Dojji
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In Salem. We'll learn more when he's ready to hit the bigs. He's at least a year to a year and a half out at the moment, as are all the big 3. People hoping for more are expecting too much.
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if DD gets good returns for them I don't care if he trades all 4 of these prospects. Making trades to help the big league team is one of the legitimate uses of a large pool of prospects, and no worse for the franchise than any other way if handled competently. I trust DD to spend big but get big returns, that's his trademark. Ben was kind enough to stock the larder with a good reserve of talent on his way out, there's no sin in using that talent to put a team I'm convinced is a potential frontrunner, over the top.
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you're nowhere near clear of off the wall thinkers here. I've been known to go wall-hunting from time to time.
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I'm the first to be nervous about small players in the second half of their careers, but fans of this team should not be so skeptical about small players flashing the power, we should have gotten that particular bit of skepticism out of our systems with Pedroia..
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Young's career line against RHH .224/.292/.410/.702. that's not terrible for a backup outfielder. It's not as good as his numbers against LHP by any means but it's not so very, very, very bad that he should absolutely never under any circumstances ever show up against a pitcher with a glove on his left hand. Yes he had a particularly bad year against RHP last year. That's not as important as people are making it out to be. For his career, he is highly mediocre against RHP but not bad enough to be worth getting the torches and pitchforks out when he plays against them occasionally during a stretch where the team encounters exactly 2 LH starters.
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you'll never get a team in contention to give him that kind of chance. What I'd like to do is pick up a professional 4th OF type, a guy like Eric Hinske or Gabe Kapler, who can start in at least LF and RF without embarrassing himself, and forget the whole platoon nonsense.
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yeah but a lot of that boils down to some fluky starts from Price and Porcello. This is exactly the kind of stat that can be skewed radically by outliers and we have a couple pretty major outliers in the HR/FB stat in particular this April.
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Not a tone of evidence for that, other than a 50 game stretch that could simply be normal randonmness.
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And to think we got him by trading the 20x all star
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Coincidence is not causality. We know Vazquez came up AND the pitching improved. We do not know that the pitching improved because Vazquez came up. But having a great defensive catcher instead or a faw one should make a significant difference to outcomes.
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I'll be fine with a Steve Wright who finishes the year with an ERA in the high 3's and who the majority of his starts were quality starts. So far he's exceeding expectations. He'll come back to earth, but he may take his time, he's very very confident right now.
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He hasn't kept subbing him for Young. When was the last time Shaw came out of the lineup in favor of Young, the Baltimore series? He doesnt'y so it anymore, and he only ever did it at all in like Week One when no one was really sure what Shaw would do defensively..
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of course he said that, is he really going to stand out there and say "I have no faith in Travis Shaw defensively?" but has he taken Shaw out of the lineup in favor of Young anytime in the last 2 weeks?
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The whole young for shaw thing happened while Shaw was still an unknown quantity, especially defensively. He's matured into a solid 3B and I haven't seen Farrell sub Shaw out in awhile. Farrell was hedging his bets and easing Shaw in defensively, like a lot of managers might with an untried defender.
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A lot of people seem to have trouble with telling the difference between a good idea that didn't work, a meh idea that didn't work, and a bad idea. For many here, everything that didn't work was a terrible decision. I personally feel like the decision to, say, leave Josh Beckett in the game in the 5th inning is something you ought to be able to expect to do, even if he was struggling with an injury at the time. The fact that that decision didn't work out does not automatically mean the decision was a mistake. It may, but it's not a 1-1 correlation like some people seem to be suggesting.
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I'd mention Tony LaRussa, but the stench of steroids hangs too thickly over nearly all of his teams.
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tito Francona. He managed the media well and his teams always seemed to be relaxed and confident. Also Joe Torre, for similar reasons.
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I think Sam Travis is more of an offensive analogue to Mike Lowell than dave Magadan.
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I think Tek would do a good job learning the ropes as a bench coach. I'm under the impression that he's been working his way up the front office chain however.
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Yeah Tek has no coaching experience, this is not a good team for untried manager
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Yes, and it also says they're considering him as a potential successor. Actually if I was going to pick the next manager of the Red Sox I'd want DeMarlo Hale, not Lovullo. I've got a hunch about him, and he was part of the glory years and served under Tito as a bench coach.
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I'm not sure it's all that clear. I think there's absolutely nothing useful you can tell about a manager in a 50 game sample and by the time Lovullo was in charge the season was settled and no one was playing for anything other than next year's contract.
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I'm really encouraged by the rotation at the moment. When we get E-Rod back our rotation is going to feature Price as the ace, Porcello, Wright and E-Rod in some order in the middle (likely Porcello-Erod-Wright), and Buchholz as the fifth starter. With average luck and everyone staying healthy, that's actually quite a rotation, especially if Buchholz ever gets going on one of his tears like he's capable of.
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if Devers makes good, they'll find a spot for him, that goes for Moncada, it went for bets, Betts and it's going for Swihart too. you can see the wheels turning where Swihart is concerned already, trying to find a spot to let his bat play. The same process will happen for the others. Moncada will either be Pedey's replacement or he'll wind up in the outfield somewhere. Devers has a number of options of which position he could wind up playing as well. These things have a way of working out.
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4/26 @ Atlanta Baseball Team
Dojji replied to mvp 78's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
It's cool. The mods are leaving it alone, so a thread about specifically Price may be considered kosher anyhow.
