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  1. Palodios
    Here's the difference between me and you. I am okay with moves for the longterm. Tanking the season, trading away top players for prospects, spending money prudently. It sucks, but they usually work out. You see a 60 win season and are not happy, whereas I see it as a move meant to strengthen the future. I am not okay with sending away decent players with years of control for mediocre talent. I am not okay with trading Lackey for a salary dump. I am not okay with spending 200 million on hitters when what the team really needed was starters.
  2. Palodios
    The Red Sox have a history of trading away controllable back-end starters for quality talent with less control. Wade Miley and VMart come to mind. The problem is that they really didn't get a whole lot of anything back here.
  3. Palodios
    I'm still stuck on the Robbie Ross trade. The Red Sox gave up a player with 6 years of control for a player with 3 arbitration years left. Ranaudo had a 2.67 ERA in Pawtucket over the last two years, was the Red Sox minor league pitcher of the year in 2014, was considered the top pitcher in the draft in 2010... All for a guy who should be a sell-low candidate in Robbie Ross who has been injured, and hasn't been effective since May of 2013.
  4. Palodios
    I don't understand this one. Sure, the Red Sox are low on lefthanders, but Ranaudo looked like someone who could fill in spot starts and give solid #4/5 value. You don't trade that for a middle reliever with less team control.
  5. Palodios
    Agreed Fred. It always seems like everyone is trying to make moves, and only the GM have made any that make sense. The Red Sox certainly have validated the "One Dumb Owner Rule" in the past.
  6. Palodios
    You misunderstand. I am not lowering down his prime season. I am making the argument that his career comes close to matching the excellence of an all time great year.
  7. Palodios
    Here's a question. What makes a good closer? Is it something you can learn or is it a trait that a person just has? If a player closes in the minors, and thrives on the pressure there, will they be a good MLB closer, assuming they have the talent and health?
  8. Palodios
    It sounds like you're going to great lengths to not agree with me.
  9. Palodios
    In 2012, Koji had a 1.75 ERA, and a .065 WHIP. You make it seem like his 2013 is vastly different from that year.
  10. Palodios
    Let's try this. Throw the saves out the window. Pretend Koji pitched in the 6th inning for a losing team. Do his raw numbers -- minus saves-- seem impossible or unfathomable?
  11. Palodios
    That's where the argument always starts. Then someone in the Pap camp throws out stats, and then those stats get shot down, then we loop back into why people don't like Papelbon, and we go back to the money. Its one of those arguments.
  12. Palodios
    From 2010-2012 he had a 2.36 ERA, 0.77 WHIP, 182 ERA+, 11.4K/9, and 10.76 K/BB. His health was a concern, but I don't see his 2013 results being so far and away from his career numbers. Koji's career WHIP, and K/BB were outliers in the history of baseball, so I don't understand why you think it so unfathomable for him to do it again in 2013.
  13. Palodios
    If you were a professional chef who paid 140 million for a lifetime supply of an ingredient, would you go on a radio show and publicly declare how bad it tastes ?
  14. Palodios
    You never talk poorly about your players, especially ones you paid 140 million for. And don't get me started on the Lester fish-handshake debacle.
  15. Palodios
    a700 always wonders why I defend Theo and Ben to such great lengths. It is usually because those two have had to succeed despite meddling intervention from an owner and president who clearly don't know what they are doing.
  16. Palodios
    Requiring a 10 year sample size for any comparison is silly for many reasons.
  17. Palodios
    Craig Kimbrel has only pitched 4 full years in the MLB. Should we discount his 1.47 Career ERA and 0.90 WHIP too? Koji was an ace in Japan for 8 years before making it to the U.S. He had 8 Japanese all star appearances and 2 NPB CY Young awards. He won an Olympic bronze medal in 2004, and dominated the 2006 WBC. He closed for international competitions. None of these leagues are nearly as competitive as the MLB, but I don't think it is fair to discount Koji's 6 years of MLB success because he was too busy dominating Asia at the time.
  18. Palodios
    Koji Uehara career as reliever -- ERA 2.06, 0.75 WHIP, .196 BAA, 11.5 K/9, ERA+ 202 Papelbon career as reliever -- ERA 2.35, 1.00 WHIP, .202, 10.4 k/9, ERA+ 185 I will certainly give you durability, but there is nothing in those stats that say that per-inning value of Pap was better.
  19. Palodios
    We do know. Papelbon has not put up numbers anywhere like Koji's 2013 recently. Ben inquires on lots of players, but doesn't always make the move. They probably only had the money for one of Pap/Peavy, and I believe they made the right move. Otherwise we may have seen more of Doubront as a starter, and no one wanted that.
  20. Palodios
    Papelbon blew 7 saves in 2013. If he was here instead of Koji, the Sox would not have homefield advantage against the Tigers, and probably would have lost in the ALCS.
  21. Palodios
    I wonder if J_E is lurking.
  22. Palodios
    Better hitting means longer innings. The average NL games are shorter than AL games by like 10 minutes.
  23. Palodios
    Poor Ortiz. Ten years too late.
  24. Palodios
    They recently dropped the spring games from 7pm games to 6pm games. Much needed change, IMO.
  25. Palodios
    We were looking for that a few years back, but sadly it doesn't exist on these boards.
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