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I commend Bogaerts for trying. And seriously - these sort of injuries have torpedoed Pedroia and Bryce Harper seasons. The alternative was Deven Merrero or Nunez - each who are half of an all-star shortstop. Given the team's offensive issues - the POSSIBILITY of Bogaerts (however slight) was better than Merrero's reality, even if he stepped in to a couple of homeruns.
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DD is doing what John Henry wants. If Henry did not want Dombrowski to cash in the farm, then it would not be happening.
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A 4-5 win under 26 shortstop does not have to apologize for anything aside from being a Top 3 prospect once. His swing is a little higher maintenance than I'd prefer - but that itself is not a crime. He's like the other kids on the team (the Speier piece about Farrell talked to it) ... care a lot, but can get down on themselves. Will be interesting if a manager chance can help with that at least.
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Mookie, Petey and the First Pitch (Think Altuve)
sk7326 replied to bosoxmal's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Hitting is hard when you can't hold the bat -
Learning curve to a degree ... hand/wrist/thumb injuries during the season are basically impossible to truly fix during the season
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Benintendi would be a starting point ...
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Mookie, Petey and the First Pitch (Think Altuve)
sk7326 replied to bosoxmal's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
They still walked a lot and made a ton of contact - indeed, they probably needed to take more pitches and drive the pitches they got a bit more. -
Considering the cost - it almost certainly does not need to happen. Bogaerts without some concrete proof that last year was injury related (my guess) ain't going to be a centerpiece for that deal. Betts is a better player than Stanton. Bradley is a good player but clearly not a match (and he's Stanton's age basically). Benintendi and Devers - you don't want to give up the production:cost control there.
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I think they need some help from outside. But I do think some of the help comes from within - Bogaerts in particular (maybe not 30 HRs, but definitely more than 10) after a full offseason to be able to grip a bat comfortably again. It would obviously be foolish to ask Devers to be that bat - but clearly he is going to be (over a full season) a massive upgrade over the steaming pile that they fielded at 3B last season. I am more against a 5 year nine figure commitment to Martinez than against him on principle - I am absolutely about bringing him for 2-3 years, even if it cost more money to do that. Bringing Nunez back makes sense as a Brock Holt replacement - it's a solid bat. He is a terrible fielder - but you do need some reasonable depth with Pedey's status. Pedroia is still a 4-6 win player if healthy, but clearly the "if healthy" part of it cannot be bet on reasonably.
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I think he's good for 2-3 years - for 5 is trickier. Also we are talking about a non-athlete who is a negative defensively ... now that is precisely the sort of player who the market squeezed last year (basically a younger Edwin Encarnacion).
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The Red Sox had 1 bash brother when that happened ... that is part of the Papi legend. A lot of the power solution has to come from within to a degree.
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The premium market for 1B/OF is pretty lousy - JD Martinez is good of course, but the years will be hard to handle. Same is true for Justin Upton (assuming he opts out). Carlos Santana is probably the best FA compromise - although I see nothing wrong with a Winter 2002-2003 approach, where you fill a wheelbarrow with types and see if you can get a Kevin Millar out of it. (obviously asking for that strategy to yield a David Ortiz is not something you should expect more than once or twice a millenium) That said, looking at last year's market - I expect there will be somebody (very likely Santana) who might have to settle for a short deal because the market does not want to pay 1B/DH/OF sorts.
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It's the baseball playoffs. I could believe almost any of the hundreds of possible outcomes of the tournament.
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Yes - although his recent success has been a little up and down. And certainly tough guys COULD work - and Showalter has dealt with young teams before too. IMO, a baseball manager is the closest equivalent of any sports coach to your own boss in the actual job you have (or the sort of boss you are depending on your profession). A guy can have clear boundaries, not be your friend per se ... but still a guy you should be able to discuss problems with, and someone who knows when to press a guy hard and when to provide some encouragement. That's the thing with a guy like Tito. He is a terrific manager yes, but he would also probably embody a lot of what would be the best boss you ever had regardless of whatever job you had. (assuming he was qualified for that job etc etc etc)
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It is possible. As we know, he has managed before ... so at least he has done the job in some form or another.
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The Nats blew 3 and 6 run leads at home in deciding games since 2012 - that is tough to live through.
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I am grateful for 2003 NOW, because it made 2004 100 times better. I am happy for Cubs fans that they got to see a curse broken. But I am comfortable asserting the 2004 Red Sox title was the sweetest championship any fan base for any team could have ever had. I am 39. 2003 was the first time I thought the Red Sox would never win it all. The 2004 ALCS win (not even the World Series!) - well, yeah my marriage and kids were better moments in my life ... BUT I had a decent sense I would get married or have children one day ... I did not expect to see the Red Sox win the WS
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Actually from the Speier piece, it is probably the opposite. The kids were telling themselves to wake the f*** up - THAT was the problem. The coaching staff - especially after Lovullo went to Arizona - lacked the touch to crack a joke and tell the kids their struggles are nothing that ball finding a hole between two fielders couldn't fix.
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one of the quirky things about the Red Sox is that they - since 1999 - a pretty remarkable record in "lose or go home" games 1999 ALDS 3-0 1999 ALCS 0-1 2003 ALDS 3-0 2003 ALCS 1-1 2004 ALCS 4-0 2005 ALDS 0-1 2007 ALCS 3-0 2008 ALCS 2-1 2009 ALDS 0-1 2016 ALDS 0-1 2017 ALDS 1-1 TOTAL 17-7
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Reading Speier's story about Farrell's ouster - it sure sounds like a guy like Cora is in the offing ... https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-red-sox/2017/10/12/a-changing-clubhouse-a-changing-game-led-to-farrells-departure In particular, the noteworthy thing is Dombrowski's emphasis on working with the young core - and dealing with young players who put a lot of pressure on themselves.
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they were - and so there is a learning curve, adjustments and so forth ... so a couple of years is more likely to be a better indicator to the future than the more nascent ones. This is not that complicated. Of course Betts showed up and has risen up steeper - but Betts is also a Top 10 player, so there you go.
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Grady and Farrell were both interesting cases. While neither were amazing managers ... they both managed to replace guys who seemed like (frankly) giant turds as bosses and human beings (in terms of a guy you have to deal with every day). There was just some increase in clubhouse karma just by replacing those managers with reasonably functioning normal people.
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OOPS SQUARED OOPS! 1. Terry Francona 2. Jimy Williams 3. Joe Morgan 4. John Farrell 5. Grady Little 6. Kevin Kennedy 7. John McNamara 8. Bobby Valentine 9. Joe Kerrigan 10. Butch Hobson
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no - but emphasizing age 23-24 over age 21-22 is a fairly natural thing to do ... these are human beings after all, right??
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and a 20% dropoff from his 2015 and 2016 seasons ... really it is about endpoints and whether you place more emphasis on 23-24 seasons than 21-22 ones ...