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Everything posted by a700hitter

  1. a700hitter
    Bradley is 1 for 24. He is not close to getting on track.
  2. a700hitter
    Craig is proving to be useless. He can't even find first base to take a throw.
  3. a700hitter
    He's awful.
  4. a700hitter
    Bogaerts was slow off the ball charging that grounder. A SS has to make that play.
  5. 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.
  6. a700hitter
    Our bright future will be on display. LOL!
  7. 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.
  8. a700hitter
    An incentive to trade him in his devalued state is that he would be clogging Checinni's (sp) path at AAA.
  9. 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.
  10. a700hitter
    if I wanted to know about a player, I would find Vin Scilly to be a better source of information than any stats.
  11. a700hitter
    They should be grooming him to be the 2015 third baseman. That would nicely fill an obvious hole on this team
  12. 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.
  13. a700hitter
    Would it be Webster and De La Rosa?
  14. 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.
  15. a700hitter
    THe Red Sox would be doing Bradley a favor if they trained him for another career.
  16. 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.
  17. a700hitter
    probably not the best term to describe one's mind. The term means articulate--expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. a700hitter
    you can always give Fred a call if you want to have a private discussion. Fred is always eager for baseball conversation. As for your use of stats, you often misuse them and erroneously use them as conclusory proof which they rarely are. A lot of people think the same way. I ascribe to Vin Scully's philosophy on statistics--they should be used in the same way that a drunk uses a lamppost -- for support not illumination. In this case, the stats didn't really support your opinion (which was really based on nothing because you didn't claim to see the guy play very much). In fact, the stats showed that he was worse in almost every pressure category and significantly worse with RISP with 2 outs. I was just pointing out that which you failed to point out when you posted the slash lines. I realize that irks you because it is very important for you to be right.
  21. a700hitter
    He was more than marginally worse over his career with RISP and 2 out. The stats bear that out. If you want to make your case with stats, make it. You didn't. I didn't call Mondesi a choker. I didn't see him play enough to come to that conclusion. I just looked up the stats like you did.
  22. a700hitter
    That's 25 points off his career OPS and his career OPS with RISP with 2 outs is 69 below his career numbers.
  23. a700hitter
    I'd bring him back as a late inning guy, and injuries to closers give those guys a chance to step up.
  24. a700hitter
    i can see teams willing to take on a project that could turn into a 30 home run low obp player, but not for a project that might become a .250 hitter with no power.
  25. a700hitter
    he'd be at most a throw in. By himself, he nets us nothing. He is a busted prospect that has now become a project. The market for projects with no power potential is close to zero.
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