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  1. SoxFanForsyth
    NESN isn't showing the pitch speed. I hate that.
  2. SoxFanForsyth
    He hasn't done this over his past few starts. He's been throwing many more strikes.
  3. SoxFanForsyth
    Need first pitch strikes, Doubie. Can't keep falling behind.
  4. SoxFanForsyth
    Gonzo usually owns Drabek. We'll see if that continues.
  5. SoxFanForsyth
    Nava WAR: 1.4 ARod WAR: 1.2 And, just for you a700, Abreu WAR: 0.3 :thumbsup:
  6. SoxFanForsyth
    Not to mention an even more telling statistic: Every team in the AL East has a positive Run Differential. That's incredible. No other division can make that claim. In fact, only the NL East is even close, and they have 1 negative differential, and 1 team who has no differential. The AL Central has 4 of the 5 teams with a negative differential. The AL West has 2 of the 4 with a negative differential.
  7. SoxFanForsyth
    It's actually ridiculous. I proved your point because the 4 PS teams had no #2 starter who threw over 6.75 IP per start?? Really? That's proving your point?? So the Yankees don't have to adhere to the "Top 2 have to throw 480+ innings" because they have a disjointed rotation, but they still went to the PS last year. Dude. You're just CLUELESS. It's laughable.
  8. SoxFanForsyth
    You are clueless. Plain and simple. You're clueless. NO TEAM IN THE PAST 5 YEARS HAS HAD 2 PITCHERS THROW 240+ IP!!!!! And yeah. Nobody thought Holland had a "Holland-ish" year?? REALLY?!?! HE THREW A BLEEPING COMBINED 195 INNINGS IN 2009 AND 2010!!!! You're just spewing ******** out of your ass!!!!
  9. SoxFanForsyth
    I always wake up really, really early the morning after I drink for some reason. So I'll usually pop out of bed, make the concoction, and then go back to sleep and when I wake back up, I feel fine.
  10. SoxFanForsyth
    Unfortunately they won't DFA Mac AND Byrd because they are both RHH. Also, I was surprised, but they put Byrd in for Podsednik in CF when they were doing defensive replacements the other night (I believe Pod moved to one of the corners), but that kind of shows you how they feel about Podsednik vs Byrd defensively. I say DFA Darnell (or leave him on the DL until another OF goes down), so that only leaves Ross. No chance they send Nava back down unless he cools off substantially. It will be interesting to see if they try to make room for him via a trade of some of these players. Guys like Youk, Podsednik, Byrd, Morales, and even Nava are all guys who will eventually likely be traded or moved in some way. My guess is they make a trade involving Youkilis to make room for Ross.
  11. SoxFanForsyth
    Mt Dew and Orange Juice (mixed). 3 Advil. 2 Pepto. You'll feel like a champ in an hour.
  12. SoxFanForsyth
    This is a joke, right??? Hahaha. You're kidding, correct??? There were TWO pitchers in all of baseball last year that threw over 240 innings, and one of them won the MVP. They started 33 and 34 starts. Not 31. The year before that? Two again. Couple guys named Roy Halladay and Felix Hernandez. Maybe you've heard of them? They both won some award called the Cy Young that year. Maybe your expectations for the top 2 pitchers on the Red Sox is a bit high, no? Ok, maybe not. So lets go back to 2009, 3 years ago. That would be 1 pitcher who threw 240 IP. 2008? 2 pitchers. So you're trying to say you want our top 2 pitchers to do what only 7 SP have done in the past 4 years?? You really need to reevaluate your expectations because they are way, way, way too high. Like, out of this world too high.
  13. SoxFanForsyth
    Jung. Since you've qualified the innings based on a contending team, let's take a look at the 4 American League PS teams that were in play last season, and how their #2 pitchers fared. 1. Rangers - Derek Holland: 6.18 IP per Start, 3.95 ERA 2. Rays - David Price: 6.59 IP per Start, 3.49 ERA 3. Yankees - Ivan Nova: 6.09 IP per Start, 3.66 ERA 4. Tigers - Doug Fister: 6.76 IP per Start, 2.83 ERA 5. Red Sox - Josh Beckett - 6.43 IP per Start, 2.89 ERA So, none of the "contending teams" #2 starters last season averaged 7 IP per outing. In fact, half of them didn't even average 6.1 IP per start. And yet you want to dog on Beckett for averaging 6.31 IP per start this season??? Come on man. You either need to understand that baseball today is different than it was in 1969, or stop complaining about it because this isn't the old days where starting pitchers threw 300+ innings.
  14. SoxFanForsyth
    Is David Price a good #2 SP? Because he's thrown 1 more inning than Beckett this year, for all of this "what a bullpen saver" argument that you have. And if you don't think Price is a good #2, then you're delusional.
  15. SoxFanForsyth
    And by the way, Jung. Please show give me a good #2 starter in the AL. I need an example.
  16. SoxFanForsyth
    This is laughable. I love it when people try to compare the game back in the 70's to the game today. It's actually hilarious. Like the game hasn't changed. Like the hitters haven't gotten better. Like the scouting reports aren't better. Like the pitchers aren't having to throw to stronger, more advanced hitters with maximum effort on every pitch. That's a joke, Jung. It really is.
  17. SoxFanForsyth
    Game is at 1:07 tomorrow for anyone who may be playing beer pong tonight and thinks it's at 7.
  18. SoxFanForsyth
    Game 2. Doubront v Drabek. Keep winning.
  19. SoxFanForsyth
    Ah yes. Broke the seal. It starts with beer. Then you grow up and it happens with coffee.
  20. SoxFanForsyth
    The same way that Ellsbury is injury prone dude. Come on. Don't you know that?? :harhar:
  21. SoxFanForsyth
    This is what kills me. People disregard Beckett's 8 good starts and say he's not been good. Then people disregard Buchholz's 2 good starts and say he's been awful. Regardless, both guys are trending in the right direction, that much we can agree on. But people just hate Beckett because they think he's a ********, so they don't care about his performance.
  22. SoxFanForsyth
    Dude. That's a joke. Going back 5 starts, fine. That includes his 2.1 IP, 7 ER, which manipulates his starts tremendously. He has been an elite pitcher over the past 4 starts. 2.20 ERA. Ugh. I give up. I really do. 2 starts over 10 total starts on the season manipulates the data entirely too much to portray the type of pitcher he's really been, but you refuse to believe that. If you want to take it back to the beginning of the year, let's go ahead and take it back to the beginning of last year. Bigger sample, right? Great. Over his last 40 starts he's got a 3.23 ERA. No, that makes no sense because what he did in April, 2011 is irrelevant to today. Even if you want to include that s***** outing against the Guardians, he's still posted a 3.53 ERA and averaged 6.51 IP/start. Like I said. He's had 2 bad starts. But he's been outstanding outside of those, and he's trending in the right direction.
  23. SoxFanForsyth
    Could be a bidding war between the Red Sox and Yankees.
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  25. SoxFanForsyth
    Uh. You realize that even with that last outing, in each of his last 4 starts, Beckett has gone at least 7 IP and allowed a total of 7 ER, posting a 2.20 ERA. As much as you want, you're not going to get a QS every single outing from your SP. And, in fact, Beckett has had 7 QS in 10 GS this season. Outside of the 2 bad starts that Beckett has had, he's posted a 2.56 ERA over 8 starts. So now, I ask you. You want to call Buchholz a poor starter based on 8 bad starts, 2 good starts. But then, you don't want to call Beckett a good starter based on 8 good starts, 2 bad starts. So pitchers suddenly aren't allowed to have a couple early season lumps??
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