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    Here is the issue: I do not believe that a player with tools possesses the talent or ability to become a ML player until he proves it. I think that discipline is part of talent; its a multifaceted package that leads to success. Same with any other profession. Once a person succeeds you can then look back and judge how much talent they have. Successful people must have a certain level of talent or they would not be successful. Until you PROVE you have talent, you are all talk.
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    In other words, Pena didn't have enough TALENT to play in the major leagues very long. He had SOME talent, but not enough. Ability and talent are synonyms. Talent is a multifaceted quality. You can have the tools without the talent to succeed. If you do not prove yourself, IMO you are simply not talented enough to make the grade.
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    Even if I don't know how to define "talent", I did look it up for you and posted it. As I said, some players have the tools (eg: good velocity), but lack the talent to succeed. Case in point: Miller. If a player has never shown results, how do you know they have "talent"? Talent to me implies results. Otherwise, its conjecture.
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    Nope. (LOL)
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    I judge talent by the bottom line: getting results. Think Miller has talent? Think again. Both Miller and Doubrant have some skills, but little talent. Here, for example, is one common definition of talent: a capacity for achievement or success; ability: young men of talent. Show me the success Miller or Doubrant has achieved in MLB and I will concede the point to you. Until then, you are wrong. Again.
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    Its going to be hard for him to fix the major reason for his lack of success: lack of talent.
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    I am not going to believe that Padilla is as much of a nutcase as Tavares until he rolls a ball to first base for an assist.
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    Is that the "official" definition? "Big" is in the eye of the beholder.
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    Define big. This discussion is getting absurd...but have at it.
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    Did you make that up, or did you check the Rays' pitching stats for the past couple of years? Last year they had the second best ERA in the AL by just .01 percentage points-and playing 36 games against the Red Sox and the Yankees-and the year before that they were also #2. I wish we were so overrated.
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    You want to know WHY the experts pick the Sox to finish below the Rays and Yankees? Here is the ugly truth: we have done NOTHING to improve our pitching this offseason. And our pitching for the last three years finished 9th, 9th, and 7th in the AL in ERA. Thats why the experts pick us to have a tough year, which we will have unless something changes.
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    One or more of our legitimate SP will miss significant time due to injury this year. You can almost take that to the bank. It would be an incredible stroke of luck if that didn't happen. So we should all be prepared to see lots of dung on the hill this year.
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    I don't think it would be in the best interests of the ownership to broadcast that we are just a little over the cap. Knowledgeable fans would raise hell. I think that the obfuscation is intentional. And yeah, its frustrating.
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    With luck we had a reason to dump Scutaro's salary: to get under the cap. If we ended up over the cap by just a little there are going to be a lot of very pissed off fans in Beantown.
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    To be fair, here are the current Las Vegas odds: http://www.betvega.com/world-series-odds/
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    One source is the last power rankings that listed us as the 8th ranked team. The people who cover baseball for a living have also written numerous opinions that we are lagging this year. Who do you consider to be an expert?
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    I mean getting rid of the relics on the team, Wakefield and Varitek. I mean cleaning up the clubhouse and getting good personalities in there to police the misfits. And I mean allowing some of the bad contracts Epstein saddled us with to expire, all in preparation for making a real run next year.
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    Yup. It is. I admit it. Our GM said it too. Frankly, I hope is true and that as a result we stay under the cap in preparation for cleaning house this year.
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