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  1. sk7326
    Also has done TV, which is very helpful given how important managing media is in this town.
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    Certainly possible. But I like guys who know the market - or similarly insane markets. I'd certainly pick this over exhuming Jim Leyland or John Boles etc etc
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    Farrell managed a terrific Game 3. The Red Sox were terrible in Games 1 and 2, although it was basically all about pitchers giving up homeruns - and not much Farrell could do there. Farrell basically had to get himself run yesterday - whatchagonnado. The Sox got greedy with Sale I think - it made sense to go to Kimbrel for 6 outs - or just to the set up guys in a bullpen which has been good all year. I can see both sides of keeping/not keeping Farrell. I can roll with Dombrowski's decision either way here ... although it is certainly possible to pick somebody worse.
  4. sk7326
    All Star game rules today -
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    He hit the eject button on Fister yesterday ... Price probably not available to the rescue ... but yeah come on!
  6. sk7326
    This is only a deficit the Red Sox have made up multiple times since 1999
  7. sk7326
    fun weird stat ... Since 1999 Red Sox are 16-6 in elimination games Since 1986, the Red Sox are 4-6 in series where they had to win 3 straight elimination games
  8. sk7326
    Tough town for a 93 win team which was really good in extra innings games.
  9. sk7326
    Alex Cora for manager if Farrell leaves ... managerial experience, player personnel experience, knows the market and has a terrific reputation in the league
  10. sk7326
    he should be mad - he is a competitor Farrell was right to get him - Farrell managed a terrific game yesterday somewhat amazingly
  11. sk7326
    is it a separate attribute from being good? Not really. David Ortiz had more big hits than anybody I can remember. But he was a great hitter to begin with. And he had some hideously bad postseason series too - did he choke then? Who knows. Skill is skill.
  12. sk7326
    Nunez is a bad fielder - but they will find a way to get his bat in the lineup
  13. sk7326
    In terms of choosing players and such of course - but if Henry wants to spend money to keep an excellent young core together, that is his choice. Ilitch does not know more than Dombrowski did - but he knew the direction he wanted - play for the veteran club, damn the torpedoes. Ownership is setting that direction ...
  14. sk7326
    There are a lot of options. Granderson had been better than Moreland this year too despite hitting .228. Bautista has been dreadful though his line drive stats and such are not really out of line with his career. And while I do not discount 1B defensively - it is still a place to put a bat if you don't have JT Snow out there. I am optimistic about getting one of the Duda/Hosmer group though - it is a buyer's market ...
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    My confidence is low in both - but all it costs is money, and probably not more than 1-year hitch. And at least unlike Moreland, you are actually betting on players who have actually been good before.
  16. sk7326
    one is employed by the other - QED
  17. sk7326
    The WC game is a playoff round ... the league's postseason roster rules apply for the WC round ... that is the weirdest thing about the WC round - that you can reset the roster for the next round
  18. sk7326
    To a degree - he held everybody ... which means that some of these people would emerge naturally. But the team when he was there did not identify - say your Margots or whatnot as premium trade stuff. Considering how young our core is - the commitment to 2020 is really about Henry's commitment, not Dombrowski's.
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    Of course he can - if their replacements are quality. He has won everywhere he has done his thing.
  20. sk7326
    I've never hated the Yankees enough for their loss to offset the Red Sox not winning. Even 2003 was not comforting to see the Yankees lose the WS ...
  21. sk7326
    Well the Yankees of Mantle, Maris etc (let alone Ruth and Gehrig) were the Montreal Canadiens or Bryant's Alabama team. The championship race was effectively THEM and a few other teams. Of course you couldn't avoid it. But the 1970s and then the late 90s to now have been the only periods when the Sox and Yankees have been good at the same time.
  22. sk7326
    Here is the thing - we don't know whether Dombrowski will keep the scouting and development standard the Sox had - he has shown he can before. What he has shown - which Cherington never did - was an ability to quickly make decisions on the kids. He identified Benintendi and Devers as keepers - and treated them as such ... not trading them, aggressively promoting them. The other guys he has traded - but he traded for premium quality stuff. I don't see how that is a problem. I had an issue with dealing for an 8 figure closer - but Kimbrel at least is a top shelf entry at that position, and after a meh first year has been magnificent this season. His other big trade was for the potential league MVP this season. The Pomemranz deal I did not like (but did not think was stupid) - but again if you are going to deal kids, a pitcher at single-A who was not mature physically is at least worth a calculated risk. Keep who you want to keep and deal for legitimate major league upgrades - that is how a big market team should operate.
  23. sk7326
    The 1B/DH thing - if that is the hole in the lineup - is one of the easier holes to fill. You could look for a big answer - or fish in the pool of one year upside plays. For instance, I cannot imagine the Jays picking up Bautista's option ... I would throw an incentive laden 1 year deal at him to see what he has left. Curtis Granderson is another. Hosmer is an upside play - and 1B is a buyer's market - but yeah his age could mean a team offers 5 years which would be hard to justify. Giving Travis a full legitimate run at the position is still on the table for me too.
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    Folks my age (I'm 39) remember the Red Sox as basically a good team my entire life. Yeah, there were some turkeys sprinkled in ... and years where they were 85-77 but the chase "ended" by August, but virtually every season you could (and still can) enter the season with legitimately aggressive dreams. This was not the case before 1967. The Impossible Dream is that breakpoint. In a semi-related note - it is also why you can really argue the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry did not really START until the 1970s ... until then, the Red Sox and Yankees were very rarely good at the same time.
  25. sk7326
    Trivia I am not sure of ... is Red Sox-Cardinals the most frequently played World Series matchup that does not involve the Yankees? They've met 4 times since 1918
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