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Aaron Cook has not been missing bats at a historical rate. He now has 6 K/7 BB in 51.2 IP. His K% is now up to 2.8%. In the last 50 years, the lowest K% of any pitcher with at least 40 innings has been 3.5%. Only three pitchers in that time have been below 4%. Before Monday's game, Aaron Cook had thrown 622 pitches this season. Batters had swung and missed at only 17 of them.
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I found this interesting. It makes me wonder if we are fully aware of the clubhouse climate. There seems to be a lot of writers wanting to make write National Enquirer like drama.
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I doubt there was much actual substance to this rumor. It doesn't make sense. There just isn't a real match up. The Rangers are four games up and have no reason to be desperate enough to trade off their shortstop. The Rangers have been too successful for three years to mess with their core. Maybe the Rangers were thinking of trading Michael Young, but they wouldn't trade their shortstop. They are in first place and not likely to mess with what has been working for them.
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Derek Lowe has been DFA: http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/08/Guardians-designated-derek-lowe-for-assignment.html
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Not at all. If you can get a left handed relief pitcher who has a strikeout rate at 8.7/9 and base on ball rate at 2.7/9 for a right handed relief pitcher at 5.7/9 and walking 3.4/9, you do it every single time you get the opportunity. It was a good trade. I am not saying I would not have preferred a starting pitcher, but the Albers trade was a wise trade.
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I agree. This is an odd disclosure, and one has to wonder about it. Why the hell are the Red Sox players disclosed but not the Ranger players??? The Red Sox have become a National Enquirer-like phenomenon...and I think we (the fans) feed the monster.
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Right!
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Dempster to Rangers per Olney.
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Apparently some trades made before 4:00 will not be announced until later.
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Broxton to Cincinnati. I wonder who the Reds gave up. Less than 30 minutes to go.
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A guy who misses bats.
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The 1960s were different. I was a kid but remember my mom going to the North Shore Shopping Center and getting box seat tickets and often right behind the Red Sox's dugout. We went 20 times a year and always had great seats. The Cardiac Kids of 1967 changed things quite a bit. Tickets were harder to get after that. Baseball was different then. Yaz, Tony C., Mombo, Radatz, Stuart, Tillman, Mantilla, Malzone, Petrocelli...dang I'm glad I was alive back then.
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That trade certainly came as a shocker after the season Hawk had in 1968. The Sox also traded 16-game-winner Dick Ellsworth and hard throwing lefty Juan Pizarro. The 1969 season wasn't two weeks old. The Sox received Sonny Siebert who was a very good pitcher for the Sox (Remember Siebert versus Blue at Fenway 1971?) and a useful reliever in Vincente Romo. I'm not sure why the Sox accepted catcher Joe Azcue, but he didn't stick around long if I remember correctly. Btw, Azcue was Cuban and believed to be responsible for teaching the "Cuban forkball" which was actually a spitball to staffs he caught.
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Whoa! The Brewers did pretty well for trading off a two month rental. I have seen all three of these of the players they acquired here in Arkansas and would say that all three are pretty impressive.
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Why do you say "that huge spotlight"? Texas is a huge state, and the Dallas-Fort Worth area appears to be huge because in encompasses all the neighborhoods that sprawl on forever. Despite the national coverage the Cowboys receive, it is not the huge spotlight of New York, Boston, Chicago, or Los Angeles. I believe Texas is a very legitimate landing spot for Greinke.
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Interesting...but I know you know better. Sure, Yaz eventually came around, but that was the very rap on him until 1967. He was benched on occassions for not hustling. Respect from his teammates? Billy Monbouquette once physically threatened a young Carl Yastrzemski, who he thought wasn't hustling. I find this ironic, also. Yastrzemski was never really booed consistently at Fenway Park until after Tom Yawkey made him the highest paid player in baseball in the late 1960s. He got the money and the fans booed because they felt he wasn't "trying hard enough" to be the Superman of 1967. Basically, it comes down to we don't know what was or is in a player's heart and mind, neither Yaz nor Crawford. I'm willing to cut Crawford some slack for now. Boston can be a hard town to play in.
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You have to realize that he knows this. You know he is not satisfied with his performance so far. In Yastrzemski's autobiography, he talked about not taking his family to Fenway Park at a point in his career because of the fan comments and reactions. Do we really feel the players respond positively to negativity?:dunno:
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I don't really see the point nor the need for a thread like this one. What is the point? For most posters, we'd rather some analytical insight based on concrete justifications. This is nothing more than a rant, and he has played only nine games this season. The guy had a .332/.439/.772 slash line for nine seasons. The guy is being overpaid, but that isn't his fault. I blame the organization for that. I root for Crawford to make it. I didn't read any stories about him drinking beer or eating Popeye's fried chicken. I don't think he should be totally vilified at this point.
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I'd say Dustin Pedroia, Xander Bogaerts, Matt Barnes, and Jackie Bradley. Anyone else?
