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  1. User Name
    Right, because that 2.54 ERA, 223 IP CY season he had with Cleveland before being traded to Philly is not an ace season.
  2. User Name
    Lee's numbers are inflated because of a couple of starts when he was still s***** with Cleveland though.
  3. User Name
    Actually, you'd be correct. There have been a couple of seasons in the close past where the Red Sox have destroyed the top and bottom tier pitchers in the league, but struggled against the average ones, because f*** logic.
  4. User Name
    No no. I'm merely talking about the first thing that comes to mind when you think about Lee. That's the last time he pitched against the Sox (iirc) and he didn't fare well at all.
  5. User Name
    Aaaaand reverse lock. Well done.
  6. User Name
    That's exactly the problem. It's easy to remember when they get dominated by Jurjjens and his 89-MPH FB because "Wtf why aren't they hitting this bum?". It's harder to remember when they beat the s*** out of Tyler Cloyd because "Yeah hammering the s*** out of this bum is exactly what they should have done". The reverse applies to good pitching. I see BTR posting about how we handled Lee once last year even though he has historically stuck it to the Sox so bad that Red Sox teams from the 30's can feel it.
  7. User Name
    You know we actually had a pretty interesting discussion about this today. This is mostly a myth.
  8. User Name
    That pitch was a lot of things, but a strike it was not.
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    http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee24/MaxVest/backpedal.jpg The funniest thing is the smug attitude after being proven wrong. Good stuff. You keep making unsupported assumptions, they are proven wrong, you get mad and go off on a tangent, saying you didn't say what you clearly said. Rinse, repeat.
  10. User Name
    There is a point to be made: It's a complete reversal from the s***-show that was 2012. At least thus far.
  11. User Name
    You do know that's the plot for the whole game, so those are outs for lefties AND righties?
  12. User Name
    Walter Johnsonn, Red Ruffing and Orel Hershiser all did it.
  13. User Name
    Certainly, but in the meantime, it would cost the Red Sox near league minimum to find out about WMB, and around 15 million per (plus prospects) to do so with Headley.
  14. User Name
    ...but would probably have a more significant impact than trading WMB for Headley. The problem with trading this type of young guy without giving him a chance is that next thing you know, you traded the better player for the lesser one. Headley had gone mostly unnoticed until his monster 2012. Is that really sustainable? This is a guy whose HR/FB jumped from four to twenty one percent. I wouldn't bet WMB and a prospect on a possible fluke, but that's just me.
  15. User Name
    Over the past two seasons, the Red Sox have hit "finesse" pitchers (as defined by BB-REF) almost a hundred OPS points higher than "power" pitchers (.797 to .707 OPS). While the stat uses strikeouts and baseballs to help index pitcher "type", there is a significant correlation between fastball velocity and K/BB ratio. In other words, the stats show two things: The Sox generally kill junkballers, and jung is wrong.
  16. User Name
    Too many scattered points, so i'll reply to the one that interests me. On Jurjjens: http://www.brooksbaseball.net/pfxVB/numlocation.php?pitchSel=457453&game=gid_2012_06_22_atlmlb_bosmlb_1/&batterX=&innings=yyyyyyyyy&sp_type=1&s_type= Plot shows he was hitting the entire strike zone consistently. Where are you coming up with this?
  17. User Name
    The point is that you keep making incorrect assumptions. That's not the point you initially made. You refused to give Felix credit because hitters were helping him out. You were wrong. That's that.
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    You know what team has a lot of good players, but few great ones? The San Francisco Giants. What could push this team over the edge is another reliable starting pitcher. Third base is not enough of a hole to justify sacrificing big money (if Headley's going to be re-signed) and prospects.
  19. User Name
    That happens because they throw mistake pitches. The bomb Dunn hit off Lester was probably the worst pitch he's thrown this season. What they need to do is keep Howard off the bleachers by pitching him low and outside. Of course, that means Aceves is going to feed him fastballs up and over the plate so he can launch a couple of 'em.
  20. User Name
    This is the type of mindset that got the Sox into the mess that forced them to pursue the big trade, mind you. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. The amount of money matters.
  21. User Name
    Ryan Howard has a .719 OPS. He's hitting righties at .737 and has a sub .300 OBP overall. Why pitch around him?
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    http://www.brooksbaseball.net/pfxVB/location.php?pitchSel=467094&game=gid_2013_05_26_clemlb_bosmlb_1/&batterX=&innings=yyyyyyyyy&sp_type=1&s_type= Here is Doubront's strike zone plot from yesterday. jung kept going on and on about how hitters "really helped him out" yesterday, yet the plot clearly shows hitters barely swinging at pitches out of the zone.
  23. User Name
    And for the record, that monster season Jurjjens had (2011) after first coming back from injury, was posted with a FB velocity that averaged under 90 MPH.
  24. User Name
    Jurjjens pitched that game against the Sox in June of last year. How does that have any bearing on an analysis of the current edition of the team? Also, i remember watching that game, and he had spot-on command that night, and a pretty generous umpire. That's a recipe for success no matter how much of a "junkballer" you are.
  25. User Name
    Boo-yah! CC sucks, he'll never be the same, loss column.
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