Pablo is no more

[Fan_since_Boggs]

He was pretty s***** about SF on his way out of that door too. It's not surprising. The Sox should have known who they were climbing in bed with.

 

Good point.

[a700hitter]

http://www.espn.com/blog/boston/red-sox/post/_/id/52913/so-long-panda-ranking-the-lowest-points-in-bostons-pablo-sandoval-era

 

1. June 18, 2015: Sandoval is benched for one game in Atlanta after getting caught "liking" photos of a woman on Instagram during the previous night's game. Sandoval explains he was using his phone in the bathroom between innings.

 

2. April 9, 2016: In his only start of the season, Sandoval's belt breaks on a swing and miss. The video instantly goes viral.

 

3. April 5, 2016: Sandoval begins the season on the bench after getting beaten out for the third-base job by Travis Shaw in spring training. The Red Sox had been frustrated with Sandoval for reporting to spring training out of shape.

 

 

4. May 3, 2016: Sandoval undergoes season-ending surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder.

 

5. June 20, 2017: Sandoval returns to the disabled list with an inner ear infection. He had been batting .212 with a .623 OPS in 32 games.

 

6. April 23, 2017: Sandoval begins the season healthy after a strong spring training in which he has little competition for the third-base job (Shaw had been traded in the offseason). But Sandoval goes on the disabled list after spraining his right knee while ranging for a hard grounder during a game in Baltimore. He misses a month.

 

7. Sept. 20, 2015: Sandoval scores the go-ahead run in the eighth inning in Toronto, then is replaced because of dehydration symptoms. He doesn't play again that season, sitting out the final 14 games and not traveling with the team on a season-ending road trip because of pneumonia.

 

8. July 14, 2017: Pablow refuses to earn the last $50 of his contract by taking an assignment to AAA Pawtucket and the Red Sox desigante him for assignment.

 

I think we can attack his character now. Take the money and run, Pablo --from day 1.

[mvp 78]

8. July 14, 2017: Pablow refuses to earn the last $50 of his contract by taking an assignment to AAA Pawtucket and the Red Sox desigante him for assignment.

 

I think we can attack his character now. Take the money and run, Pablo --from day 1.

 

f***ing lazy fat ass.

[a700hitter]

f***ing lazy fat ass.

He is no ordinary Fat slob. He had no work ethic, no pride in his craft and no commitment to his employer to earn his money.

[Spudboy]

He is no ordinary Fat slob. He had no work ethic, no pride in his craft and no commitment to his employer to earn his money.

 

Um.....the one thing that DD kept repeating was that Pablow did work hard and that he did have a "good" work ethic.

 

If so, that is his only evidence of ethics.

[Spudboy]

I just had the following exchange with Pete Abraham on Facebook.

 

Spud · 2:28 What a waste of money. Was signing Pablo Ben's or Larry's decision?

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Peter Abraham · I love how when it's a bad decision, Larry did it. But the good decisions he had nothing to do with it. Like one person alone decides to spend $95 million. Think it out a little maybe?

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Spud · I have no idea who was responsible. It was a bad move. I only ask because it is a subject of debate on Talksox. Kind of hard to justify spending $95. mil. on a late 20's player with three consecutive years of offensive decline. Especially when that player was only making $9.6 mil. at that time. Just dumb. In the real world any manager that makes this decision gets the axe Pete.

[a700hitter]

Um.....the one thing that DD kept repeating was that Pablow did work hard and that he did have a "good" work ethic.

 

If so, that is his only evidence of ethics.

Those comments were made this year, not in the first 2 years of his contract when he let himself get so obese that he couldn't perform. I remember him answering a question at the beginning of Spring Training about practicing his fielding in the off-season. He stated that he had not practiced his fielding. Maybe that was a reason why his fielding sucked.

[Examiner]

Never understood this move from day one. Guy is an overweight slob who made his rep with a few playoff games. His numbers overall are not that great, decent, respectable, but not great. Since he got here he's been a bigger disaster than Carl Crawford.

[Spudboy]

Never understood this move from day one. Guy is an overweight slob who made his rep with a few playoff games. His numbers overall are not that great, decent, respectable, but not great. Since he got here he's been a bigger disaster than Carl Crawford.

 

"Well you just don't understand WAR".

[bowman]

He will end up with the Yankees and break our balls... Count on it..

[Station 13]

he will end up with the yankees and break their balls... Count on it..

 

ftfy

[moonslav59]

Never understood this move from day one...

 

I hated the move from the first minute.

 

That being said, I think they hoped he recent decline was not a sign of what was to come, AND his playoff heroics would come in handy.

Maybe Sox management believes like some here, that there is such a thing as a "clutch hitter".

 

He was a horrible signing. I remember I heard about HRam first and figured he'd play 3B. Then, shortly afterwards, I heard we signed Pablo, and I said out loud, "WTF!"

[moonslav59]

"Well you just don't understand WAR".

 

Neither did Pablo.

[cp176]

And yet, he's in Miami today stating that he still wants to play baseball.

 

Really - that is interesting and it says a lot. If you are going to throw the money at basically entertainers then I guess you have to own it. It was a foolish sign I guess but who has the kind of money that can allow for someone to just say go home to someone still earning millions of dollars? I could give a s*** what fat boy does. Maybe someone else will be so stupid as to sign him. Two things that I take from this -

1. There is no f***ing budget that means anything to these guys. They throw the crap out there and if people want to believe it then so be it. The Red Sox have no real budget.

