The Red Sox are assholes
Xander Bogaerts leaves town, Japanese imports, and a rental roster for the Sox. Belichick stands pat but the season isn’t over. A world cup minute plus the worst trade ever.
Red Sox hot stove
Player Profile: Masataka Yoshida
HEADLINES with The OBVIOUS ONE
Belichick stands pat
World cup update
Simplest Minds of the Week
SHOW NOTES:
Cold Open
Opening Takes
Rich - The Red Sox are a bunch dick heads
Bobby -
Ray
Show Rundown
Red Sox hot stove
Player profile - Masataka Yoshisa
Belichick standing pat
NFL Dumpster fires
World Cup update
Simplest Minds of the week
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Red Sox Hot stove
Bogaerts signs 11 year $280 million deal with Padres
- Sox offered 6 years $162 million
Bloom signed
Kenely Jansen - 2 years $32 million
Chris Martin and Joely Rodriguez
Masataka Yoshida - 5 years $90 millions $15.4 million post fee - more later
Bloom missed
- Jose Abreu (by $40 million)
- Starting pitchers: right-hander Zach Eflin, left-hander Tyler Anderson, left-hander Andrew Heaney and right-hander Tommy Kahnle.
The trend of home grown All-stars leaving Boston
- John Lester - Red Sox offered Lester four years and $70 million during the spring of his final season here; he ended with the Cubs for six years and $155 million.
- Andrew Benintendi - Traded for useless prospects. Lead NL in BA. ALL star
- Mookie Betts - $100 million apart for 3 straight seasons
- Xander Bogaerts - offered 1 year $30 million extension. Eventually got $280 million.
- Devers - Sides are far apart
Current Line up:
LF Masataka Yoshida. - Unproven
CF Kike Hernandez. - Inconsistent , unreliable
3B Rafael Devers. - Doesnt want to be here
SS Trevor Story - Inconsistent, streaky
RF Alex Verdugo - Average
DH Triston Casas - Unproven
1B Eric Hosmer - Old
2B Christian Arroyo - Sucks
C Reese McJerky - Jerky
Current Rotation
Chris Sales - Cycling enthusiast
James Paxton - Broken
Nick Pivetta - Average
Bryon Bello - Unproven
Garrett Whitlock - Not a starter
Cutter Krawford - AAA starter
Bullpen
Matt Barnes - head case
Ryan Brasier - stab me in the fucking eye
Josh Taylor - Lefties
Joely Rodriguez - Lefties
Darwinson Hernandez - who cares
Zack Kelly - who?
Franklin German - rookie
Chris Martin - Cold play
Kenley Jansen - zero save opportunities
Who are the anchors? What is the identity? Leaders? Its a rental team
Bloom's major league ball club management has been nothing but defensive
* He wants to build a system, but also needs to compete. He doesnt know how to do that. He's failing at both
AL East top prospects
- Orioles
#1 Adley Rutchman ,#2 Gunner henderson, #4 Grayson rodriguez #13 Jackson Holiday
- Blue Jays.
- Guerro, Bichette, Biggio. All under 25
- Yankees
# 5 Anthony Volpe SS
- Red Sox
#7 Marcelo Mayer - 4th overall after awful 2020 season
Cases & Bello - Not Bloom guys
No other prospect in top 25 ( Orioles have 5)
FAILS: Jaren Duran, Jeter Downs, Bobby Dalbec, Connor Seabold
Top farm systems?
- Orioles
- DODGERS
- Guardians
- Shit teams
#11 - Boston Red Sox
#12 Yankees
What's the plan?
Player Profile: Masataka Yoshida
Japanese
5'8 175lbs
Born: July 15 1993. in Fukui Japan. 29 years old
OF. throws right. bats left.
He was the first-round pick of the Orix Buffaloes in the 2015 NPB draft
He chose uniform number 34 in honor of Bryce Harper
Played for Orix Buffalos in the Nippon pro baseball league
2× Pacific League batting champion (2020, 2021)
4× NPB All-Star (2018–2019, 2021, 2022)
Interleague play MVP (2018)
Fukui Prefectural Honor Award (2021)[1]
1x NPB All-Star Fighting Player Award (2019)
Hit two walk off homeruns in 2022 NPB championship series
Gold medal winner
1. He rarely strikes out. Yoshida, a lefty, had just 41 strikeouts in 508 plate appearances and almost twice as many walks (80) for the Orix Buffaloes last year.
