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Crazy people.

Fool's gold.

I thought he could be an ok swing guy, but preferred him buried in the bullpen.

That wasn't expressed on here.

No, it was a totally great idea to have Koji lead the team in appearances.

Jesus H Christopher...

Bad ump! Go lie down!

No beef. Fangraphs is a well respected site.

Dog Zeigler!

Now. Then. Forever.

The conspiracy theory is that they brought in Valentine to upset the clubhouse so much so that they'd be forced to tear the whole team down.

They never should have let Beltre walk. FU Theo.

Peavy has pitcher better as of late, but the Sox offense should crush him.

My only question is: where do we stand on Pomeranz's nickname remaining "Pom Pom?" I'm out on that one.

Another great article from the Fangraphs Tribune. Love that place!

Santana's career WAR is almost double Buchholz's.

Peavy vs Porcello

My expectation for the staff this year was "hey, just keep us in the game and allow us to compete for the division." So far, so good.

And the guy that was the replacement would most likely put up a 120 or worse ERA-.

http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/columnists/ron_borges/2016/07/borges_david_price_not_a_rip_off_so_far Price has faced four No. 1 pitchers, and the Sox are 1-3 in those games. In the losses, they twice scored only one run. Price was exemplary in two of those games, losing a thrilling 2-1 pitchers’ duel to the Giants’ Madison Bumgarner on June 8 in which he went eight innings and allowed only three hits and two earned runs, and less than a week later losing 3-2 to the Orioles’ Chris Tillman in a game in which he gave up five hits and three runs in eight innings. One can hardly argue he failed to do his job in those outings. Then there was Sunday’s loss to Masahiro Tanaka in which he was hit hard. The point is against the aces, Price has pitched pretty much like an ace himself, but the bats went silent. So yes, David Price has been a bit of a disappointment to date, but not as big a disappointment as you might think because had the booming bats of Boston simply made their average amount of noise in his 20 starts, the Sox would be 16-4 in those games. I will defer to the professionals.

What good is an ERA- differential if Buchholz can't stay healthy? I'd rather the extra 50 innings a year. Otherwise you have to add Buchholz's ERA- to a AAAA player.

I agree. They could have dumped all of those salaries eventually anyway.

Yeah, Santana is far and away a better pitcher than Buchholz.

Interesting starting point as the data is skewed by Santana missing half of 2015 with an injury. Buchholz has pitched 150 innings or more 3 times. Santana has pitched 150 innings or more 8 times and is well on his way to make it 9 this year.

So we made a trade a week in advance in order to dump a guy that we had yet to sign. Um, ok... If we had signed AGon after CC, maybe you'd have a point.