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They came back after being down 7-1 - reason enough.
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Agreed - he should not be benched for the reasons we discussed before. I do think that we should trade him if someone gives us the right/younger package because Ortiz IMO is certainly on a decline phase. From my past experience - Theo will not hesitate to pull the trigger to replace an aging slugger.
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I know that as well as I know the Yankess missed out on him as well. The point was - we hurt because Tito is more loyal to the individual players than the team and the fans. Let me know if you think otherwise.
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If Tito can play Belhorne every day in 2005 - he will never sit out Ortiz. He also made sure he does not hurt the feelings of Hinske in 2006 by sitting him - if not for that we would probably still had Carlos Pena as a Red Sox and won't have to sign Lowell or try to sign Tex in the off-season. I believe we are seeing a situation similar to Mo Vaugn - and we should trade him if we get the right return. But in order to sell him high - he needs to be playing every day and produce. So - you are right either way Carter will not see much playing time barring injuries.
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Why not get Carter some bats and see how that works out? I wonder what else that kid has got to do to get into a line-up.
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I hope Ortiz can pick it up from here - we need him desperately.
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Bay Manny's time was up in Boston. But comparing him to Bay is not fair even to Bay. Manny might be the best right-handed hitter of our generation along with A-Rod and Pujols when all set and done.
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I am not sure since we have also lost Manny. He can still be a good player - but how would you account for that lost production? It is not like you have improved other offensive positions. To make it worse - the other teams in the division have improved their offense.
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Dude - let me ask you something. Do you think he can repeat 2003-2007? Please say yes or no.
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You are right - that alone will not have fixed it but that and getting a good catcher would have been a start. The first step to get a solution is to recognize that there is a problem - I think The Red Sox have recognized it a little too late. They do have the money and resources to fix it - but the problems are too big to fix it on the fly and get to the playoffs this year. Again - the Yankees and even Tampa have improved while we have not - and that might be a problem at least in short term.
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This team is better than 2006 team overall - when the pitching was a huge issue. Unfortunately - Tampa Rays were the designated last place team that year - they are probably favourite to win the division now.
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Glad we finally agreed. Edit - They were not good last year either. They got career years from D-Ped, Youk etc. that might have masked the need to make an upgrade and FO has missed that part.
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TheKilo - did you not kill me for saying the same thing in the other thread. I just want to know if you changed your mind since.
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In terms of what is expected of him - he will never match it - though he will be a decent bat going forward. Everyone thought it was the injury last year - but he is healthy now. He was the best in his prime and his contributions will be cherished by the fans forever. For now - we should try to get Chris Carter some bats at DH.
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Good decision - bad execution.
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I was not excited at all about Lowell signing unlike most fans. But that might have been the best alternative after it was clear we will not get A-Rod. The injury is unfortunate but it would have been a shocker anyway if he could ever reproduce 2007.
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Don't you think Abreu >> Rocco and may be > Drew if Drew is not playing(which happens often)..
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ORS - I get to my conclusions from observation and intution - so I am probably a casual fan. We still have some of them in the site(VA Sox Fan comes to mind). Not that there is anything wrong with statistics - I enjoy all those posts..
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This is a Red Sox forum - what do you expect? YES message board is way more biased and rhetorical. Gnerally I respect the posters here most of them at least backs up their views with rational and statistics.
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As I was reading the responses - I think some posters thought I have the opinion that the Red Sox should score 6 runs consistently. That's not what I meant - I was trying to say that they will consistently find it very hard to score 6 runs when they need it to secure a win. In fact though it is very early - they are 0-3 when they needed to score 6 runs to get a win and 0-4 in terms of scoring 6 runs in a game. I applogize if this came out the wrong way. ORS - I saw the stats - I think the Yankee line-up is better because they do not have as many question marks as the Sox line-up has. I think they under-performed last year in terms of offense and they will pick-up a notch this year.