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  1. a700hitter
    Take it up with SoxHop. Come June each year he is not an every day player. Don't ever pick him up for your fantasy teams. he doesn't get regular ABs
  2. a700hitter
    And sometimes the starter has to take one for the team, but it is frustrating to watch, and it is amusing that 7 seems to be the magic number.
  3. a700hitter
    I would agree that he was the best in my lifetime. He was also my favorite. He doesn't get a free pass from second guessing or criticism. No one does. As far as being smarter than someone, it has nothing to do with how many years one has watched baseball
  4. a700hitter
    That is because of his shoulder issues. It wasn't the intent going into the season. And he had better be able to play 1B soon, because Moreland has a history of slumping and getting benched. SoxHop confirmed that has been the script when he was in Texas.
  5. a700hitter
    SSS, and he has a career OPS of .824. and .349 OBP versus .755 and .317 for Moreland
  6. a700hitter
    I get that the starting pitching has been improved. I have never said otherwise. IMO, the team is unbalanced and DD didn't adequately address the needs of the offense because imo he didn't want a dedicated DH. If he traded our top prospect to get Sale, because he viewed Sale as the final piece of the puzzle, he was wrong. There was huge missing piece on the offense. If you are going to go for it all now, you need to do a better job to fill the holes.
  7. a700hitter
    The 7 run rule was an unwritten Francona rule. I pointed it out and coined the phrase and it was confirmed time and again. I had only been watching baseball for 40 years when we got Francona. As far as second guessing Francona or any manager, it doesn't take a lot high voltage brain activity to realize that some of what they do is not very smart.
  8. a700hitter
    We don't. I love hate speech especially about baseball.
  9. a700hitter
    SSS all. And $5.5 million would have been saved on Moreland. Were we only $7 1/2 million from the luxury tax? Napoli is getting $6 million.
  10. a700hitter
    The post was by YOTN was an overreaction, slightly condescending and pissy. Boxmal is a baseball treasure. I like having someone on the board who has seen Lefty Grove pitch. He hasn't caused any problems on the board. He should get some deference,
  11. a700hitter
    I think there were many options for a big bat for 1, 2 or 3 year commitments at a reasonable cost (EE, Napoli, Beltran, Holliday off the top of my head). None of them would have blocked Devers.
  12. a700hitter
    He was overworked to the point where he was no longer effective.
  13. a700hitter
    We also had an MVP season from Betts, a big comeback season from Hanley (his first full season since 2012), a .310 season from Leon, a .999 OPS season from Young against lefties. Pedroia had his best season in 5 years. There was plenty of reason to think that the loss of Ortiz would be magnified by other regressions including Bradley's 2016 not being a breakout year where hhis career did not turn a corner but rather just a peak around the corner.
  14. a700hitter
    The additional cost is way overstated by you. The throwing s*** at the wall theory that you put forth is very risky and it fails to find a dominant closer most of the time.
  15. a700hitter
    I think he built an unbalanced team. There was plenty of opportunity to improve the offense, but he didn't. He neglected the offense.
  16. a700hitter
    After his hot streak would end, he would eventually get benched. It was the same script each year.
  17. a700hitter
    I think that the expectations started getting out of hand. There have been comparisons to Yaz, Boggs, Lynn etc. That is jumping the gun a bit and it has created very high expectations.
  18. a700hitter
    We had HanRam while we had Ortiz, so he is not a replacement. The replacement is Moreland and extra ab's for AB. That is not a good replacement imo. I think people really underestimated what losing Ortiz from the lineup would mean. Also, Betts had an MVP quality season last year. Are we supposed to expect that every season from him? Were we to expect Leon to hit .310 again? Did we expect Young to put up a .999 OPS against LHP again this year? Even if all these things happened again, where is the excess capacity to make up for Ortiz? Moreland and more AB abs? I'm not buying that.
  19. a700hitter
    It is not 20/20 on my part. I wanted to trade Moreland in the offseason as EE remained unsigned throughout most of the winter. I was told that we could not trade a guy that we just signed as a FA.
  20. a700hitter
    He should have anticipated that the effect of losing Ortiz would be enormous. he did nothing to replace that bat, and yes I consider getting Moreland to be as good as doing nothing. The guy is a career .317 OBP over 8 MLB seasons. Edit: As for Farrell, he can't even get rote group think right.
  21. a700hitter
    Whether Red Sox fans clamored for him doesn't make the whiff any less glaring. Not getting Holliday imo was a function of the latest group think notion that it is better to avoid having a dedicated DH and to rotate into the DH your lesser offensive players who can play other positions. Yes, that works sometimes if you have a very strong offensive club where everyone can play defense too. It doesn't work for teams like ours. Moreland is not a strong offensive player that needs to be in the lineup every day. Holliday is strictly a DH for the Yankees this season, and DD didn't want a dedicated DH. That is the latest group think. Such great innovation.
  22. a700hitter
    The only positive about DD in my mind is that he is not Ben -- who was just awful.
  23. a700hitter
    The question is will it improve enough, and there is no comparison to last years offense. No one was obtained to fill the hole, and we are just kidding ourselves if we think that some additional ABs from AB will address it adequately -- not even close.
  24. a700hitter
    SSS. There is no comparison between those players.
  25. a700hitter
    Cishek was not and never has been proved high quality. There is no comparison. Apples and oranges. Sure you can get lucky picking up a guy who turns in a quality year and might even outperform an injured Kimbrel, but it is an entirely different type of asset.
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