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Will the Sox give Eduardo Rodriguez a Qualifying Offer?
a700hitter replied to mvp 78's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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Agreed, but it has become too automatic a move for some managers. If they are doing their jobs, they should be able to see subtle changes with the pitcher’s stuff or command or that batters are reacting better after a couple of looks.
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At $11.5 million he is a bargain. I don’t think he is worth much more as he is little more than a very slow-footed DH. I would look elsewhere. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/11/kyle-schwarber-red-sox-declines-option-free-agent.html
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In Brooklyn, the parents cut little slack to the kid umpires. They would argue with an infant ump.
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I believe in playing the percentages, but taking a pitcher out the 3rd time through the order is not like playing the odds at the craps table. At the crap table, there is no such thing as a hot roller, but on the mound, pitchers can be having a genuinely good day where they are mowing down the opposition. Pitchers don’t go to the mound with the same stuff every time out. Taking out a pitcher who is in command purely because of the 3 rd time through the order stats is not playing the odds. It’s a cop out by managers who get paid to know when their pitchers are still effective or if they are tired etc. Taking them out at the 3rd turn through the order argues for Robo managers.
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I was asked as a 13 year old to umpire a game for farm league kids. I had to call balls and strikes from behind the pitcher because they had no mask or equipment. I did it as a favor to the guy running the league. It is really hard calling pitches from behind the mound when kids are lobbing the ball. If it lands in the catchers glove, it passes over the batter’s head. If it passes the batter in the zone, it rolls to the catcher. The parents and managers were brutal about my umpiring and they tried to cheat also. The game was played under protest, because the one coach assisted one of his players in running from 3rd base. It was a terrible experience.
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The numbers listed for the starting pitchers are too high considering that the in vogue strategy for starting pitchers is to go 3-5 innings at most.
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The range of outcomes is usually all bad. A parent just tries to get medical care and legal support for their troubled child while hoping for what would seem like a miracle.
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Greinke was getting congratulations from Baker and others. The announcers were speculating that he was done. Maybe Dusty would have pinch hit in next inning. Most relievers are 1 inning pitchers these days.
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Baker was taking him out regardless of whether or not his place in the order came up.
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I haven’t read that rag in years. Be comforted in the fact that almost no one reads it.
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Yes, Happy Halloween.
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That was douchey.
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Denny is okay. This ^ isn’t.
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RIP Jerry. I will miss him. He made my watching experience much more enjoyable. I knew that he would not be coming back this time by the way the people in the Red Sox organization reacted to it, and when I saw him with the oxygen throwing out the first pitch, I knew that he didn’t have much time left. Still, it happened more quickly than I expected. RIP. I will always remember how graciously he treated every fan who approached him in the booth at Spring Training.
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If he told his manager that he was out of gas, Dusty had to take him out. If not, Dusty should have rode him for 20-25 more pitches. It is Greinke, and when he is rolling, he is as good as they come.
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When a manager takes out his potential Hall of Fame starting pitcher after 4 scoreless innings and 58 pitches, he deserves to lose the game.
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i have heard about Cici’s but never tried it. The reviews of them are all the same— awful. The worst I have had was a place called Zesty’s. Pizza has to be really bad of I throw it out. But I am spoiled being from Brooklyn, NY:
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10/22 ALCS Game 6 @ Astros
a700hitter replied to Thunder's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
But Jackie Robinson played form Brooklyn -
Flip phones were great because they went 2- 3 days on a charge.
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I really want the team to keep Bogaerts, but I am betting that he gets traded this offseason after seeing the story on the Red Sox site that XB plans to opt out after 2022. This smells like a planted story without any sources. It will make it easier for the team to move him and explain it to the fans. It is a scumbag tactic imo.
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You are old. Moon is old. I am old. We all support Robo umps. There goes that theory.
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Franchy Cordero has been outrighted and removed from the 40 man roster. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/10/red-sox-designate-franchy-cordero-for-assignment.html
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Robo managers at their press conferences would say things like: ”He battled in that AB” ”He has been impacting the ball” ”We like the way the ball has been coming out of his hand.” ”The season is a marathon not a sprint” ”He has electric stuff” ”We love his energy” ”The metrics indicate” plus 5,000 other pre-programmed responses. What’s that you say, we already have robot managers?
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I thought Max was proposing Robo Managers.
