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  1. jad
    Oh right. Of course. We must have misplaced our list of approved topics.
  2. jad
    The plight of Oakland does not refute the principles of Moneyball, since there is nothing in the book to say that these principles can make up for more than a 2x difference in payroll. It's going to be difficult to compete with a team that spends more than twice what you do no matter how foolishly that team may use its resources (and of course, there are teams that do not spend wisely--shocking as of course this may seem to contributors on this board!)
  3. jad
    Nava sits against lefties for about $40million less than these two.
  4. jad
    Maybe. But why would anyone assume they took the care required to vet cheap players like this, when they obviously didn't bother on the expensive ones they acquired over the winter?
  5. jad
    Only the famous play last year where, after misplaying a ball, he refused to hustle after it because (employing the logic of Ray Lewis, I suppose) it might hurt his street cred.
  6. jad
    Thanks. SBF was beginning to give being an old fart a bad name.
  7. jad
    Because selling off their pitching staff last year worked out so well?
  8. jad
    Alas, even a single-header for the RS this season is a long long day.
  9. jad
    Exactly. The only anomaly in the last four years is the WS win.
  10. jad
    Once again, my rapier-like wit is blunted by the whetstone of the world. The RS will be turning their season around due to the weather preventing them from losing. (Or maybe it's your rapier-like wit blunted on the stone of my mind.)
  11. jad
    Just checked NOAA. There's a good chance the RS will be turning it around tonight.
  12. jad
    I have to disagree with that: he hit well, and fielded well. What more was he supposed to do? If he didn't 'fit', that's on the other players who didn't perform as well, not on him. (Now a .180 hitting Peguero, THERE's a great fit for the 2015 Sox!)
  13. jad
    Yeah, you're right. My bad. Sorry. Must be the frustrations of the season; I keep wondering if Gary Geiger is still out there, or if Don Buddin is going to do something interesting at short.
  14. jad
    Wait. Gonzo was a disaster? You mean a guy who consistently hit .300 wherever he played? (What's he hitting now, around .350?)
  15. jad
    Pretty much over his left shoulder after Hamilton put a charge into one of his floaters.
  16. jad
    $200/mil (Is that their payroll?) a year to "set things up" for two years down the road?? That may work, since anything can happen (e.g., 2013), but it doesn't sound like a coherent strategy to me. Exactly where is all this cash going that's supposed to pay dividends down the road?
  17. jad
    I don't get that. Nava may be done, but at least he has shown over the past few years that he is or was once capable of hitting. Peguero has proven with several years of very consistent performances that he is not. What's the point? Play Bradley. Play anyone.
  18. jad
    But if "underperformance" is found across the board, isn't that a condemnation of the manager/coaching staff or perhaps the FO who constructed the team under the delusion or hope that everything would go right (e.g., 2013)?
  19. jad
    well, $10 million/year will only get you so much.
  20. jad
    90s? That was heaven compared to late 50s and early 60s: the great ones--Gary Geiger, Ike Delock, and Pa-puh-pumpsy Green.
  21. jad
    On the other hand, if you don't think a reliever can get the job done in that situation, that guy should not be on the team.
  22. jad
    Oh well, Matt Barnes wasn't playing real well for the Clippers either.
  23. jad
    No one catches with two hands anymore. On the other hand, Castillo did not catch with one either.
  24. jad
    Ouch. Is that Cy Young on the mound?
  25. jad
    It's not that they're not coming through in RISP, it's that so many are hitting badly period: Ortiz, Nava, Swihart, Bradley, [Craig], Napoli, Victorino--all well below what was expected.
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