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  1. Dojji
    Which of our veteran players is blocking a youngster in this lineup?
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    Zink isn't purely a Wakefield style knuckleballer. He mixes in a low to mid 80's fastball, curve and change.
  4. Dojji
    Bowden is pitching right now in Pawtucket -- he's officially a nonoption
  5. Dojji
    That's not entirely true, but I don't have the energy to hammer this the way I want to right now so I'll file this argument along with "clutchness," the value of veteran leadership, and other similar "intangibles."
  6. Dojji
    Please tell me this hasn't turned into ANOTHER Manny thread. Like we didn't have enough of them...
  7. Dojji
    Pure intellectual exercise unless you put it in a game situation. I'm not talking about run support, I'm talking about pitching with a lead -- something Buchholz cannot do.
  8. Dojji
    Who? Santana would have cost us Lester Ellsbury, and Masterson or Lowrie -- our season goes much worse without those youngsters even with Jacoby's slump. Bedard was in the AL East and we don't have the high-minors power bats that would have lured him away from Baltimore. And do you really think the Guardians, one game away from the Series last year, would have dealt Sabbathia in the offseason for any price -- especially to the team that kept them out??! Other than that the only SP worth pursuing was Carlos Silva -- and you see how well he's working for Seattle!
  9. Dojji
    Come on, get real. Cast your mind back to how you would have thought of things in February. Do you honestly think that you could have convinced any of us, yourself included, that Buchholz was an inferior option to Lohse?
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    If you read his blog, Schilling thought he'd be fine after an offseason's worth of rest. He knew his shoulder was in trouble but I don't think he thought it'd blow up on him at the start of the season. It sounds like he thought he could nurse it along much like he did for most of the second half of '07. The other thing to bear in mind is that we wouldn't have spent the money we saved on Schilling on another SP anyway. If Schilling was a no-go not one of us would have blinked at using Clay Buchholz as our 5th starter in April of 2008.
  12. Dojji
    To be fair, he's going from starting to multiple inning relief role back to starting. Pair him and erstwhile starter Chris Smith together for a few go-rounds until Masterson's back up to speed. The other interesting possibility is to call up Edgar Martinez. He's too homer-prone but he does have good stuff. I'd probably take Hansack ahead of him though.
  13. Dojji
    Dude, we were at your "level of pain" a year before YOU were there -- or do you need a refresher course in 2006? Couple points near the end there where only Beckett from the original 5 members of the opening day rotation was even pitching at all, and him badly.
  14. Dojji
    Don't ever make that mistake. Believe me. They could be worse. Although Hansack in particular might not be. (isn't this his last option year?)
  15. Dojji
    But at its most fundamental a pitcher's job is to hold the lead -- not even necessarily to keeo the opposition off the board (although that surely helps) but just to hold a lead. If a pitcher gets a lot of short "underserved" wins he's at least holding the lead while he's in there.
  16. Dojji
    That is true. And what really maddens me is that that Masterson did. Moving Masterson to the pen with no universally acceptable Plan B for long term suckage/injury in place was foolishness.
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    Not hardly. I remember that horror pretty vividly since it was the year I graduated from a casual fan to an obsessive Red Sox freak. Frankly our pitching staff is better than the 2007 version on paper much less the 2006 version (Matt Clement #2 starter anyone?) Although Julian Tavarez won more games for us than Clay Buchholz will finish the season with even if he finishes strong. The real difference is that we don't have the Rays to pick on this year to inflate our win totals -- they're right in the thick of it this year instead.
  19. Dojji
    Masterson to the rotation. Buchholz to AAA, call up Smith to take his spot Lowell to DL Youkilis to 3B, call up Bailey to take his spot. Cash release/DFA/waive Call up Dusty Brown Each of those 3 moves probably help the Sox win more games than they're winning right now. Heck, if it weren't for the immense respect I have for Varitek's leadership on the field I'd be all for throwing out Boston's entire catcher corps and replacing it with Pawtucket's.
  20. Dojji
    I'm sorry, I'd accept the "only one little mistake" argument if it didn't happen game after game after game after game after game. At some point the kid just isn't that good.
  21. Dojji
    Even beyond the obvious concerns about performance, there's a dozen reasons why Clay Buchholz needs some time in Pawtucket. His command is shot. He's missing his spots both over and off the plate. His mechanics are out of whack, which has a big role with his command. Even more than that, though, this is destroying his confidence. It's obvious just watching him that he's on his heels pretty much from the moment he sets foot on the mound over his last few starts. Get the kid to Pawtucket to work on his command and mechanics and to rebuild his confidence. To forestall the obvious response this has nothing to do with anything remotely resembling giving up on the Buchholz. I'm convinced that a return to Pawtucket is probably the best thing for Clay right now. He doesn't have it, and leaving him up here to do this is just gonna make it worse. Get him back to Paw and let him work on his fastball -- which obviously needs it -- and if he pitches well maybe we see him in a few weeks once rosters expand.
  22. Dojji
    And Clay back to throwing to first base for no reason again.
  23. Dojji
    Even when Lester sucked, he was good with a lead. Man...
  24. Dojji
    See Clay? That's how ya do it.
  25. Dojji
    Yeah, sure, that way at lease one of me and Clay Buchholz has a repeatable delivery.
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