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In the case of Papelbon's peripherals and the so-called pattern of decline in those statistics.
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His argument has no merit. It is a theory without anything to back it up.
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He doesn't scare me at all. As for his higher BB/9 than Mo, he makes up for it with higher k/9 numbers. What would scare me would be if he wasn't on the mound holding the ball at the end of the game. This guy is great, and he finds out how to get it done. He's $ in the bank year in and year out with no slippage in the important categories.
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I still pray for the ball to get into Papelbon's hand, because i am confident that he will lock it down-- as confident as ever.
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Possible but unlikely. Pedroia, Youk, and Papelbon will make the squad and possibly one or two starters. They will not take another Sox player. Edit: Alberto Callaspo of KC is likely to get the nod ahead of Beltre too.
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...and that will be a damned shame. I hope he signs for an NL team if he leaves so he doesn't stick it up our ass 5 or 6 times a year.
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Which third baseman stays home: ARod or Longoria?
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Yes, we must be alert to the trend of excellence. The warning signs are there. He'll suck in 15 years.
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Many would say that Dice K is toast too.
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2010 is not a valid comparable. As for the other trends, those are all really good numbers. Even the incomparable, Mo had a few years where his WHIP exceeded 1.1 and he had several years where his WHIP exceeded 1. He also had a four year stretch early in his career frm 1999-2002 where his k's/9 were 5.6, 6.9, 6.8 and 6.8. Was that a trend of bad things?
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He's still excellent. No one is the the same pitchers after 4 or 5 years and batters are constantly making adjustments. Closers have the advantage of hitters not seeing them a whole lot, so it takes longer to make adjustments to them than to a starting pitcher. The guys from teams in his own division see him more and they have made the adjustments quicker than the rest of the league. Papelbon has been making adjustments too. Anyone who thinks that Mo hasn't made adjustments throughout the years is just kidding themselves. His bread and butter is still the cut fastball that goes away from righties and in to lefties, but that is not all he throws. He's developed a two seamer that runs the opposite way. There were years where he used a 4 seamer a lot. The great ones adjust as they go along and continue to get excellent results. They are concerned with results not peripherals.
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Papelbon doesn't have to revert to anything. He's better than most of the best, and that's all he needs to be. Any change in his stats probably reflect the fact of adjustments by opposing batters to him and vice versa. They don't reflect a diminishing ability. They just don't as his results are consistently excellent, and that's what matters, not peripherals.
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Quick question regarding players addresses
a700hitter replied to Migual Cabrera 2 sox 2009's topic in Other Sports
One of the few autographs that I have obtained in person is Michael Irvin's. Here's how it happened. It might work for you. We went to this place called the Dallas Cowboy Cafe. It's owned by two former Cowboys, and many of the Cowboys are there on Thursday night. I went there years ago when Irvin was still playing. A civilian (i.e. Non football player) is not to engage or bother a player in any way or you will be thrown out. At closing time, we went over to Michael's table and mentioned to one of the ladies that our kids were big fans. He wouldn't even look at us, even though he heard the conversation. We asked her if she thought he would give us an autograph. She tapped him on the arm and asked him to give us an autograph. He was not too pleased, but he was not at all nasty about it. He signed with his jersey #. The owners came over as we were getting the autograph and asked us to leave. We got it and left. Good luck. -
He wants money. He has to go. Moonball Bard is the Red Sox closer of the future.
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If he ends up with an OPS around .800 with 30 + bombs that is pretty good productivity.
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f*** Papelbon! If he wants money, get rid of him. So what that he is the all-time team leader in saves and that he is in his prime. Saves is a meaningless category.
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Ortiz with 3 HRs in his last 4 games and people want to cut him and bring up a minor leaguer. Unbelievable. He has 3 more HRs than at this point last season.
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I hope the big guy has a big game tonight and gets on a roll, especially going into the Yankee series. Last year, he hit 2 HRs off Burnett.
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I really can't get excited about a report that says "possible but unlikely". I have a lot of trouble getting by the "unlikely" part. Scott Boras is no doubt ecstatic about the Red Sox recent troubles. Ellsbury's market value has gone up with each loss.
