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Everything posted by Bellhorn04

  1. Bellhorn04
    This thread has a lot of promise.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Trying to convince message board posters to be positive has as much chance of success as trying to herd cats.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Do you read.......anything?
  4. Bellhorn04
    It would be amusing to bring up some of the choicest comments here about Salty from his Sox career. You could put together a roast of him that would go on for hundreds of pages.
  5. Bellhorn04
    In 21 games the Sox have scored a total of 2 runs in the first inning.
  6. Bellhorn04
    This last turn through the rotation was brutal. Doubront was the only one who turned in a good game.
  7. Bellhorn04
    I don't think the Sox FO had all that much interest in trying to keep him, really. They knew he would be getting big money and they had JBJ coming.
  8. Bellhorn04
    This is why pitch counts can't be dismissed.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Buchholz is one more reason Lester needs to be paid.
  10. Bellhorn04
    It doesn't bother me, honestly. I find it interesting. Just something to shoot the breeze about, really. I have no use for politicians myself.
  11. Bellhorn04
    No. I guess my real question to you is, do you think there are or have been, any truly smart baseball managers? If so, who are they, what makes them smart, and what do they do differently? Or are they all dummies?
  12. Bellhorn04
    But if there were other people that could do a better job, why wouldn't teams be hiring them? You're saying that teams like the Yankees or Red Sox invest $200 million in players and then hire buffoons to manage them. I guess what you're saying is that the entire sport is dominated by idiocy.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Sometimes they're wishin' and hopin' that the starter can somehow collect himself enough to get through a few more innings without giving up a pile more runs. Peavy gave up 3 in the first and he had runners on all day but he made it to the 6th giving up just 2 more runs and we were able to come back. When luck is with you that's the way it goes. Again, these long and middle relievers are not in that job because they're excellent pitchers. So it's not exactly a slam dunk guarantee of good results pulling your starter after 3 runs in favor of these guys.
  14. Bellhorn04
    On the first part of the question, if you're doing this on a consistent basis you have a really s***** rotation and you're f***ed regardless. This series we had Lackey, Peavy and Buchholz all give up a bunch of runs early and had to go the pen to cover a lot of innings. Needless to say this will just kill your team if it happens a lot.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Let me answer the second part of the question first. Baseball managers are not hired for their IQ's. I have little doubt that there are a number of posters here with higher IQ's than Terry Francona. But I don't think anybody here would do a 'smarter' job of managing a baseball team than Francona, Farrell or any of these guys. I think it's hysterically funny when a fan actually believes they could.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Sure, but you're limited by the rules in the amount of back and forth shuttling you can do.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Sure, there are 7 guys in the pen. But you're not going to use Uehara, Tazawa or Mujica before the 8th inning normally. So now you have 4 guys to choose from. And the 4 guys you have to choose from, generally speaking, are middle or long relievers because they aren't that good. So there's no guarantee if you bring one of them in in the 3rd inning that they won't get lit up too. Then you have to bring in the next guy. Our next day off isn't until next Monday and we're playing the Yanks the next 3 days. Do we want to burn up Capuano today and have him not available for several days? When the starter gets knocked out early the manager is just in a bad spot. It's got nothing to do with how smart he is. Blame it on lack of complete games and pitch counts/inning counts and the 25-man roster, but it's not an easy job managing the bullpen now.
  18. Bellhorn04
    If a manager burned out his bullpen you'd say he was twice as stupid. Don't you think bullpens can get burned out if they're just used indiscriminately?
  19. Bellhorn04
    Wrong as usual. Buchholz was pulled after only 55 pitches so how does that have anything to do with a pitch count? The reason managers don't hook starters who are struggling right away is so they won't burn out their bullpens. Pretty simple concept really.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Any examples that come to mind? How far back are we talking?
  21. Bellhorn04
    I think just about every manager uses that rule.
  22. Bellhorn04
    This team has had very few artistic or decisive wins. Every game seems like a struggle. Though that's not necessarily a bad thing assuming our offence will improve. Interesting fact - in 19 games there hasn't been a single 'blowout' game, which Baseball-Reference defines as a margin of 5 runs or more. Last year they were in 46 blowout games, going 33-13.
  23. Bellhorn04
    What does deserving to win have to do with baseball?
  24. Bellhorn04
    They do have limits though, otherwise Cano would still be with them or they would have signed Drew and some relievers. I think it all revolves around what Cashman can talk Hal into.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Yes, already less useless than Roberts. As Confucius put it, 'Scrub who contribute infinitely preferable to scrub who do jacksquat'. Actually Holt had crazy numbers at Pawtucket this year in a small sample...sorry, couldn't help it.
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