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  1. Palodios
    With a lot of good work losing, the Red Sox are 1.5 back on the division. Man the AL East sucks this year.
  2. Palodios
    Probably a good thing to learn. Its a shame some of us have not figured that out yet.
  3. Palodios
    Jackie Bradley was leading the league in UZR/150 for a while. He's currently #10 in the league for any position. The guy has been a perfectly fine #9 hitter, but until he develops, the value he provides will be coming from his glove. We'll just have to accept that for the next few months while he develops -- with the s*** we've seen from guys like Sizemore and Nava in CF, I am perfectly fine with his .700 OPS at the crucial position.
  4. Palodios
    Thanks for that.
  5. Palodios
    He looks like he is favoring it, doesn't he?
  6. Palodios
    I just saw this stat that Herra has a 56% stolen base percentage. Two seconds later, he gets thrown out by a good margin.
  7. Palodios
    He has been doing that a lot this year. Maybe some guys are hurting.
  8. Palodios
    This has not looked like a .500 team.
  9. Palodios
    The Red Sox need to lock Lester up. My guess is that the Red Sox give Peavy a QO, and he accepts it, and that will be their other big pitching acquisition.
  10. Palodios
    That escalated quickly. Two games against the A's, two grand slams. Lester deserved some help today.
  11. Palodios
    That's how you leadoff the game, take a pile of pitches, and get on base.
  12. Palodios
    That is a common debate, but the general consensus is that middle tier closers are expendable, but the top tier closers are more valuable. I would actually argue that closers are more important in this league than standard leagues because of the use of Net Saves instead of just saves. Top tier relievers have significantly better ERA/WHIP values that will bring down those stats for your whole team. Waiver-wire closers are hit-or-miss, and can hurt you significantly in other categories. We are using Net Saves, so a bad closer blowing a save will hurt you. The other factor is K/9. The top tier closers will bring in significantly more strikeouts than the bottom tier. Kenley Jansen for example, has a 15 K/9 this year and 14K/9 over his career, Holland too. Last year came 111 for Jansen, 103 from Holland -- that's a brick ton, especially from guys who produces ERAs in the 1.00s, and Whips in the 0.80s for the team.
  13. Palodios
    The team seems different than the 2011 squad. That year started off poorly, but it seemed like it was because of spoiled underachievers like Beckett and Crawford, and a bad attitude. This year is a hungry team, with quality pitching on the top-end, a quality farm system, and a lot of bad luck. This team is also extremely young -- as the year progresses, the rookies will only improve.
  14. Palodios
    I read the post, but wanted to underline exactly how bad the platoon numbers were, and that 11-12 million a year would still be way too much for AE.
  15. Palodios
    These are Ethier's career numbers against lefties: .233/.292/.347/.639 Those are abysmal. He is a platoon player with meh defense. He'd fit very well with Gomes as a platoon, but the Dodgers would need to eat a lot more money to get prospects for him.
  16. Palodios
    The real need is an impact player in LF. That is a position with a significant amount of depth in the major leagues, and a great place to hide a strong bat/ weak glove type player, and somehow we've ended up with a platoon of .600 OPS hitters with mediocre defense in Gomes/Sizemore. Gomes is great against lefties, he really is. But he is an automatic out against righties, posting up very low OBPs for most seasons of his career. It doesn't need to be Stanton/Manny Ramirez, but it certainly would be nice to have a good lefthanded bat to platoon with him in left that has some legs. Its a shame the Dodgers overpaid for Ethier so badly. His .308/.387/.515/.903 stats against righties would go well with Gomes, since both have such brutal platoon splits.
  17. Palodios
    The Red Sox have a pretty strong top 3 right now. Lester has a 3.10 ERA, but has looked extremely good. Peavy has a 2.80 ERA. Lackey has a 3.83 ERA, but is coming off two 8 IP performances. If one of Buchholz/Doubront can step it up this year, this team will make it through-- good pitching is always the answer.
  18. Palodios
    Well, that's no good.
  19. Palodios
    Agreed. The Red Sox pushed an 8th inning World Series reliever to AAA in order to make him a starter. Why try the same thing with another quality late inning reliever before giving Workman his shot?
  20. Palodios
    Looks like Mujica is heading to the Phantom DL.
  21. Palodios
    5 Innings of Bedard = 1 run. Less than an inning from two other pitchers = 4 runs. Baseball, man. What a whacky sport.
  22. Palodios
    I need a SP2, or sluggers.
  23. Palodios
    Anyone interested in a Closer? I have Holland, Jansen, K-Rod, and Balfour.
  24. Palodios
    Nava had a -119.1 UZR/150 in CF this year. Sure, it is only 8 innings, but the guy will hurt the team badly at the position.
  25. Palodios
    Pushing the envelop could potentially get players suspended. This is the playoffs. Players are not going to risk their chances to win a championship. Why make the fans suffer, or ruin their own lifetime dream just because of some racist ******* who will get fired in a few weeks anyway?
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