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  1. Bellhorn04
    Ruth of course was also a pretty damn good pitcher. He picked up an additional 20 WAR from it, in fact!
  2. Bellhorn04
    Probably not in a PR sense, but Devers is raking, so if it worked out baseball-wise that might be more important. It's all opinions.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Right, just like your belief that Cora is mishandling the Devers situation could be totally out to lunch.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Maybe Cora did that just to put his mind at ease and let him focus on hitting. I highly doubt he made any promises about never playing 1B ever. That'd be pretty foolish since Cora could be gone any time himself. The bottom line is none of us know jack about what was actually said and we're all just guessing. But the fact Devers is hitting like a beast now after all the uproar suggests that however Cora handled it wasn't the worst thing.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Maybe Anthony is the guy who should be working out at 1B?
  6. Bellhorn04
    Well maybe Max has a point. Maybe focusing on DH has worked for Devers. He's certainly been hitting well.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Bailey got a few good months out of him. Bailey hasn't really proved his methods are effective with any of our pitchers for very long. Plus a lot of them are getting injured.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Houck had some success before Bailey came along. Bailey made a pretty big change in his pitch mix, and it worked great at first, but it seems like hitters rapidly caught on. Now he looks like a total writeoff. I have no idea how much of it is Bailey's fault. It's all speculation. But when things turn to s**t there's going to be speculation aplenty.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Yes.
  10. Bellhorn04
    I think you're going to start hearing about it, but in the wrong direction. Can't shake the feeling the Sox have gone all in on certain 'scientific'/'philosophical' approaches that just aren't working.
  11. Bellhorn04
    No kidding. We're mostly here to express our opinions.
  12. Bellhorn04
    We really have very little clue what JH is thinking about the Sox any more. He says nothing. There has to be frustration though. They spent on this team, they had 3 hot prospects, but it looks like a train wreck. The Sons of Sam Horn boys are pointing fingers at Cora but also at Bailey and at the hitting approach. There's something obviously wrong with the way this team is being run.
  13. Bellhorn04
    I still think Cora is a very good in-game manager. I think the things that have really started to raise questions are the team's sloppiness and/or listlessness. We've seen the team battle back from deficits several times in the last two series so that's a positive sign. But they need to get on a run. Flipping and flopping around the .500 mark is getting old.
  14. Bellhorn04
    The simple answer is business is #1. But a winning team is generally better for business. More fan interest and extra revenue from playoff games. So there's a connection between the two.
  15. Bellhorn04
    I need a better definition of the eye test too.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Does the eye test include looking at the box scores? That's all you needed with Crochet and Giolito the last two games.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Well, I think we're overstating JH's loyalty to Cora bit. JH is still a businessman first and foremost.
  18. Bellhorn04
    I'll go with the common sense test, myself. Crochet pitched great, Giolito pitched like crap, pitching wins and losses mean jack, because it's a team game. And you can figure that out just by looking at box scores.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Great song by Rory Gallagher.
  20. Bellhorn04
    That's easy to say but not so easy to put into practice, mainly because it's such a team game. Last night Giolito pitched horribly but the team got him off the hook for the loss. So his horrible pitching didn't actually lead to an L. Whereas Crochet's excellent performance in the previous game did lead to an L. So there you have 2 games in a row where the performance and the result didn't match up. And those are just the last 2 games played by our team.
  21. Bellhorn04
    About six feet under.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Errors are very reviewable after the fact. The scoring can be changed up to 24 hours after the game is over.
  23. Bellhorn04
    The first number is the only one that matters. Leading to runs is a product of randomness just like everything else that advances baserunners.
  24. Bellhorn04
    I'd like to see some data on that. 😀
  25. Bellhorn04
    All I'm really saying is, errors may be overrated, as has been discussed at length here, but the Red Sox leading in baseball in errors this year, and a close second last year, is still a bad thing.
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