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  1. a700hitter
    Over the last 2 years the Rangers let Cliff Lee and CJ Wilson walk. They were both aces for the Rangers. They got cut trying to convert Ogando last season and Feliz this season. They suffered an injury to Lewis and it all blew up in their faces.
  2. a700hitter
    Oakland led the league in runs scored after tha All Star break. They were killing it.
  3. a700hitter
    Better now than against the Yanks. He has choked his entire career against them.
  4. a700hitter
    No, those are the ones that they keep. They do a great job at pumping and dumping the rest.
  5. a700hitter
    The AL West was the much tougher division this season. Head to head, they kicked the crap out of the AL East.
  6. a700hitter
    At best, he will be a bull pen piece. The Dodgers have a long history of over-hyping and dumping prospects.
  7. a700hitter
    How would you go about rebuilding the team and what would be your time horizon for getting back to being a playoff team?
  8. a700hitter
    He may lose votes as a backlash for his DWI, but without that, it shouldn't be close. The Triple Crown hasn't been done in 45 years and his team is going to the playoffs. Ted Williams didn't win the MVP when he won the TC, and it was scandalous-- a Red Sox writer left him off the ballot completely. That was retribution for not cooperating with the press. Unless there is a backlash for the DWI, none of the other candidates should come close.
  9. a700hitter
    I believe that Piersall was diagnosed as a manic depressive-- a condition that is much more difficult to manage than an anxiety disorder which may never recur after treatment. He had a fairly extensive career with a fair bit of success, most of it in Boston.
  10. a700hitter
    That's your answer. You said that you would give me an answer. I guess you were just being snarky. What else is new. Here's a question for you. How many players have missed time from baseball due to an anxiety or orther mental disorder who came back to be very successful reliable players for several years who relapsed to miss substantial time years later? Here's another question for you. Do you know how many major league players are under medical treatment for conditions such as ADD, ADHD, OCD, depression etc. ? I know there are enough that their medications are excepted from baseballs banned substance program if they have a prescription for treatment. There are strict privacy laws in place so we would not know. We wouldn't know if any Red Sox have been or are currently treated for any of those conditions.
  11. a700hitter
    Jimmy Piersall.
  12. a700hitter
    Fenway is a small ballpark, very cozy. It shouldn't trigger Greinke's agoraphobia.
  13. a700hitter
    I don't think that Nava is an average major leaguer. Even if he his batting comes to major league averages, his other tools are well below average. He can't run or throw. Getting onbase is the one major league average tool that he has. The rest of his tools are below major league average. Overall, he is not a major league skill player, so your question has no applicability.
  14. a700hitter
    Is there a higher percentage of people that crack up in Boston than in other places? Too much is being made of this fear.
  15. a700hitter
    Cards are my 3rd favorite team for being our victim in 2004. I'll root for them. I hate the Braves.
  16. a700hitter
    Never believe anything you see in September. It is not reliable. The kid has heart but no tools.
  17. a700hitter
    You need to give it up if Doji bailed on the guy.
  18. a700hitter
    Season just ended the results are in that's how we determine results of polls like this. Duh.:thumbdown
  19. a700hitter
    5 of 6 against us is nothing to be proud of. They should have swept us.
  20. a700hitter
    As for the A's, you don't need an ace if all of your 6 starters have sub 4 ERAs with 4 of the 6 with ERAs under 3.5. Good luck building that. As for the Rangers, Matt Harrison pitched more than 200 innings and Darvish had 191 innings. Both had ERAs under 4 and their team won aq greater percentage of games that they started than games they didn't start. That fits my definition right there. The O's didn't need a single ace, because 3 of their 5 starters had ERA lower that 3.5 and 5 bullpen guys with sub 3 ERAs-- 4 of those 5 had ERAs under 2.5. That's a lot of good arms. It's easier to build around a big ace like Duke did with Pedro. What he has done in Baltimore is much more difficult.
  21. a700hitter
    He pitched 45 2/3 innings. The over/under was set pretty spot on. I should be an odds maker when I retire.
  22. a700hitter
    He went through a very rough period, and he is apparently stronger for it as he has done very well. Being on a major league mound is pressure. He has handled it quite well. He has been in pennant races and pitched in a big market and been successful. People need to stop making him out to be a mental case. He's not. Manny Ramirez was a mental case. Alfredo Aceves is a mental case. Carl Everett was a mental case. Boston didn't affect their performance. Greinke will go somewhere else and be a top pitcher and people here are proposing to sign broken down warhorses who had off seasons. I don't get it.
  23. a700hitter
    Mike Lowell. I don't know if he has been mentioned or if he would be interested, but he would command respect. Guys would play for him.
  24. a700hitter
    He doesn't have enough major league talent to stay at this level on a good team. If he is on our 25 man roster, it will be one tip off that we are not very good again. Even Doji gave up on the guy.
  25. a700hitter
    I think they let him stay. We banned Red Sox fans who said that the team sucked.:dunno:
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