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  1. a700hitter
    Thanks for sharing those memories.
  2. a700hitter
    Edit. Got it right. I would have guessed Cronin but Doji said that it wasn't Cronin. I also read every one of Teddy Ballgames books and every other Red Sox history book when I was a kid so I learned about Doerr, Pesky, and then Stephens, Parnell, Jackie Jensen, Piersall, and Bill Goodman and on and on.
  3. a700hitter
    I am guessing Vern Stephens.
  4. a700hitter
    The rationale doesn't absolve them from the judgment that it was a lousy move. There is always a rationale, even for lousy moves, but the rationale isn't an excuse.
  5. a700hitter
    Did you see Foxx play. I assume that you did, because you saw Lefty Grove. What is your opinion of him iin comparison to the greats of his day and afterward. Based on what I have read about him and his stats, it seems that he was on another level from most but a few very elite hitters.
  6. a700hitter
    They aren't just picking names from a hat. Hopefully they have good reasons for every move.
  7. a700hitter
    4-0 Dodgers
  8. a700hitter
    I have been pretty consistent throughout. To those who keep diminishing HFA in an attempt to convince people that it is non-existent, I have consistently replied that it is an advantage under any measure or statistic. Apparently some people cannot handle anything beyond an expression of complete agreement
  9. a700hitter
    Those people don't count. They are always bitching about something.
  10. a700hitter
    Farrell took a beating for being Farrell, and it my recollection thethe people who were most critical of him in that final week were worried that the team was getting flat and playing losing ball. HFA was not a big part of it. Tell me who on TalkSox made a big deal of the HFA and dumped on Farrell for it.
  11. a700hitter
    I can't think of anyone that made that argument. I asked for names, and got no answers except I was told that I said it "but not in so many words." That was totally inaccurate. There were several people who have attempted to quantify HFA so as to be so small as to be nonexistent. I have seen no stat or stats that have concluded that HFA is not an advantage. This apparently has people's underwear in a bunch so they overstate the position of those who say that it is an advantage under every and any measure so they can tilt at windmills.
  12. a700hitter
    Thanks Ben!
  13. a700hitter
    That's all you got?
  14. a700hitter
    He can watch from Toronto. The 2014 and especially the 2015 Red Sox teams were bad teams that were poorly constructed. Some unexpected bad performances may keep you from the playoffs, but you are simply bad when you thud into last place like those 2 Red Sox teams.
  15. a700hitter
    Don't put words in my mouth. I said no such thing about getting HFA at the expense of other advantages. Not at all. You and a few others do a lot of tilting at windmills.
  16. a700hitter
    But no one said anything different.
  17. a700hitter
    It was a big non story.
  18. a700hitter
    Who?
  19. a700hitter
    That was just some dopey managing in the 8th inning by Dave Roberts.
  20. a700hitter
    he loaded the bases with a walk to get Capman out of the game. The PH,Miguel Montero took him deep for a grand salami with 2 strikes
  21. a700hitter
    I am not sure who is bashing Farrell for not getting HFA. I think he probably could have done a better job in that final week, but like you, I have not bashed the simpleton about this.
  22. a700hitter
    i just said that it is an advantage, and not a good sign when you don't get it, because your opponent is probably the better team. Others keep trying to quantify it to be smaller and smaller to reduce the advantage to insignificance. I am not sure why, because no matter how the numbers are "teased out", it is still an advantage.
  23. a700hitter
    You could tell them about the articles that come to those conclusions that HFA is not all that it is cracked up to be, but it is still an advantage. LOL!
  24. a700hitter
    Castillo was a mystery man. Very little was known about him except that he had no major tool. It was too much money to commit to an unknown who hadn't played competitively in more than a year.
  25. a700hitter
    It doesn't at all conclude that there is no HFA. From the article:
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