The Kids Are Alright - A Red Sox Do-Over

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Yeah, getting Jimmie Foxx throughout his whole career is going to be better for the Red Sox than in real life--especially since his real-life home run total (534) is above Ted Williams (521), the all-time Red Sox home run leader...

If you manage to get Lefty Grove, too, in the next few years, I can see the Red Sox getting close to a World Series, if not winning one, IMO...

(It helps that there's no Curse of the Bambino in this timeline..)

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Originally Posted by Lord Byron

Yeah, getting Jimmie Foxx throughout his whole career is going to be better for the Red Sox than in real life--especially since his real-life home run total (534) is above Ted Williams (521), the all-time Red Sox home run leader...

If you manage to get Lefty Grove, too, in the next few years, I can see the Red Sox getting close to a World Series, if not winning one, IMO...

(It helps that there's no Curse of the Bambino in this timeline..)

The key will be somehow getting all the improvements to the IRL made at roughly the same time so that they get to play together. We are very much at the whim of players becoming FA as we don't have much trade cachet without robbing Peter to pay Paul.

We get a couple decent enough arms as EF players over the next few years. No HoFers among them but they'll make us better.

Waite Hoyt is currently looming as a FA at the end of the season and we'll jump all over that opportunity should things stay that way. Lefty would be an absolute bonus and still has some years left under TC at the Browns.

Plus, we'll be keeping both Ruffing and Pennock through the period IRL when they got good for the Yanks.

I doubt we'll be any good for the rest of the decade and need to find replacements for Gardner, Scott, Hooper and above all Speaker. If we can do that successfully then we'll be in the hunt sometime during the '30s. Foxx is a good start. There's another big question mark coming this offseason we'll be trying to jump on before anyone else grabs him and the success or failure in this endeavour will be a decisive factor in how we go.

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Originally Posted by luckymann

The key will be somehow getting all the improvements to the IRL made at roughly the same time so that they get to play together. We are very much at the whim of players becoming FA as we don't have much trade cachet without robbing Peter to pay Paul.

We get a couple decent enough arms as EF players over the next few years. No HoFers among them but they'll make us better.

Waite Hoyt is currently looming as a FA at the end of the season and we'll jump all over that opportunity should things stay that way. Lefty would be an absolute bonus and still has some years left under TC at the Browns.

Plus, we'll be keeping both Ruffing and Pennock through the period IRL when they got good for the Yanks.

I doubt we'll be any good for the rest of the decade and need to find replacements for Gardner, Scott, Hooper and above all Speaker. If we can do that successfully then we'll be in the hunt sometime during the '30s. Foxx is a good start. There's another big question mark coming this offseason we'll be trying to jump on before anyone else grabs him and the success or failure in this endeavour will be a decisive factor in how we go.

Don't forget about the late 1930s-1940s--the Red Sox had so many good players in this era...

But that won't be for a while yet...

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Originally Posted by Lord Byron

Don't forget about the late 1930s-1940s--the Red Sox had so many good players in this era...

But that won't be for a while yet...

The key in that era will be to improve the staff. You can only score so many runs...

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Originally Posted by luckymann

The key in that era will be to improve the staff. You can only score so many runs...

Yeah, that is true...

Also, I have a good guess as to who you're going to try to get next year, but I won't spoil it...

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