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  1. sk7326
    One the two best middle infielders in Red Sox history. (Doerr was the other) Nomar was better the time he was here, but the time was limited and the injuries were what they were. The Top 20 Red Sox ever in terms of fWAR Clemens 76.8, Young 54.8, Pedro 51.9 1. Ted Williams 130.4 2. Yaz 94.8 3. Clemens 76.8 4. Boggs 70.8 5. Evans 64.3 6. Cy Young 54.8 7. Tris Speaker 54.4 8. Bobby Doerr 53.3 9. Pedro 51.9 10. Rice 50.3 11. Papi 48.8 12. Pedroia 47.1 13. Fisk 38.3 14. Foxx 37.6 15. Dom Dimaggio, Lefty Grove 34.6 Pedro is the best pitcher I ever saw, but Clemens did produce more for the Red Sox overall and that cannot be discounted.
  2. sk7326
    What is interesting is that Pedroia - at the point of the signing - was pretty durable. There were no indicators his body would fall apart - the 8 years was rich but the team was correct in that he'd be a screaming bargain if he could stay on the field. Of course his fortunes turned in 2015 and never got better healthwise.
  3. sk7326
    At his age, the power has still to come
  4. sk7326
    he's one of the three greatest infielders in the eleventy-billion year history of the Red Sox ... and possibly the greatest middle infielder in franchise history (and definitely one of the top two). He did all he could - and he remained a good player until his body failed him. Shame it has to end but father time is undefeated.
  5. sk7326
    you can't hit a ball much harder than the balls Bogaerts and Devers hit
  6. sk7326
    BTW: It is very bad for baseball that the flagship MLB Network announcers are so crotchety and ill-informed. This is really bad.
  7. sk7326
    For fangraphs, he has been the league's worst regular by a mile over Travis Shaw, partially because UZR does not like his defense as much as the eye test. (my operating theory has been that Betts has hurt him in the area of defensive measurement)
  8. sk7326
    Aaron used greenies instead
  9. sk7326
    Oh he advocated solid contact, but he was trying to get backspin and all of that good stuff. Really all the mystical woo around launch angle and exit velocity is silly ... it's just ways to measure stuff Williams and others understood qualitatively.
  10. sk7326
    It is pretty striking - I mean only Barry Bonds was even in the same neighborhood (even 20th century Bonds) when it came to delivering so much power, batting eye and contact together.
  11. sk7326
    Ted was no stranger to launch angle.
  12. sk7326
    The Rays were a 90 win team last year - there was no reason to think they'd be worse. As far as assessing teams - there is still not a ton of evidence to make great assessments. The Red Sox had an ungodly bad stretch of starting pitching against a fairly stern opening schedule, and the result is what it was. Right now, only 6 of the 15 AL teams have positive run differentials - so that is a decent indicator that the playoff chase might not be all that daunting. Granted, the A's took a while to get going last year and there is just a lot of stuff - especially in the AL West - that has yet to really unfold. The O's and Royals are the only truly terrible teams in the league.
  13. sk7326
    With both Martinez and Chavis in the lineup, someone has to portray a potted plan out there ... probably it is some sort of DH/1B/LF combination, alternating with Pearce when appropriate.
  14. sk7326
    Basically the Sox had this 2ish week stretch of unfathomably bad starting pitching. Since mid-April, that stabilized and so did the rest of the team. Our start basically kicked away a 108 win season, but all of the other things in our dreams are still fine.
  15. sk7326
    If Bradley continues to stink, putting Martinez or Chavis in LF and moving Benintendi to CF is the move ... which hurts defensively but is not fatal.
  16. sk7326
    All the stats are fine - the problem is usually at the inference level.
  17. sk7326
    mathematically, preventing a run is probably MORE important than scoring a run on some level. The likelihood of winning scoring 7 runs instead of 6 runs is not going to that high. I mean if you plot (using Play Index) runs scored vs winning pct, there are diminishing returns to scoring additional runs.
  18. sk7326
    the big thing has been the turnaround in starting pitching. After a 2 week trashfire, it has been among the best in the league. going forward, we'll be okay. the hope is we didn't blow too many games in the process of getting here.
  19. sk7326
    Those people are nuts - if there was a decision it was Swihart vs Leon.
  20. sk7326
    Vazquez as the starter has always made sense. There is an upside on his offense - but it's not zero. With his receiving, that is a perfectly good starter. On some basic level I like Swihart's talent better - but: (and these things can be true at the same time) 1. The Sox did not see themselves in a position to "let it ride" 2. Swihart was constantly yo-yo'd 3. He did not produce in the chances he DID have. Given all of this, Vasquez being our near-mid term starter is totally cool.
  21. sk7326
    I would think of him as a sort of Tony Phillips (for the old people) where he splits starts between 1B, 2B and LF ... his ability to play all of them non-terribly has some value even if he might not play any of them well.
  22. sk7326
    even without the PED questions - it is more likely than not he'll fall off somewhat. But he clearly can hit. The approach is legit.
  23. sk7326
    And it didn't stop them from spitting bit twice in the ALDS last year.
  24. sk7326
    I don't know - the Sox bullpen so far has been fine.
  25. sk7326
    I am skeptical of Chatham's 2019 value. Dalbec is talented but just strikes out too much to expect him to become a big league starter.* * NOTE: I am not saying that you can't be a good high strikeout hitter. But striking out over 1/3 of the time against AA pitching is a red flag.
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