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  1. Bellhorn04
    I'm about 99.9% sure the answer is yes.
  2. Bellhorn04
    I'm sure JBJ works his butt off on his hitting. It's a struggle for him.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Of course. The only real 're-think' is that maybe you should be prepared to use your best relief pitcher in the 7th or 8th inning like Francona has been doing with Miller.
  4. Bellhorn04
    The disconnect is between this idea and the idea that managers can't make any difference...it's kind of a running argument here.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Then of course there are those bloody defensive shifts...not one of my favorite developments in modern baseball. Thanks to guys like Joe Maddon who think the game can be micro-managed.
  6. Bellhorn04
    The biggest strategic moves in baseball are made by the pitcher and the catcher - what kind of pitch to throw and the location, and the sequencing of the pitches. It's a limited range of strategy but there's a lot of information about the hitters that goes into it.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Kimbrel is a special talent without a doubt. The question comes down to how much will it take to keep him. He will be one of the big prizes on the free agent market.
  8. Bellhorn04
    That's a good point - football is so much about the game planning. A guy like Belichick spends a big chunk of a week preparing plays and schemes and whatever for 60 minutes of football.
  9. Bellhorn04
    I've argued the same thing - that left field in Fenway is somewhat hazardous to the health, especially the area where Swihart got injured.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Game plans most certainly involve trying to predict what the opponent will do, how they will react. Predict is just another word for guess. None of it is exact science. There are always variables that can't be foreseen.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Looks like it's a damn good thing we didn't sign Lynn or Cobb. They are both off to horrific starts. Cobb has given up 30 hits in 11.2 innings! That's almost hard to believe.
  12. Bellhorn04
    I disagree that the right reliever is a guess. And actually, strategy in any sport, or even in war, generally involves educated guessing.
  13. Bellhorn04
    To me every win looks like Kate Beckinsale.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Calm down, Stork. 20-7 still ain't too bad. If you've ever actually followed baseball you'd know that every team goes through rough patches. Even the best teams lose at least 60 games in a season.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Grady Little did have a great line though. He said in Boston they don't have 162 games, they have 162 seasons.
  16. Bellhorn04
    It doesn't necessarily work that way in actual practice though. On the occasions I have suffered through a YES broadcast I have found Michael Kay to be more critical of poor play than his color guys.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Here's an example: A lot of the metrics people say managers don't deploy their closers, or their best relievers, properly, because they save them till the 9th when the critical situation may actually be in the 7th or 8th. But if it doesn't matter much one way or the other, who cares if they do it or not? I find this to be a bit of a logical disconnect...
  18. Bellhorn04
    Yes and no. If you consider pitching changes to be strategy, there's quite a bit of it involved. One of the toughest managerial decisions is knowing when to pull a pitcher who is tiring or who doesn't have their best stuff. A lot of it is guesswork and instinct.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Saying they have played crappy ball the last few games is fair. Saying the team obviously sucks now is stupid.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Now you've opened up the floodgates again Kimmi. I must admit that this particular postulation drives me a little wacky too. I've said myself many times that often the manager is just rolling the dice. But I think sometimes there has to be a pretty meaningful difference between one move or the other.
  21. Bellhorn04
    A valid consideration in respect to which particular players though? Most of the griping has been about Mookie, and his numbers are sensational.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Agreed, and I would add, sometimes good players go through streaks where they look bad...it's the nature of the game.
  23. Bellhorn04
    It's just a handful of Negative Nellies - but it seems like a whole crowd of them when they're posting every two minutes.
  24. Bellhorn04
    A psychologist would find a goldmine of material on a forum like this.
  25. Bellhorn04
    What about Homers?
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