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  1. Dojji
    Likely Pawtuket fodder, but he has a chance to be useful in the lower echelons of the bullpen. He can certainly eat innings.
  2. Dojji
    Bit nervous about his command, but I'd like to see it. We have an opening for a lefty. I think, and actually hope, the Sox will gather some other arms to compete with our farm. Forcing farmhands into the pitching staff without a safety net is a small-market tactic, not a Boston tactic.
  3. Dojji
    sure, he got away with it, but that doesn't mean he wasn't rushed. Being promoted after only one year in the minors is pretty much the definition of rushing a prospect, whether it works or not. And while Gordon has been "Solid" he hasn't precisely been a superstar, in fact his offensive has been below average to average each season for his position. His big league OPS started out at .740 and went down from there each subsequent year. Salty's been exposed offensively. I'd say that "his problem" might not be the stick, but the stick is becoming a problem for Salty. Perhaps with the proper amount of minor league experience the guy wouldn't have been so easily exposed?
  4. Dojji
    It's not like Theo and Hoyer agree on all points. It's entirely possible that there are players that they disagree on -- perhaps for example, Hoyer thinks more highly of Michael Bowden than Theo does. So Theo throws Bowden into the offer knowing Jed will appreciate that, and it brings down his price in other areas.
  5. Dojji
    Alex Gordon's minor league career lasted exactly one season before he debuted in 2007. He might have been a polished college player, but one year? Yeah, he was rushed. He was pretty up and down actually. Take a look at those numbers again. http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/S/Jarrod-Saltalamacchia.shtml Before his promotion, the only real "burning" he did was in A+ ball, or over 22 games in AA ball. I think the perception and the hype are much greater than the reality, even with Salty's minor league numbers. That's not to say he wasn't a great prospect. But rushed? Yeah, IMHO he was rushed, and he's getting exposed now as a result. Thank you kindly, sir.
  6. Dojji
    Yes, and Rich Harden, and Kerry Wood, and Zack Greinke, and, and, and. Sometimes guys even rise past it, which is why it gets tried, but we're talking about position players, so I think Alex Gordon, or Jarrod Saltalamacchia, or Wily Mo Pena are probably better people to talk about.
  7. Dojji
    I don't really trust him, but I'd only have let AGonz walk if I was sure I had a better player than Scutaro waiting to replace him.
  8. Dojji
    The Nationals are not a good example of how best to run a franchise.
  9. Dojji
    In a word, because he's a relief pitcher. Relief pitchers fail all the time for all sorts of stupid reasons. Also because there's a second reason for his disaster -- besides promoting too soon, they also tampered with his delivery. It's not an awful example, I just think WMP is a better one when we're talking about position players.
  10. Dojji
    I could stand to see the Sox jettison Kotchman, who I don't trust, and make a play to bring in Russel Branyan. I like the idea of a lefty with legit pop and some corner IF experience on the bench in case we're without Lowell for an extended period of time this year, and Branyan's played him some outfield too. He's not a pure butcher at 3B either. He's actually managed to put together a couple good yeas in a row, so I don't think I'm going beyond my usual insanity to suggest this. We'd be sacrificing some youth, and probably some money, and adding some position flexibility and quite a bit of home run power, in a lefty platoon bat, behind what's probably going to be 3 righthanded hitters (Lowell, Youks, and Bay/Holliday). To me that seems like a reasonable exchange.
  11. Dojji
    Not sure relief pitchers are the way to go. Pretty easy to dismiss them as naturally volatile and unpredictable. Probably a better example would be Wily Mo Pena, for reasons we all know fairly well.
  12. Dojji
    Such is life.
  13. Dojji
    You know, projections can and have been wrong the other way too. What was Pedroia projected for in the 2006-2007 offseason? The projections got Carlos Pena's breakout in 2007 right too, although they understated it quite a bit. Hulett's got the fundamentals to be a half decent hitter in the bigs, and I'd rather trust an unknown with some upside than go with a known failure, or a guy like Uribe who you have no idea what you're going to get.
