Dojji
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So do I, but you have yet to tell me which of the available options at SS we should have settled down with. Theo isn't cycling through shortstops for the heck of it. Lugo's gone for a reason, he sucked. believe me, if there was any reason to believe Lugo would bounce back to average Theo wouldn't have ate the contract and shipped him out of town. Lowrie's hurt. None of the others are better than Nick Green. I don't see what Theo is supposed to be doing here that he hasn't done. You want to express a general frustration with the fact that we tend to change shortstops in midstream? Fine. But at least this year, with the pieces he had to work with, I can't honestly see what Theo should have done differently.
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You accuse me of cherry picking stats and then you want to praise Lugo for a 10 game sample? If you combine his games with St. Louis with the Boston sample you still get a result that's FAR below average.
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Nick Green OPS .679 Julio Lugo OPS w/ Boston .719 Lugo .928 FPCT(which is horrid!) Green .955 FPCT(still not very good, but better) League average is .973 Lugo 3.70 RF at SS Green 4.27 RF at SS League average is 4.39 Green was below average in all categories. Lugo is far, far worse and absolutely unacceptable. Green has bad range, but it's an open question whether Lugo actually moved on any given grounder. I just don't see how we can tolerate the absolute horrid wretched total complete blinding FAIL that was Lugo's defense for another .040 of OPS.
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You're blaming Theo for the fact that we've had to replace Lowrie for most of the world. If Lowrie was actually available, none of the later moves would have been made. THESE. ARE. REPLACEMENT. PLAYERS. These are NOT guys Theo WANTS to bring in, these are guys he HAS to bring in to keep warm bodies at the shortstop position until Plan A (Lowrie) gets healthy.
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We're already talking about trading for everyone's franchise cornerstone, cheap, young, trade-this-guy-the-owner-fires-you-on-the-spot players, I don't see why my choice is any less crazy than Adrian Gonzalez.
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Lugo cannot play the position defensively. I don't care how bad Green is, Lugo's worse. A good shortstop is one of the hardest things to find, no matter how big your payroll is. If there's a player who's likely to never hit free agency it's any kind of really good shortstop.
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It really hasn't been this bad most years. Usually we have a guy who gets the job done for most of the year. We never really found that guy this season.
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There's times when it's just that nothing works. Lugo hit, but he was pathetically bad on D and can't stay healthy. Lowrie defended OK, but didn't hit and can't stay healthy. Green stays healthy, but he's not a fantastic defensive shortstop and his bat is Orlando Cabrera bad. Woodward and Gonzalez are clearly not big league shortstops at this time, but when you get this far down in your depth in ANY position on ANY team you're going to find suck.
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I dunno why Theo should be embarrassed to run into such bad luck that we're working on our 6th shortstop this year.
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if we're making crazy trade scenarios for guys like Hanley, Adrian Gonzalez and Felix Hernandez, I might as well bring up a trade target who would also be a potential impact bat and is likely to be just as accessable as those three. Grady Sizemore anyone?
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Still don't like this deal. I don't think Guzman was one of them, but I think there are better moves we could make even now. There just isn't any upside on Gonzalez. He is what he is, and it isn't going to get better. All else failing I'd rather go for a guy who has the ability to improve a little. That almost makes Green a better candidate, since at least he's shown some progress in flashes here and there.
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Deserved. Could have been the game. Fortunately Victor Martinez saved his butt. -
99 actually.
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So where does this gamethread rank among non Yankee gamethreads?
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No he hasn't. He can get it up there if he's having a good day but he never sat there. The highest he's ever "sat" is 97. For his career it's more like 94.
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The most he's ever thrown consistently is 97 or so. And that's more of a "tops out at" than a "sits at." He can sit as low as 92 and still be quite effective.
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He's been working that slider in a bit here and there ever since he abandoned the split last year. I think he's been trying to develop it, and now he seems to be gaining confidence in it. He's always had it as a fallback pitch however.
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THERE's the good Papelbon! SOX WIN!!!!!!
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Wang could have gotten the same injury planting his foot wrong on the mound IMHO.
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GET the ball DOWN, Paps!
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If Buck is going to run the bases he needs some training. Brad Penny should give him a rundown, or Josh Beckett. At least those two have done it before being NL pitchers.
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and yet he still struck out Michael Young. He's got the command to get by when he doesn't have his best heater if he uses his secondary pitches.
