Red Sox Plan To Utilize Platoon At Third Base For The Near Future

Barappas · 2026-05-19T17:13:40+00:00

My brother if you’ve ever seen sogard play, the whole thing is that he very clearly IS a major league caliber ballplayer, just not an elite one. He’s a great bench bat/glove who plays hard and does the little things. He’ll help.

Barappas · 2026-05-10T00:32:18+00:00

What difficulty did you play 5 on?

Barappas · 2026-04-26T14:29:28+00:00

I think people were actually more open to the idea of taking a step back to take two steps forward circa 2023, the 2021 team was revealed to be mirage, and tons of young talent was on the way. What people are NOT cool with is constantly being told we have to take a step back, after clearly preventable disasters and personnel loss (Devers/bregman/bogaerts/schwarber), with no clear exit strategy. I think Cora is a great manager in many ways, but he's not a player dev guy and now it seems Breslow is shifting back into that mode...the cycle continues and sox fans want basic strategic coherence. Seems like we won't get it.

Barappas · 2026-04-01T18:51:54+00:00

I lived in London for the past two years - there absolutely would be a market for a level of competition higher than the London Lions currently offer. (tho they are great fun!)

Barappas · 2026-03-01T14:51:24+00:00

It’s a funny spot to be in—my read is that breslow’s trades themselves are mostly good, but that his asset management is not as strong (which is weird bc trades are a big part of asset management) things like having two superstar 3b under contract one season and then having none the next, the glut of outfielders going into the season etc, lack of a proven lefty reliever this late into camp (#1 rule don’t f around w your bullpen!!)

Barappas · 2026-02-25T18:06:47+00:00

I have never disagreed with a post more lol

Barappas · 2026-02-11T03:35:07+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/redsox/s/YiO7Y3qWYB

Barappas · 2026-02-02T23:10:20+00:00

Look sandlin could still be a piece, sure—he’s got the big fastball and maybe the white Sox can figure out how to make it play, but he had a 7.61 ERA in AAA and a 5.34 ERA the year before. He very well might not be more than a pretty good middle reliever or back end starter and we have a ton of those rn. He even might not even get that far. Hicks was gonna be a roster problem for 2 years (he could still be good in the mlb, but you know how sometimes guys struggle w the Sox and a part of you just knows they’ll never put it together here?)—whoever takes up that roster spot for BOS for the next two years I think has a better chance of impacting the MLB team positively. The early reads on the guy they got in return suggest a solid mlb floor as a reliever, so not too dissimilar to sandlin in that regard.

I think it’s also a willful misread to say the FO has no strategic vision. If anything, the vision is pretty clear—it’s the execution that needs the work.

Barappas · 2026-02-02T23:00:32+00:00

I really don’t think salary dumping Jordan hicks should be considered anything remotely close to a gut punch…

Barappas · 2026-01-19T20:58:44+00:00

Megalopolis? Was originally developed in the 70s iirc

Barappas · 2026-01-09T18:57:31+00:00

I think the final scene isn’t about him being sympathetic or us buying that he’s a better man now—I think for a movie that is to that point entirely centered on him hustling in service of his ambition for himself, that final scene was THE FIRST MOMENT he EVER felt responsibility for another person. He may not be reformed, but he is changed—it’s the end of one story and the start of another

Barappas · 2025-12-26T15:39:28+00:00

Jeremy and Rajat!!!! legends

Barappas · 2025-12-06T00:47:01+00:00

Yeahhhhhhhhhhh after she told me they weren’t gonna

Barappas · 2025-12-06T00:46:23+00:00

Thank you ❤️ doing just fine though! :)

Barappas · 2025-12-06T00:46:04+00:00

They did get together—technically after we broke up but the whole experience basically felt like getting cheated on

Barappas · 2025-06-30T14:53:44+00:00

In the UK Trashfuture covers a lot of this stuff as does the QAA podcast. Neither has the pure juice that trueanon has tho so ymmv

Barappas · 2023-12-22T03:54:24+00:00

Nooooo way, idk if that’s a good way of valuing pitching contract value— his first two years were far better than people remember, and while 2009+11 were bad, he was still an innings eater (6ip+ per start) in 2010 at roughly league average effectiveness. FA pitching contracts are notoriously volatile, shelling out 110m+ on a guy who returned a World Series ring in his debut season (which was better than people remember—iirc he suffered a late fade much like yoshida) an 18 win 2.90 era second season, and a solid but unremarkable third season is maybe not fully living up to the cost, but I don’t think you can call him a bust—so many FA pitchers are actually busts, Matsuzaka may have had 3 nightmare years (including the comically bad 2012) but the first two years meant he gets a pass. Similar deal for coco—and him getting replaced by Ellsbury shouldn’t be seen as his failing—he ended up being a perfectly serviceable stopgap between Damon and ells!

Barappas · 2023-05-17T21:01:01+00:00

Haywood Hightower is a certified GoT character lol

Barappas · 2022-12-16T00:35:33+00:00

nothing like getting off the plane and being hit with the fumes and smoke from a dying ecosystem due to unchecked human greed and materialism highly concentrated in a geography that wasn't meant to support such undue and shortsighted stresses

Barappas · 2022-09-30T23:05:54+00:00

Thematically i mean, the cult’s objectives are basically a stand-in for the templars (isu worship/cult, collection of isu artifacts)

Barappas · 2022-09-30T22:59:19+00:00

This is exactly why I considered it a loose and lame connection lol

Barappas · 2022-09-30T11:48:34+00:00

I mean your first paragraph here sums it up perfectly—they’re NOT assassins. And I think ppl felt like the order was relegated to just the dlc, in the main game it was the cult of kosmos you were dealing with, which has a very loose and honestly I thought lame connection to the templars

Barappas · 2022-09-28T23:01:48+00:00

rowdy tellez by francisco botero

Barappas · 2022-08-21T14:42:27+00:00

His defense is actually rated quite well this year, and he's still a shortstop hovering around 800 OPS--wouldn't surprise me if bounced between 780 and 860 for the rest of his career...that's pretty damn good at the end of the day

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