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  1. FredLynn
    You're kidding. Another Farrell brain fart.
  2. FredLynn
    Why is Elias even with the club? Surely there has to be better options. When was the last time Koji pitched? This one is in the L column....but win tomorrow and we win the series. Take three from Atlanta and we are in decent shape
  3. FredLynn
    Likewise with JBJ. He has a floor that he needs to meet or one or the other, Vasquez or JBJ, needs to get out of the lineup. None of it will matter if the pitching doesn't improve.
  4. FredLynn
    As I wrote, I am not replacing him right now. I would look at it again in June. If he BA is still below .200 and his OPS is south of .680 I am considering my options. Let me ask you this: what if, hypothetically, Vasquez by June is hitting at .150/.450. Do you keep him in there? What about .120/.400? My point is that there is a number that he has to be able to achieve with the bat or other alternative need to be considered if we want to play October baseball.
  5. FredLynn
    I am not saying that something has to be done about our production from our catcher and starting CF right now; I would give them until June. But if we want to compete for October baseball we cannot have BOTH of those guys stinking it up at the plate. And of course the pitchers have to be much better. Thats a separate issue entirely. One black hole only.
  6. FredLynn
    So you are saying that because our pitching sucks that means that Vasquez and Bradley have acceptable numbers? Perhaps we can score more runs with Swihart or Castillo.
  7. FredLynn
    I don't mind one guy in the lineup not hitting the ball. But when Vasquez is at .146/.498 he IS a problem. He is even a problem if your CF is hitting only .240/.631. You cannot have both of those guys in your lineup hitting like that all year. Right now guys like Shaw and Holt etc are picking up the slack; that can't last at that pace.
  8. FredLynn
    He isn't even consistently good at that. He was good at it last year, but his OPS vs LHP in 2014 was .561 and in 2013 it was .712. Sometimes he is good vs LHP. Its a mysterious move to get him when we already seemed to have that position covered.
  9. FredLynn
    You don't cut him, of course. If he cannot start hitting the ball I would give Swihart a chance as the #1 catcher and make Vasquez a backup. You HAVE TO hit the baseball. Because he is so good defensively I would give him more time and allow less production offensively to keep his job. But at some point he cannot be an automatic out.
  10. FredLynn
    First, thats an exaggeration. He has a lifetime MLB .265 BA and a career 1.8 dWAR. Also, he was out of baseball for so long that its likely he would improve. Chris Young is a lifetime .235 hitter and isn't as good defensively. Castillo at least has a chance to be good with regular reps; we all know Young sucks.
  11. FredLynn
    I never understood why they picked up Young. I would have given Castillo a shot at the job. Right now at Pawtucket he is at .345/.820. Yet Young is still here.....
  12. FredLynn
    They can drop Young too
  13. FredLynn
    I realize that. We can stipulate that they can hit, overall. But their pitching is next to last in ERA in the league. Hard to win that way on a consistent basis, and their record shows it.
  14. FredLynn
    If Vasquez and JBJ don't step it up offensively they may be out of a job. Certainly they should.
  15. FredLynn
    Hard to win when your pitching staff is surrendering over six runs a game OOPS...4.8 RPG
  16. FredLynn
    Thanks Fuchholz
  17. FredLynn
    I agree. What's Zimmer doing ?
  18. FredLynn
    Not move him: release him. Next year its likely that Hanley will move to DH and Sam Travis will be ready to take over at 1B. Sandoval is useless; no one wants him. Thank you very much Ben Cherington. Henry is going to have to eat his contract. The issue is that unless he is on the DL he is taking up a roster spot, one we could be using for someone more functional. I am sure they tried to move him. Who would take him, even for free?
  19. FredLynn
    Travis Shaw now has a BA/OPS of .286/.841 in over 300 PAs. He has also played very good defense at 3B this year. Sandoval meanwhile can't even be examined by Dr Andrews because he is in so much pain. Yet he continues to occupy a place on the 25 man roster. How much longer do the Sox hold on to him? Even if he were healthy he there is really no place to put him. He is a 3B; we already have a better 3B and a backup 3B. Healthy or not, he is an appendix.
  20. FredLynn
    XRay was negative
  21. FredLynn
    Clay can pitch. When he his healthy he can pitch very well. The issue with him has never been performance; its can he stay healthy for a whole season.
  22. FredLynn
    So has Wright earned a spot in the rotation when Erod returns? His ERA now sits at 1.40 and he has gone 6.2 innings twice and 6 innings in his other start. Joe Kelly has an ERA of well over 9 and hasn't made it out of the fifth inning. Kelly has earned a demotion to the pen; Wright has earned a spot in the rotation.
  23. FredLynn
    That Kelly didn't think it was important to inform his manager that he may be injured. Perhaps Farrell is trying to get his team to toughen up...I don't know. I do know that Kelly should have felt compelled to tell his manager if he didn't feel right.
  24. FredLynn
    Farrell created an environment where Kelly didn't feel obliged to inform him that he was injured. This is an example of the culture John Farrell has made in the clubhouse.
  25. FredLynn
    I disagree about the "the players are playing hard" part, at least in part. The pitching has been horrendous, and I think another manager would be able to get more out of this staff, which on paper at least, is pretty good. And yes, Farrell is a horrible in game tactician. One of the worst.
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