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Actually, it was three times with Ortiz. They won the fourth one in 2018 after he had retired. -
By Aristotelian · Posted
I did recognize the possibility. As I said it's a serious concern. -
While I do agree that there is luck involved in a lot of cases, I think this statement discounts the accomplishments of players like David Ortiz and lets our guys off the hook a bit too much. The Red Sox went to the World Series 4 times in the Ortiz era and won every single one of them. I feel like his 1.372 OPS in 14 WS games played a huge part in that and I don't think that is a crapshoot. He carried those teams and took the pressure off of everyone else. I also don't think our 0-5 record in the playoffs in the last two years and our hitters collectively failing in that 5th inning against KC are a crapshoot. Those individual at-bats for Santander, Cowser, and Adley were very much in line with what they were doing wrong for much of the season. A "dice roll" feels to me like everyone is on equal footing from a physical, mental, and experience standpoint and I just don't see that with our players relative to other teams' players. I think the mental part plays a huge role in things. Kind of like how the Minnesota Twins lost 18 consecutive playoff games over 19 years. While the individual players were different, I have to believe the later teams started to feel a ton of pressure to reverse that trend. Our guys are working on a 10 game streak now and even though this Os team is only responsible for 5 of them, the pressure will only get worse each season. I would love a chance to roll again next season. But they can't keep firing blanks when they get there. That narrative is old and tired.
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Mountcastle and his RH bat is staying IMO. O'Hearn moves on and Kjerstad takes his spot as the LH platoon bat at 1B Holliday breaks camp as starting 2B although I'm intrigued with the idea of moving him to CF given Jackson Merrill's success with that. O's sign a solid veteran bat for RF (fingers crossed). I don't hate the thought of Santander returning, but I'm not in love with it either. Mayo starts the season at AAA - he'll be 23 in December so it won't kill him even if it frustrates the hell out of rest of us. I don't see Elias having more than 2 of Holliday/Kjerstad/Mayo working on their transition to ML at once even if Kjerstad is a weak side platoon. That's the way I see it breaking out. -
He “kinda”let the team down. Honestly, what else is he gonna say? I’m not talented enough to hit the pitch that is thrown to me. I have to totally guess every single time or I can’t hit it. -
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By Moose Milligan · Posted
Well maybe not as slow as you ambling around the Tampa area in your Birkenstocks.
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