Dojji
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Cheaper sure, if we were going to spend the money elsewhere that'd be a factor, but I don't see where that would be. And Bradley definitely has potential down the road, I'd be lying if I denied that. but to expect it out of him next year when he's still as inexperienced as he is is asking quite a bit.
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Three known ways to listen to the Sox outside of greater New England 1: XM satellite radio 2: MLB.com Gamdeay Audio (anywhere you have an Internet connection, costs about $15-20 per year, incl. Spring Training and the Postseason, as well as archives of recorded audio games for those of us who might be across the pond) 3: MLB.com At Bat app (anywhere, if you have a smartphone and can get service) I don't see why any of these options don't apply to our Scouser friends, if they're interested. The Gameday Audio service in particular is a fantastic deal when you consider you can listen to every out of market game, not just Boston but all 30 teams, spring training, postseason, and all games are archived for play at sane hours if you happen to live in, say, England. A baseball nut can fill his summer with it nicely with hundreds of hours of entertainment for $20/year.
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I had to look that up just to make sure lol. On a Wakefield style contract that would be potentially fantastic.
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Could stand Span. Would prefer Crisp. Do we know whether the A's picked up that option?
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Uhhhhh.... How about we wait until we see whether brentz can actually learn to handle AAA before we start talking about the big leagues.
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I wouldn't recommend sleeping on those tickets, tickets are in high demand and tend to disappear very quickly. There are places where you can buy tickets secondhand, but you can bet you'll be paying through the nose if you can't get them when they're first released.
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Jackson pitched 175 innings in 2013. Even if he didn't go deep in any one game, which is highly debatable, taking all of your starts has a value all its own.
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Me neither. you have to think that the Sox are investigating keeping ellsbury, and the best way to keep Ellsbury without abandoning the value they have in JBJ, is to use JBJ in left at Nava's expense. there is simply nothing Nava does on this roster that another player can't theoretically do better, and that's the sad truth. He's had a good enough year that he ought to have established some value, especially since the one thing he does really well (OBP) is considered a good strength to have leaguewide. It wouldn't be the worst time to cash in that value, and if he keeps having good years in other uniforms, so much the better for him.
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there's no comparison there beyond that relatively small sample size. Trout's tools >>>>>>>> Bradley's tools. Bradley is built around decent plate discipline, solid OBP, good defensive instincts, and no obvious holes. He's a smarts-first ballplayer. That can work, especially if the power plays up at at least the 12-15 HR level, but the results tend to look a lot more like Dejesus than they do like a 5 tool Trout type. Personally I think I'm being moderately optomistic touting Bradley as a Dejesus type. Dejesus was a very, very good CF in his day and at his peak he was around a 3 WAR player. Any one of us would take that from Bradley.
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Will Red Sox pursue Japanese Ace - Masahiro Tanaka?
Dojji replied to vjcsmoke's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Don't see what Hudson provides that you couldn't get from Peavy. We really don't need to be looking for middle to bottom of the rotation guy. Unless you're going right over the top or picking up a total innings horse to slot behind the first two guys, they should probably stand pat and let the youth percolate up to fill their remaining needs. -
Will Red Sox pursue Japanese Ace - Masahiro Tanaka?
Dojji replied to vjcsmoke's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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Why? Do you really think Drew is going to lie down and die between now and age 34? Most players tend to be able to be productive through their early 30's and Drew going into his age 31 season doesn't alarm me from a decline standpoint. The AAV is a little high but that should be something you can talk down at least a little. A 4 year contract for a guy coming off his age 30 season who demonstrated that he is relatively healthy and back to his old playing form -- a form that makes him near-elite for his position -- shouldn't alarm anyone who knows what they're paying for.
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you're not looking at the whole picture. Our insurance against a Bradley flop is Victorino, and moving Victorino to center pushes Nava to right fulltime -- that's a vast defensive downgrade going from one of the best defensive rightfielders in the major league to one of the worst overnight. Not to mention that Victorino had his share of injuries this year and moving to a more athletically demanding position as he ages might not be the best way to use him. If we want to take a short term deal on a good player like Carlos Beltran and jettison Nava or Carp, giving us more than adequate depth to cover right field as well as center, that would be another story, but right now I see this as as a situation where we risk downgrading two positions.
