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  1. Bellhorn04
    EBJ! The guy has been an extra-base hit machine lately.
  2. Bellhorn04
    If that's the case, maybe the continued passionate loyalty of the fanbase is a little overrated.
  3. Bellhorn04
    I would say there was quite a bit of questioning of the Panda signing at the time. Nobody was saying it was a disastrous signing, but it seemed like all the smart fans were saying Headley would have been a much better choice.
  4. Bellhorn04
    He's been pitching superbly for the Jays in big games. He would be a great acquisition. But they are absolutely going to have to break the bank to sign him. He should command as much as Scherzer. They may have to give him an opt-out to sign with us. Several other wealthy teams will be in the mix. It's no slam-dunk.
  5. Bellhorn04
    As were Ellsbury, McCann and Beltran a year earlier.
  6. Bellhorn04
    It remains to be seen what kind of shape this team is in for the near future. We are saddled with the Hanley and Panda contracts. Papi is reaching the end. Our young pitching prospects are all works in progress. Guys like Porcello and Kelly seem like they could go either way. We have no bullpen. We still have a huge amount of uncertainty IMO. The big positives we have are Betts, Bogaerts, Swihart, Vazquez, JBJ hopefully, Castillo hopefully.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Which Miley are we scheduled to get today?
  8. Bellhorn04
    It's a sad state of affairs when people start caring about that s***.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Sadly, I have to agree with Jacko. I think Girardi deserves some credit too. To me he seems like a Francona type who keeps the team going even when things look bleak.
  10. Bellhorn04
    I like you, Ben, and I believed in you. But you f***ed up, buddy. Sorry. No one ever said being GM was going to be easy.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Renteria Crawford Hanley Panda This is 4 high-profile free agent signings in 11 years that have been immediate disasters. Can anyone make any sense of why these players have crashed so spectacularly in Boston? Is it that tough of a place to play? Also, is it fair to say that the FO failed to learn anything from history when they signed Hanley and Panda?
  12. Bellhorn04
    Porcello Buchholz Kelly Rodriguez ??? Who's the comedian who voted for Masterson? Pruneface?
  13. Bellhorn04
    What about TV ratings though? Isn't that the main reason they're replacing Orsillo?
  14. Bellhorn04
    In fairness, I think the criticism is that in the years he pitches well, Buch gets hurt. The years he doesn't get hurt, he pitches lousy. It's an oversimplification, but it's not that far off the mark. Pretty much what's happened the last 4 years. To me picking up the option still makes sense. It's only a $13 million commitment, and if he does well they have another $13 million option for 2017. It was a pretty team-friendly deal done by Theo.
  15. Bellhorn04
    The Red Sox don't seem to be able to develop any good relievers internally of late. The Yankees seem to have been doing much better at that.
  16. Bellhorn04
    One other point - there was only one out, not two.
  17. Bellhorn04
    I wouldn't say he dismantled a 'phenomenal pitching staff'. What he mainly did was get rid of our two best starters. The other loss was Miller from the pen.
  18. Bellhorn04
    But that would also have meant issuing an intentional walk to a career .185 hitter. Not exactly a textbook move.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Very true. The internet and social media have given people a whole new power, and one of the frightening results is the expansion of mob mentality. If you look at human history, we keep discovering and developing new powers, and in many of them have been the potential for both great good and great destruction. (Sorry but I am a philosophy freak.)
  20. Bellhorn04
    Was Hanley a good signing on paper? If you look at his career OPS, yes. If you look at his durability history, not so much. If you look at his consistency history, not so much. (The last time he played more than 128 games AND posted an OPS higher than .759 was 2010.) If you look at his attitude history, which admittedly is based a lot on perception, not so much. If you look at the change of position, who knew?
  21. Bellhorn04
    That statement is kind of the crux of the whole debate. Saying something 'looks good on paper' has come to have the connotation that the appearance is deceiving.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Personally I am always very skeptical about pre-season projections. There are so many examples of them being dead wrong that it would be prohibitively time-consuming to compile. Pre-season projections for the Red Sox for the last 5 years have all been quite wrong. 2011 - projected 95-100 wins actual 90 2012 - projected 85 (?) actual 69 2013 - projected 85 actual 97 2014 - projected 85-90 (?) actual 71 2015 - projected 85 In 2013 the Jays were a preseason favorite. This year Washington and Seattle were among the favorites. To me these projections mean very little.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Before you go there, you also have to deal with the fact that the general accuracy of pre-season projections for major league baseball is not very high.
  24. Bellhorn04
    This is an argument with no resolution because it is based on subjective criteria. If the construction of the 2015 team is judged based on expected results, it was a success. If it is judged based on actual results, it was a failure.
  25. Bellhorn04
    It's one of the many conundrums of human evolvement.
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