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ok I will temper my enthusiasm a bit but it is a move that I see as a little confusing. I won't change my thinking with respect to using him maybe what once every three or four days with some pinch hitting jobs thrown in will show. i'm sure that he is happy to be called up. my question really is why? If he has been called up to provide us with a better source of run producers then he needs the opportunity to prove himself. Playing sporadically probably will not do it. With all of that, just for the record, I'm really not a big Hanley fan and I think that Moreland ultimately gives us some depth.
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Throwing in the towel? really - not how I see it. Maybe you don't understand me so good. I think that Sam Travis might be better than what we are yarding out there daily. So let's see, you must not be in favor of playing any of these kids right? Let's leave all of these guys down on the farm to help our minor league franchises be successful. What do you think - trade a few more of them for some seasoned veterans?
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I don't know exactly where this discussion is coming from but i would simply say that it is impossible for most of us who have not been in a managers shoes inside the dugout to imagine what it must be like. He obviously has to be concerned about the future the bigger picture so to speak. At the same time he is directly responsible for all of the little things that go into game to game preparation- including the daily lineup. Now we could debate what an ideal lineup looks like forever as we have but personally i am going to go with what the players and coaches on the field deem is the right way to go. Being successful everyday with respect to all the little things without any doubt at all leads to big picture success. Now it is possible that the manager's effect might not be as big as some think (I would not know) but it is a managers job to have as big an effect on each game as he can by putting the best team on the field daily.
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got me with the italics stuff SS. i still haven't figured out how to present anything in bold print just yet. lol
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It really would i think depend on who is hitting. I'm not a big fan of either HR or Moreland. Since it appears that the only place for Ramirez appears to be the dh, he would not be playing everyday. The primary point that I was making is that even though platooning players based on the righty lefty concept is solid, i still think that it gets over used. i want to find out if this 23 year old can hit. I am ok with a manager actually deviating from the current gold standards.
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No I actually do not think that they do. You really can't sterilize this game. Probably why i really enjoy listening to the thoughts of Remy, Eck, and the others who have done the job.
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I wouldn't platoon him. it is another one of the overused concepts. Let's find out if he can hit!
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You know that they are not right but it still is fun to the alternative thinkers though.
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... so do I.
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might not be a bad idea - when I bought my first strat-o-matic game back in 1964-65, I cheated because those stats were just so good. Dick Radatz pitched some beauties for me. Maybe we could just play the game on the board and start Kimbrel!
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Owens does stink but what are we hanging on to him for? I wonder what the thinking is about him. One thing we do know is that him being in Pawtucket isn't standing in the way of any other ml prospect.
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If a change is made, it likely starts with Farrell. I have heard the expression "panic moves" made more than once in here when the front office or the manager does something that someone disagrees with. IMO, even though maybe it should have been done before, changing the manager now might seem a little panicky.
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What gets done with Owens and Johnson? Bringing up Val...whoever and Kendrick to pitch with these two seemingly healthy and pitching in Pawtucket seems ridiculous to me. They have both been kicking around for awhile now and it would seem to be about time they a get more than a one game here or there start to see if they will ever pitch for us.
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For the most part I agree with you Max. I'm really not a Farrell fan though. I find him to be too predictable for my liking. he seldom if ever strays from the path that most managers seem to be taking whether it has to do with on or off field managing. There is something wrong with respect to what is going on but I don't think that it can all be dumped on Farrell's shoulders. I think that a majority of the players on this team ore over rated and that people expect things from them that we aren't going to see.
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Who is the worst pitcher in Red Sox history?
cp176 replied to Northern Star's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
gave of #61 to Roger Maris. -
Who is the worst pitcher in Red Sox history?
cp176 replied to Northern Star's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Oh to be young again - Tracy Stallard gets my vote. Now without looking him up, what can you tell me about him. I'll never forget his "moment" in Red Sox history. Some of the guys mentioned in this thread would have been near aces on any number of the teams I had to watch while growing up. -
I agree. I don't think that you build a team around him no matter how good he appears to be.
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Bradley and smart! me too. i appreciate everything that IT has done but I never get too excited about one player having the ball in their hands as much as he does.
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I never thought that they would win another game with him- lol.
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i don't think that the right type of talent in general is there
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No one can argue that getting on base more frequently than others should lead to more runs scored. You still have to look at your lineup. A balance is needed. We do not have it.
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i really don't disagree with your disgust of Pomeranz, I'm disgusted by him too. i don't think that he is to blame for us having so many leadoff hitters in the lineup though. If this team had some legit power, they could probably survive with a Pomeranz at the back end of the rotation. All of our starters probably feel one hell of a lot of pressure when they go to the mound these days.
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I've been going to Portland for years now and regardless of how talented our current crop might be they are outsized easily by many teams playing today. Size doesn't equal wins - we all get that but you have to have some power in your lineup. i'm very pleased with the fact that we got Sale in the deal including the trading of Moncada but while i say that Moncada at 6'2" and 210 pounds looked like a giant in comparison to almost all of our players in Portland last year. i have to question whether a team can win while yarding out 6 or 7 leadoff hitters game in and game out. I just hope they keep on swinging.
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Really? Where is this one coming from? Pomeranz finally shows a little heart and he gets beat up over it. Oh wait, my mistake - he had thrown the ball 97 times which means that he would go over 100 if he went back out to the mound. Screw the politically correct way of baseball. When the arguments start, the end begins. i can't believe that any player in that dugout is upset because Pomeranz wanted to stay in the game. if they are, well maybe that says a great deal about them -nothing good though.
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This is the thing with all of the s*** being thrown at Pomeranz he finally showed that he might have some heart. Farrell does what he does. He tries to constantly play by someone's book. Don't know whose though. If he was a politician, i would say that he tries to constantly be politically correct. Baseball just isn't that clean.