Dojji
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Yep. And they did it because freaking Buchholz. To activate E-Rod and keep Buchholz on the roster they had to send Hembree down.
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No, but it's not bad, last night's implosion and the inclusion of Buchholz into that bullpen notwithstanding.
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He lost a spot because freaking Buchholz.
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The decision of where to hold and where to move on is the single most mystifying, and the single most important, decision a franchise makes every day.
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Pedroia is much much better established as a top value player than Iglesias was
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He said that Holt would be a fine replacement. "replacement" doesn't mean "as good as the other guy" it means "occupying a position without hurting the team." Which Holt can do at second base and has done in the past when Pedroia had one of his inevitable injuries. I think that the idea is that down the road Moncada is our heir apparent at 2b, with Holt and Hernandez filling in the gap in the meantime.
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And that's how the convo gets around to bringing up the one guy in our team's history that Mookie most reminds me of -- Ellis Burks. What an impressive 5 tool guy Burks was in his years with this team!
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Yes, but the fact of the matter is that the Royals were built specifically to exploit a team like the Mets in exactly the way they exploited the Mets. Make contact, get on base, and run, push weak defenses into making mistakes. It just so happened that the Mets avoided making fatal mistakes until late innings in 2 of those games.
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I'll admit that I had to look it up.
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You have it right Dewey. And the thing is that when a game typically involves over 150 pitches per team, that means that an umpire is usually going to make 15% of 300 mistakes on the ball-strike calls alone, that means that in any given game it is normal to expect a *GOOD* umpire to screw up 45 times per game. A bad one will screw up even more often.
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I agree. We have 3 rotation spots locked down and one hopefully locked down. E-Rod looked good, but nothing firm yet.
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The human body can throw something over 110 MPH, but not from a pitcher's stance. You kind of need to get a running start to get much beyond 100, even if your arm is golden.
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I sincerely doubt it. The pitching market is bare, people who have a guy like that will want to make a desperate team pay through the nose.
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Looking back the guy we should have signed in the offseason, if we weren't going after Wei-Yin Chen, is Miguel Gonzalez. he's exactly the kind of pitcher you need to fill out the bottom of your rotation,, and the O's just let him walk for nothing in the previous offseason. He's doing a pretty good job in the bottom of the White Sox rotation this year. If we ever shake our senseless addiction to Kelly and Buchholz this is the kind of guy we need to replace them with. Not him in particular, but that kind of low cost low risk guy.
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I still see them adding to the bottom of their rotation rather than the top. The simple fact is that all we need is a guy to fill out the bottom of the rotation. Fans being fans we all want the big sexy trade, but it's not what we need right now. going for luxury when all we need is consistency is a good way to overcommit your resources and make contention harder in the next year and the year after that. We already have a lot of dead money on the payroll right now. One thing we absolutely cannot endure right now is taking a big risk and having it flop. And the top of our rotation while not excellent is very durable, which with our offense is enough. That reduces the upside of going for another top starter, since we already have some high quality arms. What we need right now is low risk relatively low cost steady production in the last rotation spot, and that's all we need.
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We used umpires in the early days of baseball because nothing but umpires could have gotten the job done. Now we have much better tools than human judgment for determining a strike zone that is in the end geometric and mathematic, not subjective and emotional. I will not miss the days of bad umpiring behind the plate when the league finally wakes up.
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Yep. So far so strong this year, but the last 4 years have an eerily similar pattern, it was even a problem in 13.... he doesn't miss a lot of time (or at least not until the last couple years) because of it but how many times does Pedroia seem to be playing through some kind of injury? A fully healthy season from Pedroia this year would do a lot to ease my concerns. And of course this is just idle conversation while the team as a whole is doing so well.
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So was chewing tobacco. That doesn't make it a good idea.
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I'm unpleasantly surprised by this. I actually thought the umps were more accurate than that. All the more reason to go to machines.
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Are long term, big money contracts worth it?
Dojji replied to StephenCurry30's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
We're actually in a better financial situation when the league as a whole is struggling, since the Red Sox enjoy steady support. I'm not saying we're headed for the poor house, but the rising tide is floating other boats more than ours -- which is fine, I actually prefer a high-parity league on the whole, looking beyond my favorite team's own interests. -
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i'm still not convinced we need to make any big plays for pitching right now. At the moment we're pretty stable 1-4, pending E-Rod making steady progress which I think he will. If I'm looking to pick up talent right now it'd be guys on the bottom end of the rotation -- young guys to fill out our AAA depth a little better and possibly another veteran to stash in the minors in case he's needed.
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OK so let's just go ahead and do the one thing YOTN expressly and repeatedly JUST asked that we not do. COME ON people. Is it that hard to just NOT push all YOTN's buttons at the same time?
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Does Anyone Remember Their First Major League Game?
Dojji replied to bosoxmal's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Never been to a big league park. There was just never an opportunity. Also I get overwhelmed in crowds very easily. -
Are long term, big money contracts worth it?
Dojji replied to StephenCurry30's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Yes, and we will still be a powerful financial team, but the only reason our payroll is that high right now is because we had to replace wasted contracts. Other teams can compete directly with us like they couldn't in the past.
