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Can we officially stop saying, "It's early"? Red Sox get shutout- lose 4-0 to NYY. Don't panic? Wiggy brings up the struggling A.L. East, but a Red Sox hot streak needs to start soon. Thoughts?
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00:00and it appears that steven from nashua is back hey guys what's up hey guys
00:07hey guys no hey uh so anyways casus i'm a little upset because this is my my thought process here
00:15the red sox are so bad casus is on his way back right what if he has the potential of
00:20actually
00:20living up to that 41 20 that breslow threw out okay two years ago whatever it is could that be
00:25a spark you think are we riding the casus yoshida train to the playoffs what are we doing here
00:29i mean maybe i i mean we were talking the other day with will like yoshida has a hot bat
00:35so you
00:36ought to be fine and we can ask alex gora about this he's like a walmart itch hero no like
00:41a slower
00:41itch hero just a contact guy he'll poke a couple out here and there in a big spot i mean
00:46his his
00:46running his running form is extraordinary ideal you can't beat it are you kidding me i will say
00:52that but i you should wear a whoop we should track his metrics when he's running huh yeah we should
00:57i i mean i just maybe tristan casus what's this latest thing it's like a is it a like a
01:03stomach
01:04groin thing or whatever the latest thing is yeah with him i i don't know but even with him it's
01:09like
01:09see i think and this is the world he's a guy you can rely on but but but this is
01:13the world of baseball
01:14right great clubhouse guy oh really awesome and the and the difference between baseball and other
01:19sports so much is even with a guy like costas right everything is on projection everything is
01:25on projection with so many players so like when we bring up guys like schwab or we bring up guys
01:31like
01:31pete alonso these are guys that we know this is who they are and what they do all these other
01:38guys
01:38it's projection projection so we don't know they tell us he could be this or they tell us he could
01:43be
01:43that unless there's a track record of that person doing what they're telling us well you're rolling
01:49the dice well and and i think that that's a little bit about what drove the comments that alex cora
01:56made
01:57when talking with ken rosenthal which is that you know you know when a guy has been up and down
02:03and
02:04spent a bunch of time had a bunch of at-bats triple a like you know what that player is
02:10as opposed to
02:12um a younger roster and guys who didn't spend a ton of time playing down so i i yeah i
02:22guess i guess
02:23you can hope that tristan casas comes back and is uh knocking him out of the ballpark but i do
02:29feel
02:29like tristan casas is an example of what cora would prefer which is a guy that has not gotten that
02:35long-term team-friendly extension and yet he doesn't even have the desire or the ability to get back on
02:42the field quickly you know what i mean like if this were roman anthony milking an oblique strain
02:47because he hadn't gotten his 180 million dollar deal yet then i would kind of understand it but
02:52casas is costing himself a ton of money yeah this is sam good morning sam good morning guys hey listen
03:01uh long time fan big red sox fan here um i wanted to come back to to wiggy's comment on
03:09you know is this
03:10this who crochet really is and i think if we look back at his track record wiggy this is
03:16last year is who he is i mean he's a three sub three era guy um and then i'm also
03:24going to come
03:25back and everybody's tired of hearing this i'm tired of saying that yes it's early in the season
03:30guys i mean we're yes i know you guys don't want to hear but it's just the truth i mean
03:36if we look back
03:37at tanner hauck's uh year two years ago where the guy was uh cy young award winner by that first
03:44half
03:44of the season he absolutely fell flat on his face the second half of the year i mean it's possible
03:50for guys to do vice versa where they where they come flat on their face they come back in the
03:55second
03:55half of the year and they come dominating i mean it's possible look at what happened to the 2004
04:00mets they had the same record same season they're having now i mean it's not an apples to apples comparison
04:06but it's just to say that there's guys i mean we were talking about ranger suarez earlier when is
04:11ranger suarez going to pick it up he's picked it up so far uh early is picking it up i
04:17mean he gave
04:17up three runs uh you know last last night but you know he's holding it down he's the he threw
04:23six
04:24innings so but sam the issues they have are all things that were weak spots last year and things we
04:29knew they needed to address and didn't it would be one thing if it was just crochet having an awful
04:34month we would all say mostly he'll get back into it he'll be okay but this is a roster that
04:41had no
