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The Alex Cora Managerial Decision Thread
Bellhorn04 replied to StephenCurry30's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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Great having real baseball to talk about again, huh?
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Wtf
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Lol
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Beautiful swing by Devers.
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Yeah, now the real bitching can begin!
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Yeah, that says a lot, doesn't it.
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Yes, Clay Buchholz.
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It was DD who traded for Smith of course. With all due respect to these fine fellows, RDL, Webster & Miley were all pretty much stiffs.
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I didn't say terrible shape. I said no pitching and a fair amount of dead money. Somebody had to acquire pitchers. Maybe if Ben was there he would have done the same things. But who knows? Ben made some odd and risky acquisitions. Even a signing like Victorino. Since we won it all in 2013 and he was a major contributor, it goes down as a good move, absolutely. If we hadn't won in 2013, maybe that move is viewed as a bad one. Same with re-signing Napoli. And then acquiring Miley and Masterson in 2015 to fill out a scary fivesome with Buch, Porcello and Joe Kelly. Dombrowski is much more conservative with his acquisitions. That's probably why Henry went with him. He was a little tired of the risky acquisitions turning into dead money.
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Ben left the team with virtually no pitching and some crippling contracts. I think you highly overestimate the shape he left the team in.
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So what exactly did Ben do that any other GM couldn't have done?
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Henry opened his wallet for Hanley, Panda, Porcello and Castillo before the 2015 season. Over $300 million. Ben was not being starved.
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Travis LF, Beni CF, Mookie RF
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Guess I should have said bWAR LOL
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WAR was made for a guy like JBJ.
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I would hope that whether it was PED's or DV, rumors alone would carry the same weight or lack thereof. And what PED suspensions have been issued based only on rumors?
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It's just that there are so many degrees of DV and so many variances in the amount of evidence of what actually occurred.
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Now why, exactly, do you say that?
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One might argue that it only counts for guys who are actually battling to make the team.
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I just discovered that the Yankees VP of Baseball Ops is Tim Naehring.
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I would take the baseball IQ of the people who post here over that of the ESPN experts.
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I'm wondering if their fandom expanded quite a bit in 2016. Is there a Cubs equivalent of a 'pink hat'?
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By the same token one could easily argue that all Ben did was reap the benefits of what was left to him by Theo. But it's not really fair to say that, about Ben or about Dombrowski either. Regardless of what was left to them, they each had to make their own moves.
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Start time 4 PM. As much as I don't like the TropDome, it's kind of nice to know we'll be playing our first 4 games of the season without any weather issues.
