Bellhorn04
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Might be a good thing for us actually...sort of signals he's just looking for the top dollar and has no preference to return to Arizona.
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As far as DD is concerned, his only really large contract so far is Price.
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Like it.
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This is a perplexing one. Stanton is one of the premier offensive players in the game and not even in prime years yet. You'd think you'd have to give up something of value.
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I think Larry was talking about losing scouting types after DD was hired, not losing coaches.
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Dave did not have a 'huge budget' to work with. If he did all he had to do for the offense was sign Encarnacion. And you know he would have if Henry authorized it. Of course you're not into reasonable debate, just hyperbole with a lot of exclamation marks.
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Let's be reasonable. There's no way in hell we're getting Bryant for Benintendi. Whatever Theo was thinking, I know it wasn't that. There's also no way in hell we're trading Benintendi for Schwarber.
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I don't disagree that Kimbrel was an overpay. If he was as good in all 3 years of the contract as he was this year, though, 3.5 WAR good, he'd be worth a lot more than 12 million a year, if those FanGraphs dollar values mean anything.
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I guess you don't subscribe to the view that you can't have enough pitching.
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It was Rafael Soriano's signing that Cashman publicly opposed.
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It's certainly all about what he wants to do himself. Some ex-players really enjoy managing or coaching, but it sure isn't for everyone.
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Sale and Kimbrel had a combined fWAR of 11.0 this year (combined bWAR of 9.7) on a team that won 93 games and won the division by 2 games. They were 2 of our top 4 players. I don't get how you can criticize them as unnecessary moves.
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Keuchel, Giles, Darvish and Jansen are also chockers based on this series.
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Baseball is a very difficult sport in which to evaluate clutch or choke. For starters, the game revolves around a contest between hitter and pitcher in which the hitter is always at a sizable disadvantage. So even if you're David Ortiz, you're still going to make an out more often than not in a big situation.
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An ever-popular topic! http://www.talksox.com/forum/threads/18067-Clutch-vs-non-clutch
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That game was beyond crazy. A thriller but also kind of ugly. Like a sandlot game. Home run records being shattered all over the place. I can't help thinking the ball is juiced and that is kind of tainting the whole thing.
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I'll ask you the same question I've asked elsewhere: How was Dombrowski supposed to rebuild our pitching staff from virtually nothing without depleting the farm?
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Keith Foulke is another. Especially since Tito pretty much ruined his arm in the 2004 postseason. It was worth it.
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Whether or not Ben blew up the rotation, the fact is that Dombrowski inherited a very bad pitching staff and no pitching prospects that were anywhere near ready to help. He certainly may have overpaid on the Kimbrel trade. But the point is, there was no way to fix the pitching except by depleting the farm.
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Pedroia undergoes microfracture surgery
Bellhorn04 replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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He still goes down as a big time postseason performer in my books. You can't take away what he did in 2003 and 2007 because of what happened after that. As sk7326 says, flags fly forever.
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Even the great Theo (and I do think he's the best) in his Cubs tenure has handed out a couple of contracts to Lester and Heyward that you would have to say were for too long and too much.
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There really is no surefire guaranteed method for sustained success, not the way the system is now, as we can see in the fact that no team has been able to repeat since the 2000 Yankees. Avoiding any free agent deals longer than 3 years sounds like a great idea but it's pretty hard to get any top-line players on such deals. It will get you players like Cherington signed in 2013. It worked for one year, not so much after that.
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Pedroia undergoes microfracture surgery
Bellhorn04 replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Holt is about average as a second baseman. -
How could he have significantly upgraded our pitching without depleting the farm?
