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******** but for sure no one here responds quite on cue as you do.

Got to say - I liked watching Swihart out there last night. It is very likely that he is more than capable of helping us out behind the plate. From a personal aspect, I just like watching someone who just looks that athletic playing for us.

Now lots of people here have said that JD is just a piss poor outfilelder no matter where he plays. Most of us can agree that right filed is a pretty damn tough outfield position to play in Fenway. Benintendi has played a whole bunch of centerfield. He isn't f***ing terrible out there. Or if you think he is, do you think he is worse in cf than JD is in right? So lets see - You leave Beni in lf, move Mookie to cf, and you put a guy in right who just literally sucks? I don't agree with that. If Cora thought that JD was as bad as past metrics point out, he would have left him right in left field, moved Beni to center and left Mookie in right. I agree that it isn't as good as when you have JBJ out there but it is better than having one blackhole playing in right. That really is my opinion. Slasher don't turn this into a shitstorm for me. This is really all about me not buying in to every aspect of what the people doing the metrics are pumping out. I see the value in using them but I will never buy into thinking that they are right all of the time.

Yes notin I can agree with you for sure there. For the record, I never even hinted at saying he was good in right field. I for sure never said that he was good in left field. But I have to say that anyone who doesn't think that he has looked decent out there is being unfair to one of the best players we have had playing for us in years. If he starts screwing up, I will certainly admit that I have been wrong. That is not a problem for me. I'm wrong a lot! lol

You mean really - I'm not the only snarky sob around here?

thanks for that.

I'm not dismayed by that at all. You get to feel any way you like. You can continue to explain to me why JD is so bad out there. I just haven't seen it yet.

I don't think that we really know the answers to any of your questions. This is why I laugh my ass off when we spend so much time giving one man - a GM - credit for any one of the particular things that you mentioned. I don't think that Ben Cherington had anymore to do with any one thing anymore than Dave Dombrowski. Ben did not literally build anything anymore than DD has decimated anything. In all honesty i don't think that any of them are actually much better than the guys who assembled our best teams from yesteryear and yes that would include Theo.

I read an article about him just the other day. He sounded as though he was just itching to get back and that he is delighted to have this opportunity with the Boston Red Sox. I think that he still might have some life left.

Stop it Slasher - Impossible What is possible though is that no matter how much bitching and arguing we do, we all I think can agree that this particular group no matter how or who is responsible for assembling them has been an absolute pleasure to watch and follow. What a summer!!!

I don't think that anyone is advocating for him playing anywhere in the outfield full time.

To find the answer as to why JD was in right last night, I think you would have to go directly to the highly rated and appreciated metric folks working for the Sox. That is where Cora got his information (according to him) with respect to putting his best outfield in place with JBJ on the bench.

No I can't!!! If I could I wouldn't because I would be afraid of leaving out some particularly disagreeable peckerhead. i don't want anybody's feelings being hurt.

I'm with you here Moon and i think that DD has excellent eye for coming up with those tweaks.

yes!!!

Dojji's posts are working well for me.

I basically agree with your whole post here though I do think that Leon is likely capable of handling 60 to 80 % of the load going forward. I suppose the Sox might have been keeping Swihart on the 25 man in a sort of planning ahead if something unfortunate were to happen kind of way. My guess though would be that they really wanted and probably still want to find out if he is really worth hanging onto going forward. With respect to ml baseball in general, the overall level of play sort of stinks. I'm really happy that we are one of the few have teams at this time. We are going to find out about Swihart pretty soon for sure.

Can't be Joe can it?

Sandy Leon is a very competent catcher. He is as good as Vazquez. I believe he is very capable of doing the job with a few days off here and there.

I'm really scratching my head over the pressing need in some people's minds to trade for anybody right now. We have some guys toward the back end of our lineup who might even be stars playing for someone else. Outside of a few teams, ml baseball really isn't high on quality this year. Go with what we got.

Me too with respect to Pearse. I think that DD does his homework and is trying to bring the right types of guys in to Boston.

Whoops that catch by Bogaerts sure has to confuse our metric loving folk who tend to think that he sucks just like JD. Great catch!

Absolutely!

Good post Hitch - i think there are quite a few of us who are really pulling for this kid!

Right again my friend!