Bellhorn04
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No question. We'd be hearing from all quarters about how we f'd up again.
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If Sale needs TJS, it might be a lot better that it happened now instead of next April. Price's injury is not a big deal as I understand it. The 2019 Red Sox don't suck except by comparison to expectations. We're 66-59 with a 69-56 Pythagorean record and might have been capable of winning 90 games before the Sale injury. The Orioles suck.
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Sale also contributed heavily in 2017 and has been a perennial Cy Young contender. I see no parallel between him and Steve Pearce. What this all comes down to is the Sox evaluations of the health of Sale's arm. Those are certainly subject to scrutiny!
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Fans are brutal on managers. I had problems with Farrell toward the end because he seemed to have no idea how to handle things like the Pedroia-Machado incident.
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Cashner already got moved to the pen of course. To me it's all about whether the team is actually trying to win the games. If they make it obvious that they really don't care about winning or losing the games, the fans and media are going to know it. In last night's game when Owings pinch-hit for Holt, one of the fans here (hi Slash) went off on poor Cora about it. Fans still really care about winning the games.
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Players hardly ever sign significant extensions during the season. Can you remember any? There were some that were announced right after the season started, but that was for luxury tax manipulation.
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Yeah, thanks Cap'n Obvious. We really need your help to know what's going on.
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Wrong. If he plays the whole season, he becomes a free agent. It may have been a blunder to extend him because of his medical issues. But when people say you should wait until the end of the season to extend him, they don't know what they're talking about.
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It's not just a question of how slim our chances are. It's the principle that you owe it to the fans who are paying big dollars to watch games, and to MLB in general, not to start treating games as workouts for next season in mid-August. I understand that you feel it could be for the greater good of the team, and maybe it would be. But there's more to think about than that.
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Well, fortunately, Cora and the team don't think like you.
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Mike Yastrzemski, Carl’s grandson gets called up to the SF Giants
Bellhorn04 replied to a700hitter's topic in Other Baseball
Mike is on fire. 3 homers last night, OPS up to .873. -
The Stros are on pace to win 103. Still pretty good in my books.
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So 3 bullpen games, basically. A 3 ring circus. The fact you forget Price is out says a lot about your clarity on this.
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Johnson already is starting. Sale E-Rod Who are your 3, 4 and 5 starters after you cut Porcello?
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You mean Johnson and Velazquez? Johnson is already on the team. Velazquez is a career scrub type. These guys do not need a whole lot of further evaluation, do they?
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If all teams had this type of philosophy, it would mean every team who was either clearly out of it or whose chances were slim would treat the last 6 weeks of the season or so as garbage time-forget about trying to win games, just use the games as a way to evaluate future talent. Yeah, that'd really be fair to the fans paying big money and the teams whose playoff possibilities depend on the outcomes of other games. As if the sport isn't already in enough trouble.
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No, Porcello's numbers are not equally horrific. Porcello has a 1.3 fWAR and a 0.7 bWAR. Shawaryn has negatives in both despite only pitching 12.2 innings. It's ridiculous to even compare the two. Not to mention, Shawaryn and Houck are relievers. If we cut Porcello, are we going to have bullpen games in his place? We'd be down to Sale and E-Rod as healthy true starters until Price gets back. It would be a joke.
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Houston is pathetic. Yeah right. It's called a rough stretch.
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You're blowing me away, in a bad way, with some of these statements. You also advocated dumping Moreland, who has an .835 OPS. No, I really don't think we have just as good a chance with guys like Shawaryn and Houck. Shawaryn has horrible numbers this year. Houck has pitched 14.1 innings above AA level. Dumping Porcello in favor of one of these guys would be beyond absurd. Porcello is having a horrible season, but he's a highly credentialed pitcher who is probably, much like Chris Sale, trying to reinvent himself on the fly. I would not write him off as incapable of pitching well the rest of the way.
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What are you talking about? To use the two most obvious examples, does it really look to you like Devers and Bogaerts are just going through the motions out there?
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You are definitely in the running for the Poster With Best Attitude award of 2019.
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Yes, there are two big reasons, actually. One is that the Sox still have a chance. The other is that at this point in the season teams should still be trying to win games, for the sake of the fans and the other teams who are playoff contenders.
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Man, when you pack it in, you don't fool around.
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Isn't the idea of resetting the tax in 2020 and then going for broke in 2021 a little like fasting and then splurging? I say that because you're basically getting yourself right back into trouble, assuming you're signing a few free agents to contracts more than a couple of years.
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There is really no one to take Porcello's place tonight.
