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  1. a700hitter
    Unfortunately, they probably keep the 3rd lefty and send Tazawa down because he has options.
  2. a700hitter
    Nava should never be anything more than an emergency call up after 3 injuries to your OF. If Nava comes North with the club in April, that will be another clue that we have a poorly constructed team. I can't believe that we will have 4 catchers and nava as a 5th OFer to start the season. There still must be some moves to be made.
  3. a700hitter
    You don't need to spend $170 million if you are in a bridge year.
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  5. a700hitter
    With Carlos Lee and Bobby Abreu's on the same roster, there would be no leftovers from the post game spread.
  6. a700hitter
    Some fans suffer from Stockholm Syndrome. Not that long ago I predicted that we wouldn't add the 2 new starters that we need and that people would make excuses for the FO and come up with arguments why our pitching was good enough. Most people said that there would be no excuses if the FO didn't address the pitching situation. As hopes for getting pitching help fades, people will start to formulate these arguments that we are good enough and improved and that the FO did the best it could. Preemptively, I say hooey. Signing Ryan Dempster and a couple of bull pen arms does not address the issue. Spare me all the "ifs". If the Queen had balls she would be the King. Lots of "ifs" means that you are going to be a loser. I love baseball and I will always root like crazy for the Red Sox, and I will hope for all the "ifs", but I have opened eyes. They have not done what needs to be done. Unless there is more to come, they have not adequately addressed the team's biggest need. To those who say that 2013 is going to be a bridge year like it or not, I say why spend $170 million on a bridge year payroll.
  7. a700hitter
    When a staff is full of "ifs" and you need all of those questions to be answered in a positive way, you will have a bad team. Our "ifs": Buchholz staying healthy and putting up 200+ innings, Lester returning to form, Lackey returning to the pitcher he was for the Angels, and Doubront's late season failures were just fatigue. We need all of these to work out in a positive way in order to be competitive. All of them working out is unlikely. We need another pitcher.
  8. a700hitter
    It's pretty obvious that Abreu's tank is empty. This just would make no sense.
  9. a700hitter
    Per Peter A today:
  10. a700hitter
    I have had that happen on certain threads in the last few week, where I can only read up to a certain page.
  11. a700hitter
    I agree, but it may not be enough.
  12. a700hitter
    I keep waiting for age to catch up to them and for them to crumble. Sooner or later it has to happen... No?
  13. a700hitter
    There is a painter who will paint rooms in your house or outside structures to look like Fenway. I saw some of the work in a magazine. It looked awesome. I'd like to have a den just for myself (some would call it a "man cave") painted to look like the left field wall. Unfortunately, we only have one den, and until now, my wife has had other decorating ideas.
  14. a700hitter
    I am not seeing the wisdom in this.
  15. a700hitter
    If Schilling sucked so bad against the Yankees, their fans would not despise him so much. Big Schill stuck it up their asses in some very memorable and painful ways.
  16. a700hitter
    His game has fallen off quite a bit, but I thought Fenway and a 1 year contract could breathe some life into him. Hopefully, he is on an exercise program this off season, because he could belly buck with Prince Fielder.
  17. a700hitter
    http://www.talksox.com/forum/talk-sox-forum/17106-sources-say-napoli-signs-sox-12.html#post814632 ^ I did give them credit for meeting their business plan.
  18. a700hitter
    I was not disagreeing with this^ at all.
  19. a700hitter
    It doesn't change my premise or conclusion.
  20. a700hitter
    Just a couple of comments on this post. First, why is it cutting it too fine to build a team to win 97 games, but picking a number like 95 is not too fine? That doesn't follow to me. Second, I for one never termed the organization's record as one of "failure". I don't think I made that characterization. However, there is plenty of evidence born out by the results that our FO was not building teams to beat the Yankees, our chief competitors. There are probably several examples of Theo saying that he didn't worry about what the Yankees were doing with moves and that it was an organizational goal to build a team that would win 95 games and be competitive. They have not demonstrated much ability to build teams to beat the Yankees. Under the new alignment that will be more important if we want to get more World Championship hardware.
  21. a700hitter
    People argued with my premise that they consciously did not plan to build the best team. That was my premise. I never said that their approach was not good enough to make the playoffs. Was the approach good enough to make the playoffs several seasons? Yes, but they weren't aiming to be the best team over the 162 game season, and they were the best team only once. Their target of 95 wins rarely would be the best record over those seasons, so IMO they were not aiming for first. People took exception to that. I stand by it. Yes, they made the playoffs, but they did not build those teams with a goal,of beating the Yankees, but rather to reach 95 wins which they should have realized had little chance of winning the Division. They pride themselves on sabremetrics. The numbers bear out that 95 wins was good enough less than 25% of the time.
  22. a700hitter
    Again, that was never my point that winning the division was the most important thing, so I am not the one taking us in the circle. A team's record over 162 games is the best gauge of how good the team is. The post season is a bit of a crapshoot. The record of our FO indicates that they have very rarely built the best team over a 162 game schedule. That's all I am saying. I am not making any argument valuing division titles over championships. I have made that clear over and over. Just making the playoffs was fine under the old alignment. Going forward, winning the division grows in importance, and our FO has shown little ability to achieve that goal.
  23. a700hitter
    The Yankees having more money is a cop out. The Sox have plenty of resources to be excellent. In one of the two seasons that the Yankees did not win the division, the Rays beat us out for the division, so money is not the reason. The 95 win target was too low IMO. It only won 3 divisions in 13 years. They used the wrong target.
  24. a700hitter
    Happy New Year to you and your family! Are you going to plan a trip to Fenway this coming season?
  25. a700hitter
    I think one of the weak points of the sabermetric approach is that it does not account for the dynamics of your opponents moves. I would build a team to be better than my competitors and let the wins come, rather than build a team based on WAR stats when your opponent has a superior team. Again, that's just me. One thing cannot be disputed, whatever approach the Yankees have taken, they have been far more successful than us.
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