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  1. mvp 78
    Also, there was a time when the NHL didn't have standard sized rinks. The Boston Garden's rink was smaller than regulation when it was demolished.
  2. mvp 78
    The first step would probably be conversion to the pen.
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    I mean, the Sox have done a TERRIBLE job drafting and developing pitchers for a long time. Aside from ERod (who spent much more time being developed by the Orioles TBF), the last successful starter that came up was Clay Buchholz was 2008. The Sox have finally found someone (Bailey) that can maximize the tweeners that they have drafted and traded for. I think there has been solid short term improvement, but we need to see this success over longer than one month and maybe less time spent on the IL too. The pitching looked pretty good in Mid March, so I don't think my opinion has changed since then. I think we believed there'd be some sort of Bailey bump. I was expecting more out of Bello TBH.
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    4 seamers are typically straight and easier to barrel. It's a good emphasis IMO.
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    Dalton Rogers has not been a very good draft pick so far. He was really a reliever in college, so I'm unsure why they keep trying to have him start when he's been really bad at it.
  6. mvp 78
    Beyond the Monster is basically just us posting in long form.
  7. mvp 78
    Would have been nice to see on a normal sized screen though!
  8. mvp 78
    I'm not sure how they'd retrofit older stadiums to specific dimensions.
  9. mvp 78
    Watched a little bit of the Penrod start. He throws straight gas, but loses his control very quickly. Reminded me of Red Sox era Andrew Miller.
  10. mvp 78
    TC talks through Criswell k’ing the side. Classic NESN.
  11. mvp 78
    Ump sucks
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    Kyle BODDY
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    Duran CF, Devers 3B, O’Neill DH, Abreu RF, Refsnyder LF, Valdez 2B, Cooper 1B, McGuire C, Rafaela SS
  14. mvp 78
    Only if the Sox had taken him after HS. He was a drafted after his junior year at Missouri.
  15. mvp 78
    @BOSSportsGordo Garrett Cooper is starting for the Red Sox tonight. Vaughn Grissom is not, because he has the flu. No word yet as to when he could see the field.
  16. mvp 78
    IDK, the defensive metrics can be a bit much for me TBH. Mercurial and inscrutable at times.
  17. mvp 78
    I've heard this draft is very top heavy with talent (first 18 picks or so) and then falls off. They should take best available and then just grab a couple high octane HS arms. Sox have a good track record of taking HS arms: Groome, Ball, Owens, Scherff, Kopech, Buttrey.
  18. mvp 78
    It's hard for me to single out which defensive metric I prefer because I never know which one I need for the current argument. However, I've read a lot of arguments against OAA for IFers and that small samples of DRS are extremely skewed. I really don't look at UZR/150 much anymore. I can say quite certainly that any OF that included both Manny and Wily Mo was going to be s***. That the Sox put Wily Mo in the OF for 154 games is wild in retrospect. The original argument of "well they had good fielding SS's in 06, but got worse" ignores what happened with the rest of the ballclub at the time.
  19. mvp 78
    If you actually look at Statcast, he was in a higher percentile last year for hard hit and barrel %. Hit ball have been harder this year against Cooper. Average exit velo '23: 87.1 Average exit velo '24: 88.4 The main improvements are chase % and bb %.
  20. mvp 78
    No s***, huh... It's almost like I provided a list of OF statues afterwards to prove that point.
  21. mvp 78
    The reason they sucked in 2006 was pitching and defense. Pitchers with an ERA under 4.30 and over 20 innings: Schilling 3.97/204 Paplebon 0.92/68 Gabbard 3.51/25 19th in fWAR, 25th in ERA (4.83), 14th in xFIP (4.50), 28th in BABIP 30th in DRS, fewest errors committed Manny -13 DRS Wily Mo - 8 DRS Loretta - 7 DRS Coco Crap - 6 DRS Youk LF - 5 DRS Kapler - 4 DRS
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    Criswell: '23 AAA 84 Inn, 4.33 xFIP '23 MLB 33 Inn, 4.54 xFIP '24 AAA 10 Inn, 4.75 xFIP '24 MLB 11 Inn, 4.57 xFIP Seems that the xFIP has been pretty consistent as of late regardless of your concerns over SSS's impact on his current xFIP. I guess he's just a 2.50 ERA guy now? He has never had an ERA under 3.70 outside of the Complex League FFS.
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    The Sox aren't attempting to rush him back. He was just saying how great he feels and he was aiming to pitch this season. He had the Story procedure, not the full TJS.
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    No.
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    Romy can field any position except for C and has hit the ball much better in MiLB than Meidroth has. Meidroth still needs to show that he can handle AAA for a longer period than just one month. If Meidroth can't backup SS, I don't see the point of him on this team right now. Kavadas is superfluous. He can't platoon with Casas or the starting DH. He can't be moved to any other position.
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