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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, -
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.
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He was overworked to the point where he was no longer effective.
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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.
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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.
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I think he built an unbalanced team. There was plenty of opportunity to improve the offense, but he didn't. He neglected the offense.
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After his hot streak would end, he would eventually get benched. It was the same script each year.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The only positive about DD in my mind is that he is not Ben -- who was just awful.
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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.
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SSS. There is no comparison between those players.
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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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Don't ever look for me to defend a FO suit. His honeymoon ended a long time ago for me.
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She adds nothing to the broadcast except to stroke Boone's ego. At one point desperately looking to say something to add value to the broadcast she commented on Starling Castro fouling off a 3-1 pitch that was well off the outside edge of the plate. She said that showed his ability to spoil pitches that are pitcher's pitchers and gave him kudos for being able to go outside of the zone to do that. She had no idea that with less than 2 strikes there is no need to spoil a pitch and that Castro had cost himself a base on balls in a game where they needed lot of base runners because they were down several runs. She replaced Schilling who could analyze pitching with the best of them. There isn't an ounce of insight among the three announcers. Thank goodness Boone is not doing that stupid bit on imitating player's swings. That was embarrassing.
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I think DD jumped the gun signing Moreland, not expecting EE to end up signing the contract that he signed. It was a big miscalculation.
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5/14. Rays @ Fenway
a700hitter replied to Maxbialystock's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
I think the caption should be: "Help me here, John. I don't speak stupid." -
I think it was a stretch.
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This 4 hour ESPN love affair with Jeter is disgusting. Yes, it is a boring game for Yankee fans, but it seem like they have talked about Jeter for 3 1/2 of the 4 hours. Enough already. Even when they talk about the players on the field like Aaron Judge, they mention how much his demeanor reminds people of Jeter.
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In 2015, the Red Sox finished 4th in runs. I would kill for that this year. The problem isn't too many off years with this bunch. With this bunch, we need no off years imo to make up for losing Ortiz.
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Moustakas can handle 3B-- he is money with the glove.
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Jacko, I told you that the sterling gems tossed by Severino and Tanaka against the hitless wonder Red Sox were aberrations. Never doubt me Doc. I know when my team sucks and is making the opposing pitcher look good.
