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  1. Bellhorn04
    Personally I was fine with trying to make Bard a starter. Part of that is, I don't buy into the 'elite set up man' concept that much. I believe there are elite closers but it seems Bard just didn't want to be a closer. In the history of baseball there have not been very many 'career elite setup men'. The setup position is very transient. Padilla and Miller have been doing well, Bailey is coming back etc. We've got a herd of relievers but the #5 spot in the rotation is still an X factor.
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    Anybody that isn't worried about Gonzo at this point is kidding themselves. Something isn't right and more than likely his shoulder is affecting him a lot more than he's saying. I won't be surprised if we get some sort of breaking news on this soon. Maybe the Red Sox crack medical staff should be proactive and examine it? Nah, they'd never do that...
  3. Bellhorn04
    That sums up this ugly loss.
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    Mine is frozen too...as frozen as Gonzo's HR total.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Swell.
  6. Bellhorn04
    Thanks for that image.
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    DiceK is why God made Gameday.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Depends on the expectations. If he can replace what Bard was doing prior to Sunday, that's an adequate #5 starter. And there aren't a whole lot of other options.
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    :lol:
  10. Bellhorn04
    ??? Bard pitched 5.1 against Detroit. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that is 'out of the 5th' and 'into the 6th'.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Isn't 'indirect effect' kind of muddying the waters here? Russell Martin is hitting .194 with an OBP of .342 this year. Are the high number of walks having any effect at all on his batting avg? Did the high number of walks have any effect on J D Drew's batting avg.?
  12. Bellhorn04
    Yes and no. Morales gave the Sox a chance to come back but the bats were in the deep freeze for the day. 4.1 scoreless is pretty good against the Jays.
  13. Bellhorn04
    I did look at the stats. You said the Detroit start was a step back from the Philly start. Philly 5.0 IP ER 5 H 3 BB 5 K 3 Detroit 5.1 IP ER 2 H 5 BB 2 K 4
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    Correct me I'm wrong, but strikeouts simply have no effect at all on BABIP, they are a complete non-factor, the same way walks have no effect on batting avg.
  15. Bellhorn04
    How was the performance against Detroit a step backward? The consensus here was that it was a step forward.
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    Another thing I have to point out about the Bard situation, without trying to downplay the disastrousness of what happened yesterday, is that we had won his two previous starts against Baltimore and Detroit, with Bard allowing 2 runs in each. So it's not like the FO has been standing by watching something getting worse and worse.
  17. Bellhorn04
    No they would never think of that. Good God, the Red Sox have used the phantom DL plenty of times.
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    Being in last place is not much of a factor when you're 3 games out of first place and there are 108 games left to play.
  21. Bellhorn04
    It would be very nice to see him go deep today. Rogers Centre is a good place for him to do it. As we saw with Punto going upper deck.
  22. Bellhorn04
    There's another part to that Lee-Sprowl story. The team enlisted Yaz to go to Zimmer and plead with him to start Lee instead of Sprowl. Zimmer pulled a bunch of clippings out of his desk with stories about Lee calling him a gerbil, and refused to change his mind. I think Zimmer was also quoted as saying 'the kid's got ice water in his veins' about Sprowl.
  23. Bellhorn04
    22 games .314/.444/.543 “God-dang,’’ manager Bobby Valentine said. “He just hits the ball where they weren’t and hit it hard and worked the count. He looks like as good a hitter as you want. Every at-bat he takes pitches that are balls and takes full swings at pitches that are strikes. That’s a good combination.’’ Valentine said Nava has the ability to recognize the location of pitches quickly and decide whether to swing. That enables him to go deep into counts and take confident swings. He saw 22 pitches on Friday. “Am I surprised? I’m absolutely amazed,’’ Valentine said.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Some interesting posts here on pitching and innings-per-start stats. Maybe we should have a separate thread on pitching. I always go to the stats of my 2 favorite teams in history-the 2004 and 2007 Red Sox. The 2004 team had 443 innings pitched by the bullpen and the 2007 team had 447 innings. I think the 'gold standard' for innings per start now is 7. Anybody who can consistently do that like Verlander and Sabathia is a certified horse. To get to 200 innings in 32 starts you only have to average a little over 6 innings per start. I think any starter that can get you 6.5 innings per start or more is doing exceptionally well. As another poster said it's a different game now and it's more difficult for starters to be effective deep into games for various reasons.
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    Atchison with the GAUDY 0.89 ERA.
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