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hey - I'm a big pivetta fan. I couldn't be happier for him. Going forward, my guess, he'll be fine.
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Rough start for Groome .
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Groome goes for Portland tonight. if he pitches well, how impressive would that staff look?
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correcto!!!
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Since this isn't a political discussion, I am not forced in to taking a side. Compromise is still ok. There is a vast difference between 80 and 140 as well as the obvious 0 to 80. I get your point but making it this way doesn't register well for me. Probably just me. I'm going to go with conditioning and overall fitness still possibly playing a role. it works better for me than simply saying manager stupidity. If I were to hang my hat on the way you have stated things, i guess that I could take this discussion right back to the youth league level where kids who have not reached puberty are actually experiencing TJ surgery. Throwing a ball repetetively for 12 months might just being taking its toll in general. i'm going with if your bullpen is weak, maybe you ought to try to get just that one more inning and maybe 10-15 more pitches out of your starter.
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Does kind of make you wonder about fatigue being a factor. Is it possible that some of these guys just tire out? Maybe conditioning plays a role in all of this.
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Oh I forgot to say that personally I think that not using a pitcher who is throwing well with a low pitch count simply because you fear what might happen when he sees anybody for the third time, is a sad way to coach. Maybe you watch him carefully but you don't yank hm just because.
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You use as much information that is available to help you do the best job that you can do but it seems to me that an extensive use of analytics to defend certain stances makes it look as though they are also being used to provide a crutch when things just don't work. Common sense and coaching means that on occasion you do what you think is the right thing to do. it is possible that a good decision might not be supported by analytics. Paralysis by analysis is a real thing. Houck and Whitlock should be both used as starters at this point or relievers but jerking them around being used as both isn't going to help this situation. They are young guys who need to have clearly defined roles. It is kind of looking as though the real hitters on this team might be our big three - Devers, Bogaerts, and Martinez. If these professional hitters are not going to be in our future, my choice would be to bring up the kids and see what they can do. What we are doing right now appears to be an exercise in colossal failure.
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you are right and it is quite obvious.
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hmmm -
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I don't disagree with you about trying to get too much too soon out of him but 78 doesn't seem to be excessive. I'm thinking at least start the 6th. In general, I see a trend here with Cora.
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I understand that the numbers don't lie and that the information is useful to have but every now and then don't you just have to go with the gut and manage? I did not see the game last night but Whitlock threw 78 pitches over the course of 5 innings and then was pulled. Unless there was something going on that I'm not aware of or possibly another plan for him, I don't get it. I would think that the time has come to see what you can get out of your starter if they are in the middle of a good one with a low pitch count. What are the numbers saying about our current success rate once the game is turned over to this bullpen? If winning is important, I think that I wouldn't be quite so quick to pull a successful starter.
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How about Jay Groome's latest effort. Maybe things are falling into place for him.
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I think that it is pathetic to think that any manager would pull a starter who is pitching well while throwing a limited amount of pitches simply because he is afraid of what might happen with a team seeing him for the third time through. I know what the metrics say but you have to coach to the moment regardless of what any one trend might say. With all of that in mind, I have to say though that I like our starting pitching and I think that I might like it more in a couple of months.
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You said a great deal in this statement that does unnerve me. If this calculation can be adjusted to suit the needs of one side or the other, can others be adjusted to do the same thing? Watching Bogaerts start this season off the way he has tends to make me say that yup he is the best overall shortstop that has been in a Red Sox uniform. it would be an absolute shame to watch him leave. I also understand that we have some very good middle infielders at the lower levels but it is going to take a while before they are ready. Much of what we see and interpret can be "in the eye of the beholder" I guess but I have seen data adjusted mathematically also which does assure me that the old eye test still plays a very big role in talent evaluation.
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Reed with a knockout punch for Portland last night. What a brawl.
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hmmm - so does that make him a much poorer shortstop than he was yesterday?
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Red Sox trade Hunter Renfroe in trade involving Jackie Bradley Jr
cp176 replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Bloom's moves so far are looking very good. I like what I have seen. Obviously it is too early to make any kind of major judgement call on him but he has an eye for good talent. You can't keep them all though and when and if the big trades do come the judgements will come flooding in then. -
Red Sox trade Hunter Renfroe in trade involving Jackie Bradley Jr
cp176 replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Binelas and Hamilton have both looked very good so far. -
Red Sox trade Hunter Renfroe in trade involving Jackie Bradley Jr
cp176 replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Based on what I have read about the starts that the two prospects gotten in the trade that brought JBJ back to Boston, I feel fairly safe in saying that Bradley was a somewhat small piece in this puzzle. he is what he is, but the two we got in the trade both have come out on fire. -
You are right.
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I loved those times. Honestly, right or wrong by today's watered down standards, I still believe that if your primary goal is to make the playoffs as opposed to being the number one seed then your chances of winning the whole thing might be wattered down just a bit because of this approach. It is pretty difficult to turn up the jets all of a sudden if they have been on standby for very long. I'm not saying that it is a good thing but this saying worked for me athletically - "What I had i gave because what i saved I lost." It's an antiquated way to approach life I guess but oh well I sure hope my grandchildren will see it that way. It is a guarantee for success no matter the job.
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No one in their right mind would disagree with any of this when looked upon through today's lens.
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Correct - I think that the playoffs in general are so watered down and lengthy now though that it decreases the incentives to finish first in the division. i do not like that. Obviously it must be just me though right who feels this way. Unfortunately i guess I was raised athletically to believe that the goal was to finish first. It is likely that no amount of soul searching or criticism with respect to my beliefs are going to change them much.
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Quite likely most people would agree with you. I would to a certain extent. I just don't share the same amount of joy i guess when any team can squeak there way into the playoffs and then get lucky. The expanded diluted playoff format makes me much less interested in the regular season than i ever was before. Oh well, the clocks not getting turned back. i much prefer watching a championship series that features 2 teams that have proven to be the best over the course of a grinding summer season.