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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.
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We'll never know all the exact reasons. I suspect it was a combo of all the ones we're discussing.
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Like it or not, the work of a GM tends to get judged in hindsight. And in hindsight, DD did a pretty poor job this year. He signed Eovaldi and Pearce and that was basically it. He did next to nothing about starting pitching depth or the bullpen. And he put us in a position where the late season 'additions' to the lineup were Gorkys and Owings. I suspect that Henry was comparing this to what Cashman did, which was to provide incredible depth to a team that was decimated by injuries but still ran away with the division.
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Mark Melancon still doesn't like the bright lights.
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No upsets for you! (I saw your NL picks as well.)
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I thought you'd like to have the whole trifecta.
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I just can't see Cora being fired this offseason. The Red Sox have enough tumult going as it is. DD didn't replace Farrell when he took over - Farrell kept the job for 2+ more years.
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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
Terry was here 8 years though. That's an eternity in Red Sox manager years. -
Nationals and Cards. More fun to predict upsets.
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It's impossible for me to make an objective prediction about the Yankees. I like the Rays in 5 call though.