2. DD has some power possibly and he is an adult playing in fantasy land. It should be a pretty clear message to the other stiffs that were are carrying. The message being if you aren't producing then you aren't playing regardless of the size of your contract. Hanley, are you listening? Are you smart enough to actually understand?

[Spudboy]

Today's events make me appreciate Allen Graig more.

 

Granted he was being paid a bundle. But at least he rode around on buses for two years and showed up to play each day.

[moonslav59]

Really - that is interesting and it says a lot. If you are going to throw the money at basically entertainers then I guess you have to own it. It was a foolish sign I guess but who has the kind of money that can allow for someone to just say go home to someone still earning millions of dollars? I could give a s*** what fat boy does. Maybe someone else will be so stupid as to sign him. Two things that I take from this -

1. There is no f***ing budget that means anything to these guys. They throw the crap out there and if people want to believe it then so be it. The Red Sox have no real budget.

2. DD has some power possibly and he is an adult playing in fantasy land. It should be a pretty clear message to the other stiffs that were are carrying. The message being if you aren't producing then you aren't playing regardless of the size of your contract. Hanley, are you listening? Are you smart enough to actually understand?

 

If we had no budget, Lester would still be here. If he wasn't here, Scherzer would be.

[a700hitter]

Today's events make me appreciate Allen Graig more.

 

Granted he was being paid a bundle. But at least he rode around on buses for two years and showed up to play each day.

Pablow has no character. He has been getting paid $20 million a year for 3 years without earning a dime of it. He should have honored his employer's request an taken the assignment to Pawtucket.

[cp176]

If we had no budget, Lester would still be here. If he wasn't here, Scherzer would be.

 

Your opinion. I don't think that they wanted Lester and I just don't know about Scherzer. Your opinion and my opinion. that's it.

Most people want to think that they have a legitimate budget. Good for you and everybody else who wants to think this. Throwing what 80-100 million at him to begin with and ultimately dfaing him. lol sorry not much of a budget really in my world.

[moonslav59]

Your opinion. I don't think that they wanted Lester and I just don't know about Scherzer. Your opinion and my opinion. that's it.

Most people want to think that they have a legitimate budget. Good for you and everybody else who wants to think this. Throwing what 80-100 million at him to begin with and ultimately dfaing him. lol sorry not much of a budget really in my world.

 

I realize it's my opinion, but the Sox have held pretty steady near the same distance from the luxury tax every year since Henry took over. We never go way over: we never go way under. It looks like a budget, smells like a budget and feels like a budget.

 

I do agree that Henry can spend an almost unlimited amount, if he chooses to do so. He's wasted money left and right, so that does give the impression that he's willing to spend anything and everything. Your position has supporting evidence as well. I'm not claiming to know everything.

 

I can't imagine us losing Lester and not wanting Scherzer. I'm pretty darn certain that after we spent on HRam & Pablo, the "budget" kept us from signing Scherzer. I can't prove it, and I respect your opinion to the contrary.

[Spudboy]

Does anyone here believe that a MLB team will claim Fatboy?

[jad]

Not a Pablo fan, but refusing an assignment to Pawtucket has nothing to do with character-- it's simply a function of the CBA, which does not allow teams to 'humiliate' a veteran into retirement (eg, the A-rod case), and thus gives players the option Pablo now has. Pablo doesn't do the RS any favors by accepting the 'assignment' (no one expected him to), since he would only be taking up space that could be occupied by players RS want to develop (Devers). Even if he burned it up in AAA, there is no way he comes back to the team. Thus, the only chance he has of getting back in the bigs is by becoming a FA.

[Dojji]

Not a Pablo fan, but refusing an assignment to Pawtucket has nothing to do with character-- it's simply a function of the CBA, which does not allow teams to 'humiliate' a veteran into retirement (eg, the A-rod case), and thus gives players the option Pablo now has. Pablo doesn't do the RS any favors by accepting the 'assignment' (no one expected him to), since he would only be taking up space that could be occupied by players RS want to develop (Devers). Even if he burned it up in AAA, there is no way he comes back to the team. Thus, the only chance he has of getting back in the bigs is by becoming a FA.

 

Agreed. Pablo leaving is actually the best thing for both the team and the player. We don't need or want him, and he doesn't have to stick around to collect his money. Part ways and let bygones be bygones. Pablo was just another big FA bust in a decade full of them, and he wasn't the reason any of "his" Red Sox teams faltered, so what did we lose in the end?

[Jasonbay44]

f*** Pablo Sandoval. He's probably my least favorite Red Sox of all time. What a fat useless piece of s***.

[Northern Star]

Impressive to have grenaded $95mil like that.

[Station 13]

f*** Pablo Sandoval. He's probably my least favorite Red Sox of all time. What a fat useless piece of s***.

 

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[iortiz]

is there a like button on here

 

+1 lol!

[Larry Cook]

Very unfortunate ending to this situation. I really can not believe ownership just ate that contract.

[SoxHop]

I'm just glad he is gone. He was a monkey on our back......

 

I can't beleive that guy made so much money and did nothing for it....

[harmony]

f*** Pablo Sandoval. He's probably my least favorite Red Sox of all time. What a fat useless piece of s***.

It's that fan attitude that makes Boston a less desirable place to play.

[a700hitter]

I'm just glad he is gone. He was a monkey on our back......

 

I can't beleive that guy made so much money and did nothing for it....

And clearly felt that he owed the organization and his team mates nothing. They weren't worth the effort of winning back his job. Am I supposed to applaud his character?