Bellhorn04
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Personally I find the comments about Lester being pissed kind of amusing. Partly for the reasons you mentioned, partly because he knows somebody is going to be paying him $120 million or more starting next year.
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But with Lavarnway, the standard knock was that they held him back, or bounced him around too much - the totally opposite criticism of what we're hearing on Bogaerts and Bradley. I think the truth is that Lavarnway was just never good enough.
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When did Ben use the building with expensive stars strategy?
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Better than McCann's 1.2 and Beltran's -0.1 though.
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Fred Lynn, of course, made some fantastic plays in centre. I can still remember a catch he made on a Saturday Game of the Week. He sprinted to the wall, caught the ball over the fence and flipped his glove back in the same motion. They used the play in the highlight clip for Game of the Week for a while.
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The Red Sox do have salary constraints though. Even the Yankees have salary constraints. They let their best player walk. I'm not sure people fully realize what a big development in baseball economics it was the day the Yankees decided to say goodbye to Cano.
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Webster gave up 3 earned runs in 6 innings. He wasn't great, but he wasn't horrible. Kind of a treading water performance.
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But we all know that if Will gets hold of a couple soon we'll be back behind him again. Soon would be good.
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Don't forget Tommy Night Train Layne.
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The Jon Lester contract situation
Bellhorn04 replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Depends if we see Good Clay or Bad Clay the rest of the way. He's auditioning too. Actually, unless he sucks, I'm sure he'll be back. They obviously like the guy a lot. Not a single bad word about him through all his ups and downs. -
'See the ball, miss the ball' is not an effective approach, that's for sure.
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I will offer one rebuttal on this: Bradley is also breaking into the majors in a pitching dominated era. In 1965 the average AL team scored 3.94 runs per game, and this was before the DH. In 2014, the average AL team is scoring 4.24 runs per game. I do agree that Bradley's lack of power numbers adds to the concern that the kid might not ever be an ML hitter.
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8/12 Red Sox at Red Stockings
Bellhorn04 replied to Northern Star's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Better keep him. One thing we don't have in abundant supply is good late inning relievers. -
8/12 Red Sox at Red Stockings
Bellhorn04 replied to Northern Star's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
DLID - Designated Late Inning Defender -
Ah, but last year his BABIP was .338 at home and .397 on the road.
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Now hold it right there (big Napoli fan here) - Mike's road OPS is higher than his home OPS since joining the Sox.
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The solution to the JBJ problem is staring us in the face. Just make him our Designated Late Inning Defender. It's the same role that Coco Crisp performed brilliantly in the 2007 playoffs after being benched for Ellsbury, and JBJ has clearly shown the merit of this maneuver a few times in recent games. The DLID slot could even acquire the same type of prestige now bestowed on closers...though not paid nearly as well.
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Webster finally shows his stuff.
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No question. I only brought up the Drew signing there in connection with the payroll issue.
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Well, the much-maligned Drew signing this year did at least demonstrate that the FO was willing to take on more payroll that they really didn't have to, in order to try to upgrade the team.
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Sure. Bradley is getting the long look. He's getting a whole season to see if he can hit ML pitching or not. Because if the answer is no, they have to make plans for next year without him. That's my guess at least.
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8/6 Red Sox @ Cardinals
Bellhorn04 replied to Wasatch's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Nice game for Farrell huh? Yeesh. -
In a shocking development, Joe Nathan did not blow the save last night vs. the Yankees.
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Actually the bloated levels of the free agent contracts and the high percentage of busts have been a big equalizer in economically disparate MLB. Parity is running rampant this year. Check out the standings. Outside of the AL West, there is nobody more than 15 games over .500!
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Nice blanket generalization!
