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    100% agree with this.
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    This is really offensive too, even if it was unintentional. What the hell is wrong with all of you?
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    ^This post is a good example of pure, unmitigated douche. Stop it with the "sugarcoaters" s***. It's an insult. Aren't you always saying you don't make things personal? That's an example of making it personal. Just stop.
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    Cherington hasn't been on the job for two months, he inherited a fractured organization, and people are already s***ing on the guy. Unbelievable.
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    If he's gone, why do you people keep whining about him? Move on.
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    So Lackey and his agent are going to give up an extra year of control to the Sox for the league minimum just for a publicity stunt? Solid reasoning there.
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    Hiroki Kuroda. Ironically, he came over to the US with little to no hype.
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    So let me get this straight. The renewed interest in Valentine is not because their top target, Dale Sveum, spurned them to go to the Cubs, but rather a super-secret plan that involved two separate manager searches? Ok.
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    So what? This year they had to deal with a departing GM, a media shitstorm and negotiations regarding the old GM leaving. Anyone with an inch of common sense knew from the get-go that this was going to be a long off-season. After the collapse, they were going to take their time making the necessary changes. We, as fans, don't know how the internal processes works, so there's no use bitching about them and pretending like the team is incapable of doing a couple things at the same time. In the end, players will go where the money is, so not having a manager is a non-issue. And it's still November. We haven't even gotten to the Winter Meetings.
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    But he is pitching out of the #4 spot in the rotation. That's reality. I don't appreciate your condescending attitude by the way. Let's just agree to disagree here.
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    That's because of Francona. Usually managers will move a struggling pitcher down to a rotation spot where they will pitch less innings, but Francona refused to do that with Lackey, and that's why he pitched so many innings.
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    What in the heavens are you talking about? It's not about their performance, but the spot they hold in the rotation. And as much as he sucked, by position, Lackey was the #4 or #3 pitcher in the rotation most of last year. He was never #5.Blame Francona for that.
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    Career 2.62 to 4.18 reliever/starter.
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    If you go to BB-Reference.com, they list Niemann for the Rays (135 IP) and Garcia for the Yanks, (146 IP) as their #5 starters, because that's the rotation spot they held.
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    It's not about ERA, it's about the rotation spots set by the manager. Where did you come up with this?
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    You're using ERA to determine their standing as a starter. That is disingenuous. Just look at the Rays and Yankees, where Price and Burnett were actually their ace and #4 respectively. In "real life" the rotation spot a pitcher starts the year with is usually the one he holds throughout the season, with specific exceptions.
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    You showed the facts from one team with an inordinate amount of injuries. That is the exception, not the rule. And even in those cases, the #5 starter effectively moves up a rung, becoming the #4 while his replacement becomes the #5. This, of course, all in a "realistic, non theoretical" setting.
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    He hasn't even been posted yet, and by all accounts may not be. Wait and see, we must.
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    Barring several injuries, the #5 starter in a team will start less games and pitch less innings than the rest of the rotation, because they will skip him on off-days, and generally avoid him as much as possible, since he is supposed to be the weak link of the rotation. This is common knowledge.
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    The Globe guys know just about the same amount of stuff we know about the process, which is nothing.
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