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700 is right. Harden is just too injury prone, and I wouldn't count on him to remain effective in the AL East at this point. The reason you spend the extra for Bedard is because he's got prior AL East experience and has played well when he has been on the field. Presumably, his health is the only thing holding him back.

That would be game.

What do you think he could have done better, then?

Should we?

Delcarmen came into the 6th with a large lead. The suck is all on him, not on Tito.

And there we go.

That's just sad.

This is absolutely pathetic.

HOW THE HECK DO YOU WALK MIGUEL OLIVO???

How bad a night do you have to have to issue 8 walks to the worst OBP team in the American League? Bard, don't you dare walk Olivo.

this is a bit of a foreign concept to some of you, but the pitching goes better if the baseballs go INSIDE the strike zone.

For crying our loud, this is the Royals. 8 runs? You kidding me?

OK so Delcarmen still sucks. For a second I thought he was looking better but I guess not.

Well, unless Vinicio proves a lot of people wrong (including me)

We're one of the best teams in the league at keeping a pitcher healthy. And we have the depth to handle it if he can't stay healthy. I'd give him a look.

Hardy and Bedard. We're one of the best at keeping pitchers healthy, Bedard, a proven AL East top of the rotation starter filling out this rotation would be incredible.

Yeah that post was pretty much an all around brainfart on your part RTWP. It's a legitimate question

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090920&content_id=7060926&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb Gist of the article: There's a debate in baseball circles, with well known baseball men coming down on both sides of it, that says that the way we do September callups could stand to be changed. The general point of the detractors from the current system is that that in what's often the most important games of the year instead of 25 men against 25 men we're allowing imbalances in manpower, like say 35 players on one team, 29 on the other, and both teams can use every player if they decide to. I'm not sure which side I stand here. I'm not wild about expanded rosters in the middle of the stretch run because it changes the character of teams and their strategies, sometimes dramatically. Also means that sometimes the games at the most exciting times of the year drag on and on and ON and on and ON and on and on because of all the relief pitchers and pinch hitters teams have at their disposal. On the other hand, this is baseball, you can count the number of meaningful changes adopted to the sport over the last century on one hand, and I'm just not sure this is enough of a problem to be worth fixing My big question has more to do with exactly why we're doing this whole thing in September instead of rearranging the minor league season so we can spend a month with 40 man big league rosters in April. I'd rather have the 40 man rosters in April, in the coldest, most unpredictable injury-plagued month and let the rundown to October be a true winnowing out process.

How nice of you. My point is that I don't believe that such factors are significant, and as long as the base numbers are good it shouldn't matter that much. that's a legitimate take on your article, so take your exclamation of astonished disbelief and choke on it.

well of course, but if you don't think the Sox are watching the division race at this point... well, I believe you're wrong.

sounds like a sophistry to me. Ellsbury's OBP is OK and his success rate is very good.. Let the intangibles be what they are as long as the base numbers are adequate.

Indeed. It says something that even the OBP folks like me admit that a guy with a .300 OBP with the team and a sub .300 OBP seasonlong is our best option right now.

I know he's not really a sexy pick right now, but what about Dioner Navarro? He's having a pretty much replacement level year this year but he was a half decent switch hitting catcher last year and he'd do for a backup..

On the other hand, it'd leave the Yankees back on their heels and facing the Angels in the postseason. That might be worth aiming for.

What's the chances this is like Lowell in 2005, where there was something simple wrong that was quite possible to fix?