Jump to content
Talk Sox
  • Create Account

User Name

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    18,192

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Profiles

Boston Red Sox Videos

2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking

Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker

News

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by User Name

  1. User Name
    That's what won it all for the Red Sox on 2013.
  2. User Name
    You are trying to apply logic where logic need not apply.
  3. User Name
    What the hell are you even talking about? You're the first person to s*** on non-prospects(and even some legitimate ones) regardless of how well they do on a given year. I understand CP's enthusiasm for the kid (though I don't share it) but you're just being a hypocrite and a baiting douchebag. Cut that s*** out.
  4. User Name
    Line drive percent is a good one, as well as hard% (percentage of balls that were classified as hit hard off the bat). Both available on fangraphs.
  5. User Name
    While this is the truth, the coaching staff's futility was identifiable early and should have been corrected more aggressively imo.
  6. User Name
    Actually, it's a bit more complicated, and it depends on whether it's a player or club option: From Eric Seidman at Fangraphs.
  7. User Name
    Option years are factored into AAV. Remember the 2010 Beltre contract.
  8. User Name
    Not fascinated, but he'd be an upgrade at a reasonable price. He's also good at inducing ground balls and striking people out. Integral traits for a lefty pitching at Fenway.
  9. User Name
    AAV, options included.
  10. User Name
    That'd be digging a hole to cover another hole.
  11. User Name
    Kelly could be a shot in the arm for this BP.
  12. User Name
    They have Napoli, Victorino and Masterson coming off the books.
  13. User Name
    Do you know how many times Beane has said he won't trade someone, only to turn around and trade them? He just did a couple months ago with Donaldson!
  14. User Name
    Kazmir and Cueto. And they have the pieces to do it and the money to keep them both.
  15. User Name
    I'm actually turning the big 3-0. So my time of acting like a know-it-all is almost at an end.
  16. User Name
    Damn it let me express myself.
  17. User Name
    Bitch it's my birthday (well, in a couple hours) so I'll lecture you if I want to. I'd add that the "downfall" of Ortiz may be a premature statement. He's a notoriously slow starter. Sure has come around lately though.
  18. User Name
    They were expecting Bogaerts to improve, and they were on point with that. They expected Sandoval to keep being the above-average fielder he's always been, and they were dead wrong on that asessment. How Napoli and Pedroia also regressed defensively was unexpected, as was both catchers getting injured. Hanley has little to do with the GB staff they supposedly had assembled, and Hanley plays left. Hindsight is 20/20 as well.
  19. User Name
    Learn to separate the strategy from the execution: If the strategy is to sign guys who induce a lot of groundballs and surround them with a good defense and reinforce them with an above average offense, the 2005 White Sox won it all using that strategy. The strategy is sound, the pitchers they got to execute that strategy were not. One easy thing they could have done to avoid being where they are right now was shore up the pitching depth and they did not.
  20. User Name
    Fair enough.
  21. User Name
    This brings us full circle: The strategy was good, (if you think it wasn't, sit down and take a look at the Pirates' peripherals) the execution wasn't. And you're dead wrong when you say "it just ended up that way". It was reported several times that that was the specific type of pitcher they were looking for. In fact, the rationale from "insiders" for the Sox skipping out on Shields entirely was his pedestrian GB rate and propensity to work high in the strike zone.
  22. User Name
    Hamels is a f***ing terrible idea. Not surprised an idiot like Reynolds is pining for it.
  23. User Name
    The actual strategy flew right over your head if this is your take though. The idea was to build a rotation of guys who could effectively utilize the now-lowered strikezone to their advantage, by showing good-to-great groundball tendencies. Getting elite-level defensive catchers was just the icing on the cake. The fact that they were going to be mediocre was our asessment, not the FO's if you ask me.
  24. User Name
    I said that because he's expecting such a conclusion from iortiz. He's one of the guys who is never happy no matter what.
  25. User Name
    Teams like Oakland, the Rays and St. Louis seem to have a better SABR/scout/behavioral analysis blend than the Red Sox do. You may be on to something here.
×
×
  • Create New...