Palodios
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You're missing some key events here. August 9th-- Doubront hits the DL. 55-58. August 10th- Middlebrooks goes down. 56-58. August 16th, Shoppach jettisoned. 58-61. August 19th, Crawford goes down. 59-63. August 24th, Ortiz's last game of the season. 60-66. The losing streak wasn't because of a lack of talent-- it was because of a lack of depth to replace their talent.
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Words cannot describe how silly this statement is. Salty would be a backup catcher if Brian Mccann was on the Red Sox. Hell, he'd probably have been DFAed years ago. David Ross against left handers .764 David Ross against right handers .771 Salty against everything .720. What are you even talking about? Salty has no upside. None. Best case scenario, he hits 20+ home runs again. But he'll never hit for average, he'll never get on base respectably, he'll never defend well, he'll never call a good game, and he'll never be a major league caliber catcher. The guy is a joke, and you should know it by now.
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David Ross is a better player than Salty. Get over it.
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No chance they cut him, but they would figure something out.
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If Lavarnway mashes to a monster OPS like he did in 2011, he'll force his way up eventually.
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Its a bit more exciting when your team has a good amount of talent in the upper minors, and players who actually might be fighting for legitimate spots. the 4 Bs, Webster, De La Rosa, Wilson, Aceves, Morales, Tazawa and Lavarnway are going to be a ton of fun to watch. I get the feeling Steven Wright and Lackey are going to have a very interesting spring training as well.
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Its official-- the Oakland A's will be the team to beat in the AL West.
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Agreed. New York is also the closest city to Boston, so all of his friends, and his wife's family are relatively close. Okay, its time to get a TalkSox collection box running.
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Strange. I'm getting virus warnings from baseball reference right now. Maybe someone hacked it and changed Salty's stats:lol:. Thanks for pointing that out though, very useful!
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You're judging the drafts based on players that have barely had their cup of coffee, or are no longer in the system. 2006 had Bard, Masterson, Reddick, Kalish. 2007 had Haggadone, Middlebrooks, Rizzo, Britton. 2008 had Kelly, Westmoreland, Lavarnway. They've gotten plenty of talent despite having late first rounders, it just hasn't turned into players for a variety of reasons.
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I simply don't believe your stats are true. I don't know of a good place to get by-catcher CERA numbers, but I did some digging, and here is a crazy statistic for you: Jon Lester has been bombed* twelve times from 2011-2012. Salty caught 11 of those games. The other game, Lavarnway caught, for 5 ER over 8.0 IP. * bombed = 5+ ER
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The question that I'm sure is on everyone's mind: Who will win the Mayor's Cup this year?
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Your outrage doesn't make it any less true.
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I've been a bit short on cash in the after-holidays, but let me know what you end up deciding, or if you win any lotteries, and I'll see what I can do.
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Since Lugo left, most of the shortstops we've seen have been average defensively. If you look at UZR or any of those advanced stats, they're all very much dead-center average. The real problem has been catchers-- all of which have been significantly below average defensively, and that does include Tek.
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Probably based on an assumption that he would retire.
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You must be looking at the position player list
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I see absolutely no reason to hate Youkilis. He played hard for the team, but in the end they didn't want him, not the other way around.
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Is there a change coming in roster/line-up construction?
Palodios replied to Spitball's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
The major shift is that with the extra wild card spot, everyone believes that their team is a contender. What the Red Sox need to do is be careful with their moves in the light of that reality. With so many GMs claiming they're only one or two pieces away, talented major league players have gotten incredibly expensive. Two elite prospects for Dickey? A pile for Shields? Trevor Bauer for Choo-- seriously? Not to mention the retarded deal the Dodgers gave the Red Sox for the sole purpose of picking up Adrian Gonzalez. The Red Sox stocked up on reliable, affordable talent this offseason. If they aren't playing very well, that talent is going to get shipped out pretty quickly to the most desperate team that comes along. -
I just don't understand the whole situation. Teams have had bad players on bad contracts for a long time, and no one else had out clauses. All the reports I've heard state that insurance companies won't touch players past the 4th year of the deal, and most of them only go up to 50% coverage, but somehow the Yankees get 85% for all years? There is a good deal of false information going out about this situation.
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Oh no, there is no compulsion to disagree with you. I just happen to wear a nice pair of rose colored glasses. The problem is... the lens I use to look at the starting pitching is busted.
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My first instinct here was to come up with some argument against you to support this team. Unfortunately, you're absolutely right. The Red Sox needed one more pitcher, and they never bothered.
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Baseball America's prospect handbook came out. They ranked the Red Sox's farm system #6 overall. Xander is #10 overall, Bradley #32, Barnes #43.
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Kalish out for six months. What a waste of talent.
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I don't think Farrell will tolerate 2011 Lackey. Tito would sit in the clubhouse, watch him give up 6-7 runs, smile and say, "that's just Lackey being Lackey". I bet Farrell is more likely to bench him.
