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first season with 100 IP pitched. Last three seasons in pitcher wonderlands. Pomeranz improvement might be real - Sox paid a heavy price to find out. Hey, the Dodgers liked Delino DeShields too.
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the logic is fine - but the choice of pitcher is not really. A team with the big dollars the Sox has has a farm system to produce ceiling and then sell the other stuff. If you snivel about org lacking pitching star power - this is what happened.
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An All Star whose track record is exactly one half of a season. For all the sniveling about the Porcello trade - from a valuation perspective this is quite a bit sillier.
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It is hard to argue against the ruling - arbitration results have very very wide deference in these areas. That said - shame on the union for letting itself get screwed over constantly. I understand why - careers are short, and paychecks are paychecks. But then there shouldn't be any whining about how other sports get guaranteed deals - the reason they do is because the players ask for it. I remember a while back Howard Bryant had a fascinating tweetstorm about the 1987 strike - and how much it basically destroyed the union's ability to be any sort of useful counter to management. I was 9 back then and most focused on complaining about the players on the field ... but you see the sort of all star team of players there crossing the picket line ... Joe Montana, Mark Gastineau, Tony Dorsett ... how can a players association hold together with that sort of star power telling them to f off. (yes I know Doug Flutie is also in the collective)
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2016 MLB Draft Thread.
sk7326 replied to Hugh2's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
They almost always sign - especially with the current rules. If he doesn't sign - it's the Red Sox fault - his demands were no secret. He will get signed. -
Definitely true - although Kimbrel has also been micromanaged ... makes Ziegler even more useful to have.
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He came up as a SS - so almost certainly yes ... and from what i remember when he signed, the arm profiles for a corner OF spot if need be
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It is not dire - the question is if you think AA has the best left field option available, when do you do it. The interesting thing is whether Benintendi or Moncada would get the nod - you could argue for both ... the latter either going to LF straight or to 3B and move Shaw.
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only they know if he is ready - depends on the kid. But best player in best college baseball conference - him lighting up Single A was not a surprise. He has made the adjustment in Portland. Like Betts, he has conquered everything they've thrown at him. We'll see if he gets promoted to AAA - which is worth seeing an adjustment, although AAA is a taxi squad as much as anything. The precedent is there for high achieving college bats to move quickly.
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exactly the right sort of deal for a reliever - Ziegler will help
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What is interesting is that the gambles have actually largely been ok ... Wright has been terrific, and Porcello has been a very solid upper-mid rotation guy. The issues have been the guys you expected underachieving - Uehara in the pen, Price's form being all over the map, Buchholz being so terrible (the question was about durability - not whether he could be a decent pitcher - by this time last year, he was legitimately good). The bet was on Buchholz quantity, not the quality - which has been the real bummer.
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2016 Trade and Roster Move Speculation thread
sk7326 replied to Dojji's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Obviously the leverage is different - but the idea of putting Wright in the pen between starts is not crazy - but that is something to do much later in the season, if at all. -
given their money - i am not sure they were that worried either way. Anderson is clearly a good pitcher when healthy (which is not often). That price is probably fair for an upside play like him.
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I picked 84 wins - so on the whole this team has not been surprising - outstanding offensively, pitching had been bad. The bullpen has been a disappointment (Koji in particular) but the starting has been worse. Price has both been important on the positive side (just by virtue of being able to be durable and pitch deep into games - mostly) but clearly not worth his salary so far. Vasquez as a pitching staff whisperer has largely not shown in the results I am not sure what this means for the future - I am still optimistic, but it feels a bit more quixotic every day without something significant happening.
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there is plenty of fodder for ejections anyway
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They allowed 142 runs in the 26 games ... an 885 run pace which is more runs than any ML team in the United States scored last season, and more than any ML team - at any elevation - allowed. It ain't the lineup.
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There are rules governing fan interference - umpires are there to apply them. Game conditions are what they are. Balls and strikes is about errors - lapses in competence and accuracy. It is the equivalent of the 1985 Denkinger call. The case is just not comparable.
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2016 MLB Draft Thread.
sk7326 replied to Hugh2's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Groome would risk going back into a better draft year. Now he might leave - but the Sox tend to not lowball. Almost all of the first rounders sign now - those who haven't, it's on the org for being silly. -
Also - for a lot of teams, their best defensive coaches are higher up the ladder - Butterfield is known as an elite infield instructor for instance. You want to keep the guy on the premium position as long as possible. Moncada might eventually move to 3B or something, but there's no rush - stay with the harder up the middle spot until you have to leave.
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Yes, although the players playing vs the rule enforcement seem like distinct deals.
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Now this is interesting. Your previous defense as a jobs program to give Angel Hernandez something to do I am pretty cool with. The Dickensian nightmare of unemployed umps bums me out. But the principle here - that a person should do this job which can be done with technology better, in a manner that would be easy to implement, just because - is harder to go with. Now this is not something like kiosks replacing workers at a restaurant - we are talking about roughly 12% of an umpires workload over a season - it's simplify a human task. Since the home plate umpire will be there, and be solidly busy - I am not sure how idiot-proofing a part of the job violates the spirit of the endeavor.
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Oh - could no disagree more. Sportswriters playing morality police - especially since many abetted the stuff in the first place - is the height of hypocrisy and shaming. The Hall has been derelict here giving the writers much too much leeway. There should be a strict rule - no failed test, then you can't talk about them as drug users. You were happy to let Gaylord Perry in. Bagwell is clearly feeling the guilt by association here.
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I think you make a lot of sense here. I envision it more as the home plate ump gets a signal (or in Joe West's case, perhaps the home bat boy can come from the on-deck circle with a cattle prod) when the pitch is a strike and he makes the call - or something like that. The guy at the plate still has more than enough to do. Having the officials fully computerized would detract from the game, although I don't really see that as a meaningful end state to talk about - it's a practical impossibility. I have some traditionalist views (don't like 6 division format or interleague play, and I imagine I would have hated the DH if I were alive in 1974, although now I am amazed people want to watch pitchers hit), but I think the state of balls and strikes compared to publicly available information is so comical that at some point it will be hard to keep talking about the emperor's clothes.
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Since he played SS in Cuba, I'd say yes. Indeed, he is so big that 3B makes more sense than 2B longer term.
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That's what (many, many, many) she said