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How much longer will the Sox play without a legit 3B?
Dojji replied to marklmw's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
It's a valid point. Middlebrooks is pretty much starting all over again proving himself. -
How much longer will the Sox play without a legit 3B?
Dojji replied to marklmw's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
They're rushing him if they move him up at any time before they're convinced he's ready. He's gotta be close, and it could definitely work out anyway, but a rush job is still a rush job. -
But it definitely muddies the water on the pat answer some people like to think they have about why Bard went south. The move to the rotation may OR MAY NOT have been the culprit. The correlation some people want to see doesn't quite line up perfectly.
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How much longer will the Sox play without a legit 3B?
Dojji replied to marklmw's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
They're not going to rush Bogaerts, and WMB hasn't proven he's back from wherever he went this May. We're not overburdened with options right now. -
I see Rico Petrocelli as a reasonable career arc analogue, at least defensively. Starts at shortstop, sticks for several years, and then moves to the corners as he slows down in his late 20's early 30's.
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Pretty much. This kid is not Ichiro, nor any significant portion thereof. I respected what he did for us and am not particularly glad he's gone but expecting him to sustain this level of offense is not supported by history.
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Bard didn't go wrong in 2012. He was just as bad as he was in 2012-2013 in September of 2011. Something happened that year that he couldn't recover from. It's all there in the numbers. The "Bard move" that killed him wasn't necessarily moving him to the rotation. I don't know what it was really, but there's no indication that that move was the specific turning point.
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Disagree. It's the difference between him being an elite 3B prospect or a generational SS prospect. He has the potential to be right up there with Miggy Cabrera. But if he can stick at short, he has the potential to be Nomar in his prime, and that doesn't happen to anyone very often.
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It's not so much a strategy, as it is waiting for Middlebrooks to give us some actual reason to promote him again. People keep thinking that prospects need to be given big league time. Yes, but they also need to be earning the time they get, or no team, and especially a team right in the thick of the playoff hunt, is going to invest time in that player.
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Considering where KC is in the standings this year, they walk away from the trade smiling. They haven't been this close to contention in a long time, and the rotation Dayton Moore slapped together this past offseason is a huge part of that. The Royals are a serious contender this year. They aren't without James Shields. (also without Ervin Santana and Jeremy Guthrie, but I digress)
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If he went deeper into games, he'd be a borderline top of the rotation guy. This is not a #3 roster filler. I expect him to improve next year and shoot up the rankings too. His command is improving steadily.
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I haven't heard much about David Ross recently, so I'd think the Sox would be in the market for a defensive type catcher. I mean no disrespect to Lavs but a solid all-around veteran catcher would look really good backing Salty up, if Ross isn't coming back in good time it might be time to make a move. I'm sure someone has a veteran catcher to waive. If the Rays were willing to move Jose Molina he'd be perfect, but even if they'd move him I know it wouldn't be to us.
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Expecting Bogaerts to be a middle of the order bat right out of the bottle is... ambitious of you. Even Nomar needed some time to adjust.
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I wouldn't be shocked if Ellsbury and the Red Sox managed to get something done. Would be a nice problem to have.
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Why do people constantly do this? I outright opposed the signing of Beltre, and I was dead wrong, and admitted it at the time. By the end of that year I was all for re-upping him. It would have been the right move at the time, and certainly would have been right in retrospect. We ditched Beltre so that we could sign Adgon, and it was absolutely the wrong thing to do. Some of you might be too personally insecure to admit when you took a wrong position. I go out on a limb so much that I can't afford that luxury.
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You don't listen very well do you. I needed to say it, once, now I don't care anymore. At the time, the right move was to limp along with Lowell until we signed Beltre. What we should have done was hold onto Beltre at the end of that year. With Youk full time at first maybe he lasts longer. The huge encumbering contract for a player who's over 27 years old is rarely the right move.
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Sorry, I had to say this, it's been on my chest since the big brouhaha about it back in 09 when I took a LOT of heat from opposing the signing. Looks like it was the right decision in hindsight to oppose that contract. He had the one great year in 09 and then he's been pretty good but not $22M good the next 3 years, but he's been steadily declining every year since 09 -- and the Yankees have 3 more years at 22 mil to eat. Now this probably doesn't hurt the Yankees very much, but it absolutely would have hurt us. Sometimes the Yankees just outright do us a favor. There, I've said it, that's done, I'm over it, we can all move on now.
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And even a team as cheap as Miami will pay. They lose all hope of getting established in their market if they play games here.
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I consider catcher a more important defensive position than SS. Everything else you say I'm 100% on board.
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Exactly. Workman was impressive, he knows it, and he knows the team knows it. We'll see him again.
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Then pull in your horns.
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Even with that factored in it's still a serious stretch to get from what Chief said to how UN interpreted it. There's a lot of suspicion of specifically Dominican prospects right now, it's not inappropriate to cite them in questions of age -- they're probably not the only ones doing it but they're the ones in the news right now so a cheap little throwaway line in a post intended as a half serious dig at a known issue shouldn't trigger that kind of response..
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A-rod money. And he'll probably deserve it more than A-Rod did.
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How it could be interpreted? Yes, if you were itching for an argument and outright wanted to find an opening to start one, I'm sure you could interpret the statement that way if you really wanted to. MSNC102 mentioned a specific player that was outright caught lying. I'd say that calling him out as if he'd singled out a nation, rather than one dude, is a stretch, UN.
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Pedroia, Buchholz, our top 10 prospects and 100 million dollars a year should make it happen. Pay any price, right?
