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  1. a700hitter
    if Kelly is throwing strikes, I would try to get 2 innings out of him in each outing.
  2. a700hitter
    I don't see Moose signing ahead of going to free agency. If it happened, it would solve our 3B problem for a few years, but I don't see it happening.
  3. a700hitter
    i didn't know that midnight meals were common there. Full meals or just snacks?
  4. a700hitter
    Much better. Kendrick is a known bum who is past a very meh prime.
  5. a700hitter
    You should look up iortiz while you are there. I am not sure if he still lives there.
  6. a700hitter
    This signing was a zero.
  7. a700hitter
    Again, I agree. They need to swap roles.
  8. a700hitter
    Agreed. They all follow a script. It is the easy thing to do.
  9. a700hitter
    I thought I heard that part of it was lasting effects from that really bad flu that went around the clubhouse early in the season.
  10. a700hitter
    Howie Kendrick should be very cheap and he is an excellent professional hitter.
  11. a700hitter
    It looks like a pattern to me.
  12. a700hitter
    Farrell surprisingly completely outmanaged Matheny in that World Series. I have acknowledged that previously. His use of the pen in that post season was excellent. Maybe Francona learned from him, and Farrell re-learned it from Francona. He certainly forgot how to do it last year as he never did it with Kimbrel.
  13. a700hitter
    They had a lot of talent. It is not like he took a bunch of journeymen to the playoffs. That is my only point. The Yankees fell apart that season as they changed managers, and the Red Sox played a big chunk of the stretch drive without Beckett who then got injured in the playoffs. It was a best case scenario for Maddon's young squad. He deserves credit for keeping that young group together and engaged. I think he helped them believe in themselves, but there was a lot of talent on that squad and his subsequent teams. After going to the WS, they developed a cockiness as a squad with Longo as the leader.
  14. a700hitter
    He had Kimbrel last year, but never gave it a thought to use him in the 8th inning until he saw Francona's success last year. Managers are great at copycat-ing success being whether it be going to 1 inning dedicated closers, using shifts etc.
  15. a700hitter
    Certainly they would not have been a favorite to go to the WS, but they were a very talented team. And they would not have gone to the WS if Beckett didn't get injured in the playoffs.
  16. a700hitter
    I am going to lower my expectations of what he will contribute. I remember eagerly anticipating John Smoltz joining our staff and having setback after setback and then he was a complete failure.
  17. a700hitter
    He does seem to have a good rapport with his teams. Also, the teams in TB that overperformed had some very good talent. Check out the rosters starting in 2008. They had a lot of talent. In 2006 and 2007, when they had no talent, his teams were miserable losing 101 games and 86 games.
  18. a700hitter
    Didnt Smith have another setback?
  19. a700hitter
    Francona also used Allen for more than one inning several times last post season and he flip flopped Allen and Miller at least once that I can recollect. Francona didn't do this with the Red Sox because he had startersthat could go deep into games in the post season, so he didn't need to do it very much. The 2016 Guardians had one reliable starter so he had to improvise.
  20. a700hitter
    i don't believe Maddon's press clipping although he surely does. Any manager that hands in a lineup card listing 2 third basemen resulting in the loss of the DH for the game falls short of the greatness bar. Also, his mismanagement of the bullpen in game 7 of the World Series would have had him wearing the goats horns if his team didn't bail him out. Bochy may be the top manager in the game today. I agree with you about him.
  21. a700hitter
    I don't do what you want me to do. I love Terry Francona. He is my favorite Red Sox manager and the team was very successful when he was manager. He certainly wasn't a bad manager imo, but he is not a great manager imo. In my judgment the list of truly great managers is very short.
  22. a700hitter
    He isn't much of a thinker. He doesn't tailor his moves to game situations or player abilities. Heck, he never used a closer in the 8th inning until he saw the success that Francona had using Miller when the game was on the line.
  23. a700hitter
    Speaking as a lawyer, the stereotype is well-earned, but there are exceptions.
  24. a700hitter
    It was such a silly question that I assumed it was a rhetorical question.
  25. a700hitter
    Lately, he has been our second best starter.
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