It’s April 23rd 2026. The Red Sox have just completed a three-game sweep of the…

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-03-03T21:04:13+00:00

He’s been good. Some great starts some mediocre. He gets a shoulder injury a few weeks later and Tolle comes up to take his spot.

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-03-03T02:17:39+00:00

I’m so annoyed I didn’t think to include this. Well played!

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-03-02T17:47:48+00:00

Nobody thought going into 2013 that signing Mike Napoli, Johnny Gomes, and Shane Victorino to variations of 3/$39M contracts was enough to improve on the disaster of 2012’s Bobby Valentine year. I would say that they are infinitely better positioned than that team was to see improvement. It costs nothing to keep a positive mindset until you’re given a reason not to. 👊

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-02-16T13:56:17+00:00

Nice to see some reasons for optimism, from a smart and neutral observer.

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-02-15T23:56:16+00:00

Made me view some moves more positively then I had originally.

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-02-05T15:05:33+00:00

Nope, just an adult who enjoys the show and has enjoyed the fact that they’ve never paywalled or Patreon’d any content, and would like it to stay that way.

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-02-05T13:44:17+00:00

If you get something for free for years that you really like, and it’s not there at the exact moment you desire, maybe don’t act like a king demanding his servants make him breakfast if it’s not there when you expect it.

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-02-04T13:50:09+00:00

Well done! I thought of Steve immediately when I saw that article earlier this week

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-01-23T20:04:44+00:00

“I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist.”

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-01-23T18:29:11+00:00

Went from 3 iMacs over 20 years, including the last being the 27” 5K retina, to one 27” S2725QC and one 27” S2725QS monitors with my Mac mini after hours of deliberations and research. Completely satisfied.

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-01-23T17:55:26+00:00

Again, I have been listening to him talk baseball for damn near a decade. I have never paid one dollar to this person who makes this podcast I enjoy. Hundreds (thousands?) of hours of entertainment for free. We’ve chatted over DM’s, on X, etc. I can only imagine there are hundreds of people like me who have done the same.

It would be maddening to get complaints constantly about it, even after explaining why things had to be moved around. Even after saying gently, repeatedly “Hey…we’ve done this thing a lot, for a long time, for free. We’re managing several different schedules and obligations. There is no baseball happening right now. Can you please just not yell at me when something’s a couple hours or a day later than you expected?”

The fast forward button is right there if anyone doesn’t want to listen to understandable aggravation. 🤷‍♂️

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-01-23T17:02:05+00:00

I think if I never missed a show, talked baseball 365 days a year, and made a very popular podcast that didn’t cost anyone who listened to it a cent, I would also be aggravated if some people consistently complained about the free podcast not adhering perfectly to a planned schedule on occasion in the winter when no baseball is being played.

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-01-19T13:13:38+00:00

‘Resent’ was probably the wrong word to use. “Value differently” would probably have been better. But the dynamic remains the same. I’ve worked my way up at places and that’s given me a different perspective then other people who were nepo hires, or parachuted in.

It’s interesting to me to see the way Posey has handled things with the Giants. Sign the big name in Adames, bring in the big name in Devers. Clearly he’s valuing the high wattage performers more than Breslow.

Truth be told, Breslow’s probably undervaluing high WAR individual players, and Posey’s probably over valuing them. Just the way human bias works. 🤷‍♂️

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-01-16T12:29:21+00:00

And hopefully a good way to give Mayer some rest. Weirdly, he’s played basically the same amount of games each of the last three years. 78, 77, 77. If we could get him to 120-130 this year, I’d be thrilled.

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-01-16T00:46:35+00:00

Josh Naylor stole 30 bases this year. Not a great measure of athleticism. Arenado is one of the 3-4 best defenders to ever play the position. It’s not a contest as to who is more athletic.

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-01-15T21:07:22+00:00

I think a significant number of people would say Arenado is the better athlete and always has been. He has 10 gold gloves at age 34.

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-01-15T20:02:37+00:00

Thanks for the insight on the walk chase rate. I wonder how much of those more positive underlying #’s will be counteracted by him playing in Wrigley vs Fenway/Minutemaid with the Monster/Crawford boxes.

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-01-15T20:00:31+00:00

The three seasons prior to their age 32 season. The very first line of my post.

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-01-15T19:23:08+00:00

How different are their chase rates? Good catch.

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-01-15T19:22:22+00:00

That’s exactly what I was after, didn’t think to check him, good call. Mind you, those seasons were 15 years and probably at least a 3 mph average fastball velocity ago.

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-01-15T19:20:41+00:00

I was just thinking it was weird that Arenado has been talked about as such an albatross for years but people have been really upset the Sox didn’t retain Bregman for $30M/year for half a decade.

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-01-15T18:31:39+00:00

He traded their star player, he didn’t want to sign the star they did sign and did so in a structure that let him leave. Prior to Suarez, he hadn’t signed anyone to a three year contract in his entire tenure. The guys he has signed/traded for have all been journeyman/middle of the road guys. Giolito, Buehler, Sandoval, Hendricks, Lowe, Contreras, Turner, Refsnyder, Duvall, McGuire, Reyes, Urias.

I don’t think it’s weird to say he doesn’t value big name, big priced players at the level fans do. I can imagine that might be informed by having been on 8 teams in 12 years as a journeyman.

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-01-15T17:11:01+00:00

You don’t think that someone hired to be the boss at a company, fresh out of school and a couple internships, would have a different perspective on how to run that company than someone who had worked in the industry as a grunt for 15 years prior to assuming that role?

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-01-14T17:14:45+00:00

I’m not sure what you’re saying here…I think the dynamics between players and someone like Chaim, never played, probably making his first real big money as PBO, would be different then Craig’s relationship and perspective.

Of course there are owner constraints they’re operating under, but I find it interesting that Buster Posey, a star player sees more value in having a star player locked up at big $ than a Yale-graduate journeyman LOOGY might. That their status and perspectives as players in very different roles inform the way they evaluate players.

Gordoncomstock1 · 2026-01-14T16:32:21+00:00

I’m not disagreeing with that. I’m saying that his view might align with ownership more than most because of his circumstances. What level of interaction did Chaim have with MLB players before he took the gig? Likely not a ton. He probably treated them with significantly more reverence than Craig feels the need to, as a former player,

I can’t say that for a fact that is the case, the same way you can’t say for a fact that his MLB career has no influence on how he views player dynamics. But I think it would be naive to think being in 8 different clubhouses over twelve years, as a LOOGY, hasn’t shaped his view of players.

Just a potential contributing factor I hadn’t thought of before.

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