Bellhorn04
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Holy hell...talk about bad optics.
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The only problem with fat jokes is that hardly any of them are funny.
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Don't be led astray by mvp78's strange obsession with trading Pedroia.
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You guys are vicious!
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Good one Pete.
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I'd say he needs to put up a minimum OPS of say .690 to be a plus player on an everyday basis.
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I think you're right. But they really made themselves look ridiculous, starting with an offer of 70 million and ending with an offer of 135 million.
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Yes, he should leave that up to the experts - us.
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Balderdash. I'm a skeptic, but we were a .500 team last year and we've certainly improved.
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Agreed. But I was disagreeing with SoxHop about them not spending any money on pitching last year.
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Of course he has!
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Except for being one of the defensive outfielders in the game.
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JBJ was everyday material for his stint in 2015. He had a 2.4 fWAR in 66 starts, 74 games.
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The thing is, though, they basically swapped Lester for Porcello, who they're paying 95 million for 5 years. If they could have signed Lester for Homer Bailey+ money of 6 years, 110 to 120 million, they didn't save very much money at all.
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So their bungling led to the departure of 2 pitchers who put up a combined fWAR of 8.6 in 2015. That only leaves the question of how much of the blame for the bungling belongs to Ben, which we'll never know.
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I think you copied all this from a library of your own past posts.
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I don't think it's necessarily a mental connection. sk7326 is Mr. Reasonable of this forum, like thirtysomething was on the old forum.
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These are such dead horses...we've killed a whole herd of horses now. But what can you do, there's nothing else to talk about at the moment.
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1. We don't really know what Henry was thinking last offseason. He did ultimately offer Lester 6 years and 135 million. Whether that was just for PR reasons, who knows? 2. They put themselves in the position of having such a mediocre staff by cutting loose 2 #2 starters in Lester and Lackey, and not replacing them with anything comparable. Then they compounded the risk by putting together a bad bullpen.
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What exactly does this mean?
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I don't know exactly how much of the 2015 pitching staff can be put on ownership and how much on Ben. We'll never know all the behind the scenes machinations. I tend to think a lot of it was on Ben. You raise some interesting points in the rest of your post.
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2016 Red Sox Hot Stove Discussion Thread
Bellhorn04 replied to a700hitter's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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But he obviously didn't have that luxury, as far as JH was concerned. The 2015 opening day staff felt like it was Buchholz, Koji, Tazawa, and a bunch of names picked from a hat.
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I think the 2015 team was a combination of bad decisions and bad breaks. I think a bad job was done putting together the 2015 pitching staff. There was really no reason for a team with the Sox resources to go into the season with a staff that questionable. That will always be my main beef with the job done by Ben.
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This thread begs the question: 'How many different ways can you call someone an idiot?'
