Dojji
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Everyone is going to pitch the 7thg or 8th occasionally in a bullpen, especially when your Plan A guys are getting lit up. Your statement even if true is not particularly alarming. He was a matchup lefty, so he pitched some matchups in high leverage situations. It was early in the year, and seeing if the guy could do it under live fire was something that needed to happen if he was going to be counted on later, heck every team experiments like that in April when the games aren't percieved to be quite as important. It didn't work, he was released, end of story, to try to turn that into some mad conspiracy theory where Shoeneweiss was used regularly as a setup reliever is just... bizarre. It shows no connection to reality much less any understanding of how a season is played through at any level, much less the majors.
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Dude, I know what passive aggressive is. If you were really admitting defeat, you'd just slink off and do something else for awhile like I do when I hold a dumb position and get my head handed to me. You're still fighting, just trying to use a transparently underhanded tactic to do it where it doesn't seem polite to fight back.
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And so, with all the faults in his logic laid bare, a700 reveals once again his patented maturity and stiff upper lip, and resorts to passive aggressive BS that makes no point at all but just makes people feel embarrassed for him. Not the first time, probably not the last.
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The pen did not stink when it left Ft. Myers and Shoenweiss was the 6th reliever in the depth chart when we broke camp behind Paps, Bard, Oki, MDC, and RR, which is about right for a waiver claim gamble. You are overblowing the nature of the problem and again mistaking accountability for blame. The two terms are not interchangeable.
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Uggla to Atlanta for a 29 year old IF coming off a career year and a walk-per-inning LHRP. Baffling. You realize we could have beaten that handily with Doubront and Lowrie, right?
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It doesn't matter ORS, since his "standard" is based on 100% fertilizer-grade hindsight anyway.
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THere's a level of damage you can correct in season and a level you can't. When 3 setup caliber relievers all die at once, there's only so much you can do. And riding on Kerry freaking Wood when pitchers with a much better recent track record such as Oki and RR had already fallen apart would have been a fool's gamble no matter how we did it.
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Kerry Wood had the luckiest terrible year I ever saw with the Yankees. He walked more than a guy every other inning and only got away with it because he was amazingly lucky with balls in play. That is not the kind of pitcher you want to gamble on to save your season with your other options spitting the bit. There was no reason to believe he wouldn't have continued to pitch as he did with Cleveland -- and every evidence that he in fact did, but got lucky for a couple months to manage to put up a half season that looked good to the uninformed. You are ultimately calling on Boston to have traded for a guy who at the time had 5 walks an inning aned a 6.30 ERA. The fact that the Yankees walked away from the crash does not mean that it would have been smart for us to jump off the same cliff.
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I wonder if Florida would be interested in Jed Lowrie.
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My understanding of this issue is ridiculously shallow. What is the actual problem with Hodgson? That epic missive was a little indistinct on the actual issue.
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I disagree because you're trading with the Marlins. They like present value and you can make some lopsided deals on that basis. Besides, Uggla isn't an "average" offensive 1B if moved to 1B. He's not in the top 5, but his production would still be solidly respectable. About on par with Paul Konerko's. Certainly a better option at first than anything we currently have, as long as Youkilis is still prepping to be a 3B.
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If you think that it was the reject pile guys they were going to looking for setup material you're insane. Going into the season they brought those guys in to be in the mix behind Oki, Bard, MDC and RamRam. Obviously that's not how it panned out, but those 4 guys were supposed to shake out a setup corps between them. All the waiver claims and schlubs were there to be is warm bodies to take middle innings, and that's exactly what Atchison was, it's not his fault that 3 of the 4 aforementioned pitchers spit the bit all at the same time.
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I'd bring him back (Oki) as he's really only had the one ba year which was really only one bad month. That doesn't erase 3 years of solid performances in my book. It's really hard to find decent lefties and he's really not that far removed from effectiveness. I wouldn't pencil him in for a setup role or anything absurd like that but in my humble, if he was on the FA wire he'd be exactly the kind of guy Theo would be looking to pick up and try to get a good year out of so I'd take a chance on Oki bouncing back with the idea that I try to shape the roster so he can be cut if it doesn't work out.
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Trade for him and move him to first base. He can play second, he can play first. If he's athletic enough to fake it in middle infield, he could even develop into quite a nice 1B. Around the horn, Youks-Lowrie/Scoot-Peddy-Uggla is really decent. (and don't worry about Adgon. If we even wind up getting him, Uggs can shift to LF or the DH spot which is not locked down to Papi after next year)
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Mazarro is there to prevent them from being forced to promote Montgomery or Lamb too soon. Moore is loading up on stopgaps to hold a roster together until he can cycle in the younguns properly rather than the Allard Baird method of "Oh hey now, he's had a good month in AA, he might concievably be ready to play, pop 'im in!" Allard Baird made me look dour and pessimistic about prospects and prospect readiness. They've got a good crop of young players right now, ruining them will be a great way for a GM to get fired -- especially Moore who's essentially staked his career on this wave of prospects at this point.
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I think Boston is more likely to be generous enough with Uggla to get an extension. I'd look into it, Uggla is a nifty power hitter, but in the end he's a B+ player rather than a real franchise piece.
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Not to mention something that I only saw out of Beckett the year he was robbed for the Cy Young. He's the guy I'll be watching to see if the lesson takes.
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I don't think so actually. Is being the 5th starter on a contending team with plenty of veteran leadership really more stressful than being the ace of a bad and badly led team that looks on you to be the one true face of the franchise?
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A lefty who can throw that hard? Would stun me if they didn't at least try him, and it wouldn't amaze me too much if it worked.
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Interesting deal. This could either be nothing or fantastic, but there's little downside to the trade. Good move for Theo.
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Lavarnway DH. He killed the ball in AA so he's close enough to possibly be up in 2 seasons.
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I think Crawford might as well get fitted for his Los Angeles Angels uniform right now and save himself some time later, to be completely honest. Combine their bad year with money to spend and Anaheim's love for the speed game and you have a significant natural fit between that team and that player.
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I wouldn't ruke it out even for 2011, he's got the ability and if you add 40 to his BA, OBP and SLG to get his average up to the level James projects, both his discipline and power would match James' projection. If you then give him 450 AB's worth of sample all the other numbers match or are at least close with the exception of Homers, and we know the kid has power upside. So basically what it comes down to is whether you think Kalish could hit .270 next year over a full season of plate appearances, and that's not really such an ambitious number for a talented kid with a good swing.
