cp176
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I have a problem with bad baseball of any kind if it is mental in nature. The ultimate outcome of the game means nothing to me when I break a game down. Winning the game doesn't make bad mental baseball ok. It has happened too often.
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I'm with you - very rare. i agree. But it still would not surprise me at all if this is who these guys are going forward with a few exceptions. i absolutely expect Betts to be better going forward. I can not say that with any confidence at all about any of the rest of these guys. I want to think that Bogaerts is going to be better than this but I'm just not sure.
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No one is shrugging anything off my friend. I think that the performances of some of these guys this year probably are much closer to who they might actually be. Not counting Vazquez of course who i happen to think is over performing.
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I do agree I just think that it is a semantics thing again for one and then it kind of revolves around what you expected out of these guys this year. I am absolutely sure that you are right about their outcomes this year not being mathematically suggested. But I still do not find the declines by any of these players not named Betts or Bogaerts to be something that might not have been predicted. unusual that they would all experience declines but not otherworldly. if Bogaerts and betts were both performing close to where most of the posters here thought they should, no one would be saying anything about the dips being experienced by anyone else.
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hunker down - good luck to you and your Dad
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i think that it would seem unusual for sure but really not unbelievable at all. The two that puzzle me the most are Bogaerts and Betts for sure. As for the others not so much. Leon - last years really? Ramirez - unpredictable since what 2011 - good when he is healthy - up and down Bradley - really? what do people expect? Pedroia - really going to count him - the injury train has started in earnest I'm afraid i guess i just don't see the big mystery . Betts and Bogaerts yes - the rest not really - I'm not surprised at all. i know that you could list now every player from young to Marrero to show me how they have underachieved but remember I'm not letting the facts get in my way. A case can be made for Betts and Bogaerts.
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I'm not disagreeing with your data for sure - I'm just not mystified nor have I observed many here saying that we are a bad baseball team. I tend to think that it is much more likely that this is who we are as opposed to who we were last year. Moving forward this is quite likely more accuraely depicts who we are going to be. If people's expectations for this year were built around how we hit last year, i guess it is safe to say that they have been over rated.
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Saying that our hitting isn't very good is a long way from saying that our team isn't very good. All of us know that we have one of the better teams in baseball. There are some of us - me being one - who really aren't mystified or confused at all by what this team has hit like. Assuming that they were all going to hit like last year's team, was a big stretch for me. Their collective ability to hit for any real power has been over rated by some here all year long. That does not mean that they are a bad team. Quite the contrary - they are pretty darn good. I would agree that I expected more form Mookie - not quite last year more but still more than this year - and that Bogaert's fall off the wall has been disappointing. DD has made some wise moves to inject some life into that batting order and we still keep battling away. We all probably want more but overall we ain't too bad.
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An excellent point!
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Farrell very well might be in his last season as manager of the Sox. Depends on what happens I guess. If he is fired, it will be primarily because of the players playing the game. I really think that they have been over rated as a group throughout the course of this entire season. DD made a couple of very solid moves to help give us a lift. This isn't about motivating players to play better. They aren't that good. I think that it is pretty impresssive that we are where we are in the standings right now. I hope the smoke and mirror show continues.
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so true - or bring back Morehead!
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The latest is that Price is starting it up again. I know that it might not be a popular opinion but a functioning Price could really help us down the stretch. I have very little confidence overall right now in either Porcello (imagine that), E-Rod (hope he proves me wrong) and just a little more confidence in Pomeranz(even though I still him and the trade). Based on what we have seen recently, it would be Sale followed by Fister in the big picking order these days. I think we need another big armed lefty in there.
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9/4 toronto in beantown
cp176 replied to Station 13's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
I like Johnson but what he ultimately gives is another 4/5 starter if he could stay healthy. -
Her win got piggy backed by other contributors as well. Well over a million being raised. Good for her!
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I very much agree. Based on what Young has done, i don't see it as being much of a gamble regardless of how a Brentz experiment might work out. Personally, I would not write off what Barfield has done this year as simply being AAAA calibre either.
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I've liked Sam Travis for some time now but I don't think that another singles hitter at first base is going to do us any good. We need bigger bats. You have to have some people who can produce with big hits. You just can't rely on dinging and donging if you want to win big. If your pitching is out of this world good, well then maybe - ours isn't. It has nothing to do with whether people enjoy big hitters as opposed to little hitters or not. It has everything to do with what it takes to win.
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Right on!
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a simple DNA test should clear things up -lol
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Max - Are you related to AB?
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It came across exactly like you wanted it to. Good job.
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Some of this is determined by the perspective of the evaluators. I love the fact that Benintendi plays hard and is hitting. I do think that that makes him special (not Stanton special but special nonetheless). What makes him somewhat less special in my mind is that he does things that really are not fundamentally sound on occasion. i still like him though but when i look at the whole body of work - I see special potential who isn't there yet.
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Kind of like how people from other parts of the country view our Patriots, Red Sox, and very soon again CELTICS. A little bit of a head scratcher though since the Yanks really are not that good. lol
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I don't sense authoritarian in you. I am very familiar with those types of people. They can never be wrong. Keep on keepin on my friend.
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!!! - I agree - Even it it doesn't lead to runner advancement, it is still ridiculously piss poor baseball.
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I really like Mookie and players like him but I am thinking that his future play is apt to lie somewhere between what we saw last year and what we are seeing this year. People have talked on occasion here of trying to lock him up for the next decade. I'm guessing that management has to walk a fine line here. If he is willing to take that hometown discount maybe but if he wants the Ferrari contract, maybe he has to play out the string. I like him and the skill set that he brings but I can't help but think that he is just as replaceable as most of the rest of them.