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  1. Dojji
    While all that is true, this was also still Theo's team in 2012 in many ways.
  2. Dojji
    Considering how few of those decisions were Cherington's? Sure, why not?
  3. Dojji
    Happened in the first year of Ben's watch. A700, you ought to know just as well as I do that the current GM is only barely culpable for what happens in the first year when most of the roster are still guys the last guy picked. and that's when the entire ownership and upper management isn't looming over a rookie GM's shoulder second-guessing every move he makes. I have no problem whatsoever writing Cherington a mulligan for 2012.
  4. Dojji
    Boston was already paying 6 starting pitchers and we know for a fact that they were nervous about the luxury cap. That trims 99% of your options right off the top. What we could have scooped off the waiver were were guys like Aaron Cook and Cook was not part of the solution. There comes a time when you have to weigh your real options, not the ones you wish you had. Understand that I predicate my position on my strong belief that Bard was cooked for all intents and purposes in September of 2011. Since we have no way of knowing one way or the other what Bard would have done in the pen coming off one of the worst months a Red Sox releiver ever had that year, people who take refuge in an assumption that Bard would have been healfht and effective as our closer, or even as a member of our bullpen, in 2012 aren't nearly as justified as they believe they are.
  5. Dojji
    I disagree. Bard's first serious sign of decay happened before Cherington was GM. My personal opinion is it doesn't matter if Bard was in the rotation or the bullpen in 2012, the damage was done by September of 2011.
  6. Dojji
    Yes there were other options. The problem is WE WERE ALREADY USING THEM. Guys like Doubront, Morales and Cook were supposed to be that buffer. Because Daisuke and Lackey were both nonoptions that buffer did not exist because we had to use those people at the big league level. Beyond that who was there? Ranaudo made himself a nonoption, Barnes was too green, and quite frankly, the quality of our Pawtucket rotation was rather too mediocre to abandon the Bard experiment in favor of. At least the Bard experiment had SOME upside.
  7. Dojji
    We had some unexpected wins to go with it. And I wouldn't overreact to the KC losses and call them shocking or surprising either. Check the standings in the Central. That's a good team that knows how to pitch, and Lorenzo Cain was hotter than hell that series. If it wasn't for Nava's clutch homer that could have easily been a 3 game sweep -- and the Royals would have thoroughly earned it.
  8. Dojji
    I disagree. The team's nuts were in the proverbial grinder because of Lackey's and Matsuzaka's inability to get it done everyday in the starting rotation. They NEEDED another starter and were already paying about 6 people major league starting pitching money. As it was they had to ride Doubront too hard. Also I still maintain my overall opinion of the situation: I think Bard was fried in September of 2011 and everything that happened in 2012 was the last gasp, nothing more.
  9. Dojji
    The pity is that fans with any kind of memory don't have to try hard to recall times when the Astros were one of the best franchises in the National League. Pathetic what they have become
  10. Dojji
    His boogeyman has always been a combination of health and fastball command. So far he seems to have both well under control.
  11. Dojji
    You know, it's beginning to look like he might really have turned the corner. What an impressive performance to start the year.
  12. Dojji
    Am I the only one that thinks that the impact of the acquisition of Soderberg could be absolutely huge for the franchise? We'd been desperate for another skilled, mobile young forward with some size for awhile and now we've got one super-cheap -- 1 mil cap hit for the next few years. Bringing him in now gives us 10 top 9 forwards and allows us to sit someone throughout the playoffs -- or have a very impressive Paille-Campbell-Peverley 4th line if we want to be the finesse team we're built like right now without sacrificing too much size.
  13. Dojji
    I think that hands down the most encouraging thing tonight was the bomb by Middlebrooks. Kid needed that very badly.
  14. Dojji
    Sure, granted, but he said "hopefully next year." Mediocre of worse performances in the first 3 starts of this year are somewhat irrelevant
  15. Dojji
    It's a long season.
  16. Dojji
    Agreed with UN. Nava's biggest limiting factor is his size, which plays a big role in both stamina and ability to avoid injury. It's going to hurt his ability to get the job done if he's playing every day, like it did last year. Little guys can't all be Dustin Pedroia, and Pedey gets his share of injuries too the way he throws himself around. That said, if he's sorted out whatever was holding him back last year from the right side, a switch hitter with that kind of ability to make contact and get on base can be EXTREMELY useful on the bench.
  17. Dojji
    I think that's a subject worth bringing into the main board. I didn't get the chance to watch the second game last night, but the box score looks very good. I wouldn't mind seeing Webster stick around and push Aceves back into the pen until Lackey is healthy, but from what I gather, that's not the plan at the moment.
  18. Dojji
    If the team thought that possibility realistic, Bard would not be in AA.
  19. Dojji
    Alright, I'm gonna be the doof to say it. Kevin Youkilis should have been brought back in the offseason. Our 3B was young and we spent most of the offseason with a hole at first base. Youk can play both positions and is a better option than Napoli if they're both healthy and he's proving it this year.
  20. Dojji
    I'd compare Nava favorably to a guy like Troy O'Leary -- a serviceable and competent player who will never participate in the All-Star Game buy who can give you positive value if you use him right. He's a roleplayer, and a good one, but the comparison to Hamilton is quite unfair to Nava.
  21. Dojji
    oh yes. And let's take a moment to remember that the reason these games are excruciating is that we had every chance to win both of these games. If you define a winnable game as a game in which you've scored no fewer than 3 less runs than the competition, we have had 1 game where our chances were worse than that all year, to the best of my recollection. Considering we have some key players not hitting, I consider that an important point to bear in mind.
  22. Dojji
    The game went into extra innings because their best hitter beat our best reliever. It happens.
  23. Dojji
    Like who? Everyone else who was any good had worked today.
  24. Dojji
    Woulda coulda shoulda. They beat UEHARA. If there's a guy on our roster who was a good bet to pitch that inning, it was Uehara. Woulda-coulda-shouldaing one of the best pure hitters in the league beating our best power arm is ridiculous. Butler's good enough to beat anyone, and Uehara *was* our best bet at the time to get past him into the soft underbelly of the KC lineup. It was the right move to bring Uehara in to face Butler in that inning, that was the time to bring the so-called relief ace out, but Uehara got beat by a very good hitter. It was our best against their best and they beat us this time, nothing Farrell could have done was more likely to succeed than what he did. They beat our best, they're a good team, it was 3 1 run games and they got a few more breaks than we did, get over it.
  25. Dojji
    Oh stop. Miller isn't the problem. THe bullpen surrendering 2 runs in 4 innings isn't the problem here. The problem is simple: We ran into a team that is roughly equal to us in talent and they got more breaks than we did. Trying to blame that on Miller is inaccurate, and any call, even in jest, to injure another human being is totally unacceptable.
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