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  1. a700hitter
    With short termers, no season should be dropped. Otherwise, it is just playing games. Edit: Haven't you heard of the Sophomore Slump? It is a common thing for players to take a step back after some success.
  2. a700hitter
    Good point. He is an admitted apologist and as such should be eating crow as the FO took hours to decide that Farrell had to go, so the consensus must have been that he was doing a s***** job. I have edited my post accordingly.
  3. a700hitter
    Good to know. I will point out when you are going down those bad paths.
  4. a700hitter
    Should we also drop out their peak year? I don't believe in cherry picking stats like that. Your career average is your career average. Good years will bring it up and bad years will have it decline, but it is all the player's career.
  5. a700hitter
    His OPS was 2 points below his career average. I think you are overstating it.
  6. a700hitter
    I did not expect Farrell to get fired until I listened to him being savaged on WEEI. They seemed to have inside information that he had very bad standing in the clubhouse.
  7. a700hitter
    I like Moon. Ask him if he likes me. LOL!!! It is not about the posters. It's about the posts.
  8. a700hitter
    I agree with your assessment, although I don't think XB's season was such a decline. I think this might be what he is. The big mistake by the FO was thinking that as a group they would all take a leap forward enough to cover for Papi leaving. I called that out as a mistaken assumption well before the season started.
  9. a700hitter
    This is true.
  10. a700hitter
    Hey back to back last place finishes and back to back Division titles in 4 years will be hard to match.
  11. a700hitter
    About now, all the Farrell apologists should be eating some crow or have egg on their faces or some other appropriate idiom. LOL!!!
  12. a700hitter
    Pablo underperformed? He didn't perform at all, but we should have expected that. Bradley didn't under perform. His OPS of .726 is exactly his career average Bogaerts didn't under perform by much .746 OPS vs a .748 career OPS Vasquez over performed .735 OPS vs. .666 career OPS Nunez our Trade Deadline pickup OPS'd at .892 Pedroia and Hanley were injured Every year some guys over perform and some under perform due to injury or otherwise. It was not as one-sided as you make it seem. The big loss was losing a Hall of Fame bat and not replacing it.
  13. a700hitter
    At least Tony C. got to play in the Bigs and play in All Star games etc. Yes, his story was tragic, but at least it was due to a game injury. Westmoreland's career was ended by a freak devastating physical abnormality. It was such a cruel twist of fate.
  14. a700hitter
    CC had his last hurrah. It was very unexpected. Tanaka was very inconsistent this year, and when he was bad, he was awful. Gray is not a solid #2. I am glad that you are comfortable moving forward with this group. i would not be comfortable with them.
  15. a700hitter
    I am glad that he is starting to move on and find something positive in life, but to me it is just a very, very sad story to have everything snatched away so irretrievably at such a young age.
  16. a700hitter
    There were other articles during this season about how he had wanted to sign with Boston but never even got a call from them. It was pretty well known that Encarnacion loved playing in Fenway and Big Papi was lobbying the FO to sign him as his replacement.
  17. a700hitter
    I understand. You are all giddy right now, but your team has gone very far with very marginal starting pitching.
  18. a700hitter
    I was wondering about that same question about Porcello. I think it was an historic fall off.
  19. a700hitter
    We should start a petition to send to DD urging him not to hire Ausmus. He is awful.
  20. a700hitter
    Those are nothing compared to what I have stored up for the Red Sox who thought they would cruise this year and under performed throughout the season while a less talented younger Yankee team ate their lunch whenever they squared off and who came back from a 0-2 hole against the hottest team in baseball bailing out their manager. Our guys couldn't get it done as our offense was hapless. A $200 million banjo hitting lineup. Note to DD: Everyone knows that the power hitters make the big money. How is it that you spent so much money on a bunch of singles hitters? Home Run Hitters drive Cadillacs. That was a saying from the 1950's. Today they drive Lambos.
  21. a700hitter
    He's a nice trade chip, and we have Betts for CF. I would part with any of the killer B's except Betts, who I would tell to lose the gold shoes and the bling and cut it out with the pinch of salt. He isn't yet Big Papi. He has had 1 big year. If he wants to make the big bucks, he has to string together a few great seasons.
  22. a700hitter
    I am still pissed about missing out on Encarnacion for chump change. f*** the reset. Gold Glove Moreland had a bigger offer from the Guardians and DD wooed him to Boston, not realizing that EE's price would be so reasonable.
  23. a700hitter
    DD fired JF quickly. He was not taking any chance of a cancer recurrence.
  24. a700hitter
    Dynasty? LOL!! The boss is dead. The boys will rest on their laurels if they win this year. I am hoping that they get to the WS and lose. Hank will assume that he has a young team on the rise and will mainly stand pat with no major moves. The young guys will start to believe their press clippings, enjoy the banquet circuit, and next year the pitchers will adjust to them and they will come out flat. Their will be no Dynasty. Once and done, if that.
  25. a700hitter
    And he acts quickly, almost impulsively.
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