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I have been a huge supporter of Brian Johnson but I would say that it is time to let both of these boys go. If you want fillers, use someone else. I think that we all know what they have and in all honesty it just isn't enough.
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Nice - i like you even more than i did before. Now you know that that is hard for me to say Mr. Espnoza.
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I'm just going to hold the line and say that anyone giving up Chris Sale is not being rational. he'll be back so to speak.
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Guess I missed something. I haven't been too interested in reading much of what has been posted lately. Did the people in charge suggest to Chris Sale that he would be a better pitcher if he hadn't renegotiated his contract? By the way, I get a kick out of Charles Barkley. I like the guy but wisdom isn't the word that pops into my head when I hear from him.
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I think that I agree with just about everything here.
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likely true
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Is this a suggestion that Sale is more concerned with the money he makes as opposed to his performance? It's a joke right? nice one - lol
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I also do not think that this man is done. He throws the ball to hard and the movement on the slider remains. I would never bet against a man with his type of passion. he is having a bad year - I get that - but much of the criticism read about him on this site is ridiculous. Ultimately I think that he will earn his paycheck.
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my post was in response to Jung's latest.
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So I think that it is safe to say that in your opinion only the Red Sox have just two players who are actually "team players". Don't think that I can buy that one at all. Sometimes the best plans based on last year or what the statistics say should happen, just don't happen. This team is sad to watch on that one I definitely agree.
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You are so so right on this one but it is also imo the beauty of sports in general. Not everything is predictable. There are so many intangibles that figure in to success in any sport. It is always fun to predict things based on past performance but until the games begin no one can say with any certainty what is going to happen. This year's team has been a huge disappointment - who could have figured that one.
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Cora is a good coach who isn't going anywhere just yet. I just have to find it amusing that many people here wanted to anoint him as the best ever on a one year team performance. I've heard so much about small sample sizes but I guess when the mood hits it's ok? I'm actually ok with anyone feeling this way. I do still think that what Williams did with what he had to work with in 1967 stands out as every bit a remarkable though.
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I get this and I understand you. I like reading what you post. I am interested in the metrics and advanced stats but not my passion. I will rely on people like you to keep me informed. I just don't happen to like the condescension that often comes from others simply because it is not a shared interest. And oh don't they get angry when I tell them that it is fairly likely that I do in fact know more about the actual game than they do.
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I respect the interests of all people but her assessment of who should use advanced stats and who shouldn't and when is ridiculous. Being on a baseball forum does absolutely not require someone to be immersed in the language of advanced stats or whatever. I will also add that personally I would never argue against the use of advanced analytics. I'm pretty sure that there are many people who have no interest at all in advanced analytics but yet know more about the actual game of baseball than I will ever know. This site does not have many regular posters and my guess would be that if a thorough knowledge of advanced stats was required before participation, there would be less. I think that there is a place on a baseball forum for just about anybody who wants to talk baseball.
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I like this!!!
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I honestly do not think that there is a hard and fast plan to do that. obviously no one wants to spend one penny more than they have to but i do not think that John Henry has or will say that there is a specific limit that he will not go over.
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Now I realize that I am likely to get scoffed at for this one because I never have believed in any type of cliff nor have I thought that the franchise has a fast and firm budget that cannot be gone over. here is what I think - JBJ is likely gone - Porcello is gone - Benintendi may actually get traded - JD stays - that is all for starters.
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their mental makeups possibly can be compared but that of course is it. In terms of talent as well as accomplishments, they are and have always been light years apart. I like Porcello but his potential can be replaced. Sale's cannot.
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i clearly do not hang out with the "right fans". Now before you misunderstand me, i absolutely appreciate the great love of all metrics that many who post here have. I think that it is wonderful, just not my thing and I do consider myself a very good fan of the game. To take it one step further, no one and I mean no one that I know when having a conversation about the red sox or baseball in general has ever referred to anything that could even remotely be considered an advanced metric. I enjoy all of you folks who have such love for them and i do appreciate their significance but I truly do not think that fans that I know anyway discuss athletics in this way. And although I respect the knowledge base of anyone who has learned not only the terminology of metrics but also how they can be used, I do not think that gaining that knowledge makes anyone anything particularly special.
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I think that everyone knows that taken in isolation a pitcher's won loss record is an unreliable means of evaluating a pitcher's overall performance. We know that. I'm a fairly good fan of the game but I have to say that I find the advanced stat overload cumbersome and for the most part meaningless to me. I'm not going to be making the trades or signing the players to come to play. I want to watch them play. I think that there is a place for all of us. I do not think that understanding what every advanced stat in existence being used today necessarily makes a person a better fan of the actual game of baseball. They serve a purpose just not for everyone.
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Of course this is an accurate statement. Most stats are flawed as is just about everything else. There are always different ways to look at things and of course it is necessary to use all tools available when evaluating anything but as a very general statement I like pitchers who win. In the long run, I guess I think that the pitchers who win more than they lose are pretty good.
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This my friend is an excellent point. Don't stay up late though waiting for the critics to tell you that the value of wins and saves is meaningless. Personally wins mean a great deal more to me than saves but to shrug them off as meaningless statistics doesn't seem to make too much sense.
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Definitive, sustantiated role of Pedroia in Price/Eck incident
cp176 replied to dustcover's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
hey I was kind of wondering about pedroia -
Definitive, sustantiated role of Pedroia in Price/Eck incident
cp176 replied to dustcover's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Anyone still paying any attention to this argument between two successful adults is giving too much importance to the world of entertainment in my opinion. If this was an attitude shared by people in boston in general I would call it horribly regressive. Is it really that important to people that an athlete has to love the entire landscape that they are paid to perform in? -
I have not been posting often primarily due to the fact that this team has been so painful to watch but I did read here on one these threads someone being quite critical of sale and that one got my attention. It has hurt me to watch him struggle as much as it has hurt anyone but I'm not buying anyone saying that he is done. Watching him pitch his last two starts should have shut up his numb nut critics. he still can throw. he is a warrior and exactly what any team in any sport needs. As for out bullpen - it has been a sad thing to watch. If you want to compete these days, obviously you have to have a good one. Ours isn't. You get what you pay for. You have to spend something to get something. Trying to to build one on the cheap may occasionally work especially for teams with no money but losing games by constantly experimenting really doesn't make much sense.