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What a Difference Big Papi Would Make in that Clubhuse---as Manager!
jad replied to bosoxmal's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Hey! Stop trashing old people! (Except maybe when we go off on the "I've forgotten more about baseball than all you whippersnappers will ever ..." I'm not really sure that knowing more about a sport than anyone else is necessarily a virtue.) -
What a Difference Big Papi Would Make in that Clubhuse---as Manager!
jad replied to bosoxmal's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Woa! Did SeabeachFred return? -
I don't think you have to worry about Pomeranz pitching today. And I guarantee, TB is not going to get a win.
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What if Posada had actually made good contact instead of being jammed by Pedro and ending up a hero? What if Mueller had hit the ball two feet to the right?
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But there's no "take" at all in that article. Nor any suggestion of what the problem is or what the RS should do.
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Awful game, what I heard of it. But in all seriousness, is the manager to blame for a DP? What's he supposed to do? ("Hey, guy, remember: don't hit a ground ball. Or a line drive to an infielder." "OK, Skip. Thanks for the tip.")
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So if the out call is made, and consequently Boggaerts doesn't bother to tag the runner who over-ran the bag, what's the result if the challenge shows him safe?
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Guess not. Must have been indisposed!
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Will Farrell leave Kimbrel in in order to earn him a save? (i.e., is he willing to risk a game in order to pad stats?)
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Can those really be called 'slumps'? Aren't they more likely the norm? What is not the norm is the incredible month he had last year. But I don't recall he's had anything close to that at any other time in his career.
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Young 2 hits in his last two ABs. Obviously he's due for an out. Bench him.
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Correction! Young just started hitting again. Bench or trade JBJ immediately.
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Ha. 'Arbitrary' is obviously not the right word. I should have said 'ill defined or impossible to define'; 'when stats begin to stabilize' strikes me as just as problematic. I get what you mean, but there's no defining that precisely.
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Ah! He stopped hitting! 0-3. So obviously he needs to be benched or traded immediately.
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Nope. Just the logic of resignation: (1) he shouldn't be traded until he starts hitting; (2) he should be kept as long as possible. (There's no conflict--I don't see him ever to return to hitting as he briefly did last year).
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Quote Originally Posted by a700hitter View Post He should be traded when he is hitting or after a season when he puts up some decent numbers. ------------ Actually I'm all for keeping this outfield intact for as long as possible. ------------- ------------- These two apparently opposing statements are alas likely to prove compatible.
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I love JBJ, but alas, while there's almost a dead certainty that a 'streaky hitter' will go cold, there is no certainty whatsoever that such a hitter will get hot.
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Trade players when their value is at its lowest? (For a moment, I thought I had failed to move from the LA Clippers board to this one).
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The definition of 'significant' is close to arbitrary in statements like this (although we could perhaps agree that it's greater than 1 and less than 161). Which makes it a perfect topic of conversation on sports boards.
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Ha! One of my memories as a kid in the late 50s was watching my brother studiously keeping exactly these stats on every game through the season: so every bat was: 0-4 (i.e., out with no one on); 3-7 (i.e., guy on first, single, runner goes to third). No differentiating walks/hits/errors/sacrifices, etc. Not sure if he ever made a grand end of year calculation, nor what he felt it proved.
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I take back what I said about the O's vying with the RS for dumbest ass fielding.
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Any of you coaching types know who screwed up on that play? Was the pitcher supposed to cover first? (I assume he had to back up third). Maybe there's just no tactic to prevent that? (Unless an outfielder gets involved). I guess 1B has to realize there's no one behind him, and can't let the runner pass him?
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OK. There is now evidence that there are teams who play worse in the field than the RS.
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Wright now gone for the season. So now we can talk about something else? Who?
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Why do people continue to assume that professional athletes (at least those since the good ole days when they were all tough guys like us) are or aspire to be as macho and bad-ass as the average internet poster?
