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Yup....if he were a goalie we would have been saying "another one through the 5 hole" over and over again. Thrown baseballs, ground balls ....you name it. Guy ruined my perception of 1st base for years. Figured teams must decide to simply put the biggest lump of s*** they had at 1st base and just give him a giant steel cup so he doesn't hurt himself too much.
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The Sox IMO have done a pretty bad job of handling 1st base, overpaying twice to get not very much value over there. While Moreland for two years is in an absolute sense actually a bigger crime than Pearce, Pearce simply should not have been brought back at all, PERIOD. Total waste of payroll and utter malfeasance on DD's part. It has been a long time since the Sox have actually cared who played 1st base. Have to go back to Mo Vaughn to find the last time they cared at all and before that George Scott.
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I would take Moreland back and playing over Chavis in a NY minute and NO, Chavis is not a 2nd baseman. Pearce, not so much. They might even be better off giving Travis all this playing time which says more about our farm system than anything else. Heck I would want Moreland back and playing there while not being much of a Moreland fan.
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By the way, you know you are getting to be old as dirt when you actually saw Ventura's best days were playing College baseball and were old enough THEN to appreciate it.
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One of those massive Ventura errors in judgement. Ventura left his best baseball in College.
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The 2019 is clearly the hottest baseball of all of them 2015-2019. What it has really cost is our ability to compare season stats to career stats for a specific player and how much of interest in baseball is tied up in just those discussions. Very few people are going to be able to remember these transitions from one ball to the next. But for the most part, those that will are just the people that carry on those discussions. There really is no way AND THERE WON'T BE a way to account for these changes to the baseball with any degree of credibility worth talking about. So go ahead Manfred, keep making believe your carnival act will get you over the hump. Once my generation starts pushing up daisies you are in a world of hurt if you are not already.
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They denied it in 2016, denied it again last year when that ball was clearly hotter than both the 2016 and 2017 ball and are giving us the Sgt Shultz again this year: "I know nothing....NOTH...ING". ********, Manfred...you are right in the middle of this thing.
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Beni is not terrible. But he is a loooooong way from an AS. Really when I pick on Beni, I mostly pick on the laughably predictable Sox PR department. I still remember the day they convinced Hanley Ramirez to proclaim Beni the odds on MVP for that season. Of course that was likely not a hard thing to do since what Ramirez was really saying was "PLEASE GOD DON"T EVER MAKE ME GO OUT TO LF AGAIN".
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Hey I just realized that could really work out. Maybe we could get a relief pitcher for Beni that only throws pop-ups!
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Oh those heavy legs. Maybe they can get a relief pitcher for Beni
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That 3rd run is the one that catches my attention. They were one out away from having a guy on 2nd with no outs and not getting him home and they got him home. 3-0 instead of 2-0 even in the 1st inning changes the whole complexion of the game even this early. Depending on the makeup of the opponent you either force them to try to dink and dunk their way back into the game or blast their way back into it. 4-0 even better.
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It is almost a shame we have to catch the Jays now. Further down stream the Jays will be in disarray, will sell off Ken Giles for something we can't possibly offer and a team with a shot will have a real Closer.
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That is where I would have Beni in this particular order as well.
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1. Mookie Betts ® RF 2. Rafael Devers (L) 3B 3. Xander Bogaerts ® SS 4. J.D. Martinez ® DH 5. Andrew Benintendi (L) LF 6. Christian Vazquez ® C 7. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) CF 8. Michael Chavis ® 1B 9. Brock Holt (L) 2B 1. Eric Sogard (L) DH 2. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. ® 3B 3. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. ® LF 4. Justin Smoak (S) 1B 5. Randal Grichuk ® CF 6. Cavan Biggio (L) 2B 7. Freddy Galvis (S) SS 8. Brandon Drury ® RF 9. Danny Jansen ® C Beni in the 5 hole....ah-huh.
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I agree with putting him in the pen. Don't agree with making him the next guy up in this endless line of wanna' be closers. If the Sox are actually announcing him as closer when he is not even throwing yet then this is just a stronger indication than Henry gave that they are not spending more money.
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Henry not looking to add much payroll
jung replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
He has very little to panic about. -
LOL...I do get the sarcasm. Well its not either and can't be at this time of day. Pretty nasty thing to say though and not really supportable. That said, if the sharks are biting there does tend to be blood in the water.
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The only guy looking like he will improve on his 2018 In/Starts is ...........ERod of all people who is rapidly catching up to Sale even with Sale's complete game. Erod also happens to be the only starter that put in more ST innings than the norm.
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While I have been rather plain about Mookie NOT being a $30M player, I just got out of the car, radio on, EEI coining Mookie as ......."Flukey Betts". Now I happen to think that is unfair. But there is blood in the water.
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Brian Johnson placed on IL with non baseball issue
jung replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Tough crowd! -
Doesn't matter. The point is still the same. How does that correlate with filling the most critical role and the most glaring deficiency in the pen with Nate? Answer: IT DOESN"T. Put him in the pen if you want to. That does not actually make him a Closer. If anything this would represent the same thing that has failed to date....Closer by committee. To say nothing of the question of when is Nate coming back? When can we expect this next EXPERIMENT to take shape assuming there is some truth to the rumor?
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All the evidence and even the PR out of the Sox organization suggests they have spent what they are going to spend. It would seem they could get SOMEBODY that could actually.... that has actually closed before without giving up too much. Pushing Eovaldi there is silly. Get a somewhat over the hill Closer and toss him back there. Would be better than anything they have tried so far or that they are gonna' try from within this current roster.
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Great....if we are going to start to "protect" guys this season and shove them into critical roles just because they are perceived as fragile just throw in the towel and sell. Any pitcher can break down at ANY time. Comes with the territory. Can't predict it and trying to manage it is sheer insanity.
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Sure, why not....set another guy up to fail. Is there ANY evidence that Nate can be a reliable closer of the course of a regular season or even half of it or is this another example of small sample size (see Brasier) and something they have not tried in 2019 yet?
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Henry not looking to add much payroll
jung replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
DD's contract is up in 2020. There is a rule of thought that you should never let somebody in DD's position work all the way through his contract year as a lame duck. But the answer is 2020.