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  1. a700hitter
    A team with the Red Sox resources should have a farm system that is in everyone's top 10. We don't.
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    It's a partial grade, a progress report. That's what happens in the real world. People get feedback along the way. Bosses don't wait until a year long project is finished before giving feedback. We comment on player's slow starts or fast starts all the time even though their final stats look very different. The local papers post partial report cards in every sport for the Boston teams. I am surprised that grading a GM's offseason moves seems so novel to people when we debate their each and every move all the time.
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    The whole namby pamby and pollyanna thing in this thread started because Bellhorn04 called himself a namby pamby and a pollyanna. The only people called cowards were those who voted an A but who did not explain or defend it. An A grade obviously had to be the result of trolling. Kudos to Emmz to copping to her trolling A. The other A trolls are still unidentified.
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    You have a dozen posts and you have been talking trash and trolling since your first post. Plenty of people here talk trash, but they also contribute baseball knowledge. Post something about baseball or enjoy your status as a board troll for a short period before you get banned. It's your choice.
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    You, we call Troll. Post something about baseball or get lost.
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    From Websters: Idiot-- the favorite adjective of UN is defined by Websters as: I'll leave it to you to determine which is more personally insulting. Would you be insulted if someone said you were too nice?
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    He's Johnny Troll talking trash with his first post. It's likely that he's an alter-ego of one of our past or present psychotic posters. He'll flame out pretty fast.
  14. a700hitter
    It's hard to choose. If I get to see AGon hit for 20-30 minutes up close, I might be able to take a position on that one.
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    This is sad.
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    The Buchholz situation is a glass half full/half empty scenario. I don't think that even his doctors are certain whether the condition will recur, so I don't think it is unduly pessimistic to acknowledge questions about his health and durability. Similarly, if the condition doesn't recur and he stays healthy, I don't think it unreasonably optimistic to expect 180 innings from him. I believe in hoping for the best, but planning for the worst. Ben didn't plan for the bad IMO.
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    I gave him a B+ for the bullpen moves, but they were overshadowed by a huge bungle with the arbitration offer to Ortiz and not filling the team's primary need -- a reliable starting pitcher. Also, he gets a downgrade for salary dumping Scutaro. It doesn't matter if Iglesias makes the team, which it is sounding like he will not, because Scutaro would have been a better utility guy than Punto. Getting a closer was not that hard. There were plenty available, and the one he got has a history of elbow problems. If the Sox hadn't crumbled so badly last year, I would have grade him a C, but in the wake of that collapse, I felt there was a need to taker bolder action. They need to rebound from last season. My D was not disingenuous at all. I am surprised that no one gave him an F based solely on the fact that he didn't address the team's primary need. The so-called negative contingent showed fairness and restraint. The grade that is disingenuous are the A's. He missed an A solely on the Ortiz bungle. The people who voted an A know they have nothing to back it up, so they didn't even bother to try.
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    I think you are seizing on the calendar aspect when the point is about repetitive workload and wear and tear. There are lots of theories about pitchers having down years after seasons where their workloads have been heavy. Omar Minaya used to build his bullpen by acquiring relievers with past success who had a down season the prior year. He felt that their value was low and there was a history of relief pitchers rebounding. I never agreed with his theory and I don't think it worked very well, but that was his theory-- an alternate, year theory if you will. Beckett has had a history of having down alternate years. They just so happen to fall in even calendar years. It is not the calendar year that is the causation, but the workload and stress from the prior year that would be the cause under this theory, but I am pretty sure that you knew that. Leprechauns and Easter Bunnies have nothing to do with it.
  20. a700hitter
    A stress injury seems to be a wear and tear issue as opposed to a freak occurrence like an impact injury. They don't know how the stress fracture occurred, so they don't know if they have eliminated the cause of the injury.
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    Based on the votes, that seems to be the average grade.
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    I'll take him. He's better than anything we have that will pitch in our 5th hole this season.
  25. a700hitter
    He knew it was a guaranteed raise. The free agent market was not going to result in a raise. Sure he knew it.
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