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The team is loaded with mediocre veterans with no upside. They need a few of those young kids with upside sitting in Pawtucket.
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I think the key is upside. You look at the Sox, and they are filled with mediocore veterans who have no upside. The FO apparently prefers experience to talent. Even when the experience sucks. Aviles is a SS reject--a guy who was moved from SS years ago because he didn't have it defensively. He is basically your good reserve infielder--a guy who can be adequate in the field and hit some. This apparently is good enough for the FO. The young defensive whiz Iglesias is parked at Pawtucket wondering if he has to hit .300 to ever make the big leagues. Looking through their plodding veteran team, I think an infusion of young talent could help this club. And they have a few of those in Pawtucket champing at the bit.
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Tough loss after 3 wins. You want to see them sweep the Rays--who I still think are an overrated, scrappy team. The games you want to win against them are these type--beat 'em at their own smallball game. When's the last time the Red Sox won a morning game during the Boston (make that Kenyan) Marathon? They don't win very often, in my recollection. Maybe they should be in bed earlier for a morning game. They might also take some advice from the Kenyans: it was evident to me about 10 years ago when the Kenyans started dominating the Marathon that they run as a TEAM. They put 3 or 4 guys or gals up front and control the pace. That's why they have the top 3 finishers both male and female. Plus they have maybe the world's best distance runners right now. But it's the team approach that makes them unbeatable. Nobody else does that. The Sox could use some of that team spirit. They didn't have it last year--they need to recapture it this year. Maybe some of that young blood--kids trying to make it big-- might help this team. I see too many mediocre veterans on this club with no upside.
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Bowden and Exposito DFA'd, Lin sent down
SoxSport replied to MNSoxChief102's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I frankly don't know what's going on with the Sox personnel. Who's making the decisions? Ben? Bobby V? Both? You can't tell from a distance, and the Globe isn't talking. I will say this. If Ben is making all the personnel decisions (excluding the choice of manager), he has an awful lot of power for a first year GM. -
I don't know why the Mets weren't sold. The fellow that owns them was tight with Bernie Madoff, and one of the few who made any money with him. He just made a money deal in court that allows him to keep the Mets. But he's not in a position to spend money like a NY team usually does.
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The kid looks like he could be a 3rd starter--not a 4th. Buchholz needs to get his act together fast.
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Aviles has done a decent job. And he's provided some pop. The guy can hit some. The question is whether having a top-level defensive SS right now would prevent more runs than Aviles is creating. Plus the possibility of a youngster providing a spark in what is basically a veteran team. That's why it's disturbing to see them bring up a journeyman with "experience" like Repco rahter than a young defensive guy like Lin. You never know what these kids are going to do until you put them in the fire. Look at the Knicks' Lin. Look at the Celtics' Bradley. These kids got pushed into the starting lineup by injuries, and they surprised everybody and made their teams better. The Sox could use a surprise or two like that.
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Coco's salary may kill that. I understand he makes $14 mil? Byrd is more manageable salary-wise.
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I'm getting tired of V's big mouth. Here today, I read all kinds of crap about dissing Youks, then saying he's sorry. Poor Youks. The guy gets kicked off his all-star position because his GM loves another. Then he gets misquoted by a media queen in the clubhouse, and has to endure a series of injuries that could be related to his changing position too late in his career. The Sox did a fine job turning one of the steller players in the league into a questionmark. You look at Vs original quotes, and the subsequent interpretations look like they were distorted. A bunch of HS. The media--mainly the Globe, ESPN, and Yahoo sports--that I've seen, seems to be out to diss the Red Sox this year, and they are going to distort everything big mouth Bobby says to them. The message to Bobby is button up. This club could really use a PR spokesperson to muzzle all the loose cannons. Shut up about your players, Bobby. Take some lessons from Tito.
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Good point.
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Bowden and Exposito DFA'd, Lin sent down
SoxSport replied to MNSoxChief102's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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Yeah, but can he hit .300? OPS >.800? This is a hittin' team, you know. Defense is for softies.
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Bowden and Exposito DFA'd, Lin sent down
SoxSport replied to MNSoxChief102's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
The PawSox received a call saying Lin to Boston. Then they received another call that said they wanted Repko, not Lin. No word on whether the calls came from the same source. -
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Maybe that's why he was so bad last year.
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Yeah. Did you get the four week guess? The media is all over the place with speculation.
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Subluxed? If it popped back in by itself, he could be back in a couple weeks. It isn't his throwing shoulder. There should be minimal strain to the joints. It's 6-8 weeks if they have to pop it back in. More strain there. The Red Sox have a history of taking forever to get guys back into the lineup--and mis-diagnosis. I hope they don't miss the boat with Ellsbury again.
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Maybe Lin will be the young spark to ignite them. Lin-mania? Seriously, they have two big run wins in a row at home. They are not going to score 10 runs every game, and have to win the 2-1 games, too. Especially on the road. They aren't out of the woods yet. I want them to beat TB 4-3 tommorrow.
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Very few of these guys making big bucks can resist becoming prima donnas. And to some degree, the team has to live with it. Beckett has had his ups and downs, but he pitched well the start of last year--and for most of the year until September. When he stays focussed on the mound, he can be tough. I noticed some early posts here about Verlander. The guy has pitched two great games to start the season--and has lost both of them. The first because the manager went to the closer in the 9th inning to get him a fantasy save, the second because the Rays got a few seeing eye hits in the 9th and the manager again made a mistake--replacing him with another pitcher instead of the closer. Leyland makes two mistakes, Verlander gets two losses, and his fantasy holders get pissed.
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It looks like Crawford's problems went from his head to his wrist to his elbow. It's time Carl got back on the field and played a little hurt--the team is running out of outfielders and he is being paid a king's ransom.
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I would wait for the medical diagnosis. What I've seen so far is typical media speculation.
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Right shoulder. He throws left, so it could be worse. Maybe 6 weeks with a dislocation. Crawford needs to get better fast.
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Red Sox 2012 fearless prediction thread
SoxSport replied to RedSoxfanforlife305's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Their pitch has been not to spend any more money this year. From that standpoint, everything they've done makes sense. They made Bard a starter, and traded for a cheap closer. Then they auditioned a bunch of guys to be the 5th starter--figuring mud would stick somewhere. The thing that threw them off was Bailey's injury. They are not out of the woods yet on that one.