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  1. Dojji
    He was a professional. He was calm at the plate and in the field, did his job with a minimum of fuss and didn't need to go to an exaggerated effort to do it. Not a good fit for a town that preferred the dirt dogs, max effort full hustle dirty uniform types even if he was better at the game than most of them. Ironically, Drew would have been an excellent fit for pinstripes. He fit their ethos a lot more than he fit ours.
  2. Dojji
    He's a low average hitter who runs into a lot of homers and is good on the defensive side of the ball. He was rushed, and is just now really starting to hit his stride, and he was a big part of the Royals championship last year. He's another of the surprising (to me) number of really good high quality oung 3B there are in the league recently.
  3. Dojji
    Well you're right according to the census.
  4. Dojji
    I suppose Mike Moustakas should be considered as well. Man, we've seen a lot of very talented 3B graduate in the past few years. There was a time about 5-6 years ago when it was all but impossible to find a really good third baseman and I got it in my head that it was a barren position, but they've really started coming out of the woodwork haven't they?
  5. Dojji
    I was on the Drew camp as well, partially because I'm a fan of OBP, and partly because I have always been something of a contrarian who prefers to go against the prevailing train of thought. (I even briefly tried to defend Pablo before I realized that pig wouldn't fly).
  6. Dojji
    It should be hard to decide what race people are. Race is often a completely arbitrary construct. The more we blend and blur the lines between the races the more we can find something else to be snobs about.
  7. Dojji
    Give Shaw some time. He'll get into that conversation.
  8. Dojji
    Yeah, kinda, but even guys whose job it is to determine someone's race, such as the Census, note how blurry things get when Hispanics are involved. Spanish colonists were simply that much more cosmopolitan than some of the rest of us, so they've had centuries' head start in blending the genome compared to us uptight Englishmen.
  9. Dojji
    if you don't think David Ortiz has a lot of Africa in his genome, I don't know what to tell you.
  10. Dojji
    But it is. The bullpen isn't cashing in those innings in a lump sum, this is an effect that bears subtle fruit throughout the year, this is a third of an inning of extra wear and tear here, two thirds of an inning there, but the result at the end of the year could be pitchers burnt out or not burnt out.
  11. Dojji
    Over 32 starts each (assuming Clay actually makes 32 starts, which he never has before) 2/3 of an inning becomes about 21 additional innings the bullpen doesn't have to pick up because the starter stayed in the game that much longer. If you don't think that number you just cited is very very VERY significant, you're just wrong.
  12. Dojji
    No, if you ignore the defensive side of the game, no one is close to Teddy who isn't named Mantle. You have to include Teddy's putrid defense and ignore the fact that ortiz doesn't play any at all in order to put Ortiz in the same universe as Teddy. Even then, if the DH rule had been in place in the 60's and early 60's Williams' numbers would have wound up looking even better -- unless Dr. Strangeglove got the DH job over him.
  13. Dojji
    One thing Price is that clay isn't is DURABLE. He may be having a very very bad month, but at least the bullpen isn't having to clean up after him the way it sometimes has to with buchholz. His crap outing against NYY he got through 7. Clay has yet to get through 7 this season.
  14. Dojji
    The big pleasant surprise with shaw is the glove, we knew he'd hit he did that last year. but he's shown very good instnicts as a defensive 3B, I don't think he's a gold glove candidate but he's very solid, doesn't make a lot of mistakes out there and 3B is a pretty tough defensive position if you're not fully ready which Shaw surprised me by being. This is a guy who played maybe 100 games at 3B since college and he's out there playing like he's done it all his life. It's just plain impressive.
  15. Dojji
    He's been amazing. He's a candidate for the All Star Game at this point. A longshot since he's a dark horse, but third base isn't overcrowded so he's got a fighting chance.
  16. Dojji
    *sigh* Is it really that much to ask that just once, the high price free agent DOES HIS FREAKING JOB in the FIRST YEAR AFTER HE SIGNS?
  17. Dojji
    Then yes, they got it wrong. They will also get it right a few times over the years.
  18. Dojji
    The rotation should be alright if Price ever returns to form. Porcello and Wright are playing over their head to hold the rotation in place for right now. It's kind of a footrace to see who regresses to the mean first, personally I still would bet on Price returning to form first, he's too talented to be this all season.
  19. Dojji
    No, just no. A player that was one of the maybe 5 greatest hitters of all time who the only uniform he wore other than the Red Sox was a military one, is the greatest Red Sox player of all time. Papi's up there, but Ted is Ted and it would take one HELL of a player to unseat him Now if you ask who the greatest Red Sox player since Ted Williams is, I'll put Papi in the mix, alongside Yaz and maybe a couple others. but Ted is the #1 all time, and it's very likely to stay that way for a long long time.
  20. Dojji
    He needs more time. But the signs are not good.
  21. Dojji
    He wasn't that specific, so if he intended to imply anything other than pure general second guessing he needed to flesh out his point just a bit more.
  22. Dojji
    It was a known possibility when the gamble made. If you don't understand why that risk was taken, look at Kendrys Morales, Jose Iglesias, and Jose Abreu
  23. Dojji
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/willite01.shtml I love David too, but let's not forget our own history.
  24. Dojji
    That is nowhere near one of the biggest what-ifs in Red Sox history. Two prominent playoff games generate more poignant what-ifs than that one could ever dream of. 1986 world series game 6 and 2003 ALCS game 7
  25. Dojji
    i thought I was the only one that was dead wrong about Beltre.
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