04:41power and they've been powerless i i don't i don't disagree with you there and i think the problem too
04:49that with that is that we're playing way too much money ball it's way too much analytics it's way too
04:55much matchup it's this guy versus that guy if we are really watching the game for watching the game as
05:01opposed to analytics these guys are taking strikes right down the middle first pitch fastball second
05:05pitch fastball not having an approach at the plate nobody's consistent you can't say that anybody's
05:11being consistently put out on the field besides maybe rafael willier abreo and contraras narvaez now
05:20he's getting out of the lineup because he's not producing i mean you know there's something to be
05:25said in baseball specifically for consistency you know you in order to get guys in a groove and and
05:30see guys perform they got to be consistently and and one thing with roman anthony is you know
05:36there was a lot of pressure on the kid but at the same time you know when we were watching
05:40him hit
05:41throughout the world baseball classic look who was hitting around him yeah yeah i mean sam thank you
05:51for the call i mean i don't know how long you can keep saying it's early we got to figure
05:55that out
05:55eventually but um it's uh be aggressive at the plate i remember i saw my imagine if you could
06:02have schwerber roman anthony or i mean not roman anthony alex bregman if you could have guys like
06:08that around roman anthony give me um give me peter lonzo and pitton there uh anthony i saw my old
06:15little league coach at the celtics game i would do peter lonzo yesterday ronnie jordan what's up
06:20and you had me in little league and i remember is a high school baseball player very aggressive
06:26especially first pitch no one first pitch fastball down the middle yeah like infield up on the grass
06:30all the time no i no no no no i was a catcher i could you know i did a
06:34lot of controlling was that
06:35his approach and no uh at certain times okay you know but bunt on the road oh we a we
06:41played small
06:41ball but aggressive especially for me because i was a fastball hitter um so i i would say like i
06:48don't
06:48know don't you think they need to be more aggressive at the plate and like the caller said
06:52you're taking fastball down the middle fastball down the middle and i agree with curtis like
06:56coming into this season you traded away your best power hitter in rafael devers right like that was
07:05your power hitting you traded him away you should say what you want about bregman that's not what he does
07:11but when you were talking about the one area that you needed more than anything that was a power
07:18and you did not replace how how long can you leave peyton toley down in worcester curtis i don't know
07:24i love that guy i want another epic rant about the moon landing i but the thing is is like
07:30i hate to
07:32give cora every excuse but this is a horrible put together team yeah like wait but curtis you say
07:42that and then you say that you think that like you said maybe your mind has changed but on marathon
07:47monday you said you thought that they were better than an eight win team oh i absolutely think they're
07:52better i think curtis has switched a little bit when it comes to blame yeah i'm all over the map
07:57to be honest i just don't understand it i understand like wiggy's side of the street on cora i get
08:02it
08:02completely where we can't give cora credit when they win and no blame when they lose and yet we do
08:08that every single day in this market it's very fraudulent but he is stuck with with what craig
08:14breslow gave him can you say that he was given a bad roster but he's also not helping himself
08:20that is fair would you say that wigs i i would i would say here's what i would say
08:26what did breslow give him other than durman you mean that's bad yeah like like yeah well more the
08:34idea that it's not enough odd like i there's odd like but players that are that are i you know
08:41idgf
08:42as i refer to him like why is why is he on this team but i mean all these guys
08:46are you talking about
08:48but why do you have idgf why do you have an outfielder jam like a gridlock in the outfield
08:54why didn't you trade duran last year why do you why is masataka still on this team all due respect
09:00even though he can hit these are guys that were on on the team right so you don't think that
09:05that's
09:05on breslow too right but cora cora said it to us as well as breslow we got the best outfielder
09:11outfield the major league baseball that's the company line he's trying to be a good company man
09:17there okay so then dh wanted if you give anybody else six outfielders they would arguably have the
09:22best outfielder baseball also that that that is that's a roster construction problem well but as a
09:29manager trade jaron duran like they should have traded jaron duran dh him dh him and play roman
09:35anthony out in the outfield why can't you do that or vice versa it's not like the manager has the
