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BirdWatcher · 07-02-2018, 06:19 PM

So reading this made me go take a quick look at the 1987 Red Sox team and at first, looking through the starting players and the positional bench players, I thought, yeah, how did they only win 78 games? Granted, when the catcher who caught the most games is Marc Sullivan with his slash line of .169/.198/.238 and the other 4 catchers are pretty much just as bad (okay, John Marzano wasn't horrible at the plate), that's a problem. But hey, Marty Barrett had an OBP of .351 (decent), 22-year old Ellis Burks is in center and collected over 50 extra base hits (and 27 SB with only 6 times caught stealing), old men Don Baylor and Jim Rice still had a little bite in their bats, and Todd Benzinger was, well, not atrocious.
But then I scrolled down to the pitching staff and oh, my, there it is. Especially that bullpen. Brutal!

07-02-2018, 06:19 PM	#240
BirdWatcher Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2018 Location: Denver, Colorado Posts: 4,262	So reading this made me go take a quick look at the 1987 Red Sox team and at first, looking through the starting players and the positional bench players, I thought, yeah, how did they only win 78 games? Granted, when the catcher who caught the most games is Marc Sullivan with his slash line of .169/.198/.238 and the other 4 catchers are pretty much just as bad (okay, John Marzano wasn't horrible at the plate), that's a problem. But hey, Marty Barrett had an OBP of .351 (decent), 22-year old Ellis Burks is in center and collected over 50 extra base hits (and 27 SB with only 6 times caught stealing), old men Don Baylor and Jim Rice still had a little bite in their bats, and Todd Benzinger was, well, not atrocious. But then I scrolled down to the pitching staff and oh, my, there it is. Especially that bullpen. Brutal!