http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/03/28/bp-boston-predicts-the-pennants/ Bringing BP-quality analysis to Boston Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/03/28/bp-boston-predicts-the-pennants/#comment-16066 Fri, 30 Mar 2018 10:15:18 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=36948#comment-16066 Of course, after Opening Day, we could say the season is pretty much over. Severino and Stanton are great, and the Sox bullpen can blow anything up. I’m SO ready for Kelly’s free agency. See you in 2019!

]]> http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/03/28/bp-boston-predicts-the-pennants/#comment-16059 Thu, 29 Mar 2018 16:51:59 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=36948#comment-16059 Maybe, maybe not. It seems likely to me that the chances of Stanton and Judge repeating their boffo years are almost nil. Severino was great, but he wasn’t the year before, . . . so 2018? Bird is down, Gleiber showed nothing (he’s young!), the Sanchise can pass balls with the best of them, and the manager is in an on-the-job training program (it’s not the same with Cora). There are intimations of fallibility in the NYY–they are neither significantly better nor worse than the Sox, so it’s probably going to be as close as most people and pundits see it. You don’t have to practice blind boosterism to get the Sox into this contest.

]]> http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/03/28/bp-boston-predicts-the-pennants/#comment-16049 Wed, 28 Mar 2018 21:14:30 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=36948#comment-16049 I’m as passionate a Red Sox fan as they come (dating to 1972, when they managed to finish a half-game out of first place), but picking them over the Yankees in the AL East is delusional homerism, plain and simple.

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