A Realistic View at 2024: Part I

[5GoldGloves:OF,75]

What movie was Lowrie portrayed in?

My first thought was Moneyball, but that all took place while Lowrie was still at Stanford…

Hatteberg was Moneyball. Lowrie was in Touching the Game, Alaska: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440357/

[notin]

Hatteberg was Moneyball. Lowrie was in Touching the Game, Alaska: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440357/

Someone made a show about baseball in Alaska and didn’t include Randy Kutcher?!!!

[****THEYANKEES]

And of course it remains to be seen how perfect Yamamoto was.

Personally I think his contract is the riskiest in history.

and don't forget, he's going to suck his first season due to the language and culture barrier.

[mvp 78]

Lowrie was in a movie (or portrayed in a movie).

Romero is the Mondesi of the minors.

Lowrie didn’t have his MLb debut until 24. Romero has time if his skeleton doesn’t hop out of his mouth this Halloween.

[Randy Red Sox]

Benintendi had a lot of promise, but it all kind of went away after 2018. He's a bad defender with no power. It's not really the same archetype.

Also, they got Freddy Valdez (released), Luis De La Rosa (released) and Grant Gambrell!

another great Red Sox 1st rd pick

[5GoldGloves:OF,75]

Lowrie didn’t have his MLb debut until 24. Romero has time if his skeleton doesn’t hop out of his mouth this Halloween.

Why so harsh. We can always count on our favorite organization to recruit the best player unavailable.

[mvp 78]

Why so harsh. We can always count on our favorite organization to recruit the best player unavailable.

“Guys, we’re totally going to wine and dine Soto until you all get blue balls and then not give him an offer at all.”

[Bellhorn04]

Walter now on the shelf.

https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2024...ff-strain.html

[moonslav59]

I can't believe it is opening day.

I can't really say hope springs eternal, but I do think we will see a lot of fun plays and games.

A big chunk of our core is still pre-prime or in the early years of prime. There is room for improvement for almost everyone. (ALMOST)

Pre-Prime
24 Casas
24 Bello
25 Wink
23 Rafaela
24 Abreu
26 Campbell
26 Slaten

Early Prime
27 Crawford
27 Whitlock
27 Houck
27 Duran
27 Wong
27 E Valdez

Prime
28 O'Neill
29 McGuire
29 Weissert
30 Yoshida


Back-end of Prime
31 Story
31 Pivetta
30 Reyes

The list of post prime is very small
36 Jansen
37 Martin (seems to be improving with age)
33 Refsnyder

[Bellhorn04]

Lots of good potential developments and one huge question: how in the hell is this rotation going to hold up over 162 games. They signed the innings eater they needed, but he gone.

[mvp 78]

Walter now on the shelf.

https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2024...ff-strain.html

Too bad for Walter. When I saw him this Spring, his stuff was down. His numbers looked ok, but he'd get tee'd off on by MLB regulars IMO.

[mvp 78]

Lots of good potential developments and one huge question: how in the hell is this rotation going to hold up over 162 games. They signed the innings eater they needed, but he gone.

My guess is they'll grab whatever guys run through the waiver wire if they just need innings and are placed in the standings where we expect them to be.

[moonslav59]

Lots of good potential developments and one huge question: how in the hell is this rotation going to hold up over 162 games. They signed the innings eater they needed, but he gone.

I'll be surprised, if we get 132 GS from our opening day 5 man rotation. Hell, 122 might be asking too much.

With Murphy and Walter gone, we may end up yanking Wink from the pen for starts, but maybe it will be Chase, first. Criswell looks to be the 2nd or 3rd man in line. If we go deeper than 8, it's a dice roll on who #9 might be.

Uwasawa?
Gambrell?
Fitts (not on 40?)
Wikelman (late season?)

[mvp 78]

I'll be surprised, if we get 132 GS from our opening day 5 man rotation. Hell, 122 might be asking too much.

With Murphy and Walter gone, we may end up yanking Wink from the pen for starts, but maybe it will be Chase, first. Criswell looks to be the 2nd or 3rd man in line. If we go deeper than 8, it's a dice roll on who #9 might be.

Uwasawa?
Gambrell?
Fitts (not on 40?)
Wikelman (late season?)

Uwasawa is really only here for extreme emergency only. Maybe he can figure it out, but has looked dreadful so far.

Gambrell could certainly do what the 2006 fill-ins did for a few weeks.

Fitts needs to work on his secondary stuff before he's called up for anything more than a relief role.

Not sure about Wikelman timetable. We've seen guys like Abe Alvarez make a quick jump though.

[moonslav59]

Uwasawa is really only here for extreme emergency only. Maybe he can figure it out, but has looked dreadful so far.

Gambrell could certainly do what the 2006 fill-ins did for a few weeks.

Fitts needs to work on his secondary stuff before he's called up for anything more than a relief role.

Not sure about Wikelman timetable. We've seen guys like Abe Alvarez make a quick jump though.

So, basically, at least for the first few months, our depth is just...

Chase
Wink
Gambrell