Bellhorn04
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Good ol' Farnsy.
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We can't worry about it User. You know the Yanks are going to get some financial relief on this somehow.
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We have to get some runs off Carmona next inning. You know that f***ing Maddon has 5 relievers lined up for us in a precision sequence.
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The Boobs.
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What I would say is that jung is doing his utmost to put Buchholz in a bad light.
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Now you're asking too much.
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The other fascinating plot is what other players might be suspended and will any of it affect the playoff picture.
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It's conceivable we could finish 3rd in the ALE and still get a wild card. But I agree that we don't have much of a margin for error. As of now we're a mere 4 games ahead of the last wild card spot.
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It certainly is a reasonable deal. Pedroia doesn't just talk the talk, he walks the walk. He wants to finish his career with the Sox and he's not obsessed with the last dollar - he knows he's making a vast amount of it as it is and he's not complaining.
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Personally I think the notion of trading Buchholz is out in the ether...something that might be fun to discuss on message boards, but that is extremely far removed from what's actually being considered by Cherington and the brass.
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The Rays are filling me with gloom. After Price and Moore they have Cobb, Archer and Hellickson. I think they may be emerging as the team to beat in all of baseball.
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Fred just did. Pretty smooth how he did it though, in two separate posts.
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Can't argue with that.
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Personally I'm giving Buchholz the benefit of the doubt on this. I'm taking him at his word that he was afraid that by pitching he was going to further injure his arm. I can understand why a pitcher would be paranoid about the health of his arm. Pitchers' arms get seriously f***ed up on a regular basis.
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The Rays have a tough second-half schedule but if they keep getting the pitching they've been getting, they're a handful.
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That's a possibility. Personally I don't think we are in a position where we can give up a proven starter for an unproven one. We only have a handful of proven starters and we are amassing some young pitching of our own.
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Ok, but that's a series of trades...I just meant one trade. You're thinking about a real BLOCKBUSTER.
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Optimistic poster at 8:21 PM last night.
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Agreed. I just find it hard to see a scenario where we would trade Lackey and get a better pitcher in return, unless it was a 3-team trade.
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When you're thinking about trades you have to figure out what team or teams you would match up with and what trade would seem to make sense for both teams. It's not too often you're going to trade Slocumb for Varitek and Lowe.
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LOL, what a game thread to read this was. Yikes.
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Fair enough. But let me counter with this question then: is there any evidence that the 'driving up the pitch count' strategy is actually effective in increasing run production?
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Just to add to the discussion about swinging at the first pitch, we all know that a big part of offensive strategy now is seeing a lot of pitches and driving up the starter's pitch count. But at that same time this is going on, overall run production in the big leagues keeps going down. Verducci of SI thinks the strategy of taking a lot of pitches has something to do with it, that by doing this hitters are getting into more pitcher's counts and striking out more.
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Apparently Lyon had some incentives in his contract based on appearances or whatever and that factored into the going-nowhere Mets releasing him. It saved them some money.
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Obviously, swinging at the first pitch all the time is not a good thing. Hitters pick their spots to do it. The logical reason for doing it is pretty simple. The pitcher doesn't want to fall behind in the count, right? The easiest way to avoid that is to throw a fastball over the middle of the plate. If you're a hitter and you are expecting the pitcher to do that, is it smarter for you to take that down-the-middle fastball for a strike, or to swing at it? It's all part of the game between pitchers and hitters. You can't just do the same thing all the time.
