Dojji
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We should sell. Salty should have value on the trade market and we can replace him. Ditto with Youk
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Call me nuts but I wouldn't bring Buck out for the 6th. Let him hve 5 good innings and build from there for the next start.
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Jackson's right this time. You don't have to like when he's right, but if you want to be considered honest, you do have to admit it.
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That's because it's not an issue. How many really solid players get most of their production in a couple hot months distributed across the season? Heck, Youk was very well known for it.
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Not the right time or place for the Sox.
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I think you're living in dreamland a bit. The fact is that no matter how you want to spin it, Tebow's religion was a huge part of how he was perceived -- far more than his skill on the field. Which is exactly what a700 was talking about. And if you think the irrational scorn wasn't there, I want to know whether you watched any TV or listened to any radio over the last 10 months or so.
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Ahem. Lowrie, not so much, but he's still useful, so losing him for nothing still hurt. He's outperforming Aviles and that counts for something. Reddick, though, I felt was a middle of the order potential (note, "potential,") on his power ability and his quick bat which struck me as a good potential to hit for a highish average if he could improve a bit on his pitch recognition. High average and good power = middle of the order ability. Based on numbers alone Reddick would be hitting 5th for us right now and the only reason he wouldn't be hitting cleanup was because Papi's been hitting third. That's close enough where I sit.
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a700 is right. Openly Christian players are exposed by and large to more scorn and ridicule than their skill and talent dictates. Tebow is an average quarterback who managed to be just good enough to go on a nice little run in the playoffs behind a very good offense. As far as talent goes, he's a little better than Matt Cassel -- not quite as good with his arm, much better with his feet. if it was about his skill or talent he'd be a blip on the radar. If it was about the playoffs, a lot of teams win one or two playoff games behind a surprising quarterback. If it was about showboating, he could join the club along with the 45 million wideouts who are infamous for it. Again, not worth that level of attention. The fact that he grabbed such media attention is because of his religion, and his lack of fear in expressing his religion openly, thus "contrverisial" is a perfectly valid adjective to describe him.
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The funny thing is I don't think Yankee fans hate Schilling as much as a certain proportion of left-leaning New Englanders do. Since New England is by and large quite a left leaning region, it tends to create an interesting dynamic regarding the relationship of the fanbase and the one person in the whole danged world they shouldn't be hating. Kinda like Bruins fans and Tim Thomas. The only person who is entitled to more loyalty from us, if ever such a thing existed in New England, is Papi.
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Masterson would have put us in the playoffs each of the last 2 years if he was here, starting, over the last guy in our rotation. I hate it doubly because it was obvious when we traded him that our SP depth was aging, and that they were puting too many eggs in the basket marked "Buchholz."
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Yeah, but he is talented. I didn't hate the lowrie for Melancon trade that much, because he had no position here and if he'd still been here we'd have never called up WMB, but I hate dealing talent for nothing. We got real lucky when Aviles took over as our everyday shortstop and was up to it healthwise. As it is, I'd still rather have Lowrie than Punto. He couldn't be a starter, but if he could have been a Tim Naehring (you know, productive and useful and with star potential if he could just stay on the FREAKING field for 2 weeks in a row), that would have been really helpful.
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I'm not so sure that's true. Schill's big mouth would be much less annoying if you happened to agree with it most of the time. I know that because by and large, I do. The problem comes when you're trying to root for laundry, and the guy who wears the laundry holds forth viewpoints -- loudly -- that directly contradict deeply felt political and even moral beliefs. I can imagine old school Christian folks having a similar problem with the Spaceman, for similar reason. In fact without being able to tell you a single anecdote because I wasn't born yet when he pitched, I guarantee it happened. So there ya have it. Schill is the anti-Spaceman, annoying people on the opposite side of the political spectrum, for exactly the same reasons. The only reason people hate the Spaceman less, is because people weren't as touchy and PC back in the 70's
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I agree with a700. Sweeney is at best a mediocre starter, much better suited to a 4th outfield role, and you just don't trade potential middle of the order bats (and make no mistake, that WAS and IS Reddick's potential) for relievers and bench players. It's almost as stupid as trading a potential frontline starter for V-Mart -- a DH who could barely fake it at catcher anymore -- to solve our issues at catcher, which you'll note remained unsolved and helped cost us shots at the playoffs in 2 separate years. Chasing the dream is one thing. Trying to remain a perennial contender is one thing. Dealing away gold for copper is not something a team this deep should be doing -- ever. We should have the resources never to need to trade quality for quantity or deal top prospects for decaying veterans.
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Reddick's got enough talent to improve defensively. He's mobile enough to play center and he has a good arm. This team will never get better as long as it rejects the idea that young players can improve, and especially as long as it writes one prospect in in a given position and closes the door to all others, as in Kalish in RF.
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And kids who do that get it and find consistency sometimes. I don't understand why people can't believe a kid like Reddick could improve. Sweeney isn't going to improve, and Kalish has been a ghost for 2 years -- thinking that won't impact his skills is naive.
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How about the fact that our inability to get Bailey onto the field impacts the analysisof the trade all by itself? How about that little bit? You can't just dismiss that part. Bailey having apparently a preexisting injury is a facet of how this trade fell out and deserves attention all by itself.
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Why is speed any more critical to a corner outfielder than it is to a first basemen? We've had some pretty plodding corner OF's over the years, Manny among them.
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He has the skills to hit for average and get on base. If those aren't "major league skills" in your book, you need to get a new book. Plenty of guys make their bread in the big leagues by being able to get on base and hit for average. Even more than a few corner OF.
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You could guess that we'd have issues in right field. Crawford's health was a known concern, the fact that it went as bad as it possibly could have doesn't mean you couldn't have predicted that there'd be an issue there. Balancing that, Ross and Sweeney were playing over their respective heads before they got hurt, that could have turned out a lot worse for us. The only real surprise was Ellsbury, and he had no imapct on right field. We basically traded away a useful puzzle piece at a time when their outfield was in total flux. You don't have to know exactly how this did go wrong, to see how it could have.
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