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There are concerns - but his durability has belied them enough to have to give him some benefit of the doubt. I think what you get is posturing right now - no reason the Sox won't revisit it in the winter.
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I like Maddon - there is no super genius about managing per se. But if I were to hire a manager, I'd want somebody who is competent, smart - and can execute my priorities for the organization, and be flexible. Scioscia and Showalter would be problematic in that respect - Scioscia in particular - if an owner is going to let managers veto player personnel priorities, that would be very hard to deal with. This is not football or basketball where the org is small enough for that to be possible. My choice would clearly be Francona - nice guy, media savvy - able to manage coaches and turn analytic results and information into action. And he understands player personnel priorities.
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He was very aggressive doing this in 2013 also - in the postseason. He has also taken advantage of the slack Porcello and Price have given him.
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What he has done with Andrew Miller has been remarkable - not so much as a usage pattern itself, but violating league groupthink to achieve the best results.
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Naw - I remember his retirement day faintly as one of the earlier memories of sox-dom.
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most do - harder to find that raw power. Of course 108 means that you wonder if he can get to it enough.
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led the league in RBIs, Runs Scored, On Base as well - and had good defensive results ... his 1967-1970 peak is as strong as there has ever been.
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There is a very strong incentive to win the division (like not trusting your season to 1 game) - so that has to be the goal.
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He made a mistake and lucked out - but that happens. He is pounding the strike zone again and the location is a lot better than it was earlier in the season. What is nice is that the bullpen has started to round into form. Hell, Tazawa seems to be finding his legs also. Scott may or may not have supplanted Abad as the the LOOGY of choice - but it is a fair question. Farrell has managed the pen very well lately.
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Anything but a sweep and things will be okay.
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After a long, sordid history of Yankee-related disasters at Fenway late in the season, wow was this fun. I think it's pretty clear (on merit) that Pomeranz is the best choice to go to the pen for the playoffs.
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it is one of those cases where Remy was right - but I don't think Benintendi was wrong - if that makes sense. That is a read you have to make right away - but the way the ball was hit, I don't blame Benintendi from being fooled.
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With Tanaka's elbow and the 75 man September pen - pulling him was fine. Betances on his third straight day was not. Hooray us! Any loss like that - regardless of the actual moves - would lead to aggressive second guessing.
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I believe the punishment does not close the issue (since there are other trades with this issue) - hopefully they do something - I think a draft pick would be reasonable.
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A comp is fairly hard because he has been so confounding relative to his expectations. Like a younger, skinnier Kirby Puckett at this rate.
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I do not think he is an amazing game manager - although his tendency to undermanage is fine (if you are going to err, that's the right direction). I think the Red Sox have been about - or slightly better than - what I expected given the roster.
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Really simple - some players care a ton where they hit, and others don't ... so if you can find a way to accomodate the former, then hooray. Fortunately Pedroia has caught fire at a spot he historically has not loved. Bradley in the 9 spot is good - I understand on one level, but it is good to turn the lineup over that way. In a way our lineup is akin to one of those NL lineups with the pitcher batting 8th.
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Every pitcher he chose was the one that made sense - especially without Wright being immediately available. BTW: was nice to see Tazawa strike out the side. Hembree's splits are ghastly - but he is clearly somebody we put on the postseason roster ...
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It was fun watching Girardi overmanage the 2009 Yankees into basically all of their losses in a postseason where they were best team on the field by a country mile. He is definitely one of those managers who gets a lot of respect because he does stuff - overmanaging as a way to look like he's "into the game".
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Like how Girardi put Betances out there for the third game in a row (coming off of a 36 pitch outing) to blow a 3 run lead? Showalter is one of those managers who is good in a lot of ways, but somehow did not get credit for Baltimore being 17 games worse than 2014 despite similar personnel. Farrell is not perfect, but it is hard to see where this team has actually underachieved. Indeed, you look at his bullpen choices in a lot of these games, and he has made the choices most sentient adults would have made.
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He's losing a month of salary - so that sucks for him. I am not sure baseball could do more - Preller violated "unwritten rules" as it were on the medicals - but he did not violate an actual rule. If he did - I am sure the punishment would have been much worse (say forcing the teams to renegotiate compensation)
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i think it was a closer call than Remy said. But with a little more experience, that read comes - the play was in front of him, but Gregorius was not in a position to get the ball and try to get him at 3rd. But the way the ball was hit, Benintendi could have easily been fooled. He thought the ball was hit deeper than it was. Remy is right here - but I don't blame Benintendi for the read.
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IT will cost more than that for Encarnacion - and it is a hard deal to justify for a cornerman - even one with his power. Ramirez has been insanely hot lately - and it's funny what being healthy and playing a position you have some reasonable self confidence in can do. (no, he doesn't play 1B well, but he is not the horror show he was in LF, and at least as important he doesn't feel horrible about it)
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After so many frustrating "coulda-shoulda" games, nice to pull a game we probably didn't deserve out of the fire ... I of course gave up on the game, which I don't blame myself for - but it serves me right.
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It took one good Beckett start and the most out-of-nowhere homerun in recent Sox history ...