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  1. User Name
    Less years/more money is definitely the way to go.
  2. User Name
    Best point you have made during your time on this site, and something some fans just refuse to understand.
  3. User Name
    His BABIP last year was .317, which is very much above league average, and that very much helped his BAA, and his xFIP, which accounts for home run issues, was 3.50 last year. I would also like to direct you to this article: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/wade-miley-who-is-better-than-you-think/
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    Good analysis. The Phillie situation is the exact reason i'm so leery of this long-term contracts now. More dollars/shorter term is the way to go imo.
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    Unless, as some argue, signing Lester was never their goal in the first place.
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    You mean like the Red Sox do with their high-upside arms who could make an impact out of the BP come the second half of the season? Well go figure.
  7. User Name
    And then people get mad when you call them out for making stuff up.
  8. User Name
    Miley had some luck issues and played behind a lackluster defense though. His K-rate and GB% were very good.
  9. User Name
    And Lackey, and McCarthy, and Masterson, and Samardzija.
  10. User Name
    So are you, good sir, so are you.
  11. User Name
    There is a clear methodology to the way this rotation was built. They've also given themselves the ability to add a pitcher at any given time if they're so inclined. It is what it is.
  12. User Name
    I meant mid-2015 actually. My bad.
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    See Kimmi, there's something you still don't understand about TalkSox.....so allow me to enlighten you: Almost everyone here has a schtick: I'm the really blunt guy with really good analytic skills, Spudboy is the resident old timer who's really nice, Palodios/SoxFanForSyth (on hiatus) are the eternal optimists, and iortiz is, well, the opposite of those two. He can find misery inside a puppy's bark. To each his own, i guess.
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    And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we are now as despised by many as Yankee fans are.
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    Owens has an ETA of mid-2-16, and they gotta find out what they have in Barnes and Johnsonn as SK said. You gotta try these guys out.
  16. User Name
    Asking for a lot there, big fella.
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    Anthony Castrovince on this very topic of discussion: http://m.mlb.com/news/article/107779450/anthony-castrovince-red-sox-dont-need-true-ace-to-succeed
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    You don't need to spend big bucks to build a decent pitching staff. Why is that so difficult to comprehend. Cost =/= effectiveness.
  19. User Name
    Great minds think alike.
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    Number 1 is fine, you are entitled to your opinion, number 2 is wrong. It's not that they're putting all their chips on offense, they're just betting from natural improvement from several young pitchers and the blossoming of some of their own pitching prosepcts. It's a risky strategy, but it has worked for other teams. You have lauded the TB FO several times for their approach to building a pitching staff, and this approach is very similar to what they have been doing for a number of years now. So do you, or don't you like the "go young and projectable" approach to building a pitching staff?
  21. User Name
    Then you haven't been closely following the Red Sox for the last 10 years, and you ignored a lot of what was posted at the beginning of the thread too.
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    I don't think some people quite understand the logic behind the way the Red Sox constructed the current rotation, even though it's actually quite simple. They went younger and more projectable while giving themselves the opportunity to add to the rotation at their price and their time. There's something to be said about upside and flexibility. I am firmly on the "they need an ace" camp, but that doesn't preclude me from looking at the bigger picture. The "do it now" mentality is not conductive to good business, and even more so in the current economic environment baseball is experiencing.
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    Actually no. Unlike most Dojji types, Coyle actually has the makings of a solid MLB regular, especially with the low offensive demands of a middle-infielder and his line-drive swing. The problem is that in the current scouting landscape, tools and projection have taken renewed significance, leaving behind production-based analytics even more so than before. However, the Dojji kiss of death is real, and i expect Coyle to be selling used cars for a living come 2017.
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    I'm not saying the two are comparable, but it's not unheard of that a catcher with a compact stroke improves on a yearly basis to a competent hitter: See Molina, Yadier.
  25. User Name
    That's because most prospect projections use the 20-80 scale as one of the main components of their reports, and Coyle doesn't grade particularly well on any of the tools evaluated by it.
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