Bellhorn04
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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
It's true. Wouldn't that be something now? -
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?
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In a way Hanley suffers from being lumped together with Panda. They were like a package deal! Their signings were announced on the same day. $41 million of combined annual salary.
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Unfortunately there isn't a great supply of strong replacements, so the manager is faced with a choice between the good player who's banged up or a healthy minor leaguer.
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Forget Moreland. I read that he is contemplating surgery himself.
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The answer is this: Dombrowski does not dick around.
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Why not just assume HanRam is untradeable? On top of everything else he just had surgery.
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None of these awards mean a thing to me. Nor do any other of the other awards in the worlds of sports, the arts, whatever.
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Unfortunately gold glove has become a joke. Sox fans got another reminder of that with Moreland. Dude won a GG in 2016 in spite of having nothing bot negative defensive metrics.