09:42ability to go all right we might have a log jam but guess what we have the ability to dh
09:48one of
09:48these guys do you think it was alex going into this season alex cora sat down with craig breslow and
09:55and you know whoever else sam kennedy john henry yep and said our approach is going to be that we
10:05are going to the pitching is going to be so extraordinary we are going to win games two
10:11nothing three nothing like do you think that that alex cora believes that that is a strategy that can
10:17win in major league baseball because i don't no i don't think so but then somehow once they were
10:23unwilling to spend a lot of money on you name the player i don't care if it's you keep bringing
10:29up
10:29pete alonzo schwarbs i whatever once they weren't going to spend that money they had to pivot and say
10:36this is what we believe is going to happen and it's not happening right so so to your point they
10:42like reverse engineered the identity of the team based on who they couldn't get in the offseason
10:48correct so let's go down this road every time i say that cora's on the hot seat you guys say
10:54i'm out
10:54of my mind there's no way he's the safest guy there is out there i mean the guy might as
10:59well be
11:00surrounded by every cia every cia agent around how much does brez bought make two million i have no
11:10idea all right let's let's call it two million you could ask cora tomorrow right we'll ask him cora is
11:15the i want to say third highest paid manager in baseball over seven million dollars so you're
11:21telling me the guy cbt included no i don't believe that cbt included you're telling me the guy that the
11:27ownership loves and is the safest guy out there is the third highest uh manager at major league baseball
11:34sits in those meetings and gets uh and gets overruled by brez bought i don't know that he's in all
11:43those
11:44meetings it was a big wiki it was the biggest wiki they did a whole story they did a whole
11:50story i
11:50believe it was last year about how he was invited in to sit in on the meetings around the trade
11:56deadline
11:56to get a better idea of how everything worked with the front office at the trade deadline when we
12:01talked about the uh potential trading of devers initially it was john henry alex cora those were the
12:09guy in the room when we talked about bregman last year it was bregman uh cora was the guy who's
12:15who
12:15and kind of said all right we're bregman's coming here because i want him so now you're telling me a
12:21year later i don't know that he's in every meeting the third highest paid man so now cora's basically
12:26just there for um uh i don't want to use the word puppet but he's just the figurehead the figurehead
12:34who has zero power who's not in any room i'm not saying he doesn't have power wiki or he doesn't
12:39have influence but he's not the general manager so you can't put the responsibilities of the general
12:45manager on the manager it's not like bill belichick where he has both jobs all right so similar
12:49situation mike vrabel you don't think he can overrule do you think that's a similar power dynamic i think
12:57it is oh very that's where we disagree i don't think it's so you don't think that you don't think
13:01that brezbart and elliot wolf are similar to vrabel and cora no i do not know you are yeah
13:09because the difference the difference is vrabel brought in a whole group of people who like
13:15ryan cowden like stretch who work with the front office who are cora's guys there but what i'm
13:21saying at the end of the day because i don't know all the front office people there this but i
13:24bet
13:25there's probably but we know that vrabel has his guys who are very influential and he had a ghost
13:30writer at the new york times i will i will bet my last dollar on it that if cora was
13:36in there with
13:37john henry and sam kennedy and said hey i i want the power bat even brezbart saying no i don't
13:44want it
13:45i would think that that's something cora has enough juice to get done and if you think he does it
13:51didn't
13:52because he didn't get he didn't get it i'm not talking about bregman i'm talking about peter
13:56lonzo any power bat so so so greg you think he has zero power okay so you think that alex
14:02cora sat
14:03down and said my approach this year what i want us to be is a small ball team that wins
14:08based on
14:08pitching like you think that was his i think that whatever i think that the the the construction of
14:15this roster cora had influence on i think that that's true but i don't think that he got what
14:23he wanted i don't think anybody i don't think craig breslow thought he would enter the year with six
14:28outfielders and 13 home runs in the first month of the season no like it has been a disaster i
14:34don't
14:34anybody banked on the i think breslow and cora said our rotation is good enough early in the year
14:41it's generally pitching over offense anyway this won't be a catastrophic start
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