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Tim Bogar: How to be a third base coach while on crack An autobiography.
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Davis is very lucky that wasn't a much bigger inning.
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Sox acquire Franklin Morales and DFA Okijima
ORS replied to RedSoxFaithful's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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While I agree that the comparison has no merit outside of similar pitching motion/delivery, he is an intriguing pitcher. I don't care if his average FB is clocked at 92 when he throws two different kinds, with a preponderance of them being 2-seamers that move up to 9" laterally on average (data from last night's start at brooksbaseball.net). I love watching pitchers that can get it to move that much. If he can ever get very good command of that pitch and throw a cutter/slider from the same arm action/arm slot like Halladay does, then he could very well be the next big time pitcher. He's obviously not there yet, and Halladay had well established himself by the time he was 27, winning a CYA at age 26, so it's probably unlikely he ever gets there. That said, he is interesting.
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No out pitch.
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Hill can't be optioned down, he has to hit waivers, which he won't pass through, and the Sox know it. I think Hill is here to stay.
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Hopefully Matsuzaka. Maybe they can rotate those two on/off the DL.
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I proposed getting Ross in the offseason. With Atlanta looking like a contending team, that may be a pricier acquisition. I'm all for bringing Lowe back, but I don't see it happening with the amount of money on the payroll right now, as he is signed at $15M per through 2012.
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I'm not one of them. My wife watches Glee, and I can say, with full confidence backed up by the legitimacy of having had to sit through that show, that is in an unmitigated suckfest of TV programming. I wouldn't mind letting the leading lady work out her vocals on my microphone, though.
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What makes no sense is that he was so bad all of last year too. Why was he allowed to continue in this role after such a poor performance last year? If his other contributions to the team are so laden with brilliance that they think it's a long-term mistake to let him go, then put him somewhere else on the staff where his obvious inability isn't hurting the team. He's as bad as I have seen as a 3B coach, and that's saying a lot given his recent peer comp group (send 'em in Wendel Kim, and send 'em Sveum).
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After a day off last night, Brentz with #10 today (1/4, HR, BB - no K's). Nothing left for him in low-A.
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I want to caveat what I've been saying here to add some clarity to my mindset. While I am OK with, and probably in favor of, replacing Francona, I won't be upset if he stays. I don't think managers, overall, have a terribly big impact on the final standings in the regular season. I think the talent wins out in the end for the most part, and games that are lost due to managerial blunders probably wash out with times the oppenents manager is the one having a bad day.
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It was never 16/1, despite your fragile, self-serving egotistical need to see it that way. I get it, it makes you happy in your shorts to think of Yankeedom as being full of Charles Bronson/Chuck Norris types, but your depiction of the events that transpired is pure fantasy. He went after the catcher, they exchanged blows, benches cleared, there was a fracas, and in the middle of that, Brandon Jacobs, by himself, not with the help of 24 others, obtained a dominant position on Heathcott, and the event ended with several Riverdogs players helping Heathcott get out of that predicament. That's what happened. Apparently, when you wear pinstriped glassed while viewing that video, you see a punk as some sort of heroic tough guy. Try a dose of reality.
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If you say so....
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Francona makes the same mistake Little made, the one that got Little fired, on a regular basis in the regular season. I'm on record stating I think he's a good postseason manager, but he's asleep at the wheel if it's not October. The mistakes he's making in the regular season this year combined with the rough start could cost them a playoff spot. After being given a roster with this much talent, missing the postseason is every bit as bad and worthy of losing a job over as what Little did. Why should management put up with this?
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Do not f*** around with Bryce Brentz. #9 tonight, with a BB and no K's. Straight raking.
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No, they really didn't. Duquette brought in some trancendent stars (Manny, Pedro), but he never finished off the roster well. We saw the tail end of the careers for Jack Clark, Dante Bichette, et al, but no manager before him had a roster as complete as the ones Francona had. You are giving him entirely too much credit.
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Tito's job is to set the lineup and manage the pitching staff. He so-so at the former, and pretty awful at the latter. He "lead" them to two championships because he was along for the ride with a two very, very talented teams.
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Middlebrooks hit #5 last night, going 3/4, pushing his season line up to .336/.370/.575, which is a good start to follow up on the improvement he showed last year (even though he faded down the stretch). However, his 26/6 K/BB ratio in only 29 games is something to watch. Brentz went 4/6 with a SB, pushing his line up to .393/.448/.679. He too needs to work on selectivity and a propensity to whiff (29/12 K/BB in 33 games).
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I'd add Ted Williams career .482 OBP and Ruth's career .690 SLG.