Jump to content
A sweep is on the line! Come join our game thread! ×
Talk Sox
  • Create Account

a700hitter

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    70,327

  • 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

2026 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by a700hitter

  1. a700hitter
    I am a reasonable and wise man. It just takes people some time to figure me out. Some never do. Some don't want to. LOL!!!
  2. a700hitter
    Our best hope is for Swihart to come up by June and take the full time job. I can't see getting through the season with an aging backup (no matter how good he had been in that role) and a bush leaguer discard. That is not a good situation. We have to hope that Swihart blossom like Mookie Betts when he comes to Fenway and doesn't sputter and fail like Boegaerts, Bradley and Middlebrooks.
  3. a700hitter
    I know that you are old enough to remember Johnny Blanchard of the Yankees. He was the best third string catcher/pinch hitter of his day. The Yankees traded him to Kansas City and he cried. One of his teammates urged him to look at the bright side, that he would be starting in KC. Blanchard looked his mate in the face and was still upset and told him that he knew he wasn' t good enough to play everyday. He quickly slipped out of baseball. His Yankeee managers utilized him in a limited fashion giving him his best chance to succeed. He was not a full time player. Rather than blaming Dusty Baker, maybe it was Baker's utilization of Hanigan that gave him his best opportunity to succeed. If he was the Reds best catcher, he would have played more. Your criticism of baker with relation to hanigan is baseless. He is a part time player, and the first season that he was separated from Baker was his worst season. He is a backup -- a good one-- but nothing more than a backup.
  4. a700hitter
    He was a good part time catcher, and he is 34. Edit: I never said that he wasn't good. I said that he wasn't "that good". I don't put a lot of value on guys that start 60-70 games a year. Good yes. "That Good" ? No. If he was "that good", he would have started more games. He has been the primary catcher on his team in 2 of his 8 seasons. He is a backup type, nothing more.
  5. a700hitter
    He was never more than a part time catcher.
  6. a700hitter
    He should be. He couldn't beat UN or SFoC either.
  7. a700hitter
    PayPal. I'll send instructions to your email. We have 9 teams with SFoC dropping. We need one more. Also, on the prizes, I am thinking 3/4 to the Champion and 1/4 to the team with the best regular season record.
  8. a700hitter
    Some one should let Ben know that he is making himself look bad by disagreeing with me. Putz.
  9. a700hitter
    Interesting. All that money in Pawtucket.
  10. a700hitter
    You are clucking away. LOL!!
  11. a700hitter
    +1.
  12. a700hitter
    I think someone gets DFA'd and traded. Coco Crisp is out for 8 weeks. The A's could use one of our spare OFers -- Craig or Nava. Castillo is coming north with us.
  13. a700hitter
    They break camp very soon. How many OF's are still in camp? They have some big decisions to make in the next day or so.
  14. a700hitter
    Come on guys. We need a replacement for SFOC. What about some of the regular posters/baseball sabremetrics authorities. Come flex your statistical muscle. Fantasy is pure stats. Afraid that the old school guy will kick you ass. it really isn't difficult or time-consuming. Like the overpaid knucklehead mlb field managers, you just need to check your lineup once a day.
  15. a700hitter
    The lack of black faces at sporting events is pretty widespread. First of all, they are only 13% of the population and they are at the bottom of the economy. I don't think the lack of black fans at Fenway is a remnant of past racial intolerance by the Red Sox.
  16. a700hitter
    I resent link to goJohn99 and Gringo in pms.
  17. a700hitter
    I sent you the link in a pm.
  18. a700hitter
    Fair enough. We will have to see what Leon has. I doubt he is anywhere close to Vasquez behind the plate. Vaszuez has incredibly quick feet and throwing release.
  19. a700hitter
    Yes he did, but I don't remember who the Cards got for him.
  20. a700hitter
    They had a bunch of mashers on that 1977 team.
  21. a700hitter
    Reggie Smith was traded to the Cards for Rick Wise and Reggie Cleveland. Wise pitched a couple of games in the cold damp Boston April weather and he missed the rest of that year with shoulder trouble.
  22. a700hitter
    I sent you a pm with a link. The draft is Friday at 8 pm.
  23. a700hitter
    I am sorry to learn that. I hope that you feel better. We will miss you as your teams have always been very competitive.
  24. a700hitter
    We are at 8 now iif SFoC stays in. We can proceed with 8. If 2 or more join it will be more challenging.
  25. a700hitter
    Why are you out?
×
×
  • Create New...