Bellhorn04
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Sure, your admiration is obvious in this post on the previous page: The current manager had the benefit of a team built up to win. It wasn't a team that he built or molded. He was just lucky to be given the helm and he brought home a winner. Hooray for him.
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My post was strictly about 2018.
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So why are you not giving Cora credit for building the 2018 team then? They went from 93 wins and a first-round exit to 108 wins and a World Series. It's obvious you just have it in for Cora and will use any argument you can stitch together, with no regard for logic or consistency.
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Baseball managers don't build teams. You're thinking of the NFL and guys like Belichick.
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His methods worked pretty well in 2018. I think they looked quite ready for the playoffs last year.
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5/30 sox @ ny
Bellhorn04 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Why would you not root for a team from Canada? I think all the players are American. Hockey is supposed to be Canada's game, but no Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup since Montreal in 1993. Now that's crazy. -
For the record, the only person on the whole forum who has said Cora is the greatest Red Sox manager of all time is moonslav.
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We try to have the back and forth arguments now without the personal abuse.
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So all you need is 6 good relievers! Getting that many good relievers is sort of the hard part...
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Kimbrel had a good (not great) regular season last year. It does leave a hole in the pen not having him or replacing him.
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If you don't think Brasier is good enough for high-leverage situations, that's an indictment of DD, not Cora. Who else is there for high-leverage situations? Workman has been decent, but he wasn't even good enough to be on the World Series roster last year.
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All truth, Station.
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Using Brasier to close the game was TOTALLY defensible. Cora used Workman, Walden and Barnes in the 7th & 8th. Cleveland had some normally weak hitters due up in the 9th. Brasier is suddenly a chump of course, after the fact...even though he started the year as our second-best reliever, and even though in his previous 4 appearances he had retired 12 straight. It's always a lot easier managing from home.
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Let me get this straight. Are you saying that if he didn't sign Eovaldi early, Eovaldi would have been lingering on the market for months like JDM?
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Predictable. They could say the same about Judge right now too!
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There were apparently a lot of teams in on Eovaldi. You wanted the Yankees to sign him, remember? And you also praised the Pearce signing at the time.
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He might have been a little arrogant about the pen. But there was nothing much else he could do to upgrade, given the payroll situation and the lack of prospect capital. So overall, I think it's a little disingenuous to call it arrogance.
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You've crawled back out of the woodwork like the vermin you are.
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If cost were no issue I'd like to have Kimbrel, sure, who wouldn't? Obviously cost is a big issue. On top of that, there are some legit performance concerns. When last seen in the 2018 postseason he was a bit scary, and since then he hasn't pitched at all.
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Another good post.
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But if you're playing for a big first inning, why not also have a strong hitter at #3 who can drive in runs and also get on base for the #4 hitter?
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Good post.
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He's basically saying the pen isn't as bad as some are making it out to be, but it's not quite good enough.
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It's counter-intuitive because on the one hand, you should have high OBP guys in the top 2 spots. But the main argument against having one of your best hitters at #3 is that he comes up too often with bases empty and 2 outs. There is sort of a direct contradiction in these 2 premises. It's no wonder that the idea confounds a lot of folks here.
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Merloni always seems to have an axe to grind. In this post he praises Porcello but he does it by taking shots at Eovaldi and the front office. It also sounds like he must have been a Porcello basher before. (Kimmi, none of this is directed at you for posting it.)
