Dojji
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Welcome to Boston, Carl Soderberg.
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What Greinke did was his best bet. That's how you're taught to take a hit full-on, since it lets the body's natural shock absorbers take most of the blow. I've seen a lot of hockey players take a hit the exact same way. It was reminiscent of the way Milan Lucic took a hit from Alex Emelin lately, and Emelin definitely got the worst of that contact, so if Greinke got hurt there it was just bad luck and anything else he could have done carried a similar injury risk. The moron here, if there was one other than Quentin, was A. J. Ellis, for not getting between Quentin and Greinke in the first place.
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It ain't over yet. Apparently Soderberg is flatly refusing to participate in any tournaments for Sweden.
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The Orioles are a team that won 90 games last year, so I don't feel too bad dropping a series to them. Get 'em next time. The only thing that sucked about it is that had Hanrahan made the save they would have salvaged the getaway day.
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That's fine, as long as you know what standard Nava would have to meet to convince you to change your mind.
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Oh agreed.
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I was deliberately resisting that one... sigh. Nava say nava.
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Well, I look smarter than I have any actual right to. Good work, Mr. Nava. Keep it up. Nice swings against the righty today.
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.. suggesting that for now, your answer in the rotation is Aceves.
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I'm surprised you're surprised. This roster isn't a finished work by any means. They never are. But clearly some moves have to happen in the very near future anyway, such as figuring out whether you really need/want Carp for example and then where you go from there with that roster spot.
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Well it's a bit early to say he never panned out when he's only 25. The window is shrinking, but it really hasn't closed completely. I can't possibly count all the myriad ways and reasons I don't even touch Barry Zito. As for Lincecum, I really doubt the Giants make him available. Not after one bad year.
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I can't for the life of me think what Carp can do that Nava hasn't shown himself capable of. If you can drop Carp and keep Iglesias on the roster at least until Ortiz comes back and you've had a few games to see what Drew is, that seems smart to me. If you can keep Carp in the minors somehow, that's the best place to put him.
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I've seen better. I'd almost forgotten about Ryan Kalish. Crazy what 2 years of injury will do to a player's presence in the minds of fans.
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It's obvious in retrospect who the real heavy of that deal was, that being David Murphy, but I suspect that the Rangers were liking what they saw from Gabbard too. He featured prominently in their rotation and wasn't doing all that bad until the injury happened (4.8 ERA, nothing great, but not that awful, and if you check the game log there was a definite downward trajectory in his ERA and BB rate as the elbow got worse)
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Which makes Cherington's decision to step very carefully into that minefield look positively brilliant.
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Who are you going to start instead with Morales hurt? You gonna call up that knuckleballer in AAA who couldn't get it done this Spring? Press Miller into service? Aceves has a role on this team, and this is it. He's going to have to pass or fail at that role definitively before we know whether it's time to replace him with someone else.
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He had it all in front of him if he hadn't hurt his elbow. His command was always a bit shaky, but that changeup was a plus plus pitch, lots of swings and misses on that thing, and he had the two-seamer to get a lot of ground balls and erase the baserunners he let up. Unfortunately, he wasn't even close after the injury and the strike zone became an utter mystery to him. What a pity. But that's the way it goes sometimes.
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Well, if Bradley needs to go down, seeing might well be believing. As the lefthanded side of a Nava-Gomes platoon, he'd be the nominal starter, especially if Gomes struggles defensively which is very possible. He's flat out beaten Carp for the primary OF/1B backup roles. He's hurdled every other artificial barrier someone's put in front of him. I'd think real long and real hard before I predicted the last one would hold. There's a lot worse starting LF's out there than the guy I see Daniel Nava's ceiling as being (.270/.380/.420). If he can gain even a little consistency on the right side, he could break that too, especially if his recent power display is not a mirage (which I honestly think it probably is, at least to the level he's displayed in the last 2 games(.
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Because certain of us have decided to dig in just as firmly on the Nava skeptic camp as I have on the optimist side, just because I have done so. It comes of my combination of enthusiasm and volume. It turns people off sometimes, and a certain group of contrarian posters are always going to line up on the other side as a result, either because they don't like me, or because they're less enthusiastic about the subject matter and they want to rein the thread in a bit. It happens, I know why it happens, I just can't be bothered to adjust my way of thinking because of half a handful of fools. And I admit that sometimes their antagonism to my ideas tends to radicalize me as well. Sort of a mutual lose-lose situation, at least for those mods who like sleep. Nava is a prime example, Gabbard was another.
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Which is, I would venture to say, your problem.
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Yes, God forbid I ask a question about a prospect with which I was relatively unfamiliar, but who had decent numbers in the minors. God forbid I like to try to foster discussion about a number of topics that tailor to my biases, because duh. Seriously, MVP, you are a man in desperate need of a major humility infusion.
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Sure, but let's let a guy prove whether he's a lesser talent or not, rather than just blatantly assuming based on draft slot, age, height, current role or whatever. The difference between you and me, MVP, is I keep my mind open to guys transcending their current position and situation. Especially a guy like Nava who's already done that to an extent to even get where he is. The reason it always starts with Gabbard, is that Gabbard was the first guy who showed me it could be done, with his excellent run in 2007. If he hadn't gotten hurt, it would have been the start of a pretty decent career for him. Lefties with groundball stuff who also strike out 6 or 7 batters an inning have a shot to get somewhere. Unfortuntely he hurt his elbow and lost his command the next year in Texas and it was all over, but it was there for him if he could have stayed healthy..
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This is why you can't privately discipline your umpires. The fans need to know what's going to happen when a call like that gets kicked. That was an obvious blown call. At least the guy who robbed Armando Galarraga was man enough to admit it. I doubt we see a peep out of this creep.
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Oh enough, people. I'm pulling for a guy that I've pulled for since he was in the minors, and he has 2 great days in a row and I'm happy for him. Don't make it out to be more than it is.
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Yep. I wouldn't be against adding, say, Bruce Chen, who's in the bullpen where he is anyway. I was pulling to add John Lannan in the offseason because I thought he'd be better than "cheap depth" options, but he's better off where he is for now. If you're looking for a guy who can come in as a lefty out of the pen and slide into the rotation at need, Chen's one of the better possibly-available options. I can't imagine the Royals turning down a fair return for him. Heck, Ciriaco-for-Chen might make sense for both teams, if the Sox think Iglesias is better served staying in the big leagues.
