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  1. sk7326
    Oh certainly - although the process looks to have produced 3 quality starters going forward already - and a trade landed a potential ace. That cannot be discounted.
  2. sk7326
    Ellsbury was a plus defender by the end of his time in Boston. We value Mookie for being darn close to the guy Ellsbury is while being 9 f'in years younger.
  3. sk7326
    Swihart the raw stuff is obvious, and Betts is going to be a star. Bogaerts is interesting - fangraphs wrote about it - he has gotten very smart about dealing with the off-speed stuff and the stuff down and away. But he is walking less. He has made a contact for power choice which you can't blame him for - but it has kept him potentially from unleashing the power he shows from time to time more regularly. Of course he's leading the AL SSs in fWAR now, so ...
  4. sk7326
    What is true is that the last week and change they are playing better baseball, and their kids are starting to pull more weight. It's not a hot streak, but it's at least progress.
  5. sk7326
    You should get graded on the results and the process. If you drafted Bryce Harper and then Bryce Harper got hit by a bus, did the draft pick become a bust?
  6. sk7326
    http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/1975.shtml ... other mitigating factors like ballparks (all those cookie cutter astro turf parks), opposition, defense had a lot of impact. fWAR is less kind since it directly addresses the idea that the staff did not strike out a lot of guys - leaned on a good defense.
  7. sk7326
    Is this trolling? I'll type it slowly ... Betts ... is ... 22 .... years ... old
  8. sk7326
    Those were for the staff as a whole .... Anderson had a very quick hook, partially to make sure the staff did not screw up what arguably the best everyday lineup ever fielded did.
  9. sk7326
    Gullett was good. The Reds were 14th in fWAR in 1975, 6th in 1976, which was their most productive staff in the Big Red Machine era. The pitching was "enough" - when the position players hold up their end of the deal. Teams win with weaknesses all the time - 100 games a season.
  10. sk7326
    You mean you lived through the 1910s??
  11. sk7326
    Flood lost his case in 1969. Messersmith and McNally were 1976, which is really where it starts. An under-rated book was Gammons "Beyond the Sixth Game" which talked about the industry ability to adjust to the players suddenly having rights. Not as good as Halberstam's "Breaks of the Game", but similar flavor.
  12. sk7326
    This front office ... has won ... A LOT. The idea that these guys don't want a taste again after having the tastes in the past is ludicrous. Going to work as a Red Sox svengali is the best gig in the world if the team is good. (granted there is the cottage industry of Sox fan unhappiness, but that is a different issue)
  13. sk7326
    Except that none of that stuff about the talent is true ... The GM signed the two top position players on the FA market knowing they would both provide below replacement level contribution for almost half the season The GM traded for a 26 year old who had improved for 3 straight years with the assumption that he would regress as a 27 year old The GM traded for a decent innings horse assuming ... well Miley has actually been roughly what was expected, a couple of flammable starts notwithstanding Any reasonable projection of this rotation was to be something in the middle - not awful, not the 1995 Braves, just some guys (like the 1975 Reds) nobody will remember who won't kill you. And since the guys he acquired were young you can at least cross your fingers on more. The talent part was not the issue - it has been the execution therein. I know Cherington is not perfect and do not absolve him for how it has gone, but his failing - if anything - has not been at the player level. Look at the Pawtucket and Greenville rosters for proof there.
  14. sk7326
    What is interesting is that most of the organizational markers are fairly strong - the books are not tied up horribly, the team is not especially old, the farm system is not barren. What has happened this year has been a really simple matter - the parts of the team that were supposed to be strengths have largely not been. Every other diagnosis puts the blame in the wrong place (although yes the part of the team that was not supposed to be too hot has lived down to that). I tend to be more inclined to blame Farrell than the front office because there has not actually been that much concrete evidence that the players are not talented - or that they lack character (there are a lot of rings out there). It has been a consistent team wide under performance. The roster has flaws (duh), but there is a lot of evidence that this coaching staff has not maximized their output at all.
  15. sk7326
    NESN ratings were down, the team lacked sexiness. Fans are spoiled. The 2010 team had no business winning 89 games. It's the paradox of winning a lot - fans don't miss it until it's gone.
  16. sk7326
    They have been slow to adapt the way the game has changed so fundamentally since 2013.
  17. sk7326
    Then you don't trade him. The Giants might be more amenable since they know him. Sandoval signing was one I didn't love but I did understand it - 3B was a dumpster fire for us, and he was an improvement, and since he was the youngest premium free agent, Sox were not buying much of his decline. Defense got off to a slow start and offensively he has been a bit streaky
  18. sk7326
    4.00 was right on the AL league average last year. In 1968 it would have been scandalously bad, in 1999 it would have been really good. Things change.
  19. sk7326
    They have got some reckoning to do ... and some questions about the coaching staff. Clearly we've left the greatest decade in Sox history (well unless you're really really old) a couple of years behind. But how far - that is an open question.
  20. sk7326
    There was time since free agency when this team was not swimming with the big sharks payrollwise?
  21. sk7326
    2012 was worse, although the injuries caused much of that ... so far the staff has been as bad as anything I've seen since the Pedro deal ... of course that says more about the quality of the Red Sox staff since 1998 than anything. Right now the staff is 12th in fWAR in the AL which is not good enough (although interestingly the starters are 9th - in other words, perfectly mediocre). Porcello probably gets the largest slice of blame pie among the starters. If Porcello were the guy he was the last two seasons, the Top 3 of the rotation + Eduardo would actually be fairly solid. No 1994 Braves, but something you can go to war with. Sox basically were trying to put together something staffwise resembling the 2002 Angels, 1975 Reds, 1977 Red Sox, what have you ... something competitive that with a good lineup could be better than that.
  22. sk7326
    indeed - the slow start by the starters is one thing. The bullpen has not been great, although that is always a crapshoot. Really the last month the starters have largely been ok. The biggest miscalculation actually has been defensive - since that was supposed to aid the run prevention effort and (because of the left side) instead has hurt it. The lineup on paper should have been challenging to lead the league in runs scored, but it hasn't. I guess I resist the case of "well they built a team that couldn't pitch and presto" - because that sort of misplaces where the bulk of the blame (for May in particular) should go.
  23. sk7326
    If you got the lineup - a "good enough" staff can get you team of the decade ... alas the former has taken a while to take hold (if at all)
  24. sk7326
    Who leads AL SSs in fWAR?
  25. sk7326
    Probably - although Swihart has been finding his legs recently ... he was overpromoted clearly, but there has also been pretty good evidence what the fuss is all about
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