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  1. Dojji
    I'd say give it to Beckett if all things are equal. Beckett does his best work when he's fired up. So give him some love and send him out there to prove he's still our ace.
  2. Dojji
    Tazawa's got plenty of time. These roster crunches usually take care of themselves via injury.
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    yep, and I admitted my goof at the top of this page. My bad on that one. Math isn't my strong suit but I should be able to figure out the difference between one and two.
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    I'll get some stones lobbed my way for this, but what about Johnny Damon?
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    Yes well, we have made the playoffs 4 of the 5 years he's been here. Going on 5 of 6. And in a couple of those years (2005 springs to mind) he didn't exactly have the most stunningly talented rosters in the history of baseball. Since the only thing you can really judge a manager on is results I'd say he does OK in the regular season. The OP did have one point worth listening to as well. Yes, we had talented rosters for each of Tito's years here, including 2006. We ALSO had talented rosters in 2001 and 2002 and failed to make the playoffs, We had probably the best team in baseball in 2003, and Grady Little managed us out of a World Series apeparance. My point is simple. You can point to a handful of specific counterexamples, but Terry Francona just plain doesn't manage us out of games very often, and he does a fair job of not setting players up to fail.
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    OK yeah, my mistake. It was one day's rest. It was still an inning of relief the bullpen didn't need to pitch. Foulke had enough on his plate as it was. to be honest, the move baffled me at the time too, but to really draw my ire, a move has to be stupid and also not work. we won it, and we won every game after it, so even if it was an odd decision, it didn't cost us anything, making it little more than a curio. Pedro in the game 7 of the 2007 ALCS was washed away by winning that series at all, and especially by winning those next 4 games..
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    A little linkage for memory joggging purpose. Martinez started Game 5. His relief appearance came in game 7 http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/2004_ALCS.shtml Also, they were ahead 10-1 when Pedro came into the game and they swept the Cardinals, so what exactly did they lose by bringing him in?
  8. Dojji
    what are you talking about? Even if there were no offdays, tn between Pedro's last start (game 5) and his relief appearance in Game 7, there was this thing called Game 6. It was a pretty good game. I remember it well. Pedro did not pitch in that game. I am especially sure about this. I was pacing the room listening to Game 6 on my radio. I was watching Game 7 on TV. He was on at least 2 days rest.
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    Their #2 starter? Not all that often. BUT The Florida Marlins brought in Josh Beckett for a dramatic relief win in the World Series against the Yankees the year prior to Pedro's relief appearance. Pedro was on more than one day's rest. He'd pitched Game 5, making that (hazy memory here) 2 or 3 days. It was probably a side day for him anyway. And again I reiterate: the pen was a shambles after Games 4 and 5 -- we'd already seen Arroyo do the same thing in a much closer game in Game 6 (remember, he was the pitcher for The Slap), and Arroyo isn't a guy you count on to pitch high leverage innings given a choice.
  10. Dojji
    Fixed. I mean we even used guys like Lester and Byrd the same way over the course of the last couple playoffs. We were already doing the same thing with Derek Lowe and Bronson Arroyo anyway. and our bullpen had been absolutely destroyed by two straight extra innings games in Game 4 and Game 5. It's not exactly rocket science.
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    As far as I'm concerned, two rings in his trophy case say you're underestimating the man. that's just my $.02
  13. Dojji
    I really don't want Holliday at all. Given my druthers I'd just keep Bay. Better the devil you know, and all that. We know Bay's bat has translated fully to the AL East. We don't know that about Holliday. And Bay's worth the roster spot as an above average power hitting LF, which is all we really need at the position. I just don't see the need to get fancy on this one. If Bay's willing to re-up here, the marginal difference between him and Holliday is small enough that I'd just ink him.
  14. Dojji
    Because this post is truly worth enshrining in the all-time Internet Forums Of All Ages Hall Of Fame.
  15. Dojji
    What do you want? A cookie? A pat on the back? A plaque congratulating you on your amazing feat of deductive logic? Here's a little something for you to chew on. EVERY manager's in game calling is suspect. They have to make a ton of little decisions over the course of the season and a certain number of those decisions are going to backfire. Horribly. I don't think tito has more of those than anyone else. And as a fan who's seen the difference between Tito and awful managers like Grady Little, I don't really think you do either. The way I see it we're arguing this while rooting for a playoff-bound team, so I don't see where it's really worth discussing. But then again if falling back on that allows you to feel more comfortable with our talent level on the field on days when we lose heartbreakers, knock yourself out.
  16. Dojji
    I posted that to stop Spuddy from piggybacking on your post. I don't think you can just give the job to Lowrie. And I love Lowrie and think he'll earn his due sooner rather than later. the whole long term wrist injury thing is scaring me off from counting on him as an immediate long term option at SS until he's proven he is healthy again. "Superstar" means "Hanley," and as tempting as that is, I'm not sure I'd be willing to pay what it takes to get him. You get Hardy if you can do it for a reasonable price, and then you play Hardy. If he doesn't work out, you play Lowrie. If both fail, you probably will still be able to find Gonzo or someone like him in the second half of the year.
  17. Dojji
    So? He gets the basic stuff right and gets the whole team on the same page day in and day out. That right there puts him above at least half of the American League's managers.
  18. Dojji
    Hardy at his worst > Gonzo at his best.
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    What kind of year did Gonzo have last year? Oh yeah. He didn't. Because he was hurt for the entire freaking season. Or did we forget that there might be a reason we got Gonzalez and gave NOTHING back. Right, because he's a mediocre at best shorstop whose only claim to major league competency is average range at shortstop. Forget Hardy. Jed Lowrie by the same metric blows both of them out of the water. Gonzo is only an upgrade to us because a combination of injuries and total suckage left us better off not having a shortstop on the field at all than trotting out anyone we had left. He's a good option for nothing at all. He's less than mediocre offensively over his career, and defensively he's only decent, not great, and that only because he has good reflexes. I respect him for being not-quite-a-total-waste-of-a-roster-spot this year for us, but I'd rather make a deal for Cristian Guzman than see him back.
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    The last time he was this bad, he'd suffered a thumb sprain destroy all the progress from a mostly good year in 2006. (Delarmen had a 3.5 ERA or so heading into the August of Doom in 2006)
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    I've read some things including this article that suggests his mechanics are off and he's having the devil of a time getting everything lined back up. He might be hurt -- something minor but enough to cause problems. I wouldn't rule it out. Losing your command is one of the things you look for when a pitcher's hiding an injury.
  23. Dojji
    That was an exceptional circumstance. Gathright has a lot of raw speed but he isn't really a good base stealer. Not really in dave Roberts' league. He gets picked off a lot, and gets bad jumps a lot too.
  24. Dojji
    Gathright is ineligible for the postseason. I think you could DL Wakefield to get him on. But I'm not really sold on the need for a speed burner off the bench and I'd rather see a more complete player take that role. Delcarmen, Reddick, Lowrie is the way I'd go.
  25. Dojji
    Your problem, not mine.
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