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  1. a700hitter
    Excellent points. Lackey was not a salary dump, nor was he a short term rental. He was our number 2 pitcher with big time post season experience who was performing well. He was scheduled to make only the league minimum in 2015. A year and a half of apitcher of his quality at league minimum should have netted a top level prospect and not a wrecked OFer hitting at the Mendoza line with a multi year contract. Kelly was a known project. Many shook their heads in disbelief at the time not just in hindsight. I was hoping that Ben knew something about Craig and Kelly that we did not know. Clearly that was not the case.
  2. a700hitter
    you are minimalizing the mistake of Masterson. Forget about the money. That is not the issue. They signs and gave a rotation spot to a guy who had experienced a big loss of velocity without any reason to think that he had regained the lost velocity. They didn't do their homework. That was the big mistake.
  3. a700hitter
    What pitching are we building or offense other than Betts? We love Betts, and he seems like he could be a very good player for years, but it has been a long drought waiting for a player like him. Bogaerts should be a good player, but he is not jumping out of the starting gate as a star. Yes, he is only 22, but Nomar was a huge Superstar by age 23. We really haven't developed a star OFer in a long time. Betts will be in our OF, but he is an IFer by trade. Our farm has not been churning out a lot of star players since the arrivals of Ellsbury, Pedroia, Lester, and Buch. On the pitching side, the drought has been even more noticeable. Something is wrong with our scouting or player development or both when it comes to pitching.
  4. a700hitter
    The notion of throwing around the term "hypocrite" with regard to fans discussing the performance of a sports team is in the realm of idiocy, which is why I have him on ignore. LOL!!
  5. a700hitter
    Dumpster Diving is the signing of pitchers who have been injured or who have had bad off seasons. Volquez and Hamels were not Dumpster Dives. I'm not sure why people are still operating under the incorrect perception that the AL East is such a tough division on pitchers. Newsflash, the ALE stinks. All of those pitchers would have done fine in the ALE. Yes, Burnett would have fit the definition of a Dumpster Dive, but as it turns out, he would have been a much better choice than the Dumpster Dive of Masterson.
  6. a700hitter
    The best that they can hope for is that Craig establishes some trade value by playing in AAA.
  7. a700hitter
    The improvement in our pitching will have to come from AAA or trades. The current crew will not "regress" enough for us to compete. I don't understand the discrepancy with fangraphs. The Angels had a 4.02 ERA in 2012 and the Rangers had a 3.99 ERA
  8. a700hitter
    The rationale was that we were getting back 2 good players. The FO threw in the towel on half of trade in the off season when they signed Hanley after signing Castillo late last year. Those two moves essentially crowded Craig out of a roster spot, making him a very expensive spare part.
  9. a700hitter
    One team out of 30 in the last 3 seasons have had ERAs over 4 -- the 2014 Tigers with Scherzer and Price had a 4.01. The 2012 Rangers came close, but they came in at 3.99 to get the Wild Card. If the best we can hope for is a regression to 4.25, that will not get it done, no matter how much the offense mashes. Edit: Also, our 4.48 went up after today's game.
  10. a700hitter
    Don't you worry. Ben the errand boy knows what he is doing.
  11. a700hitter
    Masterson at 1 year $9 million was stupid $ compared to Volquez for 2 years/ $20 million. Edit: or Jason Hamel at 2 years/ $20 million or A.J. Burnett 1 year/ $8.75 million.
  12. a700hitter
    Phil Klein (the nobody on the Rangers) who beat us last week got his head handed to him by the Guardians who scored 6 runs on 6 hits in 2 innings against the bum. We made him look lime Greg Maddox.
  13. a700hitter
    They handed over the keys of the team to an errand boy.
  14. a700hitter
    Yep. it is.
  15. a700hitter
    They should give Brentz a shot. He has some power.
  16. a700hitter
    Gift out on the phantom tag at the plate.
  17. a700hitter
    I thought we would use your mojo to run to a third win in a row, but we just can't play consistent enough to have even a modest winning streak. I thought we would have no problem against a pig like Nolasco.
  18. a700hitter
    Nava at .164 with zero other big league tools -- no speed, no arm just cannot be carried on a major league squad. His best attribute is OBP and he has been brutal with that in the first half of last season and so far this season even worse. It's time to give someone else a shot. He was a nice story and he has some great Red Sox memories, but he is not an MLB player unless he is producing a .350 OBP.
  19. a700hitter
    A 6.24 ERA and counting two months into the season. Goodness. Time to send him to the bullpen and bring up Johnson.
  20. a700hitter
    CY Young with the 7 run rule today, and because it is only the second inning he will stay in to take a worse beating. Maybe he will regress a little in the next few innings toward mediocrity. Oh, Farrell woke up. Kelly is out. He had terrible luck today. Somehow all of his pitches kept hitting bats and several of them were on the barrel.
  21. a700hitter
    Is it my imagination or has Sandoval gotten heavier since Spring Training?
  22. a700hitter
    Kelly needs to start regressing back to mediocre soon.
  23. a700hitter
    Cy Young is having a tough day --- or maybe he just stinks.
  24. a700hitter
    Once again Kimmi, the stats bear out my observations of the game. Not surprising as my baseball mainframe computer mind processes my observations, stores the data, and crunches all of the relevant stats in real time. It doesn't make me happy that that we are at the bottom of this category. I find it tremendously frustrating that we run the bases in such a reckless manner when we are having trouble scoring runs.
  25. a700hitter
    Yep, the tigers were the one team in the last few years with a 4 ERA (4.01) that made the playoffs, but they also had a couple of big hammers that we didn't have -- Scherzer and Price (after the trading deadline). Also, their second best hitter last year was Miggy as VMart absolutely tore it up last year. Other than the 2014 Tigers, playoff teams in recent years have had ERAs under 4. An ERA over 4, certainly an ERA around 4.5, will not keep the 2015 Red Sox competitive.
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