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    Besides Stuart we have Don Buddin: "Though team owner Tom Yawkey paid an estimated $50,000 bonus to sign Buddin out of high school, believing he “could become one of the top ballplayers of his time,” Buddin was one of the least surehanded shortstops ever. In Boston, he averaged 30 errors a year, despite only playing an average of 126 games a year. Two years after Buddin left the Sox, the Sox acquired Dick Stuart, the stone-handed former Pirate who first earned the nickname “Dr. Strangeglove.” But Buddin deserved the nickname more than Stuart ever did; Stuart didn’t make 30 errors in a season even once. Still, Buddin had no shortage of dubious nicknames, including “Bootsie,” “Bootin’ Buddin,” and “E-6.”"
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    If you had explained it that way I wouldn't have made my overheated comment. I agree with you in the sense that with the advent of Sabermetrics, I think they are fixated on OBP and doubles. In a sense, they really don't want Ellsbury swinging for the fences and hitting home runs. Fenway isn't the homer dome it used to be. IMO Raising the pressbox changed the wind dynamics. So the wind blowing out doesn't have the same effect as it had years ago although I haven't checked the data.
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    Why was A-Gon signed? Because his swing favored using the wall among other things. Other than that If you check Red Sox history the majority of Red Sox great hitters were left handed. The Red Sox have been signing left handed hitters since the park was built. It is not something new with this ownership. What you said about Ted refusing to hit the opposite field while true is a bit over stated. He also said you can't tearn to pull until you learn to go the other way. The reason he didn't go the other way is he didn't need to. If he had, as Cobb and Hornsby advised him to, he'd probably hit 400 more than once. Ted was the most stubborn man. He didn't go the other way because he didn't want to not because he couldfn't, unlike some of today's hitters. I saw Williams play countless times. You have never seen his equal.
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    I agree. Iggy at 235 is fine by me, especially on this team. I suspect that Aviles will end up playing a lot of 3rd base. Call it a hunch but Youklis won't play 100 games this year. My dark house position player is Spears. The only position he can't play is catcher. I'd love see him with the big club. I am not sold on Punto, nor Sweeney for that matter.
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    You know I remember the hot dog game!
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    Did you ever make a typo. Plus I find your use of the f word quite perverse.
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    Got to be the wackiest Red Sox character (in a nice way) since Oil Can Boyd
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    Simple to anyone of my generation, either Dick (Dr Strangeglove) Stuart or Don Buddin. Both for their level of incompetence with a glove that bordered on the hilarious. They were so bad they were actually fun to watch in that perserve sort of way that marked Red Sox fans of the late fifties and early sixties.
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    Got to love a sinker ball pitcher though
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    I vote for Doubront and Cook ( once he is stretched enough) They can go with 4 starters for the ffirst time tthrough the rotation barring injuries because of days off. Bard and Aceves may have desereved an opportunity to prove they cans start but neither has sealed the deal. Quite frankly, I am more woprried now about the bull pen since Melancon hasn't shown anything.
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    "Bard looked pretty good today in a park that is hard to look good in for a pitcher." You've got to be kidding, right!
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    Agreed.
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    BV wasn't at the game at Jet Blue I assume he was at Dubront's game
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    I hate to say it because I like Aceves but today was his worst performance ever in a Red Sox uniform. He was all over the place. Remy noticed it right off he wasn't on top of his pitches at the point of release. As they say he was pitching up hill and as a result everything was hit hard.
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    Aceves is making a great case for Bard being a starter.
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    Both Aceves and Dubront pitching today. Aceves in the first two innings hasn't helped his cause as a starter. Two runs in the first and back to back homers and a hit batter in the second.
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    Yes Bard retired his last eight in a row as I recall. He pitched wel although he threw way too many fastballs which he couldn't do an entire year.l. Now let's see him do it again and again. If he does it a couple times more and holds down the walks he gets the job. Assuming Aceves doesn't pitch better. That last outing was the only time he has done it though.
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    He wasn't "dicked" around for no apparent reason. The reasons were there for us all to see. He walks too many guys; he has only two established pitches. A starter won't last long just with a 100 mph fastball if that's all he throws. A starter has to go two and three times through an order to be effective. Bard has yet to prove he can do that.
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    I agree with McAdam. I always have. That's why it isn't about BV it what is good for the team. It comes down to Aceves and Bard it always has. If Melancon were more effective it would make it more likely that Bard would be a starter. But the more ineffective Melancon is thought to be the more likely Bard returns to the pen. The only other joker in the deck is they probably don't need to make the final decision on Bard's fate until he gets one or two starts during the regular season.
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    This really isn't about BV. It is about Bard. If BV weren't the manager and it were Gene Lumont the issues with Bard, Aceves and Dubront would still be the same. Who are the 4th and 5th starters. Bard still would be less qualified for the role objectively speaking than Aceves and marginally so than Dubront. He would be still be better qualified than Melancon for the setup role and still not have the mental toughness to close. If Bard wants to start he has to earn it, He hasn't done it yet. The manager stating that obvious truth doesn't change anything. That isn't being unfair to Bard it is just being honest and what anyone who has watched Bard pitch can see for themselves.
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