How many games will the Sox win this year?
93 or more
87 - 92
81 - 86
76 - 80
67 - 75
66 or less
76 with any luck.
"Hating the Yankees like it's a religion since 94'" RIP Mike.
"It's also a simple and indisputable fact that WAR isn't the be-all end-all in valuations, especially in real life. Wanna know why? Because an ace in run-prevention for 120 innings means more often than not, a sub-standard pitcher covering for the rest of the IP that pitcher fails to provide. You can't see value in a vacuum when a player does not provide full-time production."
It's going to be bad, and Boston guaranteed that when they gave up before the season even began by trading their best player in his prime...
... who I blame for all of this: if Mookie hadn't hit 3 HRs off Paxton before the trade deadline -- giving the Nation false hopes of contention -- we could've dealt him last summer for a better return. Imagine what LA would've given up for a year and a half of Betts?
Team won’t sniff 80 games without a healthy sale ...Time to pull the plug and make a few more trades now and at the break .I do think trading Mookie May be a positive thing moving on from here .The team signing of Sale is looking terrible.Benny Should be traded for young arms he’s a player who will bring back a nice return next would be Vaz he’s got real Value .Erod Xander Devers Downs Casas Need to be the future building Blocks Keep Erod unless some one blows us away .Looking at a top 10 pick also next year so maybe by 2023 we compete again ? I think the Orioles beat up this team a handful of times this year .Will Ownership stay the course and trust this new guy Bloom is another story .Without Sale this teams going to get destroyed Quickly and Often by June no one will watch the Dreck by July JDM will be begging to get traded
Last edited by Swiharts Ghost; 03-03-2020 at 03:18 PM.
155
Maybe a little under....
I'd say somewhere around 87-88 wins. Even though they only had 84 last year with a more complete team, I think they underperformed quite a bit. Plus there's plenty of tanking teams in baseball that should boost everyone's records by a handful of games.
I picked 67. Expectations really haven't been this low this entire century. Even in last place years, no one expected the cellar.
Going into 2012, they had just missed the postseason, had a lot of talent returning and figured to be right back in the mix. In '14, they were coming off a title. Going into '15 was probably the lowest expectations up until now, but the Sox still had two borderline HOFers, and exciting, young talent that brought the promise of improvement.
All we have now is a new GM, who told us all: "We expect to be worse..."
This will be the first season in the John Henry era that I am entering the season feeling like we don't have a realistic shot at the playoffs. Even in the 3 years that we finished in last place, I thought the talent on the team was good enough for us to make the playoffs.
Things can still change, and I will remain hopeful, as always, but it's not looking good for the good guys.
A century?
I realize this was probably hyperbole, and 80-90 years would be closer to accurate, as the teams of the early 20's to 30's really sucked. We never won more than 67 games from 1922-1933.
We were pretty bad right before the WS trip in 1946.
We were pretty bad for 6 or 7 years before the 1967 miracle season.
We were 54-61 in the shortened 1994 season.
We won 69 games in 2012 but very few expected less than 79 or 89 wins that season in March.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Ha, I didn't mean this could be the worst Sox team in a hundred years, just this century -- as in, the 2000s, opposed to the 1900s. A better label, as someone pointed out, would be the Henry-Warner ownership era.
The first time a Red Sox team came in last in my lifetime was 1992, when they won 73 games. I honestly think this version could challenge that mark of ineptitude. Luckily(?), Baltimore should have a hard time winning that many, as well.
Sale, Price and Porcello may have combined for mediocrity in '19, but they still provided over 400 professional innings pitched at the big league level. Who is going to replace them in those 400 frames this year???
i like to see who comes out of ST healthy before taking a shot but will go with 88.
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