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  1. a700hitter
    I don't care how he is pitching except for the current game, but that doesn't make me ignore what he is-- a #5 guy with a 4.5 ERA.
  2. a700hitter
    I could live with him as a #5 even with his 4.5 ERA. The problem is bottom 3 guys in our rotation put up a 5.5 ERA combined.
  3. a700hitter
    That's like the argument that a pitcher only has one bad inning every game. The guy with some bad games and the guy with a bad inning each game are both bottom of the rotation guys with 4.5 ERAs. Everything else is cherry picking.
  4. a700hitter
    Shaw is giving Napoli a Wally Pipp moment.
  5. a700hitter
    LOL!!! They are stubbornly clinging to that terrible 4.5 ERA
  6. a700hitter
    Luis Tiant and Eck weren't bad. And prior to Nettles hurting his shoulder, Bill Lee was a very solid pitcher.
  7. a700hitter
    Good memory. I had forgotten about Bailey. He was just short of being a big leaguer.
  8. a700hitter
    Starters: Posey, Holliday and Cruz Reserves: Kris Bryant Pitchers: Sonny Gray, Shelby Miller
  9. a700hitter
    I have Posey, Holliday and Cruz.
  10. a700hitter
    Unless Sonny Gray punches out Billy Beane.
  11. a700hitter
    They still have a chance, but they need to make changes to compete.
  12. a700hitter
    As a team, we get too many guys thrown out on the bases.
  13. a700hitter
    I wish one of the cutesy wootsey kid announcers would say "Now batting, Pablo Tub of Goo Sandoval." That would put an end to Junior Announcers Day.
  14. a700hitter
    if we finish dead last again, I think there is a very good chance we get a new GM.
  15. a700hitter
    Then the price should be a lot higher. I thought this was a contract year for him.
  16. a700hitter
    your next to last sentence is the key to why it will not happen.
  17. a700hitter
    They need to make moves to get back in this race. If not , the only thing under us in the standings on Fenway's green monster will be the warning track.
  18. a700hitter
    This year would be the time to move Buch. He has had a lot of problems putting together back to back productive seasons, but we probably can't get much for a couple of months of Buch.
  19. a700hitter
    Who is the DH?
  20. a700hitter
    I don't think they do. If there was a thought of making such a move, we would be hearing that Hanley was working out at first base. They are going to stubbornly stick to this failed LF experiment. He is taking forever just to be serviceable out there, because he has terrible OF instincts. It is like the Bard situation. Everyone could tell that he was flushing down the toilet. Bobby V knew it. The only two that didn't know we're Bard and Ben. Ben stuck stubbornly to the experiment until it was humiliating and embarrassing. I could tell seeing him one day in person in Spring Training that he was going to have major problems. If I could see it (and I have progressive lenses), how could the coaches not see it, or did they see it and hoped for the best.
  21. a700hitter
    With improvement from Miley and Porcello, they are still a rotation with about a 4 ERA and that is not good enough to be competitive in today's game. That is why you are in denial. I never said you were delusional. This isn't 2002-2008 where a 4 ERA is middle of the pack. It is below average now. It is not mediocre. It kinda stinks. It would be a huge improvement from what they have been putting up, which has been horrendous. Stink would be a marked improvement, but it would still be stink. You can't compete with a 4+ ERA today.
  22. a700hitter
    The stuff isn't there anymore. He's lost too much off his fastball, and it isn't coming back. They are wasting their time with him.
  23. a700hitter
    A rotation is 5 guys. Who is the 5th guy? You can't just say that a top 4 is workable if you are filling the 5th slot with a 5 ERA guy. And that top 4 is workable if you want a 4th place team. Buchholz and ER don't need to improve. They have been good, and this is still a last place team. The problem is that the other 2 guys are 4.5 ERA guys even if they improve and the 5th slot is a disaster. You are in denial as is the FO.
  24. a700hitter
    Pitching is still very bad. You can't win consistently with bad pitching.
  25. a700hitter
    I was at Fenway for his MLB debut in the first game of a Day/Night double header against the Angels in 2007. I remember the Buzz around him coming up. He won that day and went 5 or 6 innings. I remember that his changeup was tremendously deceptive and he got lots of swings and misses. I also remember watching him stretch out in the OF before the game and thinking that he looked like he was 11 years old and that he topped at at 135 lbs. LOL!! My hopes were sky high for him back then and they got highers after his next start which was a no-hitter. There has been a lot of water under the Buchholz bridge since then, but his talent has not been in question. Any questions have been around heart and health. It is a contract year, maybe he will have a big year, but it will be wasted on this team unless the FO decides to make some bold moves.
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