Bellhorn04
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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.
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I think the actual answer is that we now have a lot more off days on the schedule, so there isn't as much need for the 8th reliever. Plus September callups will be here soon.
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In this case I think DD gets the WTF.
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'Broken team' might be a bit overstated.
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My guess is the front office was totally on the fence about our chances and therefore not very committed to making a meaningful acquisition. I suspect Dombrowski made some inquiries about relievers but the asking price in talent was a little more than he was comfortable with. Maybe Dave got a little shy about weakening our already bad farm even further. I'm sure he's not unaware of what is said about him in that regard. And if rumors are accurate he may not even know if he's back next year.
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OK, but you're picking by far the best 3 months of Clay's career there.
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5.2 innings is not usually a big enough sample, but those are some truly horrific numbers, they were bad enough to get him jettisoned by the Reds obviously. Brewer is with the PawSox. I just can't see this dude as such a slam-dunk that DD is an idiot for not signing him...
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But why not mention that in his last 5.2 innings, he's given up 24 base runners, including 5 home runs?
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Hopefully that make-up game with KC will only take about 20 minutes for us to dispose of them. It was a suspended game, it starts in the top of the 10th.
