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In yesterday's game, you could see an obvious difference in his hitting mechanics with the new, more closed stance, and if you check out the replay of his homerun swing against Burnett, i think it is not humanly possible for him to be any more in sync than he is during that swing. Another thing to note, is that it's typical for left-handers like himself to find consistency with their mechanics early in their careers, an example to note is Robinson Cano who also had a very "moving-parts" swing and could be easily overpowered by the hard stuff high and inside until he he adopted the new stance and shortened his stride, allowing him to keep his hands inside high and tight or tight and low hard stuff, as evidenced by his shot against Beckett yesterday,and this seems to be exactly what Jacoby is shooting for. He ranks among the league leaders in PPA, he's swinging at strikes consistently, and he's not striking out much, so i fail to see your point. Agreed, but he's definitely not sucking now, although he could stand to not always go for the hit when ahead in the count, the improvement is showing, a little bit more in the OBP department would really be all he's lacking to go from "solid" to "very good".

I wasn't talking about the performance per se, Kilo, i was talking about him actually hitting an inside pitch. Besides, it was just an opinion. Come on Kilo, you're better than that, you sounded a lot like "knee-jerk" Jacko in that post.

Mcann, catcher is the most difficult position to find offense at, and a strong central line always equals awesomeness.

Wishful thinking. Ellsbury's projected best season (personal projection of course). .300 AVG, .410 OBP, 200 hits, 35 doubles, 10 homers, 10 triples, 65 SB, 70 rbi, 120 RS. That would, of course be his "career year".

Spoken like someone who knows absolutely nothing about Ellsbury. Ellsbury had only one problem last year which rendered him ineffective during those long "cold spells" and it was that gaping hole in his swing which didn't allow him to turn on inside fastballs unless he was cheating on 'em, his open, all over the plate stance didn't give him much leeway to adjust to inside quality hard stuff either, but now, having adjusted his stance and having worked on steadying his hands on the inside pitch, i can quite honestly tell you that i no longer expect to suffer an entire month of uselessness from Ellsbury, hell, i predict he'll be way better than last year as far as OPS goes.

19th pick, Brian Mcann

Healthy Lowrie/Lugo, mid-season form Papi, Smoltz, Dice-K, Baldelli, Kotsay anyone? Anyone? BTW, my favorite thing about this game was seeing Ells turn on quality inside heat.....seems like the kid is finally ready to turn the corner.

Current Red Sox winning streak: http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/funny-pictures-cat-approves.jpg

Angry Jacko= Teh Awesome.

Made-up injury indeed.

Not "ok", he was really good IMHO.

I cannot believe Lincecum actually came my way. Having followed him ever since he burst onto the scene with the Giants, i expect him to be fully healthy and dominant for at least another 5 seasons, he inmediately becomes the ace of my staff, and he will be near or at the top of the league in nearly every pitching statistical category, hell, he might win the pitching triple crown as early as this year.

Tim Lincecum with the 14th pick.

http://www.pc2game.es/img/entradas/86/legendary-g.gif Yeah, that about sums up what this bullpen is going to be once Bard comes up.

Now that's what i like to call comedy gold.

Oh hai! And oh, your avatar is teh awsum!

Near future= Bard+Masterson+ Papelbon. Holy s***, this bullpen is gonna be f***ing awesome!

George Kottaras is food for the soul. One liner FTW. Forget it, it's a two liner now. s***, this makes it three lines now. Joke's gone, now it's a f***ing paragraph, carry on everyone.

Wow, just wow.

And raise you http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/atlarge/epic_fail.jpg

Mike Lowell is on an epic quest to shut everyone who doubted him (myself included) the f*** up.

Holy s*** Nick f***ing Green!

But Nick Green is. Anyways, BP awesomeness is my main reason for optimism.

There are 162 games in a baseball season, if you miss just one to go to a Bruce Springsteen concert, you're automatically gay in my book........but that's just me.