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  1. Bellhorn04
    The average number of runs per game for the 50 year span from 1969 to 2018 was 4.44 (or close to it).
  2. Bellhorn04
    I don't see how. With you, everything seems to supports that one argument. Countless teams and players have come back from slow starts.
  3. Bellhorn04
    OK, but then Porcello straightened himself out and by June 17 his ERA was down to a normal-size 4.31. Since then it's 7.75.
  4. Bellhorn04
    SPLINTER, you're a manager-basher from way back, aren't you? I'm not meaning to call you out here. You're obviously a very knowledgeable fan. It's just that you never let up with the WTF s***. You thought Farrell (Farkell, as you called him) was terrible and you also didn't think much of Francona either, which says it all. It's not like you're going to speak highly of the guy who replaces Cora.
  5. Bellhorn04
    It was certainly a move that can be questioned. But the Phillies had their 3-4-5 hitters due up in the bottom of the 7th with Harper leading off. I really don't think anyone would rather have seen one of our relievers there than E-Rod.
  6. Bellhorn04
    The Hindsight Jury's duty never ends.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, I would take those theories over my silly joke.
  8. Bellhorn04
    JBJ is not a good hitter. No one's arguing that. But OPS does show some important things. Compare JBJ's line for this year with Nunez's: JBJ 220/320/411 - OPS 731 Nunez 228/243/305 - OPS 548 If you just looked at BA, Nunez is higher. But obviously JBJ is doing some other things-getting on base without a hit, and getting some extra-base hits, that make his overall production better.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, agreed. Messing around with foul ball rules is going too far.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Good post. The 3 hitter minimum is in effect for next year, right?
  11. Bellhorn04
    MADCOW has wanted to trade him since whenever he arrived on the board here.
  12. Bellhorn04
    So much has been made of the bad start putting the team in a hole it couldn't get out of. The facts say otherwise. On May 12 the Sox were 22-19, 3 behind the Rays and 2.5 behind the Yankees, with the 5th best record in the AL, with 121 games left. They were in good shape in the standings at that point.
  13. Bellhorn04
    I'm not distorting the argument. You're refusing to address any of the other points I made about why our starting pitching is a shambles. You just stay fixated on the one thing. That's what gets a little frustrating. Let's take Porcello for example. Is it your opinion that his slower ramp-up to the season is the sole cause of his ERA being 1.5 higher than his career average?
  14. Bellhorn04
    It may have been a mistake. But it doesn't explain why Porcello has pitched badly all season long. It doesn't account for injuries to Sale, Price and Eovaldi (all who have had recent injury issues coming into this year), or the flops of Johnson, Velazquez and Cashner, or the lack of any MLB ready starters in the minors. I just think it's blown way out of proportion.
  15. Bellhorn04
    I do agree that next year is a big year for Cora. He needs to dispel the doubts that this season has created.
  16. Bellhorn04
    The Red Sox did do something slightly different in the 2018 postseason, using starters to pitch some big innings in relief. And it paid off handsomely. They were concerned about the aftereffects of that.
  17. Bellhorn04
    The point is that we don't know whether a lot of the guys DD traded will become stars or not because it's too early to know. It's as simple as that.
  18. Bellhorn04
    Nobody knows the game better than Belichick does, pretty hard to argue that.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Nope, how they handle Spring Training next year won't prove a thing. How they handled Sale, Price and Porcello this year was strictly because of their 2018 postseason workloads. Obviously not an issue for next Spring Training.
  20. Bellhorn04
    There are a lot of things you can look at. Kershaw started this season on the IL. What was his preparation compared to Sale's, Price's and Porcello's? Kershaw has his first start on April 15, pitches 7 innings of 2 run ball, and goes on to have the season you'd expect.
  21. Bellhorn04
    No one knows for sure how much effect the spring preparation or lack thereof had. It's all strictly guesswork. That is a fact too.
  22. Bellhorn04
    But as you pointed out many times, the big difference between our pitching and the Yankees was that they have a much better bullpen. I trust your position on that hasn't changed.
  23. Bellhorn04
    For me the bottom line on this season was the horrendous starting pitching, which is indisputable.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Anything that isn't hard cold fact can be disputed, you know that.
  25. Bellhorn04
    I started with 1966 just to show the 2 years before 1968, the Year of the Pitcher. After 1968 they lowered the mound.
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