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2016 Red Sox Hot Stove Discussion Thread
Bellhorn04 replied to a700hitter's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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. -
One other point - there was only one out, not two.
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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.
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But that would also have meant issuing an intentional walk to a career .185 hitter. Not exactly a textbook move.
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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.)
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's one of the many conundrums of human evolvement.
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Things aren't getting worse. The universe has always been a mess.
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Dombro is saying the right things so far. He wants to move Hanley to first and he likes the idea of a Betts/JBJ/Castillo outfield next year.
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I would have liked picking up Porcello as an isolated transaction. What I don't like is that, as I see it, they traded Lester for Porcello.
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I know there's some cherry-picking involved here, but the last time Hanley both played more than 128 games and put up an OPS over .759 was 2010.
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You seem bitter. Sports is escapist entertainment, NESN is a commercial venture trying to make as much dough as possible, and there are lots of other options for following the games.
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Hawk's act is just weird. I wasn't watching at the time, but someone said that on Shaw's home run the other night Hawk's play-by-play call was 'Get foul! Get foul!'. And of course we've all heard him do ridiculous stuff like that. It doesn't even qualify as homerism, really. Even homerism is a little more subtle than that. It's more like slob comedy. To think he's been able to do this for decades without anyone calling him out on it is kind of amazing.
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Comparing other announcers to Vin Scully is kind of pointless. It's an unreachable standard - like comparing other guitarists to Jimi Hendrix.
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You were especially lucky to miss Hawk when he covered the Red Sox in the late Seventies, before defecting to the White ones.
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You are 100% correct. What I should have said was, the Sox are 2-0 against Sale this year.
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Porcello is 2-0 in starts against Sale this year. The Sox are also 2-0 against King Felix this year. Crazy game.
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This is more about 'if the guy does a pretty good job and is very popular, why is he getting canned?'
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I'm surprised I haven't heard more about this. I guess radio *******s can get away with more s*** than *******s who put their stuff in print.
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2016 Red Sox Hot Stove Discussion Thread
Bellhorn04 replied to a700hitter's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
This year he pitches great and then gets injured in July, before they can trade him. The guy has a lot of tricks up his sleeve. -
Not even Wally is safe.
