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  1. jacksonianmarch
    There are plenty of new posters, which I enjoy. It just seems like the posters are here to gripe 95% of the time. Guys, I am a Yankee fan and this year is going to be epic. The sox are damn good. The Yanks are damn good. There's already bad blood spilling over and it's May 10th. Season series is 3-2 Yanks and the Yanks lead the division by 1 game. Each team has had ridiculous runs. Each team has had boneheaded moves and strange failures against poor competition. In the end, both teams have started out gangbusters. The sox are on a 112 win pace. The Yanks are on a 117 win pace. Time to ease off guys and enjoy the ride a bit.
  2. jacksonianmarch
    You aren't getting anything of value for Swihart. Ross is a highly regarded pitcher and one who should return to his prior levels of production. Swihart doesn't have a position and his inclusion on the big league roster is only due to his lack of option status. Teams who want him are waiting for the sox to need his roster spot and DFA him
  3. jacksonianmarch
    Green got tagged for a homerun. They happen. We aren't going to be giving back a lot of leads, although right now we are a little thin out there. Once we get Kahnle and Warren back, the pen will be a little less stressed than it has been of late
  4. jacksonianmarch
    This was easy to see from a mile away. Maybe he will finally start progressing in 2019 when healthy
  5. jacksonianmarch
    Kimbrel was going on scouting report vs Gardner. You get him out with hard stuff up. I’m not sure why he went fastball with Judge 1-2. Judge has improved his ability to hit breaking pitches, but he’s always been a dead red hitter.
  6. jacksonianmarch
    Yanks saw your 17-2 and raised you one at 17-1. They’re a dangerous and deep club. I’m shocked they made up 7.5 games in such a hurry.
  7. jacksonianmarch
    Price has carpal tunnel syndrome. He’ll rest it and try next turn. Surgery isn’t a big deal for this if he needs it.
  8. jacksonianmarch
    Learning the tendencies of a pitcher is humongous for a hitter. A big league hitter can usually hit any pitcher if they know what’s coming. Knowing what a pitcher throws in certain counts effectively balances hitters against these guys with superhuman stuff.
  9. jacksonianmarch
    Tanaka has been rolling as well and we are home. I am surprisingly more confident tonight than I am about tomorrow. ERod eats us up
  10. jacksonianmarch
    Jackie has said in the past that he doesn't watch film, that he is a read and react kind of hitter. In today's game where velocities are insane, every player has a specialization and breaking stuff is measured in spin rates rather than old guys with the old eye test, you have to know the tendencies. There are very few people who can walk up blind to the plate and hit.
  11. jacksonianmarch
    You know what does look like an overpay? Warren, McKinney and Torres for 3 months of Chapman. Theo got his ring, but Cash ate his lunch
  12. jacksonianmarch
    That is a serious misread. I have no intention of wishing for good things from the sox. That being said, I can see how allowing his option to vest is bad for your club.
  13. jacksonianmarch
    How did it not work in Detroit? They went from 2nd worst record ever in 2003 to the world series in 2006 and 2012 with ALCS bouts in 2013 and 2014. He achieved sustained success in Detroit before the bottom fell out and he was fired. The sox didn't have the same narrative. The Tigers built and built and they arrived faster than anticipated. Henry gave DD an ultimatum. Make us relevant now. He did.
  14. jacksonianmarch
    You’re talking about him being average for 20 games in the OF? So that shouts down two years of data? Are you kidding me?
  15. jacksonianmarch
    Hey, I hope Hanley vests his option. I really do. That helps my team considerably.
  16. jacksonianmarch
    Great point, just a stellar point. I’m so glad you made it. Man, you got me. /sarcasm
  17. jacksonianmarch
    DD has a history of going for premium talent. He’s not the kind of guy to make a blockbuster for a #2 starter or a #5 hitter. If he’s going to deal, he deals for the best players at the position. He did it when he won a title with the Marlins. He did it when he got the Tigers back to prominence. He did it with the sox as well. Dave is the guy you get when you’re ready to go for it. He’s made some bad moves like paying extra for Miguel Cabrera to get Dontrelle Willis. Like paying David Price the most money ever for a pitcher. But when he goes for it, he goes for the top of the class. His methods require a good farm and by the time his teams have run their course of success, he’s left them desolate in need of a big rebuild. You just hope you win a title in that time
  18. jacksonianmarch
    Good to take game 1. Need to split the rest to stay tied after this series and start to pull away when we play the A’s.
  19. jacksonianmarch
    I understand going Bradley in this game. You’re not gonna score many runs vs Sevy so trying to limit runs defensively is important. Surprised Cora left him in to face Chapman even though it worked out for the sox.
  20. jacksonianmarch
    We caught you!
  21. jacksonianmarch
    Very very high
  22. jacksonianmarch
    cp, there is plenty to say he is not an asset defensively. The problem you have right now is that your elite defender in CF isn't hitting enough to justify his starting spot. You are a vastly better defensive team with the B's out there than with Beni in CF and JD in LF. Beni is not a good CFer. JD is a terrible LFer. But if that alternative is having top notch defense and basically a pitcher batting in you lineup, then you need to do it to justify the space. The sox OF has Royals circa 2015 level defensive potential, but that team also had solid offensive production from Gordon and Cain while rotating players through RF, which is admittedly a far less demanding or important defensive position than CF. I am intrigued as to how this plays out. The sox IF defense is awful, so the OF defense was trying to balance out the runs they are losing on the infield. If the OF defense is rough aside from Betts, then you're looking at more lost runs but more run production.
  23. jacksonianmarch
    BABIP isn’t flawed in that argument. A ball hit 450 feet isn’t catchable so why leave it up to chance. The basics of BABIP are that a ball hit into the field of play drops in at a 30% clip. That’s a general rule to evaluate whether someone was lucky. There are far more metrics diving deeper than just BABIP including exit velocity, line drive percentages, etc. I think BABIP is a good sabremetric stat for those who don’t want to delve deeper. Most people don’t. You know, ORS and UN were some of the first on this site to embrace the Sabre metric data and I was a cynic but I definitely see its utility now.
  24. jacksonianmarch
    I didn’t say rainiest. Turns out Seattle edges Portland by a hair https://www.currentresults.com/Weather-Extremes/US/cloudiest-cities.php
  25. jacksonianmarch
    Exactly. You had two top 100 prospects, one who is staring at TJS and another on an 80 game roid suspension after a power surge. There aren’t any other top 100s in system or even close to it. You might be able to get a rental reliever, but you’re not getting anything else of value beyond a salary dump or an underperforming player
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