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Two points: 1. At least Ben only spends $1.5 on his bag of trash. Theo spent $12.5 million on his dumpster diving before the 2009 season. ($5 million for Smoltz, $5 million for Penny and $2.5 for Baldelli). That was truly a ridiculous amount of money to spend on those moves. 2. Keith Foulke had a devastating changeup. That was his out pitch, and it was a plus plus pitch. He only threw the fastball and changeup and his fast ball was nothing special. Bowden has no plus pitches. He stinks. He should not take up a roster spot. Some day he may be a decent middle of the bullpen reliever, but let someone else train him to reach his potential as middle bullpen garbage. DFA him and take the risk that someone else wants him, and if someone else grabs him, pray like hell that our lineup has the chance to face him. This is a case where stats are used to mislead. Bowden is not Keith Foulke. The only thing the two of them have in common is that both were one 24 years old.
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Millwood is better.
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But by the time Bowden is the age Foulke was when he won the Rolaids Relief award he may not be throwing that hard any more. My recollection is that Foulke's velocity diminished throughout his career. Foulke also had a deadly change up that Bowden doesn't have.
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Didn't Foulke throw a little harder than Bowden early in his career?
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I thought the compensation was Theo's agreement not to hire someone from the Red Sox for 2-3 years.
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with guys like Ellsbury, Crawford and Pedroia, Bobby V will run a lot. Unlike Tito who was math challenged to the point that he can't compute a tip on a bill, Bobby V. will know the pitchers times to the plate and the runners times and the success rate will remain very high and there will be a lot more steals. HE'll also know the those numbers on defense, and we will see pitch outs, slide steps etc.
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The lemonade would have to be warm, and I wouldn't take a chance drinking it.
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Some of them really stink.
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They need to let go of trash like Atchinson and Bowden. No one is going to give you anything for them.
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I agree completely. I hold out some hope that Benny Boy has a rabbit in his hat.
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I believe that is a mistake. They risk damaging the reputation of the franchise.
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But we have missed the playoffs 2 straight years already. If I am the owners and I am spending a ton for payroll, I don't think I would be unreasonable if I expected to make the playoffs at least once in 3 years.
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And Bill James works for the Sox. The mistake that the Sox have made is that the point of the statistical studies was that stolen bases are not a very valuable offensive weapon. Part of the reason why was because of the risk of getting thrown out and losing a base runner. Those results of those studies would be quite different if you virtually eliminated the risk of being thrown out. The Red Sox perverted the results of those studies by applying it to the defensive strategy de-emphasizing the importance of controlling the running game. By lowering the risk of throwing out opposing runners, stealing ases became a very viable and valuable strategy for beating the Red Sox. One of the dangers of arming baseball coaches and managers with advanced statistics is that they are not a very intelligent group, and they are likely to misuse them. It's kind of like letting a chimp fly a fighter jet.
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There is about a month left to go before pitchers and catchers have to report. There isn't a lot of time left to finalize the roster and Ben has about 4 moves to makes. The starting pitcher is the most critical. If they are going after a pitcher of the caliber of Pat Maholm, Ben and the FO is taking a big risk on the season, and I think is unlikely that they will be in the post season in 2012. Too many things would have to break right for the team to make a run at the post season. Usually, not everything goes right.
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The earliest he could be ready would be in the second half, but there are usually some setbacks. It's more likely that he will not throw a pitch for the Red Sox until September if at all.
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I guess the Cubs will be ripping off SD for years, until he gets fired by SD and Theo hires him.
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He's not as good now, because he has not been able to stay on the field throughout a whole season.
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This is a great point. Those guys will not clog our future.
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I didn't think that he was.
