rician blast
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that is quite obvious...however, IMO, the future would be better served by having a 12-16 win-per-year pitcher than WMP.
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agree because WITHIN each league every pitcher is facing the same competition as another, so its relative. The discrepancy between AL and NL stats comes in the fact that the AL is currently dominant offensively...with the DH being a part of this difference. Arroyo is tracking to have the same kind of numbers in terms of wins and IP that we'd have expected from him if still with Boston. Then again, WMP is tracking to be the same player he was in the NL too. Part time.
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true, no doubt...but its a good pot to stir. even considering that Halladay does what he does against the likes of the Sox and Yanks more times per year,without possessing the 'K' ability of Santana, the bottom line I guess is Santana's numbers are more dominant.
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too bad he's the best pitcher in the AL, IMO
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never claimed he was included in those trade rumors, although last year his name was bantied about regularly as a key piece of potential trades for established MLB players. I was just using him as an example of the Sox "un"willingness to part with prospects...coulda said Delcarmen or Hansen or Lester or anyone of the superstars in waiting that the Sox feel they have in the org. That's all.
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i've made this very point in the past, so I couldn't agree more. a FO has to be really confident that a prospect is going to pan out before bringing them up for the very reason that his value could diminish if he underperforms at the highest level.
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i can't wait on this one. ya don't trade good starting pitching for a 4th OF unless that starter is about to become a FA, is a clubhouse cancer, etc. You get the picture. The man did not HAVE to go. There was no absolute need to move him. So why deplete pitching for a platoon player? Wily Mo may be awesome next year...I don't know. But even if he hits .330 with 30 HRs and 120 RBIs I'm stickin to my guns and saying the 2006 edition of the Sox were hurt tremendously by this deal. And I'm not saying Arroyo is a stud...far from it...but hw is what he is... a guy who gives you a chance to win and saves the BP by eating innings.
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wily mo who?
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yes, I was being kind, Sir Crunch, but you know what I was really thinking. yer right, anyone donning the Sox cap would have been a potential injury waiting to happen...i bet the Croc hunter was wearing a Sox cap the day of his demise.
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At the time of that trade I was all for it. That being the case I can't reverse field now and say it was a bad trade...you go with what you know at the time and live or die with it. IMO, the Arroyo trade was worse. much worse. but that's old news.
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do the Tavares and Gabbard performances: = something promising? or = "even a blind squirrel finds a nut"? I'm thinking its more the latter of the two.
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jacks...right on, in fact I'm laughing because I was so close to making the eckstein comparison in my last post. Not that there's anything wrong with exckstein, just that he's...well....eckstein..hard nosed, average ballplayer. Sean, similar reaction in my house when I mentioned it to my son yesterday. He says "what happened, did a croc eat him?" "No." "Did he get attacked by a bear or a lion?" "No, Kev, he got stabbed in the heart by a sting ray's barbed tail." "A sting ray? We get to touch those things at Mystic Aquarium....oh my God, how lame. (pause) That's too bad. (pause) Can we go out and throw?" "Sure Kev." compassionate soul the boy is.
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wow, nice Sean. what's next...Steve Irwin jokes? jk. agreed, the Boy Wonder is on his way, we should be thankful he was never traded away in a package deal for an Oswalt, Smoltz or Andrue Jones.
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saw a thing on ESPN about him saying he wants to go to a contender. my point was the Sox are not a contender without better pitching...thus if the guy is true to his word, he could opt to go elsewhere based upon the direction various teams seem to be going. of course we've seen how guys say one thing and do another..i.e. Clemens (I wanna play closer to home) going to Toronto a few years back.
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don't worry...Yanks fan here at work says he can tell that the guy is about to carry the team on his back and says he'll be the WS MVP this year...he says he can feel it. can't doubt premonitions like that...even if it is the same dude who has claimed for years that Giambi never used 'roids and that there never were any such thing as dinosaurs.
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yeah, you are right. his stick has been screaming 'play me everyday' for some time now. just bustin'
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A Tito interview was on NESN this a.m. Y aknow what? He's a real good guy, very sincere, cares about the players...its not a line of s*** when he says how he feels. He said "out of respect for John and his family" he wouldn't discuss what sort of testing was being done, and said hopefully in a few days they'd have very good news to report. Not sure how much to read into that last comment...it sounds like he could be insinuating that this thing is tracking toward something less serious...but who knows...just gotta keep hoping the kid is alright.
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agreed, and the Fo has to play it based on probabilities. Taking it a step further...even if they somehow managed to make the playoffs, is this team really going anywhere? IMO, it would have been better to have tanked in June and July, then become sellers at the trading deadline...that glimmer of hope sort of put a kabosh on the teams ability to make a splash at the trade deadline.
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maybe. or will Aramis be singing that 70's hit "Please come to Boston": Please come to Boston to play for Tito, The team has no pitching, but we could use your bat, We trade away starters for fifth outfielders, But the Front Office says they're going for a title soon, Please come to Boston, he just said no, I think there's better places to be.
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poker? I hardly even know her.
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i have a friend who works for UPS and they are having a lot of internal problems that have manifested themselves into lost shipments so I am guessing Perdoia's bats were shipped using "BROWN" and they'll be arriving, oh, sometime in early '07.
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fkn 'A' right. that just might be the case
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too early to judge that .233 average right now, he's only played a half a season @ AAA Portland. You could look at at this way: Wily Mo hit about .250 in 6 minor league seasons. Goergie has hit about .290 in 4 minor league seasons, excluding the his AAA work in Portland which only is comprised of 75 or so games. This is a case where you just hope the Sox scouts are accurate and are onto a good thing.