FredLynn
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From Sawxheads. Right now I think there are about a half dozen of us here: IPOT, ELKTONNIC, BRENNAN, FRED, MUGGAH, and me. More are on the way. That forum was never as large as this one. A significant portion of like-minded individuals who really could see little wrong with the club got tired of the debate and formed their own forum which will have "very strict rules" according to the person running it. To me, that means censorship. I prefer an exchange of viewpoints, so I am here. Appreciate the welcome.
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From what I can see, its a respectful eclectic group. Good discussions; little rancor. You need both sides represented to have an interesting discussion Fred. How incredibly boring it would be for everyone to agree on everything. Thats what will happen on the new board. More power to them. Since you are not a Dodger fan I don't think that will be an issue here, hopefully. Unless the King tosses me off, I will probably be here most of the time.
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So you are saying that his role in scouting young talent is equal to his role in scouting free agents? You know that is not true. He negotiates with the agents of the FA personally; he signs off on the draft picks. Totally different level of involvement. I will give you a point on his trades; most have worked out well.
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Welcome aboard Fred! Glad you could make it. Hope the beach treated you well.
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Edes is not of this world.
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He has nothing to do with the identity of that prospect. He is not making a choice. I say we leave that person or persons out. Furthermore, he is only moderately involved in the selection of who we draft, or have drafted, while he was here. I will give him credit for choosing a good evaluation team, but not for the choices themselves.
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When Orwell gets here he can debate WAR and those kind of metrics with those here who think that they are extremely useful numbers. Orwell is a mathmatician.
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I agree 100%. I was never a Terry Francona fan, but he did not deserve all this. He is entitled to some sort of private life. I really don't care to know about his medical conditions, what meds he is taking (after all, was it just Advil that he was taking for pain-that has zero effect on your judgement), and how his marriage is going. Furthermore, today Henry slammed Crawford saying that he did not support signing him. How is that supposed to motivate Crawford to do well next year, knowing that the owner never liked his game? Some of these guys just don't know when to keep their mouths shut, and others don't know when to open them.
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What grade would you give him for FA acquisitions and budget management? I would give him a D at best, maybe even an F. So even if he gets a B or an A with regard to trades he engineered and his staff gets an A for drafting good players (as someone here mentioned, he doesn't do that himself), it still averages out to mediocrity. If all we graded him on was his FA record, he would have failed school.
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Well, Foulke worked out, right?
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I do not agree with his premise, and I do research when I see fit to do it. I do not know how it would come out since it hasn't been done. Furthermore, in the process of a debate EVERYONE uses numbers and data that support their own position.
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I am no fan of Slappy, but he has done well with the Yankees. He has given them some numbers. During his 8 years his OPS is .941 and he has averaged over 35 HR a year. Same for Mark Teixeira, though not quite as much. His OPS in three years as a Yankee is .877. Both have been productive. We get Crawford (OPS with the Sox: .694) and Cameron (OPS: .637) and Drew who never even reached 70 RBIs in his five year Sox career and wouldn't play if he had a hangnail. The point is that there are many many FAs who worked out for their team. Even Epstein got a few of them; just not enough. His ratio of failures to successes is atrocious. He did well in other areas, but failed miserably in getting his money's worth out of FAs. Thats really not even debatable IMO. Its all over the media. And that shortcoming significantly affects his overall grade as our GM. He WASTED way too much of the franchise's resources in signing lemons, lemons that we will be stuck with for years after he leaves.
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You are sure I will do it? LOL. No, I am not going to do it. Sorry. If you want it done you will have to do it. Here is what I am saying: Epstein is a poor judge of FA talent and executed far more busts than finds during his tenure here, and that that affects his overall grade in terms of his performance. I am not making a negative judgement about his trades or his minor league acquisitions via drafting. Lets give him an "A" for the latter categories, for the sake of the debate. How would you grade his FA acquisitions and how would that affect his overall grade as GM? You already know what I think about this. It has a profound affect on his grade.
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Not that I know of. Unless he was there under a different name.
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Fixed.
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Not buying it. This sounds like the kind of excuses that our FO has been spoon feeding us for years. Baseball history is littered with not only highly paid busts but highly paid "finds". Sabathia. Rodriguez (like it or not, his numbers so far in pinstripes are excellent). Pedro Martinez. Manny Ramirez. All of those guys and many many more provided some return for the investment. Its just too bad that our soon to be ex GM couldn't have a better track record and fewer excuses that will follow him out the door.
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I promise not to be a **** if you stop being one.
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He hit .235 with an OPS of .554 at Pawtucket this year. No matter how good he is in the field, he is a black hole at the plate. Unless that changes he is not ML material.
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"Its good to be da King" Mel Brooks