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  1. FredLynn
    Why would you want to mess with a very successful situation in the pen right now? Its clear to everyone but Dojji and our FO that the Bard experiment is a failure and must end immediately. However, today there are no reports of him being pulled from the rotation, and I don't think there will be such reports. I am expecting further documentation of the abject stupidity of our FO when Bard starts again on Saturday. Its really what I have been saying here all along: our FO has no clue how to run this club. No, I don't either, but thats not my job, its theirs. And they are failing. They have failed two years in a row and this season teters on the brink of yet another failure while the owners fiddle on their yachts.
  2. FredLynn
    You are absolutely right. I expect the trade to be announced this week.
  3. FredLynn
    I agree. I am not concerned about our position relative to the other ALE teams. I am concerned, however, about our pitching, especially our starting pitching. The pen seems to have found its way. Lester and Bard clearly have not, and while Buchholz has a few good starts under his belt, I am not convinced that he is cured yet. No SP=no playoffs. You can take that to the bank.
  4. FredLynn
    So would you say that the Orioles are a 1st place team?? Nope. Just checked the standings. They are a second place team. The Rays are a first place team, and we are a last place team, until we prove otherwise.
  5. FredLynn
    They are the exact same in my book. At the end of the season the team in last place deserves to finish in last place no matter how much talent that team has. Same is true on June 3. Guess we will have to agree to disagree on this one.
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    Part of it is, IMO, a lack of emphasis in obtaining and retaining top flight pitching in terms of where the dollars are going. Another part of it is the ongoing inability to even recognize what a top flight pitcher looks like. One of my main complaints about Epstein is that he is a horrible judge of talent, especially ML pitching talent. He did better with minor league guys and position players, but his track record on obtaining high quality pitching is abyssmal.
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    I have the utmost faith in the Yankees to supercede the idiocy of our FO. The Rays, not so much. They are very competent there.
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    Well, we ARE a last place team-right now. Look at the standings. We are exactly as good as our record says we are. But we are improving. If we continue to PITCH well we will compete for a playoff spot. When our injured guys make it back we should really have an offensive juggernaut.
  10. FredLynn
    No way we should tamper with Aceves' fine performance as closer. One potentially ruined pitcher is enough.
  11. FredLynn
    Not quite. We can decide what WE think ought to be done. The upcoming decision by the FO will serve for me, at least, as a barometer of just how stubborn and stupid they are. Keep Bard in the rotation and they win the Clay Buchholz Moron of the Year Award. DL him in preparation for a return to the pen and its a step in the right direction. I hope its not too late. This decision should not have taken this long.
  12. FredLynn
    OK... I am outta here. This one has been over since the second inning. Won the series here. Goal: win the next one too.
  13. FredLynn
    Atchison is this year's Hideki Okajima.
  14. FredLynn
    Maybe we could somehow stretch Padilla out a bit so he could assume a SP role at the end of the season. Bard is a failure and possibly facing the beginning of the end of his career. We could send Padilla down and bring up Melancon to see if that will work out. Alternatively, make a trade to get Garza to replace Bard or Doubront, when he reaches his innings limit.
  15. FredLynn
    Its almost as if the Red Sox just lost all the wind in their sails after witnessing Daniel Bard laying an egg. The look flat as hell. They better get it back together for the next series.
  16. FredLynn
    Punto bumm... On the subject of DiceK: he can get more ready at Fenway Park. We can no longer afford Daniel Bard in the rotation. We will still need another SP to replace Doubront when he reaches his innings limit, and I don't really want to see Cook in that role. Someone of higher quality perhaps.
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    I guess my point is that we will probably finish in the top three in runs scored and OPS this year. I don't think there will be any shortage of runs for the Red Sox this year, just like the last two years. If we want the results of 2010 and 2011 to be different in 2012 that difference has to be in pitching, especially in starting pitching. There is lots of room to improve over the performances of our last two years. If we discard the first several weeks of the season and finish in the top five in the AL in ERA we should be fine in terms of making the playoffs. Below that, we are in trouble, just like the past two years.
  20. FredLynn
    Hey-at least we won the series against the Jays. Thats what we really needed to accomplish here. Lets do it against the Orioles too...keep winning series.
  21. FredLynn
    I hope you are right SFF. This just cannot continue. And the DL is a good place to start trying to regain his form. Lets hope he is not another Joba case.
  22. FredLynn
    Nick, we both know that our FO is too stubborn and too stupid to see what is now clear to every single poster here today. The chance of Bard returning home to the pen is near zero.
  23. FredLynn
    I was not accusing you of trying to use injuries as an excuse. Some here have done that, but I never bought that. In fact, I am really not disagreeing with what you wrote about that. I think that you CAN almost bash your way into the playoffs, but you need SOME pitching too. Last year is an example. We led the AL in runs scored and OPS, but still missed the playoffs because of mediocre to poor pitching. The year before we were second in OPS and runs scored, but again, our pitching sucked and we missed the playoffs.Its out pitching that will determine if we make the playoffs or not this year, once again.
  24. FredLynn
    Well, the game is now over. I am calling it. Its really a no brainer. Maybe a game like this is what is needed to force the FO to take Bard out of the rotation. Frankly, I think it is going to be a while before he is going to be effective again, if he ever is.
  25. FredLynn
    Pointless. The game is just about over. Let Bard stay in there until the sixth inning. Thats what he wanted, right?
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