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    Adding to the conundrum with Crawford is his poor numbers against lefties. 262/308/375 lifetime and 195/249/317 last year. I wonder if Bobby V would consider batting him in different spots based on the starter. Or if he's more interested in fixing his swing.
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    I think you're actually touching on one of the reasons Theo may have been so eager about acquiring Crawford. Having a team that is built for Fenway has often meant having a team that is lousy on the road. I think Theo believed that Crawford's speed and defence would make this a better road team.
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    Yes, it will be.
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    I'm sure the genius Bobby V can figure out this lineup stuff without breaking a sweat.
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    Gotta correct one thing there Fred. In 2009 when Ellsbury when struggling they tried Pedroia at leadoff. He hit 219/287/333 in 116 PA and they got him the hell out of there. Pedroia made some pointed comments about how batting leadoff changed his hitting approach and how he had trouble adapting to it.
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    Speaking of Oscars, does anybody know if Brad Pitt uses the term 'low risk, high reward' in Moneyball?
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    The Yankees put two penny stocks in their rotation last year and got high returns on both. There are actually a fair number of these stocks that hit, because baseball is such a weirdly unpredictable sport. That's why GM's keep buying them. Cherington couldn't get enough of them this offseason.
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    OK, I will buy relatively low risk, relatively high reward. To me the thing causing the confusion is what the term risk means here. I've always interpreted low risk/high reward as implying that if it fails, you're not going to lose that much on it. I might argue that Aceves was low risk, high reward. Especially because it's one of the few of ours that actually succeeded.
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    Billy Beane calls the A's acquisition of Manny Ramirez low risk, high reward.
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    It seems to me Terry Ryan was saying high risk of failure, high reward if successful. And he was leaving out the financial part altogether. How much money did they lose with Zumaya?
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    The purpose of the statements by Henry and Lucchino seems clear to me. They're defending themselves against charges that they are being tight with money, that their interest in the team is being distracted by the soccer team etc. They think they're getting a bad rap. This has been going on since the 'bridge year' flap.
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    Also, nick, if 'the sky's the limit' financially, how do you reconcile that to the Scutaro trade.
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    Fine, but still nothing there that indicates that Cherington would have the final say on which further expenditures or offers would be approved. Henry and Lucchino have amply demonstrated that they are hands-on executives, and it's them doing the talking here.
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    The moderator already said he doesn't like pictures being posted. Good old Muggah, making it clear he's mainly around to cause trouble.
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    Maybe because spring training games haven't even started yet.
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    It's that simple. Not sure why nick doesn't get it. But apparently he needs a public statement from the Red Sox front office about what the budget is and who set it, before he would accept such a notion.
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    Absolutely. And if the reports were correct the Red Sox 'had interest'. But he signed with the Yankees for $10 million. Which brings us to one of the key points we're arguing here: were the Red Sox pinching pennies, and if so, where did the directive to pench pennies come from. Personally I highly doubt it came from Benny.
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    It's definitely not CP, Pumpsie. Doesn't post like him at all.
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    This post by Pumpsie Green on the other thread deserves to be copied here. "Ben didn't have the resources to plan for the bad. Had Henry opened up his wallet we could have obtained a decent SP. He didn't, and we didn't. And no one is going to trade for any of our mediocre farm system player in exchange for a good ML SP. Hard to blame Cherington for the makeup of this year's team. I blame Epstein because he is the one who upon leaving raped the team."
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