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https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/100e958d This is a really great article on Jim Tabor.

Yup, that's how things work on this board. Any good player needs to be traded to BOS, because all other fandoms are undeserving of good talent.

I was going to say something unkind about Pythagoras, but came across this quote of his: As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. My man!

He's one of the fastest guys on the team. There's no reason to move him until mobility actually becomes an issue, which may not happen for another 5-10 years. No rush to move a big bat off of 3B.

It's been a great time to be a Sox fan since Nov 18, 1997 when they signed Pedro Martinez.

Not worried about JD’s injury history.

Total fluke. No chance he does that the next two years.

So? JD didn't become a full time player until 2014.

http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=12161&position=SS 12th in the league in defensive WAR for SS. Cozart is 9th and he's a guy people are drooling over for some reason. His defensive misgivings are overstated. It's not 2014 anymore. He's solid, but not spectacular.

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/195689700/giancarlo-stanton-injury-marlins-potential_partner_3 At this point, Stanton's injury history is almost as well known as his ability to hit homers. This is the third consecutive season that Stanton has been unable to finish. In 2014, his last game was Sept. 11, when he was hit in the face by a visibly stricken Mike Fiers. Last year, Stanton's last game was June 26; a broken hand got him then. This year, it's a groin strain that stops his season on Aug. 13. These injuries are unconnected to each other, but when you stack them on top of past injuries in 2011 (hamstring, quadriceps), 2012 (knee, abdominal strain) and 2013 (hamstring, shoulder), it looks like Stanton is going to be some sort of sad baseball story, the superhuman talent who just couldn't stay on the field. Stanton seems to have a lengthier history than JD.

Sounds good to me!

Sparky Lyle taught him the pitch tho?

http://www.espn.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=neyer_rob&id=1786104 So who threw the first great slider? Red Ruffing and Johnny Allen, big stars in the 1930s, are real possibilities, and Feller also is a candidate. With most of the great pitchers drafted into the Army or Navy during World War II (Feller actually enlisted), there weren't a lot of great pitches thrown during those years. But Feller came back after the war, and wrote in his book, "It was the slider which was of the greatest help to me in 1946 when I established a strikeout record of 348 for a season. I used it in many spots where I had used a curve before." Feller pitched for the Guardians, of course, and he soon was joined by another great slider. In the late 1940s, Guardians outfielder Bob Lemon became Guardians pitcher Bob Lemon, and he learned the slider from pitching coach Mel Harder. Lemon's in the Hall of Fame, and he probably wouldn't be there without his slider. Dick Donovan's not in the Hall of Fame, but he did come up with a Hall of Fame slider in the 1950s, and in 1961 his 2.40 ERA was the lowest in the majors. Meanwhile, Jim Bunning was throwing a great slider of which Ted Williams later said, "unlike most sliders, Bunning's tended to rise, he kind of slung it sidearm ..." And Bunning, like Lemon, eventually wound up in the Hall of Fame. Bob Gibson probably threw the best slider of the 1960s, but the decade didn't see a lot of great sliders. Most of the best pitchers of the '60s threw overpowering fastballs and tough curveballs (overhand or sidearm), in part because the conditions of the time rewarded pitchers with that style. In the 1970s, though, things changed. One of the most vivid memories of my youth involves listening to Royals games on the radio, and hearing Denny Matthews or Fred White refer to an opposition starter as a "sinker/slider guy." Those were the two pitches of the '70s: good sinker, hard slider. Steve Carlton's slider was known as perhaps the toughest pitch in the National League, and for a few years Sparky Lyle dominated American League hitters while throwing mostly sliders. In the 1980s, reliever Larry Andersen perfected his slider to the point where he rarely bothered throwing anything else. And in the 1990s, Randy Johnson threw what might have been the scariest slider -- just ask John Kruk -- ever.

That's not "irony". That's proof that he threw too many innings.

I think he's asking for a 6 man rotation too, which is a much bigger change IMO.

Not until they allow for a 27 man roster or treat game day rosters like the NBA, NFL or NHL where you can sit someone and not have them actively on the roster for that day.

Delete your account.

http://www.nbcsports.com/boston/red-sox/are-red-sox-playing-waiting-game-naming-their-new-manager Industry sources continue to expect Astros bench coach Alex Cora will be the Sox’ pick. No offer had been officially made as of midday Wednesday, one source close to the situation said. But the belief is such an offer waits out of respect to the Astros-Yankees ALCS that can end no later than Saturday if the series goes a full seven games. “Not a doubt it is him,” the source said. Sunday and Monday would both be off days ahead of the Tuesday night start of the World Series. That leads to the potential for at least a Red Sox announcement of Cora, if not a press conference, before the Fall Classic begins. (If the Astros advance to the World Series, it may be harder to have Cora in Boston for any length of time.)

He had a brutal 2017 for SLG and ISO, but he still rarely strikes out and has a decent OBP. He was 31st in R for 2b above 400 PA's. Woof. I don't think that's entirely due to his base running, but geez. Then I saw Asdrubal Cabrera's BSR score and died.

He was on fire midseason. He fell apart down the stretch.

Hands are wrong. Probably won't make it out of instructs with that form.

Yaz ended each game with a six pack and a pack of smokes. Who cares?

Soon to be a check.

@LasMayores Según varias fuentes, @ac13alex será presentado formalmente como dirigente de los @RedSoxBeisbol luego de que culmine la SCLA. #LasMayores Get hyped.

This team turned over 75% of its roster. It's going to take a little while for them to gel. They should be good though. Brown is really stepping up so far.