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  1. Yup. What people will say is that the pitching is over-performing, and when the Sox and Yanks get healthy, if their pitching slumps, all bets are off. Before the extreme attempts at back-patting, we should wait and see just where will the actual performance of their pitching staff end up. Not to mention it's not a "Sox fan" thing, it't a numbers thing. A 2.70 team ERA is unsustainable.
  2. Incorrect. He sucks both defensively and offensively, and when i defended him, i did because he was dominican. Not because he's been excellent defensively his entire career, and his awful 2009 was an injury-induced fluke as demonstrated by his current hitting. So....DFA Beltre.
  3. Left elbow soreness. According to Francona, it's bothered him for a while:
  4. Color me skeptical that they'll maintain a sub-3 team ERA for the rest of the season. The pitching will slump eventually.
  5. Interesting you mention this, because the type of pitcher Ortiz really struggled last year against were fly-ball pitchers, which, in my opinion , is a testament to his decrease in power. Vs Fly ball pitchers: .728 OPS. Vs average Fly ball/ Groundball pitchers: .815 OPS. Vs Groundball pitchers: .845 OPS.
  6. I agree. But it doesn't mean he "sucked". When he "sucked" was April and May, from there on he was productive, albeit not a typical Ortiz levels.
  7. I remember posting about it, but here it is again: Baseball reference differences them as "power" and "finesse" pitchers, here are Ortiz' 2009 numbers against "power", "average" and "finesse" pitching: Power pitchers: .242 /.329 /.530 .859 OPS. Average: 238/.335/.459 .793 OPS Finesse: .237/.331/.425 .756 OPS Since the differentiation is made basically on pitcher's stuff, the numbers would seem to indicate that Ortiz had significant problems adjusting to soft-tossers and garbage-throwers, which makes sense, because he seemed late on fastballs and early on breaking balls throughout the first half of the year, and it's easier to cheat fastball on a pitcher who throws hard and uses his FB as an out pitch a higher percentage of the time.
  8. BUMP! Discuss ideas to fix the problem.
  9. Heh. Indeed, you my man. Now where's YOTN? Someone's getting deep fried!
  10. Yeah because it's a great idea for the diabetic to eat YOTN in chocolate sauce.
  11. What you need to do is play paintball with me. I will cleanse you with a brutal shower of paint-based bullets.
  12. Game Over, thank God.....Too much drama with every win.
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