2. Yoshida’s contract — 5 years for $90 million (according to the New York Post’s Jon Heyman) — is a record for a Japanese position player surpassing the 5 years, $85 million the Cubs gave to Seiya Suzuki.
“He has a quick, flat swing from the left side and consistently barrels balls with his elite hand-eye coordination. He has good rhythm and balance in the batter’s box and is able to hit multiple pitch types, including the high-velocity fastballs he’ll see in MLB. Yoshida is an aggressive hitter who attacks pitches early in counts and mostly hits hard line drives from gap to gap. He has expert command of the strike zone and had more walks than strikeouts each of the last four seasons in NPB. Yoshida shows plus raw power in batting practice and had three 20-home run seasons in Japan, but his power projects to be fringy in MLB.”
“He’s a below-average runner and below-average defender in left field whose range is severely limited. He plays hard and catches what is hit to him, but he struggles to reach balls in the gap or down the line. He has below-average arm strength that limits him to left field.”
Sucks at defense. Slow on the bases. Does not throw a Gyro ball.
.326 career BA
.957 career OPS
6th Japanese player to play for Red Sox (not fact checked)
Signed by Red sox on pearl harbor day
HEADLINES with The OBVIOUS ONE
Belichick staying the course
Something Ray hasnt said in 20 years. it's too hard
- Changing offensive player caller is too hard?
Bullshit
"It hasn't always been the same problem, or it hasn't been the same problem on certain plays. Sometimes that's shifted. And there's certainly been some plays that haven't matched up well against the defense when they were called. So, whether that's the design of the play, or the way it hit against a certain defense, those have come up as well."
AKA YOU SUCK
Mac Jones - the only adult in the room
“We’re all super competitive. Any time it doesn’t look good on film, we want to be coached hard,” Jones said, per WEEI. “That’s what our coaches are going to do. It’s everybody being accountable. That’s the definition of tough coaching — it’s hard conversions. If something may have not gotten right with a player, ‘Hey, you did this wrong.’ As a player, it’s, ‘OK, how can I fix it?’ I think our coaches have done that and we have to lock into that and ‘Alright, what’s the problem and how can I solve it?’
The season is at stake Monday night vs Cardinals
- A loss not only mathmatically fucks you. You will lose the team with the Raiders up next week. They are staying in Arizona.
- Very good chance you then lose to the Raiders.
- May not win again this year.
Two wins out west would have the exact opposite effect
Three more wins get the Pats in the playoffs - 9 wins. Three team race
Jets 7 - 5. 3 wins?
Bills
Lions
Jags
Seahawks
Dolphins
Chargers 6-6. 4 wins?
Dolphins
titans
colts
Rams
Broncos
Raiders, Browns, Steelers all 5 - 7. Need 4 wins. Good luck
Thoughts on Cardinals game?
- Key factors?
Worst red zone offense vs. worst red zone defense. Who will give?
- any surprises?
predictions
QUICK BREAK
NFL Dumpster fires
Power rank:
Broncos. - Russ aint cookin
Commanders - FBI investigations
Cardinals - Shit head QB
Patriots - Senial Head coach
Rams - Super bowl hangover/ Cap jail
Colts - Jeff Saturday
AFTER NOON DELIGHT
World Cup
Quarter Finals
Argentina vs Netherlands
France vs. England
Brazil vs Croatia
Moroco Portugal
how is Argentia still alive?
France vs England. Juicy
Ronaldo benched after signing for $200 million
Who's the best story
Who to root for?
SIMPLEST MINDS OF THE WEEK
Joe Biden
Worse trade:
- Britney Griner for the Merchant of Death or Mookie Betts for Alex Verdugo and a bag of dog shit?
Deion Sanders - Gets CU job. Inserts his kid at QB. tells the team to fuck off
Ohio state Jaxon smith-Njiba declares. Will not play in College football playoffs
Atlanta Hawks announcer: Bob Ratbun. - Have a cup of water. Hydrate have fun
- Dominque didnt give a shit