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  1. Beaneater
    I was checking the standings the other day, looking especially at run differential, not just by individual team, but by whole divisions. Presumably when two divisional rivals play, the total run differential is always 0. So a division's total run differential is really just a way of expressing its run differential against all the other divisions. As of this morning, here are the total divisional run differentials: AL East: +207 AL Central: +25 AL West: -138 NL East: -160 NL Central: +185 NL West: -119 Not exactly rocket science, but still illustrative. The AL East doesn't have any horrible teams (trust the Yankees to be 8 games over .500 with a -15 diffie... must be that Yankee mystique or something). Neither does the NL Central. Well, the Brewers and Cubs have awful records but their diffies aren't totally embarrassing. It does make me fear the A's a little bit less, seeing numbers that quantify how lame their division is. And it makes me wonder how much the Braves are for real. Crunching the numbers again, by league: AL: +94 NL: -94 (obviously) Take that for what it's worth.
  2. Beaneater
    Another thing to see in our recent play (not that this insight is especially brilliant) is who we did it against. SF's not great, but they were at home on the West Coast. LAD was incandescent. BAL and NYY are wild card contenders. Admittedly, CHW blows and a half-decent team would not have gotten swept in that series. DET is very very good, and TB is in current possession of a wild card. So we're pounding the patsies and more than holding our own against good teams. Sure, luck has factored in. We've missed some of the opposing teams' aces, like Kershaw and Sale (though he has to throw a CG to get a win, judging by the results vs. NYY). We've hit 173-foot grand slams (Napoli say thanks, Yankee Stadium). But then we've also just matched up, strength to strength, and won (i.e. Scherzer vs. Lester). So it looks like we're going to win the division. We're scoring runs and we have a fearsome 4 man postseason rotation. We all know the playoffs are a crapshoot, but let's just say there's no one saying, "Man, I hope we end up playing the Red Sox!"
  3. Beaneater
    This isn't just about pitching, but I love that the Sox are tearing it up this year without doing anything really unsustainable. Who's having a career year? Well, Buchholz -- although he's having more like 45% of a career year, and he's got a history of being good when he can pitch. And Carp... off the bench, so it's not like he's the daily difference maker. And Uehara, though honestly he's been really really really good whenever he can get on the mound during his whole career. And I guess no one really expected Lackey to be this good, though it's not out of line with his best years in LA. Victorino's the only regular position player I can think of who's really doing far more than you'd expect. The Sox have a got a very good team heading in to the next couple of years. As opposed to recent years when we needed positive excellence from the FO, it seems to me that for a couple of years we'll just need the FO not to do anything bone-headed. It's a nice place to be.
  4. Beaneater
    Like mvp just said, we have a fine postseason rotation lined up. I think you could make a case for any of the top 4 guys starting. It's a nice problem to have. My gut says it goes Lester - Buchholz - Peavy - Lackey. No disrespect to Lackey and his excellent season intended. It's nice to imagine some team lining up their mediocre 4th starter while we toss Lackey out on the mound.
  5. Beaneater
    What a fun board! I express my joy at seeing the young Sox take it to the Yanks, and you and Thunder jump on me from opposite directions about the definition of "farmhand". Thanks for making Talksox the happy community it is! If you're so bent on imagining and then correcting errors in other people's posts, maybe you should proofread your own posts... unless you really think we have two players named Nava. And "et al." should have a period after it, since it's an abbreviation. But who would be so ridiculous as to point out things like that?
  6. Beaneater
    At least there's not too much right field for Nava to patrol in the Toilet. Just about 15-20 feet of grass between the basepaths and the warning track, or so it seems.
  7. Beaneater
    I think Lester wants to work quickly today, and he was afraid that if Naps and Victorino were in the lineup, the top halves of the innings would take too long. So he asked Farrell to arrange things so the Sox stay under 20 runs. Makes sense.
  8. Beaneater
    This is pure awesome. You could hardly have scripted the last couple of weeks better. Well, OK, you'd have skipped the part about Ellsbury fouling the ball off his foot, but other than that it's been a beautiful stretch of baseball.
  9. Beaneater
    I guess it's semantics. I don't see Middlebrooks as an established major leaguer, seeing as he's spent a huge chunk of this season in Pawtucket. It's not just that he's a product of the farm -- Pedroia, Ellsbury, and Lester are products of the farm and they're hardly farmhands anymore. I'm thinking that Nava doesn't qualify any more either. Anyway, it's still beautiful to beat the Yanks with contributions from a bunch of young homegrown talent. Bogaerts and The One I Call Brooksie will be leading us to wins next year while the Yanks continue to cart their various decomposing cash-stuffed corpses onto the field.
  10. Beaneater
    I just watched all 4 HRs from yesterday. Naps is smoking. He's got that Beltre-esque thing of going down on the back knee when he takes a big cut. Gomes' swing looks like barely controlled violence. It's not pretty, but when it connects, ouch. Bogaerts, though... that swing looked almost nonchalant. I mean, there was lots of bat speed through the zone, but it didn't look like he was muscling up or anything. And that ball just went and went and went. And then went some more. Second longest HR at Yankee Stadium this year, eh? And that's our AAA shortshop, suckas! Beautiful to see us beating the Yanks with so many farmhands contributing: Bogaerts, Brooksie, Bradley, Lavarnway... Only one thing left: Bogaerts and Bradley have got to see how much of a beard they can grow from here on out.
  11. Beaneater
    Did anyone bump this yet? SFF hit the nail on the head, except for the 4-5 run lead part.
  12. Beaneater
    OK, I'm happy to shut up for a win.
  13. Beaneater
    Dirty orange juice!
  14. Beaneater
    One more.
  15. Beaneater
    Kudos for getting Jennings after starting off 3-0. But seriously, one BB and he needs to be gone, pitching mop-up until he can get his act together.
  16. Beaneater
    That's it. I'm serious, Farrell. Someone else needs to be in this game already. No messing around.
  17. Beaneater
    Why? WHY??? I have a sinking feeling that this game is already as good as over.
  18. Beaneater
    I might cry if I see Bailey in the 9th. Especially if he even goes to a 2-ball count on one solitary batter.
  19. Beaneater
    Ugh. Off to bed.
  20. Beaneater
    Time for the Salty steal!
  21. Beaneater
    Is Salty really batting lefty against a LHP like Gamecast says?
  22. Beaneater
    If Uehara only throws 7 pitches per inning, we might be able to squeeze 5-6 innings out of him .
  23. Beaneater
    Dude, it's not that bad!
  24. Beaneater
    I thought it was pretty good. I'm a cat-hater, though... and come to think of it, I work in a country where people eat cats since they're made of meat.
  25. Beaneater
    That's what Bailey was supposed to do, if I'm understanding this "closer" thing correctly.
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