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I realize that, but the oohing and ahhing over ERod may still have been premature. Edit: Compared to the Tigers getting Fullmer for 2 months of Cespedes, the ERod trade doesn't look like such a bargain.

They are under a lot of pressure to win it all this year. After this tye of regular season, an NLCS or league pennant would be a huge letdown.

We may have been a little premature with all the oohing and ahhing about getting ERod for Miller.

Neither Kimbrel nor Kelly has a good idea of where the pitch will go after it is released. The big difference between the two of them is that Kimbrel's ball has such movement that he overpowers most catchers and umps often get fooled by his pitchers. The batters really are helpless against him. Kelly's ball is straight and if his location is not perfect, most major leaguers can turn around his fastball. There is no comparison between the 2. Hopefully, Kelly can be useful late in games, but I will not have a secure feeling with him on the hill in the 8th inning.

Kelly's curve looks pretty good tonight.

Moncada is in the game at 3rd base. He is now a major leaguer.

Shaw doesnt want to give up his spot.

I saw a Fenway green windbreaker jacket in the Fenway Store on Yawkey Way, but the jacket says Fenway Park, not Red Sox.

I would rather my pitcher not pitch to the hitters strength and if he beats him on the outside of the plate I want to reward my pitcher by having a fielder on the left side to get him the out. If the pitcher does the job and gets a weakly hit pulled ball, you probably don't need the extra fielder anyway. I am not against shifting all the time. I would just do it on the top batters, not on every one in the lineup.

Good hitters are better at laying off the bad pitch on the outside of the plate than bad hitters. And I do only believe in using over shifts against he very best hitters, because they are the ones that will make you pitch to their strength.

It is completely unnecessary on weak hitters. They generally don't hit the ball hard, and the over shift makes the pitcher less likely to pitch to the hitter's weakness on the outside of the plate.

And bad hitters are more likely to have trouble handling the ball on the outside third of the plate, inducing weak groundballs and pop ups. Why would I force my pitcher to pitch to the strength of weak hitters by trying to induce them into pulling the ball?

I think over shifts are greatly over used, and if i jelly legged a .240 hitting left handed batter who poked a weak grounder or popup to an abandoned left side of the infield, I would kick the manager in the ass.

Have we been hacked again!!

Time: 10:05 P.M. EST Venue: Oakland Coliseum [TABLE=class: data, width: 684] [TR=class: title] [TD=bgcolor: #1F3354, colspan: 3]PROBABLE STARTERS[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: row1] [TD=align: center]http://sports.cbsimg.net/images/baseball/mlb/players/60x80/1232130.jpg D. Price[/TD] [TD=width: 50%][TABLE=width: 336] [TR=class: label] [TD=align: center]BOSTON[/TD] [TD=align: center]LAST 3 STARTS[/TD] [TD=align: center]OAKLAND[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: row1] [TD=align: center]3-0[/TD] [TD=align: center]Wins-Losses[/TD] [TD=align: center]1-0[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: row2] [TD=bgcolor: #EBEBEB, align: center]20.0[/TD] [TD=bgcolor: #EBEBEB, align: center]Innings Pitched[/TD] [TD=bgcolor: #EBEBEB, align: center]17.2[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: row1] [TD=align: center]1.35[/TD] [TD=align: center]Earned Run Average[/TD] [TD=align: center]2.04[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: row2] [TD=bgcolor: #EBEBEB, align: center]4[/TD] [TD=bgcolor: #EBEBEB, align: center]Walks[/TD] [TD=bgcolor: #EBEBEB, align: center]1[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: row1] [TD=align: center]19[/TD] [TD=align: center]Strikeouts[/TD] [TD=align: center]16[/TD] [/TR] [TR=class: row2] [TD=bgcolor: #EBEBEB, align: center]0.75[/TD] [TD=bgcolor: #EBEBEB, align: center]WHIP[/TD] [TD=bgcolor: #EBEBEB, align: center]0.57[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [TD=align: center]http://sports.cbsimg.net/images/players/unknown_hat.gif A. Triggs[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=colspan: 3, align: center]Probable Pitchers[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Here is an idea for the knucklehead manager. There is no one on this suckass Money Baller team of bums who warrants an over shift on Defense. Just let Price do his job getting the outs without your meddling. Over shifts should never be employed for hitters batting below .250 without power. They get themselves out. Earth to Farrell. Get some caffeine before the game and get your 2 neurons working and engaged in the game.

Hanigan yuk! The guy is either injured or washed up. He has been a shell of his form self.

Will Groome get inducted into the Hall of Fame before Joe Kelly wins a Cy Young?

Smarter? Probably half of this board including our high schoolers are "smarter" than our player development guys. I don't expect them to be "smart". I just want them to be good at their jobs, but when it comes to developing pitchers they suck.

The 2013 team routinely overcame JF's bad game decisions. I will give him credit for pressing the right buttons in the post season and he completely outmanaged Matheny in the World Series. However, I still think that he is a terrible game tactician.

He is a terrible game tactician and has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory too often. He almost did it again today. If the only difference between a good manager and a bad manager is a good bullpen, then the manager's job is an unnecessary waste of money. Teams already have press secretaries, so we really don't need a manager to deal with the press. If the in game tactics don't make a difference then you really don't need a manager.

He had? At that point, he had faced 5 hitters and and two had reached base. Plus, he faced only 1 good hitter.

But I would rather have Taz face the PH Duffy cold off the bench than to face the lead off hitter Forsythe who had already jacked a Home Run. The matchup with Abad was not a good matchup and if you have to hold your nose and bring in Tazawa, bring him in to face the PH.

Garden gnome leprechaun looking dope will be coming in to close it out. Another solid AB by Bradley

Taz should have been facing the PH off the bench Duffy.

I want Farrell's head on the centerfield flagpole. The guy is a complete idiot.