  14. Dojji
    Pretty much, yeah. Whine all you want to about it, there isn't a lot to choose from from a normal Uribe year, and Hulett's projection. Certainly there isn't millions of dollars worth if difference.
  15. Dojji
    Of course you are. I don't think he's going to suck. He's probably going to be below average though. And I'm certainly not going to be going to bat for him that much. I'm quite disappointed Theo couldn't get at least a little more creative.
  16. Dojji
    Uribe isn't a proven anything. That's the tragedy of him, you can see the talent, but he has never, can never, and will never actually put it together into anything. I wouldn't touch him, and I am glad he's not coming to Boston in any way other than as a member of a competing team. He's exactly the kind of streaky, unpredictable player teams are wise to steer clear of -- unless their owner and GM are current on their blood pressure medicine. I've already conceded the point on Hairston and Green, I'm not sure what more you want from me. Uribe is a total idiot though. Complete with ten cent head, zero plate patience, skills only seemingly manifesting in contract years, and putting on wieght despite hoping to play middle infield.
  17. Dojji
    Really mature, Dipre. I suppose I could say it takes one to know one, but then I'd be you, and I can't have that.
  18. Dojji
    Dipre's on a "do the research" bender at the moment. He seems to feel that taking a second to go look up the name isn't so difficult that drawing a blank on it should be easily excused. Personally I think he's got splinters from the stick up his butt, but that's just MHO.
  19. Dojji
    I notice you don't want Uribe around as our starting SS. So obviously, you're just screwing around on Uribe in a lame attempt to make a point. YOU KNOW as well as any of the rest of us do that that isn't his true talent level. Esepcially given the numbers he put up in the prior three seasons (.698, .678, .682). Don't make a point unless you're prepared to stand by it.
  20. Dojji
    Uribe and Greene are not slightly below replacement and should have been dumped from the league 2 years ago or more. They survive on reputation and that's pretty much it. And we've pretty much established that the "f***ing Royals" aren't good judges of talent. Doesn't that mean by logic that they're perfectly capable of throwing away the baby and keeping the bathwater? Such as in the Ynuiesky Betancourt trade? No one should ever be willing to justify paying money to play people that are below replacement level.
  21. Dojji
    The only one I'd take over a wildcard is Hairston. I mean -- Juan Uribe? Khalil Greene? Seriously, Dipre? These guys are below the .688 OPS ZIPS projection Hulett had on him last season. They're literally below replacement hitters. Of those five, you take Hairston and maaaaaaaaaaaybe Green, but neither one are exactly slam dunks. Hairston's pretty mediocre defensively on the infield, and Nick Green is probably providing the same level of offense as Hulett but probably somewhat better D. Balancing that, Hulett actually has upside (not much, but a little) and Green doesn't.
  22. Dojji
    No. I don't believe in investing in middle infielders over the age of 32. It's bit us hard recently. A lot.
  23. Dojji
    Unless you're thinking Miguel Tejada or Chone Figgins is going to take a reserve infielder position, I'm not seeing it.
  24. Dojji
    I think it's the combination of Theo once more buying the hype on an over-30 SS and costing us another draft pick into the bargain. On 7 of our 8 field positions Theo Epstein does a great, great job keeping the roster full. Unfortunately, the one area he's bad, he's very, very bad. The guy just can't tell a good SS from a bad one.
  25. Dojji
    I'm not that worried about the knee, because from what I read about it at the time it seemed to be an ordinary injury -- the kind that doesn't normally come back to bite a player the next season. If it was a shoulder I'd be concerned, if it was a labrum or a ligament I'd be alarmed, but an ordinary knee problem? Hardly registers. As things stand, Plan B is Lowrie, but he's not going to be ready at the start of the year, or at least the team is playing cautious with him. That vaults Hulett up into more significance than he'd otherwise have.
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