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  1. Bellhorn04
    The piece by Edes does not portray Cherington as an office boy. It shows him being involved in a lot of the discussions and also being the guy who insisted on us getting back a package of prospects in the deal.
  2. Bellhorn04
    The big difference from last year is that now there is a ton of money available and moves have to be made. Henry and Lucchino have worked with Cherington for a long time. Frankly if they have as little confidence in as you suggest, they'd be stupid not to replace him. Let's see how it plays out.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Yeah right...Chris Carpenter maybe.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Deal with reality, folks. Cherington is your GM for the next year at least.
  5. Bellhorn04
    It is kind of funny that BC would let it slip like that. The comedy of errors never ends.
  6. Bellhorn04
    The Mariners' record in King Felix starts over the last 3 years is only 50-49. Does that disqualify him or lessen him as an ace in your view?
  7. Bellhorn04
    This ace thing certainly gets a little confusing.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Cliff Lee is 6-8 this year and the Phillies are 12-16 in his starts. So if 700hitter's terms for an ace as cited above are valid, Lee's ace status is f***ed.
  9. Bellhorn04
    I wonder if Tek will be assigned to try to help Daniel Bard. Bard's numbers were consistently outstanding with Tek catching him.
  10. Bellhorn04
    'Ace' is one of the most poorly defined terms in baseball. Some people seem to be considering only Hall of Fame level performance when they talk about aces.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Another factor in the financial game is that beginning in 2014 a new and substantial penalty for exceeding the lux tax threshold comes into effect. It has something to do with losing a revenue sharing amount that all teams will receive otherwise. That's why the Yankees keep chirping about getting under the threshold for 2014. The Red Sox do have a huge amount of payroll room for 2013-2014. It'll be very interesting to see how they play it. They will be able to add a chunk this offseason and then add another chunk during the season when other teams are looking to dump salaries. I just hope they are up to this.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Orsillo's not bad. I just wish I could get hold of him and say, 'listen, Don, knock off that stupid f***ing 'expected' s***, will you?' It's been a long season...
  13. Bellhorn04
    Don Orsillo drives me nuts sometimes. Why does he have to keep constantly telling us who the 'expected' hitters for the next inning are? He seems to love that word 'expected'. And pointing out the pitch count when it's right on the screen in front of us. That is some irritating s***, Don.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Clay lowered his ERA to 4.24 on August 10. Now it's 4.22. This is going to be one of the few Red Sox teams in history without a single starting pitcher with an ERA under 4. (Minimum of 15 starts.)
  15. Bellhorn04
    I don't think everybody is writing off the Red Sox for 2013 and 2014. But the reality is, they've missed the playoffs 3 straight years in spite of their large financial advantage. Now they have to virtually start from scratch again. And the Orioles and the A's have joined the Yankees, Rays, Rangers and Angels as our competition for spots. Making the playoffs next year is a tall order indeed, IMO. Not impossible but looking like an outside chance at this point.
  16. Bellhorn04
    I whined about the Yankees when they had their spending explosion after 2008 and then won it all. But in the 3 seasons since then, Hal Steinbrenner seems to have really reigned it in and they are making some smart moves without adding much payroll. In 2003-2004 the Red Sox were spending significantly less than the Yankees and being smarter than them. I enjoyed that a lot. But as our spending went up we got much stupider. It's not an irreversible process, and hopefully the Dodgers trade was just the start of being a smart organization again.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Reddick has some horrific slumps. His 2012 averages are now lower than his 2011 averages.
  18. Bellhorn04
    I think it's good. Not sure about Varitek as a manager but I think he might be a great pitching coach.
  19. Bellhorn04
    The Yankees have been getting pieces that fit, like Granderson, Martin, Kuroda, even guys like Ibanez and Ichiro. I questioned the Granderson trade a bit at the time, but he's got back to back 40 HR seasons.
  20. Bellhorn04
    I've thought about it and I'm sticking to what I said. We've narrowed the payroll gap enormously, but they've made better personnel moves than we have the last few years. If we had this discussion before this year I might have agreed with you. But when we assess the state of the team in 2012 there's no getting around the fact that a lot of mistakes have been made that have contributed to where the team is now.
  21. Bellhorn04
    The Yankees are on their way to making the playoffs for the 17th time in 18 years. The one year they missed, in 2008, they still won 89 games. The last time they finished in the basement was 1990, back when no team had a payroll higher than 24 million. So I don't think the comparison to the Yankees stands up. They have clearly been a lot better than us at sustaining success.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Agreed.
  23. Bellhorn04
    It's very debatable that the bullpen would have been great with Bailey. The ERA's of Bailey, Melancon and Aceves are what they are. Bailey is a small sample but I wouldn't bet the house on this guy. In short the back end of the bullpen has been poor. The middle relief numbers have been very good.
  24. Bellhorn04
    ERA comparison Aceves 5.31 Bailey 6.23 Melancon 6.64 Papelbon 2.33 All those who said it was a big mistake letting Papelbon go were dead right.
  25. Bellhorn04
    I think Showalter should and will win it, absolutely. Mind you, a big key to the O's winning all those extra-inning games has been the incredible work by their bullpen. Just think of all the zeroes those guys have been putting up in the extra innings to allow their team to win. As far as Francona not winning MOY, or even finishing in the top 3 in voting, I attribute a lot of this to the voters-the writers-often not having a clue who or why to vote for. Because manager is a very intangible position. Often it's the guy whose team improved the most in W-L record from the previous year. That's the easiest way to do it. I did some digging into this and found that for 9 straight years, from 2000 to 2008, the AL MOY was the guy whose team had the biggest increase in wins from the previous year. Francona inherited a 95-win team with a lot of talent and a big payroll, so it was always going to be hard for him to convince anybody he was a difference-maker.
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