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Bo is lucky he played before statcast and fangraphs.

His tools were loud. So were Joe Borchard's. He doesn't get extra credit for only playing baseball part time. He was at best a solid regular before he got hurt. I get it, I like Bo, he's a cool guy, big into golf now, but he had major holes in his swing and had a horrible eye. He was a much better football player.

They have a good team, Sox, when fully healthy, have a team that can compete with any. Let the best team win, or failing that the team that gets hot at the right time.

They are 18-1 against the Orioles. Makes me more confident should we see them in the ALCS. Talk about your bum slaying.

I'd demand, DEMAND a refund in a strongly worded letter.

he was able to "play CF" the same way Palka could "play RF". But that gave us the "general soreness" meme which will forever live in our hearts and he made one of the most clutch throws in WS history.

One Griffey tore his hamstring it was all downhill. He continued to have problems with it and tore it again later in his career, I think the year before he came to the Sox. What could have been.

I just don't see it. He was a 3 WAR player at 27 and it was by far his best year. For all his athletic gifts he could not hit breaking balls to save his life and defensively he was bad by every advanced metric. Maybe he could have put it together and had a couple 5 WAR seasons, but that's a very optimistic projection given the swing and miss in his game and the not just mediocre but outright bad defense. It's hard to be negative run values in CF but he was that on both Fangraphs and B-Ref. Maybe those metrics are just wrong, but I'll take them over the eye test.

Now this is a little 2 game series they should sweep.

I would have loved to see what he could have done in his athletic prime and with the improved training, coaching and diet that he found (and utilized) when he got over here. He probably would have had a few 320/380/600 seasons. He has lost a lot of bat speed and he cheats, but he's still a good enough hitter to where he makes it work. One year he'll fall off, but it hasn't happened yet. The first time I saw him at spring training he literally didn't even know how to hold runners on at 1B. If he'd have gotten US coaching earlier in his career who knows what sort of career he could have had. I do think he'd be at least a HOVG type. Not HOF perhaps but in that next tier, which is still a helluva career. He might get there anyways.

Bo was a great athlete, maybe one of the best of all time, but he wasn't a great baseball player.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CHW/leaders_bat_season.shtml Not too shabby for Albert. Dick Allen with that monster season, mercy.

a 7 fWAR, 162 wRC+ season, gotta be top 10 all time for the Sox I'd imagine. But he only really had the one year.

I feel like frank hit the back of the runner a dozen times in his career as well.

I almost made a thread on it but TA has put up almost 6 fWAR in his last 160 games. He's not hitting as much this year but his defense has improved from mediocre to very good at SS.

The only thing Frank was good at over at 1B was stretching. As noted, horrible arm, no range, stone hands. Frank def made the right choice going with baseball because even for a huge guy, he was never very mobile, even in his 20s. He wouldn't have sniffed the NFL most likely given his lateral mobility and speed.

he's made a full recovery from his hip injury I don't see it hindering his speed at all. might make him think twice about going 100% on every ball out of the box, and that is a good thing.

He's a baseball savant, KW was right, an incredible scouting find and sell job to JR. And yes, I think he's the most talented in WS history. Might not be the best, he need about 60 WAR to pass Frank, but he's the most talented. He has a 10 WAR season in him if he can stay healthy.

Right. I wrote similar but deleted it as I didn't think I phrased it properly. The 2005 club was a once in a lifetime collection of guys, mostly vets and mostly journeymen, that came together at the right time in October. God bless them for winning it all, but as we saw it wasn't a model for sustained success -- the 2021 club is a sustained success model, regardless of any postseason magic this year.

I think he's this year's Dylan Cease. There are not a lot of similarities with the 2005 team IMO.

Good thing they moved that fence in a few years ago.

Dylan is sorta quietly having a helluva season.

Boom or bust offense continues.

Hey goodwin gets to face a RHP!

God damnit I’ve been paying dues all month!