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    The Red Sox have the best offense in the Majors, an excellent top three in the rotation, and good defense. As of right now they're "very good" and could win most divisions in the Majors. Saying otherwise is laughable at best. Not saying they don't need to improve, specially to compete in the AL East. But come on. The glass CAN BE half full.
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    You guys read way too much into some of this stuff. It's like "loose change" but about a baseball team.
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    To a certain extent, there was a lot of luck involved in those two years as well. Do you think it's a coincidence that the two years they won were the two years their pitching staff stayed completely healthy? Had the pitching staff stayed healthy like 2004 last year, they would have certainly been in the UPPER HALF of the league in ERA. Some of that is on the player conditioning, and hopefully, it will change.
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    They're two separate points. 1) The teams with better pitching generally make the playoffs, meaning that the chances for a team with good pitching to reach the WS are higher than the other way around. It skews the sample size. That is not mutually exclusive to: 2) Any team that makes the playoffs (including those that lucked or hit their way in) have a chance to win given the nature of the beast. Only four of the last 12 teams to win the WS had the best ERA of the playoff teams that made the WS. That means that eight out of the last twelve playoffs teams with "good" or "so-so" staffs that got hot at the same time have won the series. The 2008 Phillies had a similar staff to the one the Red Sox had last year, but with better health. I don't "make the argument" for anyone. You guys interpret whatever you want. Different things.
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    Exactly. all you do is accuse and never back up anything. "Pompous ass". By the way, you seem to overstimate your intellect by a lot. You should learn some humility. Resorting to insults is the first sign of a weak argument. Troll.
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    Then i don't think you know what a strawman is.
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    That's because generally, teams with better pitching tend to make the playoffs. Correlation does not mean causation.
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    Playoffs are a crapshoot though. Cliche, but true.
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    2009 they were 7th in ERA (middling) made the Playoffs. 2010 they were 9th in ERA, but we all know the clusterf*** that season was. 2011 they also suffered several injuries. I am not using that as a copout (i mentioned other factors, like lack of discipline, for the decline), meaning this is a strawman (unsurprisingly). There is no denying that injuries were a huge part of the problems for the 2011 Red Sox, but part of that problem is self-inflicted dut to their poor conditioning. However, things like counting Matsuzaka out (who could provide league average innings) and calling a middling pitching staff even with all the injuries "sucking" is hyperbole.
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    Losing 2/5ths of your starting rotation for the season and having another one of them be historically bad is not exactly something you can prepare for. Unless you have unrealistic expectations. No need for (yet more) hyperbole here.
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    My depth chart, as it stands now: Silva Doubront (he was being groomed for LRP role) Tazawa Duckworth (Best name ever) Wilson Need more warm bodies.
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    What they "deserved"? Where do you come up with this stuff? A healthy Bucholz and the Red Sox make the playoffs, probably make a run and none of the ensuing marathon of hyperbole happens. By the way, the Red Sox have clubbed their way to the playoffs in previous years (they were 11th in ERA in 2005) yet people didn't come up with this kind of s***. Christ Almighty.
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    Seattle has shown no indication that they actually want to deal Felix. There's a difference between what they "should" do and what they "will" do. Trading for Felix is a daydream.
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    Chances are, Wilson will be a contributor to the BP in 2012, with guys like Silva and a couple other re-treads serving as rotation depth. Fling enough s*** at the wall.....
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    The Mariners aren't trading Felix. Let's focus on reality.
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    This team didn't underachieve last year because of a "lack of balance". They underachieved because they lacked discipline, a bit of pitching depth (mainly because of Wakefield), and because of the injury to Bucholz.
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    I'll be sure to call you out on that when the cap is broken. (And it will be broken).
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    They're at 176 mil (By several estimations). Pretty much anything they do from now on will put them over the cap. This was before the plethora of minor league signings.
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    He had a stress fracture. 9 out of 10 times those heal with little to no future impact. (On Bucholz)
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    Then how much do you think they overpaid? (keep in mind the figure isn't even set in stone yet) Even with his diminished market, setting Guerrero's contract as a benchmark, and comparing the production of the two, no way Ortiz wasn't going to get at least 10 mill, and the Sox may have spent around that replacing his production. In the end, they were going to end up busting the cap if they were serious in getting a #4 pitcher, with or without Ortiz.
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