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take yourself out of a chance to put up a crooked number? no thanks.
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I think we are in basic agreement here - although you are shouting from the mountaintop we share much more loudly.
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It impacts both teams equally which is the saving grace. At the same time - the technology is there to fix it easily (or to really help) - and what you have now is umps going after players and showing them up - when often they are uncontroversially wrong without any way to fix it. Given the huge marginal differences in BA based on count - the mistakes make significant differences, all the time ...
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I think Hanigan could move to the 60 without much trouble - if the Red Sox REALLY wanted to.
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I think they are holding it for trade - since they can use Moncada as a DL replacement, there is no urgency to put him on the 40 for playoff eligibility reasons.
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probably right - although all it takes is converting a 15 day stint to a 60 day one ...
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I am not going to threadjack on that topic - there is a thread which discusses it amply.
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What you have in both cases are national guys who did not need the job per se. And both have watched a lot of baseball and aren't afraid to advance their own opinions - and push a conversation. McDonough was a preferred taste for me since he did the Sox games the way a really smart Red Sox fan from the pre-title years would do it - wry, cynical, but very happy when the Sox proved him wrong.
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I think it can be a little bit of Benintendi, perhaps a little Ortiz and a little bit of Ramirez. Team still has 11 consecutive games on the docket so guys are going to be cycled through a bit.
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He will probably pitch again in September with roster expansion. Johnson would be nice - it would be a good comeback story. Of course, who doesn't root for these kids, even the knuckleheads who fenced laptops in college.
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That is a different kettle of fish - and you are right about that. Remy I think is very fair - he has gotten lazy since McDonough left, but still good.
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Your viewpoint on the manager is fairly sensible - although it is impossible to talk strategy without intersecting with a manager's decisionmaking. That does not extend to balls and strikes of course, since that involves rules enforcement, and basic fairness.
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I predate the BDC(?) merger on this site - so those who have followed my work(?) previously would perhaps be surprise I am making a "human beans" argument here vs a cold analytic argument. But I think this argument here to staple Young to the bench whenever a RHP is out there is kind of silly. There are not many LH starters in the AL East - and it is not reasonable to ask somebody to work like a starter does without any real playing time. The numbers back your argument - but reality of major league baseball as a job and a work environment do not to the same degree. He has to play against LHPs, but you also have to smooth out the workload so he is not being asked to take a test cold.
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Matsuzaka was culture and stubbornness not confidence - Japanese pitchers have a rich history of pitching away from contact and running up huh-yooge pitch counts (see Nomo) ... Matsuzaka was just in that tradition, he saw it as giving in instead of letting his top shelf stuff do its thing.
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You are running counter to what television IS. If you are analyzing plays and strategy - at some point that SHOULD come into second-guessing ... that's the whole point.
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A key stretch coming up now in the next 16 games. 3 at home against KC, who are solid ... and 13 against the Rays, A's and Padres, who are not. There is a chance to get some meaningful separation - at least in the WC chase. 3 out of 4 in DEtroit would have been fun, but they went 5-2 in a week head to head on the road against the teams that matter in the playoff chase.
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I think the years are right - dollars might be higher. Teams not giving him a ton this past offseason made sense ... his performance in Boston was so aberrational, that you had to bet the under. But now, there is a reasonable history of him being a good starter. What prevents Hill from being a $20M pitcher is his not being able to (or not having demonstrated) churn out 180 IP
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I think there is an average starter in there ... but the first thing you gotta do is throw strikes, and right now he doesn't. He was not throwing strikes at Pawtucket either.
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Shaw's biggest problem is that his OBP has basically collapsed since the end of May ... while the July OPS looked good, it was held up by the "S" (where "O" is the much more important part of the mix)
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A real plus changeup - but need the other stuff to click too. Really fastball command is poor - and it is hard to be much of anything without decent fastball command regardless of velocity. He gets a lot of swing and miss - so it is really a command more than stuff thing.
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I think Jackie is fine - he is a bit of a Mike Napoli offensively. So these slumps will happen, but he still walks enough to not be a zero.
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Owens was a good prospect who was "throwing more strikes" away from being a real somebody - because he gets swings and misses in the strike zone, which not everybody can do. Alas.
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the peripherals have been sagging - and he has not shown any sort of ability to do anything that doesn't involve being spoonfed saves
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the spaghetti monster put Young on this earth to hit lefties. It is why the Sox signed him - as a hedge against Bradley and Holt. When he returns he will play vs every lefty. And if there is a drought in finding lefties to play, he will spell a regular too to keep him sharp. He is lousy against RHP, but in short stretches, his power and patience allow him to not be a total zero in occasional appearances.
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Paps has this problem that he is not good anymore