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  1. Palodios
    See? We can agree about baseball things.
  2. Palodios
    The original point was this year's team. There are a lot of players who could easily be better and few who could be worse.
  3. Palodios
    Napoli, Pedroia, Victorino, Craig, Buch, Bogaerts, Masterson, Koji, Mujica, and Miley all had forgettable seasons in 2014. Maybe that is the new norm for some, but hopefully not all.
  4. Palodios
    Porcello, Varvaro, and Holt may regress. But yeah, not many overachievers last year.
  5. Palodios
    I am looking at the Red Sox on several betting sites: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=betting%20on%20world%20series%20winners #5, #1, #3, tied for #3, #3, #2. There seems to be a strong consensus among the people who make money off this kind of thing that the Red Sox will be a potential playoff team. Writers can eyeball things, but they make their money off clicks, and strong opinions, not correctness.
  6. Palodios
    Can we lock the "Is the actual rotation the worst in the last 10 Y?" thread? It was a complete flame-bait thread from the beginning, and inevitably turned into a big flamewar.
  7. Palodios
    No offense taken or anything. Whatever the motives, it is a nice break to keep our minds on the Sox.
  8. Palodios
    It has been snowing for 25 days straight, and the Red Sox haven't had a winning record since 2013. I'll take what I can get
  9. Palodios
    Truck day! Woohoo!! The Red Sox have built a culture that encourages players to head to Spring Training a few weeks early. It seems like it started with Lester who fought to be the first one in camp every year. I'm glad to see Porcello and others continue the trend. After a last place season, hopefully these guys are getting ready to go.
  10. Palodios
    The Tigers haven't made much sense to me. They've had an excellent offense, and the best rotation in baseball for several years, and it keeps getting better.... and somehow they just barely squeak into the playoffs and get smoked in the early rounds. The AL Central looks excellent this year. The White Sox retooled, the Guardians have yet another CY Young in their rotation, and the Royals are coming off a World Series run. With several key departures, it seems like 2015 may be year for the Tigers to miss the playoffs.
  11. Palodios
    The teams to watch are the Reds, Rays, Rangers, Nationals, White Sox, Tigers, Phillies. Any of those teams who have surprisingly bad seasons will be looking to move some pitchers.
  12. Palodios
    Sounds promising. Let's send the Yankees up first.
  13. Palodios
    An MLB exhibition game on the moon in 2028 would be awesome.
  14. Palodios
    I am certain that it is a coincidence, but Buchholz has done well when put into the "leader of the staff" position in the past. 2010, Beckett and Lackey have awful years, Buchholz has his career best year. 2012, Beckett gets traded, Buchholz turns to a lights out starter afterwards. 2013, Lester and Lackey are coming off mediocre/injured years years, and there is pressure to succeed -- he starts the season lights out. He was Beckett's caddy for so many years, and Lester's sidekick. Who knows, maybe it will be good for him to take over the staff.
  15. Palodios
    Probably because there are two sides to the glass, and both type of person wants the other type of person to see their view. The more stubborn those people are, the worse it gets:p
  16. Palodios
    Optimism/Pessimism is often described using the image of a glass with water poured to the halfway point. Optimists think about the water that is in the glass, pessimists think about the water that isn't in the glass. Replace "Glass" with "team", and "water" with "talented players", and it is pretty clear who the optimists and pessimists are.
  17. Palodios
    It seems like there really isn't as much top pitching in the American League anymore. Scherzer, Lester and Shields all went from AL-> NL. The Tigers and White Sox are stacked, and you have guys like Felix, Darvish, Archer, Kluber, and Richards floating around, but there aren't many scary rotations out there.
  18. Palodios
    Mookie Madness returns!!!!!!
  19. Palodios
    My teams always have abysmal luck. The last three years, the Yankee strategy has been extremely successful -- one first round bounce and two playoff no-shows. Success.
  20. Palodios
    You have no idea....
  21. Palodios
    I agree that this is the year that he needs to show some results. Shelling out 155 on Lester means that you're in win-now mode. However, I think Theo wanted to build a core for the team's future before dropping money and prospects. Every World Series team has those homegrown guys. Pablo/Bumgarner/Posey. Jeter/Rivera/Posada. Lester/Ellsbury/Pedroia. Pujols/Molina/Wainright. Theo has built a core of Rizzo, Castro, Soler, Fowler, Lester, Bryant, Baez, and Russell. There is so much talent -- its time to see what that team does with it.
  22. Palodios
    Theo hasn't been spending money. From 2009-2011 the average Cubs payroll was 140 million. From 2012-2014 the average Cubs payroll was 105 million. Here are the big signings of his tenure: Edwin Jackson @ 4/52, Jorge Soler 9/30 (yeah, nine years), David Dejesus @2/10. Jason Hammel @1/6. That's it. It isn't like he took over the Dodgers, spent 400 million dollars and has had a losing team. He has slow-played the rebuilding process.
  23. Palodios
    Maybe that is true for any other team, but Wrigley will be packed no matter how good they are. All the people I talk to from Chicago are very excited about what the organization is doing. Whether they are naive or not is another debate.
  24. Palodios
    My 2015 Red Sox prediction is that the team will see several players take their careers to the next level. The team has so many players that could become borderline all-stars next year. Xander, Mookie, Rodriguez and Owens are highly projectable. Workman is finally getting the chance stay in the pen, where he thrived in a World Series run. Coaches are raving about Castillo. Masterson became much more effective against lefties in 2013 before getting injured. He could see a resurgence. Porcello/Miley/Masterson/Kelly can all benefit from having a solid defense behind them, and the entire staff will love throwing to Vazquez/Hannigan. I don't have stats, and I can't even say which players will start to thrive, but it just seems like the Red Sox will finally start churning out top players again.
  25. Palodios
    "We're looking for a top pitcher... but at the right price". Seems like 4/70 and a third rounder was a good enough price to me. It gives me some hope though. Maybe it means there will be another top pitcher next year who ends up being a bargain signing.
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