The Red Sox are Thriving
The Red Sox have not lost in a day. It has been 1 whole day since manager Alex Cora ripped his team a new asshole over the garbage baseball they put on the field against the Rangers. Any day the Red Sox are not completely puking down there shirt is a good day. That is not why they are thriving.
Chaim Bloom’s path to glory is finally in motion. No, not world series glory. Perennial “some what” Contenders glory. The Sox farm system is now ranked 9th in the Majors. They started the season 24th.
Let’s forget the fact that every single team ahead of them in farm system rankings made significant moves at the trade deadline to better their team and give them a chance at the playoffs by moving prospects creating a void in which the Red Sox filled. Marcelo Mayer is already the #1 ranked prospect in all of baseball. That of course will send a prospect pool up the charts. Again, we will look the other way on how the Sox had the chance to draft Mayer. An abysmal 2020 shortened season in which they finished last for the 4th time in the John Henry era. P.S. Did anyone suggest trading Mayer at the deadline? Asking for a friend.
Be that as it may nothing gets Bloom and his army of stat geeks more jazzed up than projections. Right now the Red Sox project to have a steady stream of talent coming to the majors. Don’t get me wrong that’s important. A strong farm system is the life blood of a sustainable baseball organization. But, it’s not everything. Not when you’re the Red Sox. Dumping loads of cash on Curt Schilling’s Confederate Flag, QAnon coffee table when you need a set of balls and a bloody sock to get past the Evil Empire comes into the equation too. Bloom failed to realize that this year and his GM, Brian O’Halloran took note.
Boston Red Sox general manager Brian O'Halloran is prepared for the front office to take the blame if his team misses the playoffs.
"First of all, hope that doesn't happen," O'Halloran said Thursday on "The Greg Hill Show" while discussing the possibility of the Red Sox missing the postseason.
"But in the end, it's on us. It's on the front office. It's on the baseball operations. Whatever happens on the field, the results, good or bad ... we've been given the opportunity to do this job, we have nothing but support from ownership. We have no excuses."
None the less, the Red Sox are still thriving because when it is all said and done Management will still be able to claim victory on this season.
The Pythagorean Theory or whatever the fuck Doc Brown and Bill James cooked up in the DeLorean had the Red Sox 10 games over their win projection for the season before the All-Star break. I haven’t looked at the theory lately, but I’m guessing it has come back down to Earth. That’s exactly what Bloom wants. He can’t have the Sox miss the playoffs at this point because that kind of collapse is unforgivable. But, they were never supposed to make the playoffs. Forget the idea of demoralizing a team by fundamentally showing and saying you don’t believe in them, or the idea that plans change, the need to adapt, take the shot when you have it, nothing is guaranteed, don’t be cheap sons of bitches, YOLO, etc. No, on his wrist calculator timeline his team was not supposed to be this good, yet. Major computer malfunction. Excel Spread sheets were spontaneously combusting. So now a last push effort to fight their way back into the playoffs and inevitably over achieve in the big picture? Thriving.
Here’s the path:
15 games left vs last place-ish teams. Rangers, Orioles, Twins, Nationals. Take 2 out of 3 against these teams. - 10 wins
6 games vs Indians under .500 - 4 wins
3 games vs White Sox don’t get swept - 1 win
3 games vs Mariners - 2 wins
2 games vs Mets split - 1 win
7 games vs Rays wishful thinking - 3 wins
3 games vs Yankees don’t get swept - 1 win
22 wins out of 39 games .564
Red Sox probably need to play .600 ball to safely catch the A’s and control their playoff chances. And they will.
I don’t say that because I believe in them. I say that because I’m a cynical prick who can see the future when it comes to asshole cynical prick shit. The Sox will get to the Play-In game. Sale will pitch 5 beautiful innings. (People will call him a warrior and “gutsy” forgetting the game is still played in 9 innings). Some dope in the bullpen will blow a really close game. Bobby Dalbec strikes out with bases loaded to end it. Something like that.
Regardless, the team beats the computers algorithm for the season so Bloom and Ownership get to shove it down our throats. “They over achieved with out sacrificing the future and look how bright that future is!” Thriving.
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