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There will be a lot of competition for the premium arms and the prices will be very high. After the record breaking debacle of 2014, there is no appetite for whining excuses about cost. Cherrington needs to re-establish the team's competitiveness and he needs to maintain consistent competitiveness. Cherrington's extreme inconsistency from year to year calls into question his ability to do the job. Like major leaguers have to be consistent performers to stick in the majors, the same goes for GMs. Another last place finish by Cherries and he will be the GM in the Independent League. 2014 was embarrassing and shameful, especially in light of their bloated payroll.
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He has no shaot at playing second base, and they did not give him an audition at 3rd base, so he is either slated for the OF or a trade. The OF is starting to get overcrowded with Cespedes, Castillo, Victorino, Craig, Betts, and Nava. Nava will be the first casualty, and Craig and Victorino will be trade bait. Personally, I would hate to see Victorino go and Craig looks like a shot player.
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I was hoping that Buchholz would have a healthy succesful season in 2014 and that the FO would capitalize on his renewed value and traded him. He is too inconsistent and he periods of good performance are too infrequent. After this season, he has little trade value. They should pencil him in as a 4th or 5th starter and hope they get lucky with him in 2015.
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There are plenty of upscale suburban communities within reasonable driving distance of Yankee Stadium.
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Official Talksox Fantasy Baseball 2013
a700hitter replied to Sox Fan on Cape's topic in Contests/Prizes
When I last looked, I was leading by less than a point. Sometimes there are scoring changes that can move the numbers a little bit, so I wasn't sure if it was official. I have 2 fantasy teams in Football. Before yesterday, one was 3-0 and the other 0-3. I liked my 0-3 roster better than the other team. Football fantasy is much harder to predict than baseball. You really did a great job in baseball from the draft right through your weekly management of your roster. I usually do better at the ongoing management than at the draft. -
in 36 plate appearances he matched the HR power output of Middlestinks in 234 plate appearances and he hit more Home Runs than Automatic Out Jr in 423 plate appearances. Those 2 bums combined for 3 homers in 657 PAs and they both hit under .200 with OPS around .530. That would kill any teams' offense. Neither of them will be around Fenway next season. They both exhausted their many chances.
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lol!
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The 2013 team was without Ortiz for the month of April and Pedroia played that whole season with an injured thumb. They also lost Buchholz for half of the season after starting out 11-0. Injuries were not really a factor in 2014.
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The owners need to take a good hard look at the FO. This was the worst fall off by a World Championship team except for the 1998 Marlins who systematically sold off all the players from the 1997 championship team. What the marlins management did was universally thought to have been a travesty. Our FO fielded pretty much the same team as the 2013 team, but without Ellsbury. They can't blame injuries. Other than Victorino, they didn't have a tough time with injuries. They rolled the dice with too many rookies and young players and they stuck it out too long with them as they were crashing and burning. The result was that they blew up the 2014 team. The did a terrible job with the roster this year.
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Its an undignified casdh grab that detracts from the purpose of the team.
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That just means that it was not a published stat by MLB. People in the game knew about it. It is easily done with a paper and pencil. There is no need for a powerful PC based program. Branch Rickey probably did those calcs in his head. Lol!
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9/23 vs Who Really Gives a Shit?
a700hitter replied to BornToRun's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
and rightly so. He was a worthy opponent and deserves our respect. -
What does "official statistic" mean -- on the back of Topps Baseball cards? It's just a simple math calculation. Certainly,GMs prior to 1980 could get their hands on those numbers. And it really is as simple as "a walk being as good as a hit." Little league coaches have been barking that since there has been a little league.
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Nava is one of the stupidest base runners that I have ever seen. He's right up there with Hubie Brooks-- if anyone remembers him.
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And Bell, you know the game and you are good sport. You are right. The game is not that complicated. NO matter what advanced metrics people come up with this game will never be a science. Teddy Ballgame was as cerebral as anyone about hitting and he was very much into the actual physics of hitting, e.g. acs of swings broken down into degrees etc. His book was called the Science of Hitting. And the game does obey thaws of physics as does everything else in life, but the dynamics of building a winning team are not and never will be science.
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When you read statements like this, the opposite is usually true. It is like when ownership gives a manager a vote of confidence. That is usually followed shortly by the manager's firing.
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Congratulations! It will be a while before you can watch full Red Sox games on a regular basis--- a couple of years. Hang in there.
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I am a little tired of the season long Jeter- farewell tour. I find it unbecoming that he goes from city to city grabbing as many gifts as he can carry and the Yankees capitalizing on it as a money making endeavor. I always hear the word "classy" used when describing Jeter, but this fairwell tour has been anything but classy or dignifified. My recollection was that when Yaz announced that 1983 would be his final season, he insisted that there be no special ceremonies or gifts in each city. The league obliged. I researched it to see if I could find anything about the way he left the game and found the following article. He left the game with dignity and class. http://greghoard.com/2013/03/07/yaz/
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LOL!! But Colon was talented at one time. In fact, for a fat guy, he was pretty athletic when he was young. I saw hi shaggingg flies at Fenway when he was with the Angels. The guy was good. He was agile and fairly fleet of foot. Middlebrooks is, as my dad used to say, a big stiff.
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I think the way to fix the big clod is to get him a talent transplant. If he wants to have a chance to be on the squad next season, he will have to go to winter ball, play every day, and tear it up. I don't think that happens, so he might not even get an invitation to ST with the big club, especially if they sign or trade for an infielder..
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He might just stink. No philosophy can save stink.
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The last of Jeter's 2,000 career bitch hits to RF.
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I just don't remember him being a clubhouse problem.
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Official Talksox Fantasy Baseball 2013
a700hitter replied to Sox Fan on Cape's topic in Contests/Prizes
Congratulations to SFoC. You went wire to wire and dominated the league. -
I like it. Third base is an open position. I thought Betts should be moved there since he is an IFer, but maybe he doesn't have a strong enough arm. Cespedes is a heart attack as a fly chaser, but he has a gun. Maybe third would be a good fit for him.
