Bellhorn04
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Well, there you go. You're on a good roll with your predictions. Now don't get all swell-headed about it like our loquacious Yankee fan member here. -
Yep, it's #3 we'll miss.
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No one knows with certainty and no one will. I've said it before, the Red Sox organization has been like the Mafia through all the controversies of this regime. Not much gets out.
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Sale and Price were the make or break guys, though. And they were down 80 innings between them. They only combined for 254 innings. Our team had very little starting pitching depth, and an average bullpen at best, so we needed those two to have strong, healthy seasons. Neither one did.
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Porcello is most likely gone. I do think there will be more than one occasion next year when people lament him being gone.
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The money is the only real reason. Any team would be happy to have him as a #4/5 starter.
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It would be nice to see Eovaldi finish the season on a positive note, at least, to give us some hope for next year. As fans, let's not finish the season like a bunch of sad sacks.
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9/26 SOX @ Texas 2:05PM EST
Bellhorn04 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
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What the Yankees did this year overcoming injuries was extremely unusual. They had much better depth and some pretty amazing luck with replacements. We lost significant time from Sale, Price and Eovaldi. Of course that had an impact.
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The thing we don't know much about is the issues with DD's 'management style'. Shaughnessy signaled the firing weeks before it happened, saying DD seemed to have penned himself off from the rest of the organization except for his 'trusted lieutenants'. I don't know how much of that is true and how much is idle speculation, of course.
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OK, well played.
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Maybe there will be some changes in approach. I would point out, though, that in 2018 our pitching, with virtually the same personnel, was pretty damn good. Baseball is just a tough game to figure out sometimes.
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There was reason if they thought doing it before the season was their one chance to retain Sale at a discounted price. The mystery continues to be exactly what was, and is, the condition of Sale's arm and how it's been so hard to diagnose.
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Even Cashner?
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Because it's got the pungent aroma of controversy and finger-pointing. Like chicken and beer. That stuff always has legs.
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That was good stuff when you did that. Sometimes the only way to analyze things is to go through every damn game log.
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Absolutely true. But when subsequent events make it look bad, it's DD who bears the blame.
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My guess is that DD or someone thought Swihart could be an adequate backup catcher and OPS 100 points higher than Leon.
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Maybe he did exactly what Henry wanted up to winning it all last year-and after that he screwed the pooch.
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Something that is almost forgotten about the early stage dysfunction was the backup catcher controversy. Apparently DD was the one who made the call of starting the season with Swihart instead of Leon. Leon was DFA'd and could have been a goner if any other teams were interested. Then the pitching and Swihart get off to a crappy start and back comes Leon.
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That could certainly be true about the pen. But in the big picture the pen wasn't the real problem, it was the starters. E-Rod was the only one who pitched well and pitched all season. Sale, Price, Porcello, Eovaldi, Cashner, Johnson, Velazquez and whoever we called up from the minors ranged from bad to hurt to horrendous.
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I'm guessing it can be broken down statistically between inherited wealth and self-made wealth.
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I still say overblown. It's trying to blame everything on the simplest, most convenient reason.
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It's true we can argue forever about whether DD went too far. He probably did go a little too far in what he gave up. But overall, the trades he made were justified ones. Every big trade he made was for pitching. I can't really argue with that approach.
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This is very odd because Bannister has been a big part of the team's pitching brain trust since 2015. It certainly signals some division in the ranks. And probably the departure of LeVangie.
