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Seriously - Fenway is no longer the HR hitter's park it used to be? lol I think that it has everything to do with the product that is being put out there on the field unless something dramatic has happened down there that I haven't seen. 2 years ago at Portland, it looked as though we had one guy that might have some real power on that entire team. That guy (Moncada) is no longer with us. More thought needs to be given to the types of hitters that are drafted than has been given in the past. Good little guys (which is what we are for the most part) quite often help good big guys win in any sport. It isn't the park - its the power outage.
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I agree with this one. I think that what to do with Hanley is secondary to getting JD signed. He will figure it out and it very well might mean keeping them all. I'm not sure anyone here has really talked about what Moreland's role might be with us for the next couple of years. I'm not even sure that it really matters to him. He is a ballplayer. I like him. He just might be one of those guys who will do what he is asked to do when he is asked to do it as well as he can.
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FTR - It is ok to poke fun of me! It wasn't all that long ago that my mother in law educated me with respect to the mythical irregardless word. An English minor really should have known better I guess.
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You calling me a weasel?
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You do frustrate me from time to time but you are alright. I am ok with being one who believes that lengthed is a word. I am having a tougher time buying into the greater usage of the word pleaded as opposed to pled these days anyway. lol I'm pretty sure that yes we would disagree as to what a reasonable amount of time to sign JD Martinez might be but I bet that it would be closer than you think.
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And anything else you happen to not personally like I would add! Jason Variety was good, maybe even very good for us but many people see him as being a whole lot better than he was. That is ok - it is what we Red Sox fans tend to do. he was the right guy at the right time.
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Not me - I thought he waited too long lol before bringing him up. Had to try to add the bat. I did think that he would field the position better than he did but hey Butterfield can straighten him out. Oh wait - what have I said- no Butterfield.
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just fooling around
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Tartabull made that throw from right in '67. (I think)
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Obviously you never saw Gary Gieger picking them for us out there in center during the early 60's.
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I agree with you but I am glad that Tek came along when he did. I like the word overrated. It is what most of us do as Red Sox fans.
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I hated seeing Longoria coming to the plate. We might have all over rated him for sure but if we have over rated Longoria, it says more about us than anything else. Outside of Sale and maybe Betts I guess, there really isn't one player on our current crop who I think that I would genuinely miss if they were not reupped when their contracts are up. It's the people who fret about cliffs and ******** windows who are doing the worrying not me. If we had to start from scratch, I think that I would be ok with it. In order for this group to move forward, they need some help from the outside for sure. I would not save one penny in an effort to hoard my loot so I would have enough to future sign many of these guys. They are ours so we cheer for them.
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second best what else other than catcher? got me there. Yes - I liked Geddy but I will give the nod to Varitek. Now if we had gotten a younger, healthier version of Elston Howard back in the day, Tek would be relegated to a bobblehead on the shelf for me.
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We will always be looking for the next Willie Mays I think.
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I really don't disagree with your take at all. Just a little disgruntled by a euphoric Yankee fan trying to give me a baseball education. Maybe the only different take I might have is that I just think that we need to add a power bat in general. I felt this way last year, I feel this way now, and if we don't add one, I will continue to feel the same way I guess.
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You know what I see here is that for all of this blow and bluster how the game is changing and it is different now than it used to be and that our opinions might be a little behind the times, there are many hypocrites among us. Looking at certain positions on a baseball diamond as being the positions that you must get your power from is age old. Time to wake up and move into this wonderful internet information accessible age before us. lol many times over!!!
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I'm sure that you are right here but looking at things realistically isn't always the same as tearing someone down. I know that you understand this. In my lifetime, I still consider Tek to be the second best in a Sox uniform that I have seen.
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I do have to add one more thing here that any person who has coached will identify with. When you look at any athlete no matter the level, you have to take in all of the traits and abilities that they bring to the table. And when it is all said and done, you have to really focus on their positive gifts. Work on the weaknesses but recognize and enphasize the strengths. JBJ to most represents one of the best center fielders in the game.
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Of course I think about his bat but when you ask me who is the best centerfielder in the game today, the only thing I think about is how that person plays his position. I do not think about his bat. If I am alone in thinking this fine - ok with that here. It is my opinion.
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I'm beginning to kind of like your opinionated way of looking at things maybe because I agree with you more often than not. Although I think that Varitek stabilized the catching position for us, I never considered him to be great by any means.
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With JBJ, I really don't even think about his bat. Got some power - very streaky - take what you get. When I read the many ways that people are trying to compare him to everybody else who plays centerfield, I chuckle to myself. You kind of have to accept him for what he is and I think that you are very hard pressed to find a better center fielder in the game today but that is just me and I really don't get too hung up in all of the statistical minutia that is out there. Much too much information for me. I'll also add that simply because I have been reading what other people have written about Martinez, I would not be surprised at all to find him being at least adequate for us in left field. He is likely not as bad out there as some are trying to convince us he is.
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5 years is fine.
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Is Benintendi as bad as the metrics depict him to be? Watching him play, it is hard for me to buy the fact that he is not an average if not better ss. Granted there are others who really are substantially better but is he really as bad as some scream on here that he is? I don't think so. I do still think that any metric you can find that can help you with making any kind of decision can and should be used but blanket statements made on what certain stats seem to indicate is ridiculous. Many of us, like you and I, realize the importance of using what is available to help in the decision process but it won't change anyone's perspective of us or what we believe if we do not buy into the concept that advanced metrics is really the only way to go ultimately. We are old fashioned and grossly behind the times. Lastly, JBJ in centerfield gives us an edge over almost every team in mlb. He ain't bad!
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I got it and the point makes sense. I don't think that signing Martinez to a reasonably lengthed contract is going to be any kind of an issue. I will say that I am not as enamored with the members of this current team as some here are. There are very few on this current roster that I care enough about to offer them gobs of $ to reup. A couple, yes, but not many. I also truly believe that someday JH is going to sell this team and when he does, the profit he makes will make any budget that we have now or have going forward look paltry.
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What a finish - a simple little half-court trap on the sideline. Should absolutely never work right? Tell that to big ben when he throws the last pass of the game into the absolute middle of the field. It is about the mental!!!