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  1. a700hitter
    You are right. Hitters like Mauer could wake from a coma at age 40 and go out and rope 3 hits in a games. Running to first would be the challenge for him. People who have not watched him a lot can't appreciate the kind of hitter that he is. Numbers on paper just don't tell the full story. This guy has had that same sweet swing since he was in the minors. I remember when the Twins had 3 or 4 Mauers in the organization (one was a pitcher I think). I saw the other one play a few innings at 3B in spring training once, but I don't remember seeing him hit. He was a skinny young kid, and I remember wondering if he shared any of his brothers hitting talent. Talent like Joey M's is rare and I never saw or heard of the brother again.
  2. a700hitter
    Good pitching costs money and the Red Sox are very short on good pitching. It would be helpful if they did not sign a pitcher with known arm troubles. As for pitchers acquired by the Sox for big contracts, they really have not done too much of that . The last 2 pitchers that they acquired in that manner were Dice K who had never thrown a major league pitch and Lackey who had known elbow issues. It's not like they made ver wise choices.
  3. a700hitter
    They took on $260 million in payroll and they had Punto leadoff. Wow, that doesn't add up. I hope they enjoy the costly slow-footed singles hitting first baseman that they got from us.
  4. a700hitter
    Greinke has looked pretty good. He is doing well for the Angels. Lester is at most a # 3 for next season.
  5. a700hitter
    I agree. Those guys are very ordinary. The next Ozzie Smith has done little to impress me. Maybe he should start doing back flips.
  6. a700hitter
    No, it is not a contradiction. The $20 million dollar players did not hurt the team performance. It was the pitchers who sucked ass. They did not make $20 million.
  7. a700hitter
    They didn't lose this season because of the $20 million ballplayers. They lost because the pitching sucked balls. They didn't have the payroll flexibility to rebuild the pitching unless they unloaded some payroll. In order to get rid of Beckett, they had to part with AGon. They forced CC on the Dodgers because they don't need 2 speedy base stealers. The problem wasn't the 20 million dollar guys, so I don't think they will hesitate to spend $ to rebuild.
  8. a700hitter
    Lackey is back?
  9. a700hitter
    It's just so hard to watch.
  10. a700hitter
    It's amazing to me that the Sox are among the worst teams in baseball. You have to really suck to be out of contention in August when there are 2 Wild Card spots available. We may not be a last place team, but that is only because Toronto lost their entire team to injury. We are definitely closer to a last place team than a playoff team. I guess those people who declared that we are not a last place team were right in a way, but they were way wrong about being a competitive team. The 2012 team is so bad that they are incapable of being even a good spoiler down the stretch like the 2011 Orioles. The 2012 Red Sox are patsies-- a team against which other teams can fatten their records and batting averages. We have pulled many teams out of slumps this season. Am I excited about a high draft pick? No, I never want to have a high draft pick, because it means you suck and had no interesting baseball to watch for an entire season. Also, our guys are horrible talent evaluators. Benny thought Zach Stewart will be a big league starter for goodness sakes. Any team that he starts for will be a very bad team.
  11. a700hitter
    Plus, he has hit admirably in his MLB opportunities. I think that he has more power than Youk. I am not sold on Morales as a regular rotation guy. If we get 2 legitimate good starters to go with Buchholz and L ester, you would pick Morales over Doubront and Lackey? I am not disagreeing. I'm just not sold on him. When you have a loved one with a terminal illness, it still sucks when they die. Sure I knew the Sox had little hope from the get go, but the wheels fell off rather quickly.
  12. a700hitter
    My God, we are in for some long off season. It's not even September and our season is over. Horrible just horrible.
  13. a700hitter
    Pods brings a lot of tools and professionalism to the team.
  14. a700hitter
    This season has been about the pitching. None of the injuries hurt the run production much except for Ortiz's injury, and by that time it was too late.
  15. a700hitter
    ^ This is why I call myself the King. I have to start breaking my rule about not betting against the Red Sox when something like this is just so obvious.
  16. a700hitter
    I was waiting for you to weigh in. You are the one TalkSox member that has seen the most of this guy. I agre that he is an outstanding hitter. He had one tough season where he had that weird condition where he was fatigued for a while. Other than that, this guy is a hitting machine.
  17. a700hitter
    This is the bag of trash that we got for Youkilis. People shouldn't be expecting too much. At least we won't have to stay up late tonight.
  18. a700hitter
    ^ When will people start using my knowledge to make some money.
  19. a700hitter
    He doesn't have to hit a lot, but he needs to show something. He hasn't even shown the ability to move runners along.
  20. a700hitter
    No, basically, what I said is that I'd like for him to start hitting. That was the essence of my statement. If he doesn't hit, he has no value to us or anyone else.
  21. a700hitter
    That's not what I said or meant. He is an asset. Hopefully, he can be the SS of the future, but the truth is that if he never shows anything with the bat, he will not be the SS of the future and he will have little trade value. I want them to maximize that asset whether it be by playing SS for the Sox or as a trade chip. I don't know what direction the Sox will take. Maybe they are going to kick the tires on Reyes, in which case they would like to move Igelsias for some value. As far as Iglesias being the first guy in a long time that resembles a major league SS, I have to say that I have seen them both, and Ciriaco is pretty darn slick at SS too.
  22. a700hitter
    He could share catching and 1B to keep his bat in the lineup. I'd have him catch 60-70 games and play the rest of the time at 1B, sharing it with Gomez or some other right handed batter.
  23. a700hitter
    Is that what I said?
  24. a700hitter
    At $23 million/year, they should eat some contract, because he is not a power hitter. I think we would be unleashing an offensive beast at Fenway if we got him. This guy has a career OBP over .400.
  25. a700hitter
    I really hope that iglesias starts to show something with the bat in September if for nothing else than to establish some trade value.
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