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Mike Trout outstrips JBJ in every discernable category, both at the major, and especially at the minor league level. Now if you'd told me to use the same measuring stick I've already been holding JBJ up to -- David Dejesus -- then maybe we'd be getting somewhere. I think Dejesus is a pretty solid basis of comparison for JBJ and that Dejesus' peak matches JBJ's potential fairly well, allowing for the fact that no two players are going to be identical. I also happen to think that a normal year from Ellsbury is significantly better than Dejesus at his peak.
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Call me insane -- you do anyway -- but I actually don' want McCann at any price. Don't get me wrong I think he's a really good catcher, if it was 2011 I'd be all for it, but if you compare his numbers over the last 2 years to Salty, I don't see that many more years and dollars worth of production out of McCann. Not too many catchers start getting better offensively from age 29 onward. And that's without factoring in the opportunity cost of failing to give really good catching prospects like Lavarnway and Vazquez the opportunities they need to find out if they might contribute in their own rights. I could see McCann being great, and I could see him blowing up in our faces, and the balance I'm seeing between those two possibilities tells me to stay the everloving heck away from Brian McCann.
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I don't think you have to be a Bradley skeptic to want to keep Ellsbury. Now I amm a Bradley skeptic, but it's hardly required. I just think that it's hard to have too much depth and that any positional controversies tend to sort themselves out in time, and teams are wiser to allow such controversies to sort themselves out organically rather than forcing a player into the position you project him to ultimately play. Same reason I'm all for bring Drew back. So forcing the team to depend on Bradley making process isn't ideal from my standpoint.
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That's because of WHAT Fenway boosts -- and what it absolutely, definitely doesn't. Fenway boosts two things. Batting average and doubles. It does not boost HR power at all, ever, and never did. In fact it depresses HR power. Fenway Park is a below average park to hit home runs at. heck of a park for a line drive/doubles hitter, or a complete professional hitter like Manny who can control the at bat. If they're an all or nothing guy, Fenway isn't going to help them -- in fact it weakens their greatest strength without adding enough AVG/doubles to make up for it.
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I don't WATCH baseball. I LISTEN to baseball. Usually while doing something else with my brain and hands. It's the best radio sport in the world.
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If the action is fast I don't mind how long a game takes. It's when the action suffers that I have a problem, and a slow soccer game is the most painful thing to watch outside of a total blowout football game where you don't care about either team.
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Giancarlo's best year so far is a pale shadow of Manny's peak years. He's powerful and a good hitter, but Stanton can't even pretend to match Manny's ability to dominate an at bat. Knowing about obsessions from the inside, as everyone here knows I do, I know one when I see one. SFF, you're not actually arguing with anyone here. you're inventing reasons for yourself to believe in what you're saying. I recognize that Stanton is a unique talent, but everyone can come with a price tag that is too high for their value. We SHOULD have learned that lesson with Adgon. We don't need superstar production in the corner outfield positions to win the World Series, that's what this year taught us. How much does Stanton really give us over the WAR presented by Victorino or the Gomes/Nava platoon? Not as much as the offensibe numbers suggest. Until you learn how to stack value up properly against both opportunity cost (the players getting replaced) and price tag, you'll keep making the same mistakes.
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Will Red Sox pursue Japanese Ace - Masahiro Tanaka?
Dojji replied to vjcsmoke's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Don't sleep on Brandon Workman guys. He has the stuff to start in the bottom of a rotation, and he's got plenty of upside IMHO. -
Dunno why you'd say that, a lot of good low-risk investments fall under that category.
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With Lester, Lackey, Buchholz, Peavey, Doubront, we don't need to add Garza to force Dempster out of the rotation. He's already out.
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We have a number of young pitchers who are a good bet to feature prominently next year. Brandon Workman was a revelation in the postseason, I imagine even if he can't break in on the roster he gets first crack at any opening that becomes available. He's not the flashiest of our prospect by any means, but he just seems to have a very solid overall package, is fundamentally sound, and works his tail off. Owens, Webster, de la Rosa, Barnes, Ranaudo, all solid options depending on what comes open.
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I think people are vastl underestimating Salty's value on the market. Catchers that can hit are really prized unless they're defensive nightmares.
