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  1. a700hitter
    How would you rate those aspects of the team as the season comes to a close. I am not posting this as a gotcha, because no one disagreed with you at the time. No one could have foreseen this disaster.
  2. a700hitter
    It looks like I over-rated the Red Sox. LOL!
  3. a700hitter
    I could also live with Victor Martinez as our first baseman hitting behind Ortiz. Send Napoli, his 50 RBI, his .790 OPS, his beard, and his great clubhouse presence packing. Eat some of his salary to get it done. Get a premium bat like VMart back here or reacquire Beltre. Ortiz can't be our only offense next season. I like the addition of Cespedes, but he is not a 3,4, or 5 hitter.
  4. a700hitter
    I could live with an inning eating bulldog like Shields as our #2.
  5. a700hitter
    Bradley with another ohfer is at .200. He just keeps getting worse. If he plays anymore, he will likely sink under the Mendoza line. His OPS is .538 and sinking. He has had a season that could result in the ruination of his career. You would think that he would get an ocassional hit by accident -- a dribbler, a bloop, a seeing eye base-hit. Lol! He's hapless and hopeless. Middlestinks with his pathetic power output of 2 Home Runs is OPSing at an even lower .516. He has also wrecked his career prospects. Unlike Bradley, he is also not a stellar fielder, so he has got nothing going for him. I guess that his biggest plus over Bradley is that he gets injured a lot so we don't get subjected to watch him stink every day. Bradley is durable and could play every day. He is like the joke about bad resort food -- the food is bad, but the portions are big.
  6. a700hitter
    Another crap outing from Dr La Rosa. The young pitchers have not made a good impression.
  7. a700hitter
    Bradley is 1 for 24. He is not close to getting on track.
  8. a700hitter
    Craig is proving to be useless. He can't even find first base to take a throw.
  9. a700hitter
    He's awful.
  10. a700hitter
    Bogaerts was slow off the ball charging that grounder. A SS has to make that play.
  11. a700hitter
    I hope that when Holt is healthy that he plays second base the rest of the way. It is pointless to play Betts at second base. There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that he ever plays second base for the Sox. They should be seeing if Betts can handle third base. That is an open position for next season.
  12. a700hitter
    Our bright future will be on display. LOL!
  13. a700hitter
    You are always damned if you don't. A team full of home grown pre-free agent eligible. Players is a guaranteed last place team.
  14. a700hitter
    An incentive to trade him in his devalued state is that he would be clogging Checinni's (sp) path at AAA.
  15. a700hitter
    THey are just not very talented. The whole generation of our future stars-- Bradley, Middlebrooks, Bogaert, De La ROsa, Webster, Workman and Ranaudo have been tremendously over-rated by the organization. I think changes are needed to our scouting and talent development departments.
  16. a700hitter
    if I wanted to know about a player, I would find Vin Scilly to be a better source of information than any stats.
  17. a700hitter
    They should be grooming him to be the 2015 third baseman. That would nicely fill an obvious hole on this team
  18. a700hitter
    I can't understand why that double toe tap has not been coached out of his swing. It is so obviously an impediment to him getting to the fastball.
  19. a700hitter
    Would it be Webster and De La Rosa?
  20. a700hitter
    I don't know about his speed compared to Aoki, but he definitely doesn't have Ellsbury speed, and the Sox never converted him into a slap hitter, so I don't see slap hitting in Bradley's future.
  21. a700hitter
    THe Red Sox would be doing Bradley a favor if they trained him for another career.
  22. a700hitter
    Gowdy, Martin, most and Cusick were all great announcers who were around for a long time. It's amazing to think that Scully's career started as early as each of their career and has spanned well beyond not just their careers (Gowdy retired in the 70's) but for many years after the others had died.
  23. a700hitter
    probably not the best term to describe one's mind. The term means articulate--expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language.
  24. a700hitter
    Not to get off topic, but I watched some of the Dodger game last night. Vin Scilly is amazing. He has such a facile mind, and he's a great baseball expert and source of baseball history. I call him a "source of history" as opposed to an historian, because he has witnessed so much. He has been broadcasting since 1952. Truly amazing. He is the play by play and color commentator -- a one man show. There is no dead air time, no silliness -- just interest baseball stories. The guy is a national treasure.
  25. a700hitter
    I think this is the key. For better or worse, the Red Sox are committed to XB. They will have to ride it out to see what he becomes -- in large part because his trade value has been very devalued. However, they cannot count on him as a major offensive contributor in 2015. That would not be prudent, especially when we will be carrying sub par offense at catcher and an unknown quantity in Castillo in CF. IMO, they need to get a stick to play third base. Maybe that stick is Betts. I would be playing him at third for the remainder of the season to see if he can handle the hot corner. He is not going to play second next season, so why bother. He could get squeezed out of the OF with Cespedes, Castillo, Victorino and Craig. I think Betts is a Victorino type spark plug with the bat and would like to see him get a shot on 2015. They need to find him a position. Third base is wide open for the taking.
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