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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Agreed.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Bellhorn04
    I'm just frustrated that a team with our resources has seen its pitching slide steadily to the bottom of the league the last few years.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Maybe our organization is just doing a s***** job at coaching and developing pitchers. The track record the last 5+ years would indicate that. We're getting nothing out of our system. And it's kind of funny that a guy like this would get picked up by another organization and succeed right away.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Seriously? I didn't know a thing about Gonzalez. He was in the minors. The Orioles scouts saw something in him that our scouts didn't. It looks to me like our scouts screwed up. Simple as that.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Too bad we couldn't get somebody like Miguel Gonzalez, the pitcher who beat us last night. Oh wait, we did have Gonzalez, for 3 effing years. We gave up on him, the O's signed him, and he has a lower ERA than any of our starters. More great work by the Sox organization.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Yes, that's the bright side of sucking this bad. Good players are useless to us, so there's no need to pay anybody good money.
  13. Bellhorn04
    I don't think so, because we'd have to overpay him.
  14. Bellhorn04
    I can't see much point. If Rivera does come back it'll be for one year only, and I doubt he has any interest in wrapping a career as a Yankee legend with a one-off for another team.
  15. Bellhorn04
    I'm not so sure it's ridiculous. We paid him 12 million last year. The AAV of his contract with the Phillies is 12.5 million. 4 years is long for a reliever, but Papelbon has proven himself to be very durable, and this year is no exception.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Some of these overpaid guys can be pretty useful. Overpaid Ortiz had the highest OPS in the league when he got hurt.
  17. Bellhorn04
    The Red Sox are for sale and Cano is suspended. Keep it comin' folks.
  18. Bellhorn04
    And, as Palodios keeps pointing out, he's only mid-tier.
  19. Bellhorn04
    They certainly could contend for a playoff spot, considering that they now only have about $50 million in payroll committed for next year. The rest is up to Benny Boy.
  20. Bellhorn04
    So why don't the organizations hire smart guys as managers? Maybe it's because if you're smart you don't want to be a baseball manager.
  21. Bellhorn04
    You could be right about Ellsbury and PED's. Nothing would shock me anymore, and when a guy's power suddenly spikes like that it naturally raises suspicion. Personally I have to give him the benefit of the doubt at this point. If he never comes close to 2011 again it'll certainly look like a Brady Anderson deal.
  22. Bellhorn04
    But you think most managers are idiots.
  23. Bellhorn04
    So why isn't he on a similar pharmaceutical regime this year? He got away clean last year. Why would he go for a big one-off season in 2011 when he doesn't become a free agent until after 2013?
  24. Bellhorn04
    OK well if you know it was steroids, I guess that's that.
  25. Bellhorn04
    To me they seem like they're already f**ked for this year.
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