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  1. a700hitter
    Yes, I am assuming that there will not be a big improvement by the same crew that has been under performing, since September 1, 2011, especially if Salty remains as the catcher. I think their off season plan was either badly misguided, or they started with a better plan to retool the pitching, but they implemented the plan badly. From the outside looking in, it has little rhyme or reason. The explanations that I am reading are strained rationalizations. It's like fixing the tires and brakes on an old clunker that needs a full engine tuneup. It's not going to run any better.
  2. a700hitter
    The only value is that they could have banked an additional $50- 60 million to go after pitchers next year.
  3. a700hitter
    IMO, A couple of months of these guys will not pull in the kind of prospects that it will take to get King Felix.
  4. a700hitter
    If Ellsbury, Drew and Napoli are all on one year contracts, how could they be shipped to Seattle for King Felix? I am not getting that. I don't see Seattle walking away from their centerpiece. If King Felix gives them no choice and walks in 2015, I don't have a great deal of confidence that we would outbid the Yanks, Dodgers and others for him. Do you have anything to believe that getting King Felix would be something more than a pipe dream?
  5. a700hitter
    I don't think the moves they have made will make them competitive this season unless they still add to the pitching. If this is the team they are planning to go north with, they should have opted for a total rebuild, IMO.
  6. a700hitter
    There's nothing wrong with going with #2, but they retooled the wrong part of the team. The starting pitching needed the retooling. What they have managed with this so-called retooling, is a team with a roster that looks like a 4th place or last place team, and yes, if that happens with $170 million payroll, I will lose my s***. If they did a total rebuild, I wouldn't like finishing at the bottom, but at least I could understand that. Finishing 4th or last for $170 million is not a retool. If they wanted to retool, they should have done something more to improve the starting pitching.
  7. a700hitter
    It wasn't in support of anyone, just noting that you will go out of your way to be a snarky prick-- very petty.
  8. a700hitter
    There is no reason to go out of your way to be snarky in an unprovoked manner. That helps foster ill-will-- your specialty.
  9. a700hitter
    It was very obvious that Tito's last Spring camp was a country club, and a dead one at that. I have never seen a more complacent, lifeless training camp. They started the season in a collective coma. Tito was responsible for that not the owners.
  10. a700hitter
    Being gracious is just not part of your character.
  11. a700hitter
    It wasn't Yaz. I could pick Yaz out of a lineup with 9 other Yaz lookalikes. I am almost certain that it is Williams. Same body build. I've seen pictures of him wearing that type of glove.
  12. a700hitter
    Jones would get at least 20 games at 1B, more if Napoli has injury problems. He'd probably get about 50-60 games in the OF.
  13. a700hitter
    The flip flopping back and forth happens to me too, because I want to have hope.
  14. a700hitter
    He plays 1B/OF
  15. a700hitter
    That's Teddy Ballgame.
  16. a700hitter
    Garrett Jones is a major league player, and not a bad one. He does some things exceptionally well. At this point, there are valid concerns that Iggy will never be a full time starting SS. Bogaerts is rapidly closing Iggy's window of opportunity.
  17. a700hitter
    That's what I am seeing -- a 4th place or last place team. Which makes me question why they have spent so much money, getting back to a $170 million payroll. Does the FO really think this will be a competitive team? I could have finished last with a much lower payroll. It remind me of a story told by Ralph Kiner. He had led the league in HRs and he asked Branch Rickey for a raise. The Pirates had finished in last place. Rickey refused to give Kiner a raise telling him that he had finished in last with Kiner and he was pretty sure that he could finish last without him.
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  19. a700hitter
    Hey I get what you are saying. As I said in an earlier post, I never believed that a catcher had a big impact on a pitcher's performance. However, the numbers that others have posted in this regard (Salty vs. other catchers) have been eye-opening. I am still skeptical that the bad pitching in 2012 is Salty's fault. Being that our staff is basically the same as last year except with the subtraction of Beckett and addition of Dempster, I am sort of hoping that it was Salty's fault, because we might trade him. If it wasn't Salty's fault, whether he stays or gets traded, I don't think we can expect a big improvement from our starters, because it is the same crew of pitchers.
  20. a700hitter
    I assume that this means Hill will be going elsewhere.
  21. a700hitter
    Overall, the pitching numbers with Salty behind the plate were far worse than the numbers with the other catchers in 2011 and 2012. Edit: BTW, even your cherry- picked numbers are higher than they were with other catchers in 2011. Buchholz's 2011 numbers don't prove much either way since he pitched only 81 innings that season.
  22. a700hitter
    Yes.
  23. a700hitter
    If you were a Cubs fan, that would make some sense. There are a lot of fans, especially around my age, that root for that combo. In the 60's, the only fans of the Pats were their family members. They didn't stop being a joke for about 20 years. By then, man thousands of New Englanders had already formed an allegiance to the Giants.
  24. a700hitter
    Tell us a little about yourself in the Introduce Yourself thread.
  25. a700hitter
    I am not a Pats fan, but I like them because they regularly beat the Jets like a drum, and as a Giants fan, I really like to see the Jets get their lumps. How about I'll tell you who I like. That's the way things usually work.
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