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  1. Elktonnick
    Does he know' that is the question. If he doesn't then upper management has every right to find someone who does. Remember the reasons given for Francona dismissal, the players stopped listening to him. Henry clearly believes the talent is there. The questions are does the manager have the answers and have the players stopped listening to the manager. The manager put the team in this huge hole by screwing up ST and getting off to the horrendous start. One has to wonder if Henry has lost patience with his feckless manager.
  2. Elktonnick
    If you are the manager and you think that Henry isn't implicitly criticizing you by these remarks then you are being tone deaf and foolish. If after these remarks a manager fails to take remedial action then he deserves to be fired.
  3. Elktonnick
    This isn't about the trees but rather the forest. It isn't about individual performances. The team has been beset by lackluster team play. Too many hitters rolling over on pitches with less than two strikes. Too many called third strikes. Too many base running blunders. Too many defensive lapses and mental errors. Too many pitchers throwing non competitive pitches to hitters with two strikes resulting in too many base on balls. Too many hitters trying to hit home runs when a base hit would bring in a run. Not to mention silly days off to ballplayers who aren't tired or before an off day. Pitchers who don't have set roles etc. etc and so forth
  4. Elktonnick
    You may not be thinking he is threatening the Manager's job but I suspect the manager is. I know what I would be thinking if I were the manager " I better get this thing turned around if I want keep managing this ball club.
  5. Elktonnick
    The Manager has been projecting the image of Alfred E Neuman What Me Worry since opening day.
  6. Elktonnick
    I agree that it is directed at everyone. But, that being said, I think it puts the most pressure on the manager. In essence what Henry is actually saying is " I have given you the tools and the players if you can't get the most out of these guys I will find some one who will."
  7. Elktonnick
    Not to rude but it doesn't matter what your opinion is or for that matter mine. What matters is what is Henry's. I am merely interpreting Henry's remarks as it relates to the manager and to DD. The reason why I suspect the field manager is on thinner ice than DD is merely because Henry has a longer relation with the latter than the former and because I believe the manager not the VP for baseball OPs DD has the day to day responsibility for the team's on the field performance which based on the owner's words is clearly seen as wanting.
  8. Elktonnick
    It isn't a question of if he acted alone but rather if he was the leading advocate. If within the organization it was seen as primarily his idea or its leading proponent then he is stuck with the blame for its failure. Given how much he both advocated and defended the move then I would say he owns it and will be the one to primarily suffer the consequences for its failure. I find it more than curious that many NESN analysts such as Remy, Eckersley and others have politely panned it. I suspect they wouldn't have said a word if the idea had been thoroughly embraced at the Henry or Werner level of the organization. I suspect the latter two approved it because coming off the title they had little reason to doubt the manager's judgment until its error was demonstrated by subsequent events. For this reason, I suspect that the manager has lost a lot of credibility with ownership, hence Henry's subtle warning.
  9. Elktonnick
    That's my take as well. If the Sox fail to make the playoffs I believe the Manager will be on very thin ice. He may not get fired but he will be on a very very short leash come 2020.
  10. Elktonnick
    Can't argue with all of the above.
  11. Elktonnick
    They are better than the way they have been managed. No one wants to admit it but the pen is burnt out. They were over worked from opening day. The reason they were over worked early in the season was because the starters weren't stretched out and could not go long in games. The reason the starters weren't stretched out early in the year was because the Manager did not have them start ST games until very late in ST.
  12. Elktonnick
    Disagree. He has screwed his pitching staff up since the season began. No team manager with this many blown saves can credibly be cited with managing pitchers the way every other manager does.
  13. Elktonnick
    The manager has stuck to an over reliance on a very rigid approach to managing his pitching staff both starters and relievers. It's as if events on field have no importance to how many pitches a particular reliever throws. It all goes back to his philosophy of not chasing regular season wins.
  14. Elktonnick
    I agree 100%
  15. Elktonnick
    The entire pitching staff, in general with few exceptions, has lost confidence in themselves. Major changes are needed not only in personnel but also philosophy. DD et al needs to do a rethink on their approach towards pitching and the development of pitchers. This club has not developed a major league pitcher in more than a dozen years.
  16. Elktonnick
    Red Sox pen chalks up another blown save.
  17. Elktonnick
    LOL, I remember the first time a drove through a British "roundabout". I seem to remember as one of my more frightening experiences. I am sure the Brits on the road that day felt the same way.
  18. Elktonnick
    The whole point of relief pitching is not to make the situation worse. When a pitcher such as Matt Barnes has more blown saves than saves he isn't underachieving but failing. That not to say Barnes doesn't have a role but not the one he has been given. The rap on Dombrowski long before he came to Boston has always been his inability to construct or build a bullpen. His performance this year has done nothing to change that.
  19. Elktonnick
    I believe Dennis Eckersley who knows a thing or two about pitching when he says the pen has been overworked.
  20. Elktonnick
    It isn't the nbr innings per se but rather the intensity and stress of those innings. Anyone who has watched this team throughout the year knows these have for the most part been high stress innings as the nbr of blown saves would attest.
  21. Elktonnick
    You don't build a strong house on a weak foundation. The foundation was weak from the outset when the manager decided not to properly get his starters ready for the season during spring training. DD may not have improved the bull pen but as you quite rightly point out this is the same club as last year. The manager screwed up at the outset and it caught up to him. The team is listless and plays brain dead baseball repeatedly. Except for isolated exceptions against very weak teams they haven't looked or played sharply for any consistent period. The bullpen has been over used and it shows but overall it merely reflects the performance of the entire team as a whole. And this is on the manager as much as anyone.
  22. Elktonnick
    This was the same point Dennis Eckersley and Jerry Remy made yesterday. The manager has overworked these guys. Not to repeat myself but this all stems back to the manager's ill advised spring training regime. During the first weeks of the season many said that his over use of the pen because of his starters being collectively ill prepared would have repercussions later. And that is exactly what has happened
  23. Elktonnick
    I certainly agree with the comment that Barnes gets rattled. As Yogi Berra famously put it "Ninety percent of this game is half mental" When he does it goes rather quickly.
  24. Elktonnick
    While there are many things to complain about, Red Sox ownership and how they spend their money isn't one of them. I recently saw a survey which rated John Henry as currently the best owner in MLB ( and possibly in all of professional sports, just look what he has done for Liverpool in the Premier League) Besides winning four championships Henry and his partners literally saved Fenway Park. Their stewardship of the red sox has also directly and or indirectly led to the revitalization of professional baseball through New England. I may complain about some of their individual decisions and some of their hires but overall one has to salute what Henry and Co have accomplished since they assumed control of the Red Sox.
  25. Elktonnick
    I do think you are correct and it has been the club's problem since Spring Training.
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