You could try complaining about Bochy's support of famed PED users Ken Caminiti and Barry Bonds while he managed both at the height of their powers.Originally Posted by notin
You could try complaining about Bochy's support of famed PED users Ken Caminiti and Barry Bonds while he managed both at the height of their powers.
He certainly had big names, but Bochy wasn’t unique in that manner.
Look away while players used steroids? Lots of guys did that. Make 4 pitching changes in multiple consecutive innings? He was alone on that island…
You should like the 3 batter rule then, but you say you hate it.
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
I like the 3 batter rule because I got sick and tired of all the game delays so managers could pretend that they and only they are the key to winning games. And let's not forget the endless visits to the mound by pitching coach, manager, catcher, ball boy down the 1b line, et al. Plus all the gyrations on the mound and by the batters to change the timing of pitches. Before the fixes this year, MLB had degenerated into kabuki theater (which is fine in a theater and horrible on a baseball field).
I hate the rule, but I also hate the exploitation that lead to it. It should have never come to that. It also could have been handled by eliminating/limiting September call ups (which was also done, thankfully)...
Yup, which is why you're right and I'am wrong. TODAY
But
in two weeks from now? We shall see.
I'll say this, to reiterate my point from before that I think are debate here highlights beautifully....this is exactly why teams don't sell early, and wait until up at the deadline.
Giants had a blah first half, and Bailey has a history with some arms out in San Fran.
What would it take to land Logan Webb, age 27, owed $82 million after this year... (besides, uh, Yankee ownership)?
Assuming Crochet will cost at least Mayer and/or Anthony, maybe adding Webb and his large contract would be less painful in the parting-with-prospects dept.
Not that SF would want to deal their ace, but Webb is the kind of guy the Red Sox need to target for the top of the rotation. In bb-ref's Similarity Scores, his #2 comp is Zac Gallen -- who beat reporters last year said is the kind of guy Boston needs to seek out.
Btw: #4 is Jack Flaherty, who is also Webb's #5 most similar through age 26; Flaherty keeps reappearing in my posts...
Just to clarify something. While I'm more than happy to defend JH's reluctance to spend big, especially on pitchers, largely because of the incompetence of his brain trust, I agree with Cora and just about everyone on talksox that this Sox team has potential to make the postseason and they could use some reinforcements, especially pitchers--a starter and maybe 1 or 2 relievers. A good righty bat would also help.
I’m not defending Sox GMs for their pitching choices, but not every choice that fails should be called “incompetence.”
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Trevor Bauer would work for peanuts. not signing him is incompetence.
So… thirty incompetent teams?
He’s got some negative PR. Although we can watch Marcell Ozuna, who might carry more baggage, playing in the All Star game tomorrow…
well....i'm not sure every team really needs pitching but yeah.
There isn’ta team out there whose starting rotation wouldn’t be upgraded with the addition of a former Cy Young winner…
At worst, he’s better than30 number 13’s on each staff.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
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