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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. I wouldn't platoon him. it is another one of the overused concepts. Let's find out if he can hit!
  4. You know that they are not right but it still is fun to the alternative thinkers though.
  5. ... so do I.
  6. 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!
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. gave of #61 to Roger Maris.
  12. 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.
  13. I agree. I don't think that you build a team around him no matter how good he appears to be.
  14. 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.
  15. I never thought that they would win another game with him- lol.
  16. i don't think that the right type of talent in general is there
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. Whoever was responsible for drafting and cultivating our current crop of players, was really remiss when it came to considering who could in fact hit for power! That was a mistake.
  23. Yup you are right. Notin if this offends you, i apologize.
  24. i'm respect what you offer and your love of statistical data to prove your points. They really don't work for me much of the time though. For me it is very simple. One stat that is left hanging on the scoreboard at the end of the game. If Sale sees things this way, I'm going to guess that most other players do as well. It's how I see it. We are not knocking enough players in leading to us not scoring enough which leads to well you know.
  25. It is a matter of personal perspective as to whether or not lots of hits providing few if any runs is good or bad offense. in my way of looking at things if you are repetetively getting men on base but not getting them to home plate, then your offense certainly lacks something. We are lacking in the most important stat of all because we are not scoring enough runs. Bad offense.
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