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With lineups I think it is really - some players care about where they bat, others don't. And if you can placate the first group without doing something stupid (like bat Papi 8th for instance) - then ultimately it doesn't really matter. Why has the Red Sox lineup clicked lately? It is because they are good - and have been this good all season. The fallow period out West and against the Yankees was just a SSS exception. And the 11 game road trip were all in famously low scoring ballparks. The Sox are going to have one more West Coast swing through Oakland and San Diego - and they could have trouble scoring runs, even though both teams stink ... because of where they are playing.
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True in a sense - but I actually agreed with Farrell's logic here. If the team is going to go through a long stretch without seeing a lefty starter (which it did early) you can't just cryogenically freeze Chris Young until then - he needed some reps even if it was suboptimal in a numbers sense. Just can't be silly about it.
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That part is true - but there is not a rush to get things done by August 31. And it makes more sense NOT to add Moncada that way, because it still allows the Red Sox to make a small waiver deal (perhaps for another relief arm)
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I don't think Barnes in the 9th improves that situation over Kimbrel. I definitely don't think Kimbrel would be an improvement over Barnes in the mid-innings.
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1. Me neither 2. If you remember what a dumpster fire the end of that season was ... I wanted the perfect game. (indeed there would plenty of time to register the key wins over the Yankees)
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TL DR version ... If the Red Sox want to get a look at Moncada or (less likely but worth asking because we know Dombrowski is) Kopech - they can add them to the 40-man anytime. They would be playoff roster eligible because of injury replacements.
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Kimbrel has been striking out guys at a lights out rate - it's life as a reliever, your bad outings look worse. It is an inherently volatile gig. Barnes is more useful in the position he is right now because he is capable of getting more than 3 outs. The closer job is a bit too limiting.
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This question I think is in regard to postseason eligibility
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This reasoning is sound. But given how many on boards like this snivel about why this organization cannot find good (sniff!) pitching in the minors ... there's your answer. Can't have it both ways. My favorite part of the trade was one place where I read pointing to his 4+ ERA at Greenville as evidence he wasn't that good - which was a bit of a howler.
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You can replace guys on the DL provided they did not get on the 60-day DL after September. It's how Francisco Rodriguez was added prior to the 2002 playoffs for the Angels.
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They were both good prospects - neither worked out ... it happens. Considering the Red Sox were practically giving them away - to get something with a reasonable probability of return was good. Almost all coverage of the 2011-12 seasons in retrospect was mind numbingly stupid.
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I had no opinion on the fire sale - Cherington did a good job making it somewhat adequate return ... but it did not suddenly open up budget or create any magic for 2013. Victorino's miracle season and the team just being healthy for once had more to do with it than anything.
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He left - but they hired his right hand man, who had been his right hand man since the Miami days. So it might not have been as simple as a rebuke of his work there. I suspect it was simply that his successor was cheaper and they wouldn't have to change the infrastructure.
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Given what the Yanks got - almost certainly too much
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Bunk. The acquisitons were made possible because the Red Sox - who have a mint erected on Yawkey Way - decided it was possible. They wanted to clear payroll - which is a fair priority for an org that likes making money (e.g. all of them). I do give Cherington a lot of credit - that what was an ownership mandated fire sale actually got them a couple of reasonably good arms - they were able to turn the deal into an (at the time - which is all you can really look at given imperfect information) acceptable baseball deal is a credit to the GM. Now neither De La Rosa and Webster worked out (in particular they kept deluding themselves into thinking Webster could start instead of developing him as a reliever) ... that happens, but that was not the sort of deal where you should be able to get a couple of Top 100 sort of prospects.
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Just a phenomenal athlete figuring out his superpowers before us. Teams draft guys like him in the 4th and 5th round (multi-sport ath-a-letes, who play baseball, but who have not played a lot of baseball) and hope that moving full time to baseball unlocks magic - it is nice to see it happen here.
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I don't care if they sign him - but he lacks the flexibility needed to be a quality set-up person, as well as (now) the stuff. With the rotation injuries piling up, signing him is better than nothing - but just barely.
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It's not that it was goofy or not goofy - it's just that it simply didn't matter (as long as he was not batting 9th). And for the most part it hasn't. Betts is really f'in good - and that was true in April also.
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I just don't see any high leverage place where I'd use him.
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I don't see a situation where Papelbon can be remotely helpful. He has little experience in uncontrolled situations and he was awful this season.
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He's great anywhere on a baseball diamond. Definitely a triumph of scouting - and the Sox amateur staff actually knowing a kid's makeup and betting on it to get him in the 5th round.
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Well with Detroit he had an aging team with no real upside - and the team was allowed to bottom out to create their window starting in 2006. (his early Detroit teams were some of the worst of all time) And he made the moves (most notably the Andrew Miller for Miguel Cabrera one) which cemented a significant championship window. He made some shorter sighted moves after that - due to ownership priorities - and was never full able to figure out the bullpen construction thing ... but it is hard to go against what he has accomplished. The key thing for him in Boston is that he is where the buck stops. The Red Sox have significantly simplified their decision authority vis a vis baseball matters - and that helps a lot. IF the Sox over the longer term can continue to keep the smart folks from the past decade here, then you could have the best of all worlds. Dombrowski has had a solid year - not a disaster by any stretch, but not coming up aces like Epstein's 2003 or anything. But that they did roll the dice on Benintendi as opposed to overpay for a warmed over Jay Bruce is encouraging.
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If you want some actual snark ... Usually the pitcher the Sox would use in this case would be Wake. Perhaps Farrell thought there was a link between knuckleballs and baserunning skillz.
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This ... I do hope Frank Thomas getting in helps all of this out (he played 1B for a while - badly, but DH'd a lot too). I think both guys are HoF worthy, and maybe Ortiz should get in because of the postseason TV clips and the titles. That stuff is totally fine. I have no problem with DH having a very high offensive standard (because they are specialists with only one way to impact the game). But to have an embargo on players who did that as their primary vocation does not really make sense.
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Of course. The only criticism I'd have is why the starters do not have that comfort - why it is not part of the coaching. When you have the tiny bench the 13 man staffs of this day and age requires, being able to pinch run is something which would actually be useful.