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  1. FredLynn
    Rodney is vulnerable.....if we can get the leadoff guy on base we have a chance.
  2. FredLynn
    Incorrect. American league stats.....sixth in all of baseball puts them in the top 1/5 in all of baseball. Not bad. http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/pitching/split/128/league/al
  3. FredLynn
    No walks!
  4. FredLynn
    They do need one more reliable setup guy, but saying they are a problem is factually inaccurate. They are third in the league in ERA.
  5. FredLynn
    I'll take that
  6. FredLynn
    Meh....they need someone better than another pitcher with an ERA over 4 and an ERA+ of 101. Pretty average, though he would be in improvement over the likes of German and Gray, probably on the level of Tanaka. They get DeGrom and I would be concerned; not Happ.
  7. FredLynn
    He had it after he was drafted and had already started throwing the ball for money. Small point. But I agree with you: the financial incentive for young men to throw the ball in a manner that predisposes them to surgery before they are fully developed physically is a tough problem. I don't think you can tell them not to do it; that would be up to their parents. "The Nationals drafted Giolito with the 16th overall pick and signed him at the deadline to a $2.925 million signing bonus. The Nationals chose Giolito, 18, with the expectation that he may need Tommy John surgery. He spent his senior high school season in Southern California rehabbing from a strained elbow ligament. Giolito made his professional debut in the Florida Gulf Coast League on Aug. 14, throwing two innings. But in the aftermath, the pain he had spent months recovering from returned, and the need for surgery arose. "
  8. FredLynn
    He had TJ surgery after he was out of HS. But the injury that caused him to need it occurred in HS. It wasn't elective surgery if he wanted to continue to play ball. He got two opinions and both doctors recommended the procedure. No doctor who wants to maintain his license would perform surgery of this nature just to increase the velocity on a man's fastball. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/nationals-journal/post/nationals-first-pick-lucas-giolito-to-undergo-tommy-john-surgery/2012/08/23/71683bd0-ed7b-11e1-9ddc-340d5efb1e9c_blog.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1151d6902ea4
  9. FredLynn
    Johnson has earned a spot in the rotation; Pomeranz has not. Its as simple as that. I think its a dumb decision to award Pomeranz that spot. Put him in the pen and see if he can win back what he lost.
  10. FredLynn
    I am not sure how the brackets would work...but the way things are now the Sox have the best record; Yankees #2 (and I am assuming the can beat Seattle); Astros #3; Cleveland #4. Would we not draw Cleveland and the Yankees would get the Astros in the first series?
  11. FredLynn
    Got it. Still, the Yankees would draw the Astros I think.....if things are unchanged and the Yankees beat Seattle.
  12. FredLynn
    I would go with the better overall player.
  13. FredLynn
    They really need two. Sonny Gray has been awful, as has German. Tanaka has not even been as good as Johnson and Sabathia is an injury waiting to happen.
  14. FredLynn
    I could be wrong, but I think there is some rule where you can't play a team in your own division in the first round....so the Yankees would likely draw the Astros and the Sox would play the Guardians....long way to go though.
  15. FredLynn
    Yankees lose.
  16. FredLynn
    I can't argue with part of that post....the Yankees will indeed be tough to beat in the playoffs. I trust you know that the same will be true of the Red Sox. As for who will prevail, let the best team win.....as long as it isn't the Yankees.
  17. FredLynn
    Are you going to deny that up to this point Johnson, our #5 SP, has been more effective than your #3 SP? No one knows what the final tally will be. I deal in what is real, right now. Understandably since the facts indicate that as of now your #3 SP is worse than our #5 SP, you prefer to deal with what might be the case in the future. As of right now we have seven more wins than the Yankees (who, as you know, are now trailing those pesky Rays 3-1 in the sixth). I would rather be in our position than yours. As for our pen, its going to be just fine. I expect DD to acquire a good RP. Then we will be set.
  18. FredLynn
    You're right. Lets use ERA+. Tanaka: 105 Johnson: 116 The facts are a bitch, aren't they.
  19. FredLynn
    Johnson, our #5 SP, has a lower ERA than Tanaka, ostensibly the Yankees #3 SP. Nuff said...almost....your team is going to be without your #1 catcher for a long time, perhaps all season long. Now nuff said. http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24191404/yankees-expect-catcher-gary-sanchez-until-late-august-early-september
  20. FredLynn
    Absolutely Jacko...its time for Sox fans to start wringing our hands and weeping publicly. All we have in the pen are four guys with an ERA of 2.50 or less and others who have lately been pitching well. How will we possibly survive? Oh wait.....we have seven more wins than the Yankees at this point.....never mind.
  21. FredLynn
    I for one had seen enough of Beeks. No velocity to his fastball....which is fine if you have great command, which he lacks. The move for Eovaldi would seem to imply that the Sox think that ERod may not come back until much later on, if at all, and that Pomeranz doesn't have the confidence of the FO to get the job done, possibly due to injury.
  22. FredLynn
    I am waiting for the Sox to announce that Pomeranz is going on the DL with the injury he suffered in ST that never resolved. Loss of velocity like he has shown makes me suspicious that an injury is the cause....it doesn't usually happen overnight like it has with him.
  23. FredLynn
    So the Yankees ended up with Britton, a RP they didn't really need unless Chapman is hurt more than they are letting on. They still need at least one, maybe two, very good SP.
  24. FredLynn
    We are currently 10-1 against the Orioles. No matter how much they stink, they are still a ML club. And if we toss Pomeranz against them the results are by no means a guaranteed win.
  25. FredLynn
    Not yet...but he could potentially give us 4-5 innings as he GETS stretched out. If ERod is coming back in another couple or three weeks it doesn't make a lot of sense to sign a SP IMO.....
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