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  1. sk7326
    Whether moves WORK is a different thing (the players are human beings and performance is not guaranteed) than whether the move made sense. Farrell plays hunches and does suboptimal things a little more often than I am comfortable with. I don't mind going down in flames while playing the percentages (like say Uehara hanging a splitter to a Tampa Bay catcher for a walk off). But at the end of the day, the players performance train, and the manager can only put the guys out there. If Breslow doesn't throw that ball into the 3rd base seats, we might be having a different conversation. And Farrell has used his bullpen superbly - more or less right until the last two high leverage games. The indecision with Lackey:Breslow was not nearly in the "what a mistake!" as the Morales decision - but I think the indecision ended up creating perhaps the lowest probability option of the things on the table.
  2. sk7326
    Only way to approach it. Can't marinate in the defeat. It's 1-1, Sox need 3 wins ... last night was not a disaster, just a loss.
  3. sk7326
    Farrell has done a good job obviously - to get us this far, he has had a positive impact. His moving of the chess pieces in the game is not his greatest virtue though - he can get better at this.
  4. sk7326
    I think it's more that Farrell recognizes the impact of exchanging Drew for Bogaerts would have on run prevention. Drew has fielded the ball well enough to absorb his horrendous slump and unlike Pete Kozma (for one), his bat at least has POTENTIAL to snap out of it. Sox pitching has been good in this postseason, but that they have "plus" guys at 6 of the 7 infield/outfield spots has had a lot to do with it as well (LF the only soft spot).
  5. sk7326
    For all the fellating the announcers gave Wacha - if you ask me, Martinez' stuff is much more exciting and "future Cy" caliber. Wacha - without any sort of 3rd pitch he has faith in, is more of an elite #3/good #2 sort of ceiling ... he's had an amazing month, no more, no less.
  6. sk7326
    Home field in baseball means squat ... look at the number of years the home team has swept or whatever ... very small. I mean the Sox and Cards were dominant at home, but they had winning road records too - they are good teams, period. The home advantage is ok, but it's a lot smaller than it is in basketball. Farrell's mistake was being caught in between last night - either go to Breslow after the walk ... OR let Lackey (who was still throwing well) work his way through the jam. Yes, bringing in Koji for the highest leverage situation is the right move - but almost zero managers in 2013 would do it (even Maddon, Melvin would act conventionally here - Francona going to Keith Foulke in that spot is rare, and it took the Red Sox being against the wall to do so). And Breslow has been marvelous. What I question is the slavish lefty-on-lefty thing here. Breslow is not really a matchup guy - his swing and miss stuff (the change) is better against righties. I did not think it was an automatic decision - I would have stuck with Lackey, but Farrell's instincts here were not wrong.
  7. sk7326
    Cards were 43-38 on the road ... s*****, that is not. If losing a world series inspired suicidal thoughts, I pity you. Even-ish teams, tactically interesting managers ... stuff happens Also, as I pointed out in the game thread - Wacha is on a hot streak, but the guy who came IN for Wacha is the much better bet to be a staff ace of the future.
  8. sk7326
    hadn't worked in almost a week - easy enough
  9. sk7326
    THIS is filthy stuff ... he might make a mistake (or several), but if you are looking at a 22 year old Cardinal with crazy stuff, dang
  10. sk7326
    BTW: you want electric, ace stuff ... it's not Wacha, it's THIS guy (Martinez)
  11. sk7326
    Better throw gets Kozma ... Breslow should have eaten that, s***
  12. sk7326
    Breslow paying too much attention to Kozma ... let him steal 3rd, just keep the double play in order ...
  13. sk7326
    Lackey did his thing - got us a lead, got us to Breslow without going through Morales or Workman, collecting $200
  14. sk7326
    I don't think Koji will be in for 6 outs ... but overworking is a nonissue: 1. Hasn't pitched in almost a week 2. Day off tomorrow 3. We've got the rest of the offseason to heal - this is why you manage these guys carefully April-September
  15. sk7326
    I wouldn't expect it - I think Breslow gets a spin - although with the schedule breaking the way it has, no doubt Farrell will have no problem going to Uehara quickly.
  16. sk7326
    I can go either way here ... travel day, Koji has not pitched since Saturday - it is not a bad thing to get him some work if that situation came up.
  17. sk7326
    Cards are playing well tonight - if every series comes down to margins like this, as a Sox fan I am still sufficiently nervous.
  18. sk7326
    It's that, but it is also spoiling pitches, competing ... strategy doesn't work if we are swinging at 3 pitches down the middle.
  19. sk7326
    Wish he did that more, because he clearly can ... We have the lead - we have the travel day (so we can bring Koji in early without any qualms). Lackey has been really sharp, but no reason to not quick hook now.
  20. sk7326
    Without a good 3rd pitch, going to be hard to be an ace in the long run
  21. sk7326
    The way Buck read that promo, you'd think BOSTON COLLEGE was in the Big East too ... and yes, Raftery is the best college basketball analyst, not that it's a loaded field
  22. sk7326
    McCarver is sorta right there - hitters often are not aggressive enough on 3-0 count ... but the reason that's the case is that the umps seem FAR likelier to call a borderline pitch a strike.
  23. sk7326
    We know they will adjust - Wacha is not really fooling them. The stuff is good, but the at-bats have looked relatively comfortable.
  24. sk7326
    Cute decoy attempt by Holliday - come on, as if Pedroia doesn't know how hard he hit that?
  25. sk7326
    Sox needed a run anyway. Did a good job keeping the damage to a minimum.
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