, but it was not close to the staffs of 2004, 2007 and 2013.

I agree on Doug Griffin. That beaning was a shame.

It was too bad much of this core team kind of disintegrated before the '75 youth infusion and near ring. Some just were too old and some were gone by 1975.

[mvp 78]

133-29

[kenmeister]

133-29

It is definitely feeling that way!

I underestimated the 2013 Red Sox right up until the end. I don't think I can limit my enthusiasm for the 2018 Sox however.

[kenmeister]

Today the Sox stand at 64-29 with a .688 record. They have 69 games left. 69 games x .688 = 47.472. Rounding down to 47-22, that projects to 111-51. I agree with Bellhorn, I'll take it.

That was July 11th. On July 31st, they are 75-33 with a .694 record. That actually only ticks them up to 112-50. Still have to find another 9 wins to beat the all-time record of 120 wins

[mvp 78]

That was July 11th. On July 31st, they are 75-33 with a .694 record. That actually only ticks them up to 112-50. Still have to find another 9 wins to beat the all-time record of 120 wins

I thought the record was 116?

[kenmeister]

I thought the record was 116?

Huh, you're right. I must have been confused. I'm really surprised the Mariners got 116 wins and didn't even make the World Series.

[mvp 78]

Huh, you're right. I must have been confused. I'm really surprised the Mariners got 116 wins and didn't even make the World Series.

Some of us just show our age. It's more surprising now that 2 AL West teams had 100+ wins that year.

[Bellhorn04]

Huh, you're right. I must have been confused.

You may have been thinking of the Mets' record of 120 losses.

[kenmeister]

You may have been thinking of the Mets' record of 120 losses.

Probably. At any rate, the 1906 Cubs team went 116-36 for a .763 win percentage. Projected to a 162 game season, .763 x 162 = 123.6 games. So to truly beat the 1906 Cubs, you need to win 124 games. Gulp. And by the way, the Cubs lost the world series that year.

[mvp 78]

Probably. At any rate, the 1906 Cubs team went 116-36 for a .763 win percentage. Projected to a 162 game season, .763 x 162 = 123.6 games. So to truly beat the 1906 Cubs, you need to win 124 games. Gulp. And by the way, the Cubs lost the world series that year.

If only they did that for home runs amirite.

[notin]

You may have been thinking of the Mets' record of 120 losses.

The 2003 Tigers challenged that with 119 losses. Guess who their GM was.

If the Sox can win 110 games, I think it’s a safe bet Dombrowski would be the only GM in MLB history to put together teams that won 110 games and lost 110 games...

[jacksonianmarch]

The Sox will win over 100. Thing is, the playoffs have become a pen game and the Sox pen doesn’t have enough in it to win on their own.

[mvp 78]

The Sox will win over 100. Thing is, the playoffs have become a pen game and the Sox pen doesn’t have enough in it to win on their own.

This pen isn't as good as 2004?