Dojji
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PLEASE get him out of here, Tito, for his sake if nothing else.
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Holy cow.
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No and he's going to get worse, not better, until he actually lets someone who knows what they're doing figure out why his shoulder is out of order.
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Daisuke's problems have little to do with the WBC and more to do with a severe case of hamburger-shoulder he refuses to get looked at. It's become rather painfully obvious at this point.
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Yeah, he really actually walked Nomar. Hey Tito, could you get someone warming maybe BEFORE we're down 10-3?
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So apparently I was optimistic.
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Here we go again. just 2 years ago at this time the guy was throwing 96 MPH. His shoulder is cooked. He needs medical attention. He just doesn't want to admit it.
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2/3
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Just go on the DL already. Uggh. Not good at ALL.
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Daisuke topping out at 87 WTF
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Well I'm glad all our talk hasn't freed you Of the comfortable fact that we need you But I just had to say You had this all the way So welcome back, Mikey, you steed you!
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Maybe, but other than dealing away Hanley what else should the Sox have done? And Hanley brought back Beckett -- I do that trade again 12 ways to Sunday.
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Honestly OCab was never that good offensively outside of a couple career seasons. He was over (of really, anywhere near) an .800 OPS exactly once. Even in '04 his cumulative numbers between Montreal and Boston rate out to an OPS of .689. That's Lugo-esque. Sure he got hot for half a season in a Red Sox uni but if we'd kept him there's a 100% chance we'd have been disappointed in him. The decision to try to upgrade that spot was the correct one.
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Let's face it -- so far in the early going the whole division is in play for all 5 spots. Everyone's either hot or better than we thought they'd be, and the Yankees and Sox are firmly at the bottom of the division with Boston getting the worst of it.
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Soxprospects is reporting Jed Lowrie to the Disabled List with a wrist sprain. Gil Velazquez called up. http://news.soxprospects.com/2009/04/lowrie-to-disabled-list-velazquez-to.html
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Not even when Mike Lowell's specialty brings in the go-ahead run too? I don't like the result either but I'm not going to be for handcuffing Lowell or not letting him swing at a pitch he thinks he can crush..
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Which was the "one decent pitcher," Meche or Guthrie? Both of them have been pretty danged decent over the last 2 years.
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WOw. That's shocking. I was just listening to highlights by the guy last week. At least he got to see his Phillies win the big one before he went. Really makes ya stop and think.
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Yeah, Lowell's one of our better power hitters. I was frustrated as heck at the result last night but if he got all of that pitch it would have been a Red Sox win last night. I don't want to put a harness on the guy. The last thing you want to do is overreact to one bad result and pull a hitter's teeth or take him out of his style of offense. That's arguably part of what emasculated Crisp in Boston. That said, in that situation, if you're going to go after your pitch you'd better get some results with it.
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I think that in the final analysis Lowell will more than pay for himself offensively. This team went after Teixeira as hard as they dared, knowing the same thing -- Lowell was worth the contract and therefore had trade value to other teams smarting for a power-hitting 3B. Our corner infield is perhaps our greatest offensive and defensive strength, it is not a weakness.
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There are not a lot of really good veteran 3B's out there right now. Other than A-Rod and Aramis Ramirez, neither of which had the remotest chance of going to the Sox, what else was out there? Rolen? Glaus? Beltre? None of them are particularly good options and all of them fall short in a comparison with the balance of power, patience and defense a healthy Lowell provides. There's more credibility in the argument of going for a better 1B, but again there isn't a lot of guys who would be a better gamble as 1B than Lowell was as a 3B (Lowell has been a better hitter than Beltre each of the last 3 years). Teixeira is just about it, and Teixeira turned them down. Point is, even if Lowell doesn't emerge as a lineup stalwart this year, that doesn't mean that the signing him was a bad idea. Personally I think he'll be fine in the long run -- he usually is.
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In the post you quoted, I said it probably wasn't fair, Generally I'm on Drew's side in these discussions, but I'm not blind to the fact that the impression is there, or why. I generally agree with you here but the fact is that it's very hard to see back pain unless it really hobbles a guy. It's easy to see a pronounced limp. So, Lowell got sympathy while some of us who really don't know what a back injury is and what it can mean to your ability to get through a day are quick to criticize Drew for the same stuff. For the record, I'm not one of those guys. Back pain is a more or less constant companion for me so I have an idea how hard it is to play baseball through that.
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I was including last year too. Ahh well, not really important.
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You guys are jumping to conclusions about what I said again. I didn't say anywhere that I thought Bowden has surpassed Buchholz as of this moment. I only asked whether and when that line might be crossed.
