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    It would have been nice if they acquired one with a reliable track record. Melancon had one good half of one season. He would have been a nice under the radar acquisition to handle the 7th inning but not as the first option for the 8th inning.
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    I really don't think much of Melancon at all. His stuff is underwhelming. I am not closing the book on him, because I always thought that Foulke's stuff was under whelming, but he had great command and a great out pitch (his changeup) that batters could never identify. Maybe he will be a similar pitcher. Bailey is pretty good when healthy, but IMO not a Papelbon or bard.
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    I could buy Melancon as a plausible 6th or 7th inning guy, but after seeing his stuff I am not seeing him as even a plausible 8th inning guy. What does "plausible" mean in this context anyway. I want reliability in my 8th and 9th inning guys. He has questionable stuff and he has had a good half of one season, so I don't know if that equates to reliable. Plausible to me means possible. Possible is not good enough for me when I hand a guy the ball in the 8th.
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    It's tough to pitch with the shits.
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    I disagree with this. There is no way that Bailey and Melancon would replace Bard and Papelbon. Those guys shortened the games to 7 innings. They were as shutdown a duo as any in the game. With Bard's ability to go 2 innings on a occasion, a lot of games were shortened to 6 innings. As for the contingency plan for Bailey's injury, if there is one, I think it will develop on the fly. I don't think there is any plan right now.
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    Bingo. There is no getting around that. The pitching crapped out at the end of last year. It was as if all their tires went flat. Buchholz coming back was not going to fix the whole mess. The rotation had two empty spots. They tried to fill them internally, which really is hard to understand, because if we had the solutions in-house, why weren't they tapped down the stretch in 2011? New blood was needed. None was obtained. Some relics were brought in to shore up leaks if they happened, but they never addressed the big holes. They have put themselves in a position where they have very little margin for injury or under performance. Right out of the gate, the only big piece that they acquired (Bailey) goes down basically for the season leaving us with no margin for further injury or under performance. Is it likely that neither of those things will happen? Answers to that may vary.
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    The guy wants to start. The Sox committed to giving him a chance. I think he's in the rotation until he pitches himself out of it.
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    I don't remember him being a soft tosser.
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    I noticed that Kershaw left today's game after 3 innings. What was the story behind that?
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    He got through 5 innings and he looked pretty good . I was at the game. He was at 88-89 consistently.
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    He was an exceptional fielder whaen he was with the Sox. He made plays that Shortstops on the Sox haven't made in recent memory or before his arrival for that matter.
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    If Cafardo is Bobby V's mouthpiece Bard will probably be on a short leash as a starter.
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    Iortiz and I were pretty much on an island by ourselves at the time. I also said several times that if they recovered enough to make the playoffs that there would be no basis for criticism. So, the bolded part is just talking through your hat. I am not looking for a pissing contest with you so let's just end it. You are short on facts and spoiling for a fight. I'm not interested.:thumbdown
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    BTW, I am on record taking the position that our starting staff is not 8 deep. I don't want to be accused of 20-20 hindsight if 1 or more black holes crop up in the rotation due to injury.
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    Well, there were a lot of people here that weren't as smart as blind baboons according to your assessment, because they were arguing with me and others right to the last week of the season. Let me address your snark, by assuring you that I was not patting myself on the back. I took offense to the accusation of complaining with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight. I complain from the get go if I don't like a move or the configuration of our roster. Just because my complaints turn out to be right doesn't make the complaint hind sight.
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    UN really has an obsession with A700... don't ya think?
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    With 2 wild card spots, a lot more teams will be alive and in the playoff hunt at the trading deadline. There will be many more buyers than sellers than in past seasons. It will be very difficult to build during the season.
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    I did in the Bold Predictions thread. I had the wrong body part though.
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    I am in complete agreement with this. The FO made all the wrong moves and no-moves that could have been made down the stretch. Their bumbling became an embarrassment as they were scrambling in the last week of the season to pick up Bruce Chen and Chris Capuano during the final weekend.
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