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  1. User Name
    He's wrong, and so are you. By your definition of "experiment", Papelbon to the Phillies was also an experiment. I want you to think about that for a second.
  2. User Name
    Hanrahan had one good year as a closer, Bailey had hit the DL twice every year since his rookie year. Your point is dead wrong.
  3. User Name
    I don't quite think you understand that Papelbon is good, but not one-of-a-kind. I get it, you like him, but come on.
  4. User Name
    By "adjustment" i mean that his numbers suffered initially. And iirc, the injury he suffered in 2011 was something regarding theTJ itself.
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    Believe it or not, i was. He was coming off TJ surgery, which typically has players coming back throwing harder and with similar effectiveness to what they exhibited before the surgery. There's usually an adjustment period after TJ, as seen with many other pitchers who return from said surgery. The Rangers thought he'd get back to the level he was prior to the surgery, and they were right.
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    Soriano opted out of his contract and was a free agent before this season.They had just purged all of the big contracts and shelled 7 million PLUS players for Hanrahan. Why couldn't they have afforded Soriano again? And Nathan had proven he was healthy after TJ, which is a procedure guys go through all the time these days. There's really no excuse.
  7. User Name
    No they would not have been. Bailey/Hanrahan were experiments. Let's be realistic here. And Bailey still has the chance of working out if he can hold up over the rest of the season. An experiment is an unknown quantity, Nathan/Soriano are capable closers.
  8. User Name
    What is experimental mode? There were clear choices they could have gone for. That is the key to the argument. They could have signed Nathan and be done with it. Could have signed Soriano and be done with it. Both could have adequately replaced Papelbon for a fraction of the money. No experimentation there.
  9. User Name
    Bitch, you just jealous of my spanish-speaking swagger.
  10. User Name
    You don't need to compare him with other closers. What you need is a competent closer who can perform at a high level without a long-term, super expensive commitment because those carry an amount of risk that no team, and especially the Sox, should be willing to take. Again, we're not reinventing the wheel here.
  11. User Name
    Also, time to bring back prediction mojo: 7-2 Red Sox. 2 run-homer from WMB.
  12. User Name
    This is the problem you (and many others) have with player evaluation. What he DID is not what's important. What's important is what a player's projected TO DO over the life of a contract. I couldn't care less about the past. All they need is an effective closer. It's that simple.
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    None of us do, but the writing is on the wall. He said himself he never gave the Sox a chance to counter-offer.
  14. User Name
    Yeah you do. Lots of teams let go of expensive closers and find adequate replacements all the time. As much as you try to make Papelbon some irreplaceable figure, he isn't. This is squarely on the Red Sox' inability to identify a suitable replacement when they see it. Again, Joe Nathan and Rafael Soriano were available in back-to-back off-seasons. They are both proven, effective, and cheaper, on shorter contracts.
  15. User Name
    Webster can become an adequate 5th starter IMO, implosion aside. We'll see.
  16. User Name
    You only need one.
  17. User Name
    Dude, most closers are former 8th inning guys who earn the closer role: Mariano set up for Wetteland. Andrew Bailey was a set-up man. Joe Nathan was a set-up man. Jim Johnsonn was a set-up man. K-Rod was a set-up man. Sergio Romo (who makes next to nothing and is extremely effective) was a set-up man. A closer is a reliever who can get outs in pressure situations. There's no reinventing the wheel here.
  18. User Name
    Current closers the Red Sox had a the possibility of acquiring after Papelbon departed: Joe Nathan Rafael Betancourt Rafael Soriano Casey Janssen Andrew Bailey Joel Hanrahan Among those, they chose the fat one and the injury-prone one. There are some others that probably escape me, but Jesus, the Papelbon whining is reaching critical mass. The contract is still stupid, and they could have replaced him adequately, but didn't. There's also the fact that, by all accounts, Papelbon did not want to come back after the 2011 debacle. He didn't even give the Red Sox a chance to make an offer. That's one thing that fans refuse to accept. Players are human beings, not robots, and they get to choose where they will play.
  19. User Name
    No no, we need the Papelbon discussion. That way we can have a scapegoat for every time they lose. It helps us forget some of the bigger issues, like Catcher or the futility of 3B.
  20. User Name
    Some people will never understand this: A closer is a guy who can get outs in pressure situations. Not a mythical creature, like a unicorn. And for the record, Bailey will come back after the minimum 15 days. A lot of the whining will stop if he can hold up reasonably the rest of the seaosn,.
  21. User Name
    Cheap? They're paying Hanrahan 7 mill. The problem wasn't letting go of Papelbon. He is not a mythical figure that they were not going to be able to replace. The problem wasn't getting an adequated replacement. They have had chances. I remember many here calling for Joe Nathan, who has had a renaissance with the Rangers in a tougher stadium. Let's not pretend that "Paps" is impossible to replace, and that contract is still, (and time will show it ) an albatross. Let's acknowledge, however, their utter futility when it comes to getting an adequate replacement. The funny thing is that they may have the replacement in-house and may not even know it.
  22. User Name
    This GT is awesome. Victory is assured.
  23. User Name
    Blue Jays lose on a walk-off walk in extra innings. Pretty much sums up their entire season.
  24. User Name
    That explains a lot actually.
  25. User Name
    The last two innings of this game are an indication of what their offensive approach should be all the time.
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