FredLynn
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By the way, when are you coming to SF? Is that trip planned already?
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If we are going to be discussing what the media writes about, this is what we will be discussing for a long time.
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I think that ERA is the single best way to evaluate the performance of a pitcher. Others may disagree, but this is really basic: how many runs per nine innings did the pitcher surrender. The other metrics are needlessly complicated in this regard, IMO. The function of a pitcher is to prevent runs from scoring; that is 99.9% of his function. Other metrics can measure how he earned his ERA (WHIP is also valuable, as are metrics that tell you how far into games a pitcher got, thereby saving the pen), but the SINGLE best measure of a pitcher's worth-IMO-is ERA. Thats why I said that Lackey is THE worst SP in baseball.
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I want to hear public apologies for the behavior, not excuses and explanations. I'm a pretty forgiving guy. If player after player acknowledged his role in what went on, admitted it was wrong, and promised the fans that it would never happen again, I would be fine with this. Then we can all put it to rest. So far we have heard a lot of excuses and explanations....and few apologies (Lester, to his credit, admitted that the beer drinking was "wrong").
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Lets face it: these players were not hired for their brains; they were hired because they have great eye hand coordination or can throw a baseball past another player. When they start talking its evident that most of them should have considered completing second grade before playing MLB. Look at what Papelbon says sometimes...especially when he forgets to take his meds.
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Not biodegradable Zenjak..that takes too long. He is, however, recyclable. And welcome aboard over here!
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Look at this link. Its available at the ESPN MLB STAT site. It shows that of 145 major league starting pitchers with over 100 innings pitched this year, Lackey finished at #145. Furthermore, he was last by a mile-nearly 3/4 run per game. http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/pitching/_/seasontype/2/count/106/qualified/false/order/false/minip/100
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I wish I could drink at work. Those guys belong ON THE BENCH supporting their teamates until the last out is made. Then they can order a kegger if they want to.
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I guess this goes in this thread, the "This needs to be said" thread. Some of us have been of the opinion that Francona is a mediocre manager for many years, a terrible in game tactician and someone who coddled his players to the detriment of the team. Although he seemed good at managing some of the egos on the team, the new statements from John Lester today seem to validate our position: Francona allowed the guys to walk all over him. He was as soft as a marshmallow and it showed. I am glad that Lester told us the truth about how it was in the dugout. Well, the party is about over. The new manager is going to be much tougher. It will be interesting to see how some of the overpaid underperformers in this team react.
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I agree with you. I am glad that those reponsible are finally talking, at least some of them. And I have no reason to doubt that what Lester said is the truth: that its a single ninth inning beer, that the chicken was once a month, and that Tito had no rules and that they pushed him. I will say this: I am not sure its wise to let Beckett and Lackey talk. Beckett is too damn stubborn and I fear that he will try to justify what happened even more than Lester did and inflame an already bad situation. And I don't really care what Lackey has to say. I just want him gone.
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There can be no credit as of right now (I am sure that you mean "credit for any future success") for any of these prospects. They may or may not work out; the odds are against them, as they are for any prospect. None have seen a single pitch in the majors.
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Rivers has Garnett on the team. No player would misbehave and risk getting KG in his face. Davis tried to misbehave and KG made him cry on the bench. We have no one like that on our team. We need one.
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And players who limit themselves to no more than 12 beers per game. Welcome aboard Bo!
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Michael Bowden was a first round draft pick of Theo Epstein.
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I read that if Sabathia opts out (and why wouldn't he?), the Rangers are going after him. Hard not to admire what Ryan has done with that team. I was cheering for the Tigers because they eliminated the Yankees though
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Wasn't he just drafted? I think he is more than a year or two away. Even after they are developed, the Sox don't immediately allow their young SP to pitch many innings. I remember that they have some sort of formula for how many innings a young pitcher can increase his workload by every year...its pretty slow. Three years seems more reasonable to me, if he makes it.
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The medical staff has been HORRIBLE IMO. How can they not order an MRI on Buchholtz until AUGUST? His symptoms began in July. Because of that mistake, he missed an extra month of time on the field, possibly costing us the playoffs. In addition, one of the guys at Sawxheads last year looked up the reviews of the orthopedist one of our injured players was seeing, if you remember. I think it was Pedroia. The doctor got three stars our of five, as an average in his reviews. Seems that the Red Sox are rich enough to be able to afford the best doctors in town.
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In baseball the team can prescribe a rehab program for a player and the team can hold the player to that prescribed program. Seems to me that this is the "out" Jung. If a player is so far out of shape that it affects their performance adversely (eg: Jenks and maybe Beckett), could the team not consider them "injured" and prescribe a conditioning/weight loss program to force them to be in some sort of basic physical condition?
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You will eat your words on Crawford next year IPOT.... And we WILL have a power hitting RHH OF in RF next year, the rebuilding year.
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If you make it up here make sure and give me a ring. I will give you my phone number via PM....as long as I can call you if I make it to Australia. I am a scuba divemaster and would love to dive out there. Anyway, back to baseball: here is a good link to look up baseball contracts by team: http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/2004/12/boston-red-sox.html Looks like Gio Gonzalez is signed for one year, but has less than a year and a half of ML service. I am not sure how many more years he would be either under team control or arbitration eligible. I will leave that to the stat people here.