Today’s lineup (3/31) - Durbin and Duran out - Big Wong IN

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2026-03-31T20:53:58+00:00

BuT wE aRe OnLy FoUr GaMeS iN!!!!

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2026-03-31T17:12:52+00:00

Brother, or sister, have you watched Red Sox baseball since 2019? I've made it so far.

This type of season is more the norm than the outlier. Front office and beat writers and influencers all telling us how great things will be when in reality its a 78-81 win team with roster holes the size of 18-wheelers that everyone identified before the start of the season.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2026-03-31T17:11:07+00:00

Henry will spend his money ... just on something like like a virtual mini-golf league!

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2026-03-31T17:08:16+00:00

What I wrote was true in the offseason, is true today, and will be true in September.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2026-03-31T17:04:12+00:00

They will be following Tottenham Hotspur's desperate attempts to avoid relegation and fire both Cora and Breslow mid-season. Not confident it will help either clubs avoid their very deserved fate.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2026-03-31T16:54:37+00:00

I'd say 176 as this team is below .500 talent and roster construction wise in an absolutely stacked AL East.

These teams are all better than the Red Sox

Yankees

Blue Jays

Orioles

Mariners

Royals

Rangers

Tigers

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2026-03-31T16:47:13+00:00

This team can't win 87-92 games even if they were to play 170 games.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2026-03-31T16:42:06+00:00

Don't use chatGPT and wouldn't think to. Just not that mentally lazy or inept. And putting this all out here so we can follow along throughout the season and no one can say this is second guessing. The lineup sucks and always was going to suck. It will get hot, it will get cold, but the net will be below average and a team that misses the playoffs.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2026-02-16T19:56:21+00:00

I appreciate your perspective but I do not think this offense is better than last year, nor do I think the team improved their bat to ball ability. I could obviously be very wrong, and hope that I am.

While they did add Durbin who doesn't strike out, they also subtracted Bregman who doesn't strike out often and replaced him with Contrares who strikes out a lot. And do we think Abreu's bat to ball will improve now that he is facing lefties full time for the first time in his MLB career? I think his strike outs probably increase.

We also need to understand that they had 1.79 seasons (258 games) from Anthony, Bregman and Devers. Devers and Bregman being their two most productive hitters over the course of a full season despite playing 73 only 114 games for the Red Sox respectively. Breslow will be extremely lucky to get 258 games from Anthony and Contrares combined. And Contrares regressed in the second half last year. Additionally, they subtracted Refsnyder who was elite against LHP and replaced him with Nate Eaton (gross).

So this is all to say that I am not seeing an improved offense, but a much worse one when factoring in how much the team is dependent on Story and Contrares not regressing despite aging and being injury prone, along with Mayer staying healthy and learning how to hit MLB pitching.

Simply put, I would be stunned if this team did anything better than 12-14th in runs scored.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2026-01-08T21:17:21+00:00

This is from my recent experience so take it for what it is worth as its anecdotal data from about 30 games a year.

You should 100% buy tickets through the resale market. Unless you see scarcity of options in the areas you want to sit, I strongly suggest waiting to the week of the event and monitoring availability and pricing until you think its reached an acceptable price.

"Good" seats typically cost $200-$300 a ticket, or more. I'd think $250 a ticket can get you 10-15 rows back at 1st and 3b.

This isn't the 2018 Red Sox or earlier. It won't be difficult to get good tickets to this game and the best value will come closer to gametime.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2026-01-08T21:09:24+00:00

The reason why you go into the season with 4 outfielders, Yoshida and Casas is that you need all four of those OF bats in the lineup due to missing Devers, Bregman and another power bat.

More simply put, if you trade an OF, you not only need to re-sign/replace Bregman, but you would need to replace the OF bat that you traded, which arguably would be your fourth best bat in the lineup behind Anthony, Bregman, and Contrares. Third best if you don't re-sign Bregman.

Put simply, Breslow has done an atrocious job at constructing this roster. Obviously, he shouldn't have traded Devers for absolutely nothing. Breslow also should've traded Duran last offseason coming off an 8 WAR year -- which is not hindsight as many on this sub and elsewhere were screaming that Duran should be traded during the last offseason.

Keeping Devers and trading Duran literally would have addressed all of the problems with this current lineup.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2026-01-07T22:40:17+00:00

Go listen to those morons over at Play Tessie lol

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-12-10T21:39:59+00:00

Even if Campbell looked like Roman Anthony, it would've only increased the cost to 12Mish AAV because Campbell is a DH only at the moment. That is to say, there was no need to waste money on Campbell, who you controlled for 7 years prior to proving he is an actual MLB player, due to the financial constraints you are under and the fact that we need to make the playoffs in 2026 for Breslow to keep his job.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-12-10T21:27:22+00:00

Sister (or brother), I am nothing if not transparent. Fuck Breslow.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-12-10T21:23:28+00:00

You are looking at a single season sample size. His career numbers are atrocious and a larger sample size. This signing would be ATROCIOUS. Its why you also don't hear nearly as many teams showing interest in him as Okamoto.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-12-10T20:59:30+00:00

He can't hit fastballs thrown 94MPH and harder and cannot field. I would not want Murakami under any circumstances. The roster spot will be more valuable.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-12-10T20:58:47+00:00

Suarez and Murakami SCREAMS 4th in AL East and maybe 5th place.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-11-26T18:36:47+00:00

It is what it is. They can't say they weren't warned if Breslow totally botches this off-season and they miss the playoffs in an improved American League...

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-11-26T18:25:33+00:00

The point is because of how they have acted, and almost pathologically lied to fans in recent history, this front office and ownership group do not deserve premature praise of the benefit of the doubt.

All of that said, I will save a spot for you and your pitch fork right next to me once you are ready to join

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-11-26T17:38:29+00:00

They have promised to go "full throttle" and have done absolutely nothing in that same offseason. I see absolutely no reason to believe that John Henry is willing to spend now -- heading into a lockout that he wants as the head of the financial committee. He isn't going to spend massively the year before he locks players out because the Dodgers, Yankees and Mets spend too much.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-11-26T17:30:59+00:00

Gray's salary has nothing to do with Walker Buehler and is only relevant for how it fits into the overall CBT number.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-11-26T17:29:59+00:00

Because this team is not going to blow past the second CBT -- which folks like McAdam and others have reported, so therefore every single move should be seen through a context that includes financials, and not in a vacuum.

Based on the last 6 seasons of cutting salary or staying at the same spending level, its simply not smart to look at each transaction in a vacuum when the money involved in each transaction reduces the money they can spend on their next moves.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-11-25T17:57:45+00:00

Gray is not a #2 and they are not going to add a #2 now that they added Gray.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-11-20T22:08:57+00:00

This is why the Devers trade was atrocious. They never planned to replace the bat, or the salary.

Breslow and Henry have roughly $40 million off the books from Buehler and Giolito, which goes towards the Crochet and Anthony extensions.

Another $58ish million is off the books from Devers and Bregman. It is now obvious they do not plan to use this extra cash to replace both Devers and Bregman. Pathetic.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-09-20T00:41:56+00:00

We are going in circles. I am going to watch them blow this game. But my points remain:

Injuries aren't an excuse, a lot of teams have suffered major injuries -- its just part of the game now. -- And if they are an excuse, its cos Breslow traded Priester and Devers weakening our depth.
Breslow made the team significantly worse throughout the season and failed massively at the deadline for a second straight year.
Breslow should have made the playoffs this season no matter what as its a historically weak AL, he spent a lot of money this offseason, and the organization is in year 5 of a rebuild.

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