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An injury to Salty or Shoppach prior to March 1st would have resulted in Tek wearing a Sox uni in spring training. As for Wake, after seeing how poorly the back of the rotation guys performed in spring training, he probably regrets not suiting up. He has a very big ego despite his nice-guy public image. They left the decision up to the players. If one or both of them had shown up, it would have been a fiasco. As of the opening of camp, neither had turned down the offer. Bobby V had to hit them over the head for them to wake up and see the reality.
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Wake was in Ft. Myers testing the waters right from the beginning, and maybe one or both of them would have suited up had it not been for Bobby V saying that neither had a chance of making the team. A team doesn't usually cut ties with players by offering them minor league contracts. It wasn't as tinfoil as you think.
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Wake and Tek were offered minor league contracts and invitations to Spring Training.
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So, the additional 10 saves don't have value to you. To each his own. The late innings will be very uncomfortable for us as fans this season. I have no doubt about that. We've been spoiled by the stability that the 2 studs Papelbon and Bard have given us over the years.
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I think they are arguing out of both sides of their mouth on this one. I don't know what they gain in the discussion by establishing that last year's pen wasn't bad when the two biggest cogs from that pen are no longer in the pen. It certainly doesn't help the Papelbon isn't worth the money argument, especially when we pay a slug like Lackey even more than Papelbon gets. I wonder how the 2011 pen's stats look without Bard and Papelbon.
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He didn't want to be here, because they didn't want to pay him and made no attempt to sign him. Bailey
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But Bailey is so cheap at $4 million.
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A thumb injury, depending on how severe can keep a pitcher out for an extended period. Bailey, at 40 innings like has averaged over the last few seasons, is not something that will be good for this team.
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Just a thumb?
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I agree that Bard should be going back to the pen. The problem is Bard wants to be a starter, and he'll be an unhappy camper in the pen. From what I am hearing, Aceves was quite unhappy to be going back to the pen. The whole Bard and Aceves to the rotation plan had too much downside an too little upside. It was a very bad idea. Neither shot the lights out as starters. The better of the two-- Aceves-- is going back to the pen. The more dominant reliever-- Bard -- is staying in the rotation-- for now. The pen has been weakened tremendously and the improvement to the rotation by Bard is questionable at this point.
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In his process of rebuilding, Theo has given Cub fans nothing worth watching in 2012. They are loyal fans, but the Cubs have always had a few stars to excite their fans even when the team sucked. This team has nothing. It will be interesting to see how they do with their attendance.
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Red Sox 2012 fearless prediction thread
a700hitter replied to RedSoxfanforlife305's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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This thumb injury to Bailey is turning out to be a chronic thing? Isn't this something he had at the beginning of camp?
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It's a so-so pen with Bailey. Without him, it is very weak. There isn't a single major arm in the pen without him. The starters are going to need to go deep into games.
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Red Sox 2012 fearless prediction thread
a700hitter replied to RedSoxfanforlife305's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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Did Dice K pitch?
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U.N. must be a real prick to work for. I've known a lot of tough corporate managers in my career that micromanaged and closely supervised. I worked for a non-tax guy a few years ago that tried that on me. I told him that I wouldn't stand for it from someone who didn't understand my area of expertise, so I invited him to get comfortable with my level of competence by talking to my clients and then to leave me alone. Most people don't have that luxury. He would have loved to fire me, but he couldn't. He respects me for having stood up to him, but he was the type of person that hated losing and anything other than full subjugation is losing for him. Every hard ass manager that I have met in my long career had their careers end prematurely by getting their throats cut, and people loved seeing them get theirs.
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He finished the Spring with a 6.57 ERA, and that was after throwing 3 scoreless frames in his first 2 outings. It was a disappointing Spring forBard, but he was improving at the end.
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Toward what end?
