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  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. a700hitter
    Don't you worry. Ben the errand boy knows what he is doing.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. a700hitter
    They handed over the keys of the team to an errand boy.
  8. a700hitter
    Yep. it is.
  9. a700hitter
    They should give Brentz a shot. He has some power.
  10. a700hitter
    Gift out on the phantom tag at the plate.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. a700hitter
    A 6.24 ERA and counting two months into the season. Goodness. Time to send him to the bullpen and bring up Johnson.
  14. 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.
  15. a700hitter
    Is it my imagination or has Sandoval gotten heavier since Spring Training?
  16. a700hitter
    Kelly needs to start regressing back to mediocre soon.
  17. a700hitter
    Cy Young is having a tough day --- or maybe he just stinks.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. a700hitter
    BA .326, OBP .396, slg% .419
  21. a700hitter
    Stats over recent years do not support this. If you want to be seriously in the hunt for the post season, you had better come in with an ERA under 4.
  22. a700hitter
    Ah, but if do they have a stat for TOOTBLAN adjusted as a percentage of base runners? In that case, we surely are the worst in both leagues.
  23. a700hitter
    I read that Willis has installed a whole new regime -- he rakes is coffee with skim milk ant 2 equal. Nieves just took his coffee black.
  24. a700hitter
    Miley is tossing a beautiful game. I always thought he would be good. Hehe.
  25. a700hitter
    Holt can play anywhere and play well. They should see if he can pitch.
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