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Everything posted by mvp 78

  1. mvp 78
    Sonny Gray has a .520 FIP and his K% is down. Let's beat up on this dink.
  2. mvp 78
    Roll Tide!
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  4. mvp 78
    And that's the main point. It's impossible to split hairs and blame a specific person for all the bad moves (Larry) and remove blame from someone else (Ben). At the end of the day, it's far easier to just give credit and blame to the acting GM at the time. Saying "Ben sucked in 2014 and 2015" is basically just saying "the front office sucked in 2014 and 2015."
  5. mvp 78
    He seemed to be held back a little bit earlier in the year and was rarely used. http://www.fangraphs.com/statsd.aspx?playerid=4994&position=P I now wonder if they were just giving him extra rest after the WBC.
  6. mvp 78
    JBJ is starting to hit.
  7. mvp 78
    Nope, that 2011 team was good.
  8. mvp 78
    Ok, I get it. Bosoxmal, you're off the hook.
  9. mvp 78
    Fultz. He's a scorer. The C's could plug him in today and find minutes.
  10. mvp 78
    This is pure speculation at best. There is no way to split hairs on who did what move. I say Ben is at fault for all of the moves of 2014/15 and gets all the credit for 2013 because we'll never know who was pushing for what. Ben was the top guy and everything lands at his desk.
  11. mvp 78
    It would make him a bad GM, not a bad coach.
  12. mvp 78
    We trained him well back in the postseason of 2013. He's also a welcome addition whenever he pops in and out over the season.
  13. mvp 78
    I'm not here to litigate DD's shortcomings. This was just about the failures of 2014/2015 when Ben straight up trashed the place and put the Sox in a hole they are still trying to climb out of. If they re-sign Lester, they don't have to sign Price to a crazy deal as they already have their "ace." If the re-sign Miller, they don't have to trade for Kimbrel and they'd still have an additional stockpile of prospects in the pipeline. If they don't sign Pablo and Hanley, they have enough money to pick up another FA pitcher like Max Scherzer.
  14. mvp 78
    Would you have rather lowballed Lester they way Ben did or re-signed him to the Cubs contract? Would you have rather signed Pablo and Hanley or gone in a different direction (Headley)?
  15. mvp 78
    Are they not still trying to clean up the mess from the 2014/2015 moves? Was moving on from Lester the smartest play there? Maybe only if they were going to sign Max Scherzer that offseason. Was dumping Lackey for next to nothing a smart play? Was signing Pablo and Hanley in the same offseason the smart play? Ben took a s*** all over 2014 and 2015. You don't have to look any further than the season standings to see that.
  16. mvp 78
    They are aiming for Gordon Hayward. http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/nba-draft-celtics-grab-no-1-overall-pick-and-oh-what-a-summer-it-could-be-in-boston/
  17. mvp 78
    No. If you have the chance to get a franchise player, you do it.
  18. mvp 78
    Trade Devers? No. Trade Beni? Yes! DIDN'T YOU KNOW THAT HE'S A BUM WHO HASN'T GOTTEN A HIT IN 6 GAMES!
  19. mvp 78
    Trashed the place. They downgraded to Porcello from Lester. They downgraded from Lackey to Kelly. The moves they made in 2014 and offseason of 2015 trashed the place.
  20. mvp 78
    https://www.milb.com/milb/news/boston-red-sox-rafael-devers-delivers-under-spotlight/c-230763878/t-185364810 "I can only control what I can control," Devers said. "If the phone call comes, I think I'll be ready. If they make that decision, it's because they feel I'm ready. All I can control is just being myself and just play the game the same way I've been playing it, not try to do too much."
  21. mvp 78
    Trashed. The. Place.
  22. mvp 78
    They won the WS and then went back to back with last place finishes. They trashed the place. Lester for Porcello - downgrade Miller for ERod - downgrade Lackey for Kelly and Craig - downgrade Peavy for Edwin Escobar and Hembree - whatever Edwin Escobar was seen as the key to that Hembree trade and the guy was DFA'd. They basically lucked into an ok bullpen arm.
  23. mvp 78
    Not a chance. He's a career .256 OBP guy and didn't even get to .300 last year in Pawtucket.
  24. mvp 78
    Station!
  25. mvp 78
    They blew up the team in 2012 and made some shrewd moves. When they blew up the team in 2014, they just trashed the place.
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