Elktonnick
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Actually it is more of functioning of positioning
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I love how you cherry pick your stats. Kike was 18th among centerfielders in 2022 which is mediocre in my book. https://fieldingbible.com/DRSLeaderboard. His total runs saved was 4. I guess it was because of his outstanding play in centerfield in 22 that Bloom moved him to SS.
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Yup
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This team will score runs but defensively they are the weakest Sox team in years. Barring significant acquisitions we will see catchable fly balls become singles, singles doubles, and doubles triples. The infield has Arroyo who likely will spend significant time on the IL and Kike Hernandez who is a better Centerfielder than SS and he was mediocre centerfielder.. The rotation is still injury prone and Sale will likely spend considerable time once again on the IL and the bullpen still is questionable to down right sucks. Their closer Jansen has a heart condition who left a ST game because of dehydration when the air temp was only 74. After watching their ST games I came to the conclusion this team is worse than the 2022 edition and will likely win 78 to 80 games only because they are playing a weaker schedule.
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I do not think it would be extraordinary for the Phillies or any other professional sports team to get a readout from DOD on its intentions regarding whether a particular player would be allowed to leave active service to resume their professional career. I base this on my time as a congressional liaison at State and my two years service in OSD in the Pentagon albeit 30 years ago.
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Red you need to remember that Bell hop is just a bookeeper. He just puts in little columns the results of others work. He is incapable of original thought. He is Moons acolyte. Moon on the other hand just repeats numbers without any meanigful insight. Bell the bookeeper finds the numbers enthralling. Moon has posted nesrly 60000 times. It is obvious that he has no meaningful life outside of this board. They are both truly pathetic souls. Feel sorry for them and their symbiotic relationship
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I can see that getting the last word is so important to you that you are prepared to make an ass of yourself. So go ahead I won't play anymore. So take your blinky and go night night
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See above
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now you are repeating yourself. best stick to your endless stats.
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Two in row. And only two words. Good Job!
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Great retort. Did you think of that yourself or did you research it.
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Edward Bennett Williams was Larry's mentor
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What mistake Scarecrow?
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You cited none. I admit I made a mistake when I called you Sancho Panza. Sancho Panza in Don Quixote is the rational squire to the deluded Quixote who goes charging at windmills. You are more like Quixote than Quixote himself. I hope there are no windmills where you live. You may get hurt.
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You are a day late and a dollar short as usual Skippy. The original issue was about hiring an experienced GM or a fresh face and Theo was cited as the fresh face. The rest is just your acolyte being very Un- Canadian.
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The truth is Lucchinio mentored Epstein from the beginning. Lucchinio hired Epstein as interim GM. Lucchino was club president. When Lucchino hired Epstein he was not some unknown fresh face. He was brought from San Diego by his mentor Lucchino.Those are undisputed facts The rest of what you post is open to your interpretation but does not change the basic fact that Lucchino was Epstein boss in his early days as interim GM with all that entails.
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Now you refuse to accept the word of a baseball writer who was voted the highest award for baseball writing. Your logic is becoming more twisted than a pretzel.
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Because I will let no attack which impugns my integrity go unchallenged chew on this Sancho: In his column, Shaughnessy, who'd known Lucchino since the 1980s, when both men worked in Baltimore, chided Epstein for not properly respecting his superiors. After all, Shaughnessy wrote, it was Lucchino who'd "discovered" Epstein and "held his hand" during his first years in baseball. Now, Shaughnessy wrote, Epstein was exhibiting an "alarming . . . need to distance himself from those who helped him rise to his position of power." Epstein, according to Shaughnessy, didn't even know all that much about baseball. "It's a mistake to say [Epstein] knows more about baseball than Lucchino or anyone else in the Red Sox baseball operation," he wrote. Excerpted from Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top, to be published Tuesday by Simon & Schuster. Copyright © 2006 by Seth Mnookin. Send e-mails to magazine@globe.com. © Copyright 2006 Globe Newspaper Company.
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Do your own research. Lucchino hired Epstein as interim GM. Larry was President. No corporate president gives an interim GM unilateral authority.
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What is nonsense is that you do not know Epstein',s history with Lucchino or John Henry's relationship with both.
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Do the research it is well documented
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It is gibberish because you are too obtuse to get the point that John Henry never gave Epstein full authority over baseball operations. Epstein was Lucchino"s protege who according John Henry was the person who ran the Red Sox. Every thing that Epstein did in those early years was approved by Lucchino. In short Epstein learned baseball operations from Larry Lucchino.
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No it is just making the point to show how ludicrous your argument was. Who actually ran the Red Sox during Theo's time, according to John Henry.
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That's Bloom's plan.