Bellhorn04
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Nope, research shows the optimal lineup has the 4 best hitters in spots 1,2,4 and 5.
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You also manage differently with a lead than you do in a tie. The Red Sox had a win probability of 50% going into the top of the 7th. Cleveland had a 78% win probability going into the bottom of the 7th.
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Moncada has been striking out an epic pace. 35 K's in his last 74 PA's.
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Workman and Thornburg have also been pretty good in recent weeks.
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Regularly using relievers as starters
Bellhorn04 replied to Maxbialystock's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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I'd be lying if I said I wanted him to do well. Just because when a guy you trade away does well, a lot of people never stop moaning and groaning and bashing the GM about it.
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Kelly isn't even a set-up man at present, he's been demoted from that position for a while now.
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The thing about Kelly is, he hasn't ever really been consistently good for long stretches. Early this year it looked like he might finally be arriving, but he couldn't maintain it. His fWAR places him as a pretty average reliever I would think.
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But with the protection thing, the numbers just don't show hitters doing better in relation to how good the hitter behind them is - no matter whether it makes them feel better at the plate or not. Theory is one thing and hard cold numbers are another.
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Sale certainly seems like a guy who would find it very difficult to dial back even a little.
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A guy with an .825 OPS against over 2.5 months is not THAT hard to replace. I would think the 'throw stuff against the wall' approach we often hear about for bullpens would be applicable here.
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Panda is on the books for tax purposes for 2018 and 2019, at $19 million less what the Giants are paying him, which is $545 K this year.
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And it's a great question.
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Tough week ahead. 4 with Cleveland followed by 3 in the Trop.
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Yeah, I don't think they'd be scaring the bejeebers out of everyone like this if it was purely a phantom DL rest stint.
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But wasn't Ted Williams essentially a dead pull hitter who advocated being a pull hitter?
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The Sox are not in an extended hitting slump by any means. They did score 12 runs in the first 2 games of this series.
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But I think the 'rising fastball' basically falls into the category of an optical illusion, rather than a denial or misinterpretation of statistical evidence.
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I think that was when he was president of the Rangers, and it turned out to be all talk by Nolan that the manager and coaches didn't want to have anything to do with.
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Billy Martin tried the 'no more coddling' approach in 1980 and it worked for one year only.
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Sure. But I assume proving or disproving whether a fastball can rise can be done pretty conclusively with empirical science. Whereas the attempt to prove or disprove whether clutch or protection exist with statistics has produced numerous extensive studies that have not come up with anything conclusive.
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Please explain the big deal about him hitting 3rd instead of 4th. Coming into today's game he had a 1098 OPS hitting 4th and a 1041 OPS hitting 3rd. So better numbers hitting 4th. And he leads the majors in RBI.
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On the first 6 games of their current road trip, 3 in TO and 3 in NY, the Rays only gave up 9 runs - 1.5 per game.
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Kelly has a 0.5 fWAR at a salary of $3.8 million. That's not much in the way of surplus value. And he's actually been terrible since June 1 - 2.5 months, not 1 month.
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So the improvement in his approach would seem to be a more logical explanation than anything else, wouldn't it?
