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  1. a700hitter
    we have been around and around this circle. IMO a team (not just the starters) with a 4.25 ERA cannot be competitive over an entire season. It wouldn't matter where we would be now. At the end of the season the 4.25 ERA would find its correct level-- not competitive. If we were in first place now, it would only serve to further Ben's belief in his very flawed approach.
  2. a700hitter
    Yep.
  3. a700hitter
    I voted no, but I am hoping yes, because we need a top starter whether it be this year or next season of we are going to get competitive. I need to watch some meaningful Red Sox games. This will be two full seasons where our seasons were dead in May. I am too old to start other hobbies.
  4. a700hitter
    I am just hoping that the situation doesn't get so bad that someone has started the Red Sox Hot Stove thread by August 6th. Lol!
  5. a700hitter
    2011 was excruciating. Re: Your public service announcement. We have PMs for private conversations. Everything else can be commented on. It is a public forum.
  6. a700hitter
    and even if they had performed up to expectations, they were two 4s two 4s and an injury prone 3 and that was not going to be good enough, but we have been around this wheel several times.
  7. a700hitter
    So, you vote no?
  8. a700hitter
    Just looking to take the temperature of the members on this. We know it depends on a lot of things that we don't know, but if you had to make a bet, what would would b e your guess? Will the Red Sox acquire a front line Starting Pitcher by the Trading Deadline. I will leave the voting open for the weekend.
  9. a700hitter
    Ben thinks so. See my signature. Lol!
  10. a700hitter
    Infield Grandstand section 16
  11. a700hitter
    Yes, I saw ER's game. It was an exciting fun game.
  12. a700hitter
    Don't feel bad. Two of my last three game threads had the wrong dates.
  13. a700hitter
    Three man rotation.
  14. a700hitter
    And he caught a ton of grief over this, but he was spot on with his assessment.
  15. a700hitter
    Yes. Very true, and that is a much more difficult tool to measure than speed, arm strength or power. Nava was not high up on any scouts list as a prospect, except for our very own Doji.
  16. a700hitter
    What tools did Daniel Nava have? None. Can't run or throw. He had no power and is a substandard fielder.
  17. a700hitter
    Hey U.N., drop dead.
  18. a700hitter
    I thought that the people that criticize us old folk are all about stats, because they don't think we can understand the numbers? The numbers are favoring this kid enough for him to get selected to the All zstar game where he won the MVP, but people are pooh poohing him because of his draft position and some scouting evaluations. Am I getting this right? He wouldn't be the first late round draft choice to defy the odds.
  19. a700hitter
    I never said that you said this.^ I said that you said they could use some extra pitching even though the pitching is not to blame -- at least not in the month of May.
  20. a700hitter
    Did I say that you said those things?
  21. a700hitter
    Those Mets pitchers aren't going anywhere. The Mets pitcher that could be had, but at a very hefty price would be Harvey. I have heard that there is friction between Harvey and the organization and that the feeling is that he will not sign long term with them.
  22. a700hitter
    You mean the sound explanations that strategy for the roster construction was sound and the execution of the strategy was good and that the whole debacle of a season has come down to one bad month of offense, but they could use some extra pitching even though the pitching is not to blame -- at least not in the month of May. But for the lousy hitting in May, we are playoff bound. That sound rational argument?
  23. a700hitter
    I didn't say that Ben whines. I said that his bosses aren't going to want to hear him whine. Ben and Theo always stood up to be accountable -- an admirable character trait. Yet, lots of people whine on their behalf.
  24. a700hitter
    His bosses aren't going to want hear him whine about his terrible misfortune. He has an excuse for 2012 another for 2014 and more for 2015. After a while it starts to dawn on people, that he isn't very good at his job.
  25. a700hitter
    Sooner or later it ends for everyone. He is clearly not the hitting beast that he was a few years ago, but what he will produce this season will not hurt this team. One day his production will fall off a cliff. I don't think it will be this season, but the FO has a DH on waiting in Hanley.
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