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  1. User Name
    So the Red Sox didn't sign Hanley Ramirez to play LF?
  2. User Name
    All-world control, bulldog mentality, lots of innings, excellent results despite average velocity, success against the AL. If he's healthy, even 80% of his career averages would be a huge boon to this team.
  3. User Name
    I was about to ask the same thing.
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    All of those are likely. You're also not alone in the "JBJ has a very real chance to bounce back" camp.
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    That's what makes Lee so appealing IMO. If he's healthy, he's likely to be better than Hamels, who's gotten his ass kicked by the AL, as well.
  6. User Name
    I see a700 desperately needs some Midol.
  7. User Name
    Trying to discuss civility, objectivity and logic with a700/iortiz is like trying to fit a commercial airplane into a bucket.
  8. User Name
    You're word-playing to mask the fact that you were wrong. He wasn't "barely below average", he was below average, full stop.
  9. User Name
    Do you even know what that means? No one in this board is objective.
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    It doesn't hurt the credibility of the stat itself, and i will explain why. WAR is a statistic that is based on past performance. When importing data from another league, there is a significant margin for error which the creator/applicator of the stat freely acknowledges. In this case, it is merely an attempt to project what a player might do, so they can set a benchmark approaching how teams as a whole could do, besides rating possible individual performances. This is not the regular use of the stat, and should not be considered so, but it's the best thing we've got when trying to even ballpark what Castillo might do.
  11. User Name
    I like Lee better than Hamels.
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    A very important component of WAR is playing time, which is the main reason Betts would get the nod over Pedroia, in conjunction with Pedroia's power drop-off. I am not a big fan of Castillo and think that trying to import his SSS from last year or his Cuban numbers is a fool's errand. In the end, they are merely projections. They use reasonably recent stats to predict future performance, which hurts Pedroia as well, but don't justify Castillo's sky-high rates.
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    As a side note, i made my displeasure with the Sandoval signing widely known. The difference here is that they just might still get a pitcher during ST or during the season. Personally, if Cliff Lee shows he's healthy, i think they should be all over that.
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    Is Fred inside other people's heads? The fact that some of us don't continually whine about the Sox not getting a #1 pitcher does not mean we are content with the current starting rotation. The problem is that whining over and over about the same thing doesn't do anyone any good. Why not spend that time analyzing the current team and going over possible trade scenarios for the team? This is a Red Sox/baseball message board, not an outlet for personal complaints and childish shows of entitlement. They have Yankees-related message boards for that.
  15. User Name
    He was the one who said 2013 was a "stars aligning" scenario and refused to acknowledge that it was in any ways, shape or form helped by the team construction strategy. Unbelievable.
  16. User Name
    Sox offense ranked as the best offense in the Majors by Anthony Castrovince for what it's worth.
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    You are trying to apply logic where logic need not apply. It's easier to be miserable about the team and then claim you were right if they flounder, because you warned us and now it's your right to go nuclear on everyone or right if they succeed because "stars aligned" or some other inane pre-fabricated explanation.
  18. User Name
    Tug Hulett, and lol.
  19. User Name
    Yeah but Dojji was hyping Napoli as a catcher, and that was everyone's big problem with the idea.
  20. User Name
    So they couldn't? Are you for real?
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    By that logic, giving the consensus best pitcher on the planet that huge extension was a huge mistake for the Dodgers, since Kershaw has terrible postseason numbers. And don't even get me started on David Price, who's not going to get a huge contract next off-season since the importance of post-season sample is equal to, or can even trump, entire bodies of work. You're arguing for something that doesn't make sense Dojji.
  22. User Name
    I'm just messing with you man. Write up your obscure prospects as much as you want. Besides, Daniel Nava was a huge win for you, based exactly on the type of evaluation you're professing in the thread.
  23. User Name
    Don't make me give you a list of "Dojji-type" prospects. That's not a record you want to evaluate here, my friend.
  24. User Name
    That's not my opinion though. It is an identifiable trend, and a fact. Whether you or I disagree with it has no impact on whether or not this is how the industry is currently functioning.
  25. User Name
    His 1.16 HR/9 away from the friendly confines of Kaufman (sp?) stadium begs to disagree. His K rate has also lowered (albeit slightly) for three years running, which can be viewed as a trend, with 2014 also being lower than his career average. The postseason flop may have helped, but executives aren't dumb enough to fall for the SSS trap when they have a much larger body of work to analyze when making a decision.
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