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  1. jacksonianmarch
    Baseball teams don't harvest their entire crop in the same season. They have multiple crops growing all the time. DD decided to harvest them all, salted the earth and misplaced the seeds
  2. jacksonianmarch
    You're in the AL East with TB and NYY. Both teams are loaded for bear, are younger, deeper, can add payroll and have far better farm systems. "Staying competitive" is a term used by marketing people who hope to get butts in seats but don't give a s*** about winning. As a Yankee fan, I begged for the Yanks to blow it up from 14-16. It took a deadline miracle for Cashman to do so. Mediocrity is punished in baseball. Your choice is to prop the window open by opening the wallet further or rebuilding. Barring a 2013 style miracle, the sox going for a "stay competitive" mode in 2020 will finish around .500 and be about 20 games out of playoff contention in the east. That blows, IMO. That might be ok for Pittsburgh, but not Boston. And in Boston, with the other three teams flying high, a .500 season is just as bad as a .400 season. By the time the summer winds down, eyes will be elsewhere and Fenway will be a snoozefest
  3. jacksonianmarch
    TB let Glasnow stay out there too long in game 1. If I was Cash, I would give Glasnow 60 pitches before having him go batter to batter. You cannot let this game get ahead of you. Cole is on full rest and is coming off a historic performance. You gotta go 0 for 0 with him and hope someone can connect and your pen can lock the Stros down
  4. jacksonianmarch
    Decimating a farm to win a world series is fine...if you win the WS. You did, so it was worth it. DD's big sin was keeping the party going and throwing insane money at the team to keep them together instead of trying to upgrade them. If you're in lux tax hell and your farm is decimated, there is only one way to go, down
  5. jacksonianmarch
    I am rooting hard for TB tomorrow. Not because they're a garbage opponent, but because Houston is death in their ballpark. We haven't won there since 2018 and in 2017, we didn't win a single game in Houston in a series that went 7. Yankee Stadium rocks for the playoffs and it will be really hard for a team to beat us in our ballpark.
  6. jacksonianmarch
    Chapman will opt out, but I anticipate the Yanks may tack on a few seasons, add another opt out and get a smaller AAV. No way Kenley opts out. He has been a disaster this year
  7. jacksonianmarch
    Well, Britton sprained an ankle and Chap bruised his throwing hand. A few days rest won't hurt. It was utter dominance. Once the Yanks took the lead in game 1, the air came out of them and they couldn't recover. It could have been a best of 9 and we'd have taken 5 straight
  8. jacksonianmarch
    Then you don’t deal him. You make it a requirement to get a top 50 guy leading a package. You don’t get that? Then keep him Paxton is a pretty good comp. we gave up Sheffield (#36 at the time) plus a couple others for him
  9. jacksonianmarch
    I’m hoping guys style themselves like Lemahieu. Hit the ball the other way when it’s pitched there. Pull when indicated. Up the middle when you can. The only reason for shifts is the hitters were predictable. Be unpredictable and you can’t shift
  10. jacksonianmarch
    Lemahieu's approach has changed a lot of the Yankees. Even though we hit over 300 homers, the Yanks are not as much a "grip it and rip it" team as we had been. Maybe that is with Stanton out for the year, but our situational hitting was awesome this year
  11. jacksonianmarch
    One of the reasons why I think Boone should be kicking himself that we couldn't eek out the 1 seed. The Astros in the playoffs, on the road, suck
  12. jacksonianmarch
    Yankees close them out becoming the first team to sweep a 100 win team out of the playoffs. Total domination. Yanks shut down a great offense. We scored a lot of runs off their staff. We played better defense. Every single phase of the game we were better. I anticipate it’s off to Houston unless TB can pull off a miracle. Next man up
  13. jacksonianmarch
    So twice Boone has gone to Ottavino just for Cruz and twice he has walked him. Green in with 2 on, Yanks up 2. Cmon kid
  14. jacksonianmarch
    Sevy was a magician tonight. Almost seemed more comfortable out of the stretch. Finished the 4th strong. Pen time. I would assume Kahnle-Ottavino-Green-Britton-Chapman
  15. jacksonianmarch
    Sevy struggling again in the third inning. Need to consider pulling him if he gets out of this
  16. jacksonianmarch
    Maybe. I think I would hang onto Chavis, though, if I were the sox GM. He can hit a breaking ball better than most players in the game. That is a skill that is hard as hell to teach and pretty difficult to track as a hitter. He has the hardest part figured out. He just needs to be able to continue to do that while not selling bat speed for the higher pitches. It's an approach issue. I think he can do it, it is just gonna take a lot of work. Might even take the entirety of 2020 to figure it out. Once he does, though, he will have a bright future. And for the sox, young guys with bright futures are worth their weight in gold
  17. jacksonianmarch
    The sox would have employed that in 2004. The Cubs employed that in 2016. I would anticipate the Guardians would employ that should they have a team good enough to win it
  18. jacksonianmarch
    Chavis' long term viability as a hitter is in question since he has such an enormous hole in his swing. I guess you could try and sell high on him with a team desperate for power. But I think if the sox keep him, they might be better served reworking his swing in AAA and bringing him back up able to handle the high fastball
  19. jacksonianmarch
    Huh, Sevy turned it on. Now a leadoff double. Pour it on Yanks
  20. jacksonianmarch
    Severino struggling to start the game. Fastball location is an issue and the slider isn't biting. Boone might not want to get him far past 2
  21. jacksonianmarch
    They will need to beat Verlander on short rest and Cole on full rest at Houston to move on. Chances are low
  22. jacksonianmarch
    Yes, kinda. Also, he has significantly diminished stuff. Smoke and mirrors. FB was 88 mph today
  23. jacksonianmarch
    And he’s gonna pitch on short rest tomorrow. Miley in to mop up
  24. jacksonianmarch
    Henry needs to decide to either go for it or blow it up. Anything in between is a waste. Status quo (retaining the current roster) is a waste. He either needs to commit to adding to the roster or blow it up and try to rebuild in 3 seasons
  25. jacksonianmarch
    And how would he know that? Listen, Manfred has a vested interest in killing this story. This was a contractual violation that the list even came out and the MLB was liable for that violation of privacy.
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