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mystery about Dunn. then you have Ells with more HRs than AdGon. And Granderson hitting like Babe Ruth. keep in mind HGH is not tested for in MLB. So you don't know what the effect is when you go off it after getting your big contract, or go on it. personally, I think it should be legal. why ban something if you don't test for it? that's catch-22.
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Well, they lucked out with a quality start from Miller--and a quality relief job from Aceves--the only reliable reliever they have outside of Pap and Bard. They sign all these new bullpen guys in the off-season, and none of them are any good except Aceves. Sooner or later, they'll blow him out if they overpitch him. Look at those whips on guys like Miller, Wake and Lackey--north of 1.5. That tells you they get hit and/or they can't throw strikes. Pitching is going to be the undoing of this club in the playoffs.
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Wandy has had trouble getting wins on a bad team the last couple of years. he's a better pitcher than his record. Certainly a no.3 starter on the Red Sox. But he comes with a steep price. It's good to be 2nd behind NY at this time, since they can block the Yankees from getting him. Don't be surprised if they do, though he might get claimed by another team below Boston.
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why isn't Aceves starting? he's their best pitcher out of the BP. why wait for Miller to give up 5 runs before bringing him in?
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AdGon isn't the only guy to come out of that HR contest into a HR drought. You wonder if making it too easy in that contest makes it harder afterwards.
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The play for a run Royals vs the play for a home run Red Sox. That just about says it.
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The FA record isn't very good. You wonder why they do it. Well, they are doomed to keeping up with the Yankees. That's why. The Rat Race.
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Speaking of injuries, everybody's wondering where AdGon's power has gone. 1 HR since the all-star break. Doesn't Ells have more HRs now than AdGon? Jasper/Dupont over at the Globe wonder if his shoulder is bothering him. That qualifies for this thread. It's either his shoulder or the all-star HR hitting contest--which has "robbed" more than one contestant lately of 2nd half power. Corked bats? corked balls? The ESPN crew let that slip a couple of years ago. All for entertainment? Maybe it throws their timing off.
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Middlebrooks would be up for half the teams in baseball. but not the Sox. You have to work your way up the minor league ladder with this team. They just don't have a lot of openings on the ML roster. Not with the way they hang onto veterans. Lowrie, like many players, has to play regularly to hit to his career stats.
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Theo's Ells to LF, Cameron to CF was a disaster. Epstein out of his realm. But his Salty as regular catcher has worked out well. Theo wins some, loses some. Except maybe at SS. He has been hexed there since letting Cabrera go after winning a championship with him.Fixing what ain't broke, Danny Ainge style. Drew, by the way, shouldn't be viewed as a disaster. Just an overpaid, good part-time player with a Bora$ level contract. What keeps Epstein awake nights these days? Lackey for one. not the pitcher he signed. Buchholz, for another. probably can't win a championship without him. Crawford? he grades incomplete, but suddenly looks expendable with Kalish and Reddick in the wings. They would trade him for an ace starter in a minute.
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lots of busts, but enough successes to look good.
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Yes and no. I guess you could say the same thing about steroids. Who cares? I just hope he contributes. Maybe the answer is, in the end, we all wind up paying their salaries. The Red Sox just decide where the money will be spent.
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The whole world knows Harden isn't sound. Never has been. The question is whether he can help in the stretch and the playoffs.
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3.9 runs per game this month? That won't do it with Wake and Lackey and their 5 ERAs. They are stuck with these guys right now, and can't win with them unless they score lots of runs. They need that consistent 3rd starter (Bedard?) to go with Beckett and Lester. You can see why Theo wanted Harden as well, but they got freaked out by his x-rays. They were probably also working on Kuroda and Bedard simultaneously. The Kuroda dealings probably made that 3-way for Bedard possible when Kuroda pulled out.
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They can't win if they can't hit. They don't have the pitching. Their best bullpen guys, Pap and Bard, never throw a pitch unless the team is leading going into the 8th inning. That hurts. The rest of the bullpen is a bunch of trash--except for Aceves. And the only two consistent starters are Lester and Beckett. Pray that Bedard comes through.
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Sure. Lackey, too. The Red Sox must be swimming in money to pay out those kind of salaries. I guess Henry is making billions in those hedge funds of his.
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8/16 Vs. Da Rayz game 2
SoxSport replied to BigPapiEnFuego's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
team isn't hitting. their pitching isn't that great, and when they're not hitting they're in trouble. -
8/16 Vs. Da Rayz
SoxSport replied to BigPapiEnFuego's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
The Yankees are getting much better pitching from their starters right now than the Red Sox. That's the difference. Guys like Garcia, Colon and Nova are pitching much better than expected--outpitching Lackey, Wakefield and the #5 flavor of choice--currently Bedard. The killer has been Buchholz out for so long. That has tipped the balance. The Yankees are currently 7th in MLB team era rankings (3.54), while the Red Sox are 17th (3.91) . That's almost a half a run per game allowed difference. In scoring runs, after 119 games, the Red Sox have scored 14 runs more than the Yankees. That's about .1 runs per game advantage--not enough to make up for the pitching difference. -
Tito would have done Wake a big favor (and still can) pitching him at home in Aug and Sept, where he has a much better shot at 200 wins. At home, the Red Sox have a better chance of scoring the 6-8 runs they need for him to win. This team reminds me of the big power Red Sox teams of the late 40s and early 50s, in the sense that they hit well at home and not so well on the road. I think the pitching, however, is better for this team, though they have 3-4-5 starter problems right now with Buchholz out. ERAs of 5 doesn't hack it. Their pitching is what gives them a better road record, though they are in the middle of the pack in pitching due to their back end of rotation problems. It will have to improve for them to win this year.
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No, she wasn't wearing a helmut. But it's a good point. Those kids out there on the foul lines should be wearing helmuts. They just don't think enough about safety in sports these days. In industry, safety is first.
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You have to ask why there isn't a better correlation of pay with performance in MLB. Part of it is the slow salary progression, but part of it, too, is the excessive FA salaries. Two different salary scales. That would not work in most other places.
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8/16 Vs. Da Rayz
SoxSport replied to BigPapiEnFuego's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
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Have to pitch Wake only at home. They need more than 5 runs to win with him, and they can't get that on the road like they can at home.
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Bedard is their only hope. And Theo knows it, too. If they were smart, they would pitch Wake only at home, where they can score 6-7 runs needed to win with him pitching. I doubt they're willing to do that.
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I have an official t-shirt of every championship for all the sports teams in Boston the past 10 years. All four of them. I have a Red Sox 2003 championship ball signed by the team. I also have two Patriots championship footballs. Though Belichick is in my doghouse for losing to the Jets and that bombastic foot smeller in the playoffs. Inexcusable.