Bellhorn04
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I'm shocked by this post. Shocked I tell ya!
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There's the first of our scrap heap signings.
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I was just joking around with Slasher, of course.
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Porcello has been a postseason bust too. Put 'em both there.
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Or you could start him with a very short leash.
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Price wasn't terrible in that game but you can't really fault Gibbons for leaving him in. Price was at 66 pitches through 6 innings. In the 7th he gave up: Single Single Single Groundout Single Strikeout Double (on the 8th pitch of the at-bat) He was at 88 pitches before the double and he finished at 96 pitches. Certainly Gibbons could have removed him earlier but it wasn't a clearcut decision either way.
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Josh Beckett and Rick Porcello also fell well below expectations their first year in Boston. To a lesser degree, so did Kimbrel. It does seem to be a major adjustment for many pitchers.
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Price's postseason numbers stink and I keep saying so. (Buch's are nothing special either.) Price at least is a guy who gets you to the playoffs. He's been doing that consistently.
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Some people just didn't trust Clay because of his history and thought there were better options out there. Their doubts turned out to be well-founded. I would assume he was a negative-WAR player most of the year. With some good games at the end he managed to eke out a 0.2 bWAR and a 0.5 fWAR.
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I've said all along that I was fine with picking up Buch's option. But he really didn't do much to prove his doubters wrong this year. He pitched some decent games at the end but for most of the year he was horrible. And he was one of the reasons we had to trade for Pomeranz.
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I really don't get this. There will always be more risk in signing good players because you have to pay them more and for longer. That's a given. You can keep risk to a minimum by signing inferior players on the cheap, but your team won't be very good.
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Part of it is mystification. Price is a guy you expect to pitch well every time out. He also seems like a cool and unflappable guy. At the very least it's strange he hasn't come out and dominated in his playoff starts.
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It's fair to say that Mookie benefitted from Fenway. But he was pretty good on the road too.
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Good thing we still have Holt, I guess.
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Well, if we're going to rehash that once again, leaving Papi in to run for himself was also an option. Farrell didn't run for him when he reached first base, not until he reached second base. I know that's sort of a standard procedure but in this case I'm not sure it made sense to put in a guy who had never been on base in a major league game.
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It was Wright or Pomeranz I believe.
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Also Alison Lee.
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So they can't be compared at all, really - truly apples and oranges.
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Which also means, on the flip side, that the postseason numbers of Papi and Schilling have no great relevance to their stature as players.
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Natalie Gulbis, yes, she's one of the alltime golf hotties. I have a sister-in-law who thinks Adam Scott is the hottest male golfer. Another sister-in-law who's very fond of Nick Faldo. There are a lot of very attractive female golfers these days, that's for sure. It's a happening sport.
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If Castillo plays up to a true major league level, he'll get out of purgatory one way or the other.
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Maybe those people were right though. Dollar values per FanGraphs: Price $35.9 M Buch $3.9 M (Personally I was fine with both moves.)
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Some folks don't pay as much attention to the money and the value aspects of contracts, they just thought Price was an elite pitcher and Clay was Mr. Unreliable. Which is true if you overlook the money factors.
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There appears to be no satisfactory way to evaluate postseason numbers, because the samples are NEVER large enough.
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What if his next 2-3 games stink? Will that clinch it that he's a choker?
