Bellhorn04
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He needs some kids of star pitchers now.
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While Ben's been doing this, the MLB team has been in semi-tank mode: 2016 89-73 (Ben hired in Sept/16) 2017 76-86 2018 73-89 2019 67-95 We'll see if and when it all pays off.
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ALDS: Minnesota Twins vs New York Yankees
Bellhorn04 replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Other Baseball
Maybe it's a bullpen game. -
Yeah I guess so. But needless to say there's been a huge amount of buzz about him being traded.
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LOL yeah, Mookie's as good as gone now. Whether Mookie was on it or not on it would draw attention. If he was on it people would say 'does this mean they're keeping him for sure?' or 'if they're thinking about trading him why would they put him on it?' Just dumb s***.
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I believe you're thinking of the 'Verducci Effect', an analysis by Tom Verducci, but that was only in reference to young pitchers just starting out in the big leagues.
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Yuck.
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I don't disagree. But the relationship between the Boston media and the Red Sox has always been kind of a nasty one, with a lot of dirt-digging, going back to the days of Ted Williams.
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If DD got fired based on the 2019 results alone, that would be wrong and would make no sense. For me, trying to figure out exactly why he did get fired is just something to talk about here, something to pass the time. Seriously. There's nothing any of us can do about any of this stuff. I was a big fan of Epstein and Francona. They're gone. I'm a fan of Cora. He'll be gone someday too.
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ALDS: Minnesota Twins vs New York Yankees
Bellhorn04 replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Other Baseball
Brutal game LOL -
ALDS: Minnesota Twins vs New York Yankees
Bellhorn04 replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Other Baseball
Same here. -
Which is crazy, because it's a whole different team now. Can this team break the mold? We'll soon find out.
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But where is the info coming from, and how much of it is reading between the lines stuff? Furthermore what if it's just the plain truth?
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Yep, and you can remove the word 'likely', too.
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But he basically did nothing of any note after signing Eovaldi and Pearce very early on.
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More bad reporting. This guy makes it sound like a certainty that Sale, Price and Eovaldi got injured this year because of the spring program. But he fails to even mention the injury problems these three have had in the very recent past. And what sidelined Eovaldi this year was the identical 'loose bodies' issue he had last year. Very annoying.
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FIRE DANA LEVANGIE or say he's retiring NOW !!!!!
Bellhorn04 replied to Swiharts Ghost's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
We haven't got a new GM yet though. -
I don't know. Maybe we should stick to the current example of DD. I don't think he's being smeared.
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Generally speaking, nobody benefits more from digging dirt than the media.
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And it was rumored that Hohler's source on the chicken and beer stuff was Lucchino. Rumored, never confirmed.
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Yes, exactly my point. It's the Boston media and the fanbase who create these unholy, everlasting uproars, sometimes out of virtually nothing. ('Restgate' being just one more example.) So why does it gets characterized as the front office trashing guys?
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Where does all the trashing on the way out actually come from, though? Does it come from the organization or the Boston media? I haven't actually heard Henry or Werner say anything bad about DD. It was Shaughnessy who first talked about DD being isolated from the rest of the organization. It was Bob Hohler who wrote the chicken and beer article. Once the media reports something negative like this, it spreads throughout Red Sox Nation like wildfire.
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But IF Sale had a great 2019 that would not be the case. He would be looking at a lot more than he got. The enigma is the inability to diagnose his arm issues.
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Every GM in baseball signs multi-year deals with players who will only get older, though. That's part of the territory. Now with Cabrera, you're talking about signing a guy until he's older than Methuselah and with less bat speed.
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The Red Sox have had the highest payroll in both 2018 and 2019, and they will still have one of the highest payrolls next year even if they do cut it. Pretty hard for me to fault an ownership that has consistently had high payrolls since it bought the team, consistently signed players to big contracts.
