Jump to content
Talk Sox
  • Create Account

a700hitter

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    70,232

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

 Content Type 

Profiles

Boston Red Sox Videos

2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking

Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker

News

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by a700hitter

  1. a700hitter
    it looks like Ben will not get to clean up his own mess.
  2. a700hitter
    We have a lot of speed in the OF tonight. Bradley made another circus Catch tonight. This time in LF. No way that Hanley would have come close to that ball.
  3. a700hitter
    And the grounder that Ortiz hit right at Gordon was a hit.
  4. a700hitter
    Maybe things have finally turned for Bradley.
  5. a700hitter
    Then they have no excuses.
  6. a700hitter
    Yep. If you are going to hand over 20% of your season to guy, I think that is important enough to do a better job of finding out what you are getting.
  7. a700hitter
    The big difference is that Beckett was already a top of the rotation hurler. Porcello was and is not.
  8. a700hitter
    Kimmi, is it possible that they would have learned something if they had watched him throw? I know you keep saying that it is "only" $9.5 million for 1 year. Don't you think it would be worth a couple of plane tickets and some incidental travel expenses to see if he could hit 90? Or is $9.5 million such chump change that it was not worth the organization's time to check out what would be 1 of their 5 starting pitchers for the year. It was lazy and negligent not to check him out. I also challenge your statement that pitchers recovering from arm injuries often regain their velocity. That may be true of TJ surgery, but he didn't have TJ surgery. I would say that recovery from most other injuries to pitchers is not accompanied by a return of velocity.
  9. a700hitter
    It may indicate that he has good range, but the number of errors shows a clear need to improve.
  10. a700hitter
    So, you advocate bringing in a new manager and coaching staff?
  11. a700hitter
    I am fully in favor of firing the entire coaching staff including Farrell if that is what you are advocating. I just don't think we have the pitching pieces in place to compete with a new coaching staff.
  12. a700hitter
    I don't think we need an "ace". We need 2 top of the rotation pitchers. We have plenty of guys to fight it out for the bottom of the rotation.
  13. a700hitter
    That is misleading. His ERA + in 2014 was as out of line with his career ERA + on the positive side by almost the same amount that his 2015 ERA+ is below his career norm. His 2014 performance was not at all in line with his prior years.
  14. a700hitter
    When did I say any of that? I would never have 2 rookies in a rotation to start a season. That is a recipe to not compete. We need to get two top of the rotation pitchers.
  15. a700hitter
    I am still not sold. ^This would not be a competitive pitching staff. We would be fighting for last place for a third year in a row.
  16. a700hitter
    I disagree completely about Masterson. I saw no reports that they saw him throw, and if they didn't it was completely negligent to just expect him to regain velocity. The Alex Gordon analogy is not a great analogy. It doesnt prove any general rule that infielders can convert to the outfield at the major league level. KC experimented with Gordon on their roster and it worked out. If it didn't, they would have moved him back to the Infield. Also, KC had little choice but to try to move one of their young players to the outfield as they had an Infield glut. They did not sign a free agent for big bucks to put him in a new position. That he could make the transition was a guess based on no information.
  17. a700hitter
    I am not saying that Porcello cannot pitch to the level that he did in 2014, but I don't think it is a given. That was his best season and this has been his worst season. I think it is more likely that both seasons were outliers. I think it is more likely that he is just a 4 ERA starter. BTW, 4.00 would be a big improvement over his 4.45 career mark. I really don't see him doing a full run better than that which is what we need.
  18. a700hitter
    I am fully in favor of firing Farrell and his entire coaching staff as I think they have done a terrible job. However, I don't think a third pitching coach can improve our current staff enough to be competitive. I agree with you that at minimum we need to get 1 top of the rotation pitcher.
  19. a700hitter
    If Porcello reverts to what he had been, he will still not be what we need -- a top of the rotation starter. He will be a #4 with an upside of being a #3. We have enough of bottom of the rotation guys. Since you don't think that a sledgehammer has to be taken to the rotstion, how would you turn things around -- a new pitching coach? We have worked the rookies into the rotation recently and our staff as a whole still stinks. Are you proposing to stay with what we have?
  20. a700hitter
    They fired the pitching coach early on. It hasn't really helped. The pitching has been consistently bad. Maybe it is the pitching. Do you feel confident that a 3rd pitching coach will help propel Porcello to something he has never been in 7 full major league seasons -- a top of the rotation starter? I don't. For all the talk about coming to the Red Sox helping improve him, it never made sense since he was coming to a park that was more favorable to hitters.
  21. a700hitter
    He should have been driving faster and earlier than today. He is going to be caught in a numbers crunch in the next few weeks when Betts comes back.
  22. a700hitter
    There is absolutely no evidence that Porcello's performance was related to coaching except for message board rumors started by fans, and there is even less reason to believe that he will develop into something that he has never been in 7 full major league seasons-- a top of the rotation starter.
  23. a700hitter
    Let's remove the word ace. There is a need for 2 top of the rotation starters. None of the pitchers mentioned fill that bill. Buch come the closest, but he is a half season hurler at best.
  24. a700hitter
    I could not disagree more wholeheartedly. If next season we break camp with a rotation of Porcello, Miley, Wright and two rookie kids, I will make summer plans to travel to Europe, because the Red Sox will be going for the three-peat of last place. Two rookies in a rotation is usually enough to doom a team, but to keep the other three as the experienced part of the rotation will assure last place,
  25. a700hitter
    Son of El Guapo.
×
×
  • Create New...