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  1. jad
    Nothing that Nava does that someone else can't "theoretically" do better? Well yes. As long as that "theoretical" .306 hitter actually hits .307. But you could say that of anybody. JB could also 'theoretically' replace Ellsbury; all he needs to do is hit over .300 and steal over 50 bases. Stated that way, it sounds so simple.
  2. jad
    Maybe. He didn't look great when in Boston, though. OBP? Interesting. Maybe he could make up for it there (it's not Els' strong suit!) I love his swing. I just want to see him hit the ball more, and so far, there hasn't been enough of that.
  3. jad
    Not sure why everyone's indifferent to keeping a .300 hitter who costs under a million; Gomes' reputation seems largely a product of his own self-promotion--he's still hitting .250. Bradley as savior is wishful thinking-- he did nothing when he came up; Els by contrast lit it up as soon as he got to Boston. Who is Coco Crisp? ... was Gary Geiger not available?
  4. jad
    OK. Found it. Reggie won the MVP hitting a legendary .450. Ortiz is almost .300 pts higher.
  5. jad
    There likely have been WS performances comparable to Lester's. But has anyone ever hit over .700 for a long series? (Have to check Mr. October on this.)
  6. jad
    He is helpless. Maybe in Boston, they can let the pitcher hit and DH for him.
  7. jad
    You beat me to it.
  8. jad
    Ok--Gomes goes 0-3 with an error, after not hitting very well at any time during the playoffs. Nava comes in after hitting ok during the playoffs, getting on base, and tonight gets a hit in his only AB. Gomes starts again? Why? Does Farrell really believe in some magical property Gomes exudes (along with his boy Drew--hey! he lit it up last night, huh? Finally got that big hit, so I guess he's getting his swing back too).
  9. jad
    Well, 'insane' is a big word. The fact is, Nava was a more successful hitter and I believe had a better OBP (to say that may or may not be rational, but that's what the facts are). Of course the difference was very small, and obviously Ellsbury and DP are better defensive players. Nava vs. Gomes? this isn't close.
  10. jad
    I believe there was a study done a couple of years ago on clutch. It's pretty simple: if a guy is a 'clutch' hitter, then the numbers should reflect that year after year. They don't. The conclusion of the study was that 'clutch' was simply chance. Also, our minds are bizarre. We will remember Papi's 'clutch' grand slam (and maybe Victorino's as well). What we will forget is that in close games like these, all AB's were clutch situations. And Papi, in his two-dozen chances or so, and Vict as well, failed miserably. As one poster above said, there is no 'clutch' hitting; there is 'hitting'. And Nava, over 162 games, has proven to be a better hitter than anyone on the team except Papi, and a significantly better hitter than the dude who has replaced him.
  11. jad
    Well, aside from Ortiz, Nava is their best hitter, best average, best OBP. Hitting almost up to standard in the playoffs. The only time he does not come through is when he's on the bench. For some reason, management (i.e., manager?) feels that those who get paid the most, must be best, or why would we be paying them so much?
  12. jad
    So the guy who (aside from Ortiz) is the best hitter on the team with the highest OBP, who got the only hit in Game1 and who has managed to hit and get on base whenever he's allowed to play sits on the bench? Why?
  13. jad
    OK. "There is no such thing as a clutch hitter." What so-called clutch hitters do (and Ortiz is one of them) in big moments is the SAME thing they do in all other situations. Ortiz is a .300 hitter. So about a third of the time he will get a hit, regardless of the situation. In the two games so far, he has succeeded far less than that; he had plenty of opportunities to tie the first game and failed miserably. So in a sense we agree: it's not that there are clutch hitters (statistics show there are not); but there ARE hitters who consistently choke in those situations. Ortiz isn't one of them. Even more remarkable was Manny, who didn't seem to give a rat's butt what the situation was, and consequently did as well in big moments as small ones.
  14. jad
    Another horrible a-b by Ortiz.
  15. jad
    For the same reason Nava is sitting?
  16. jad
    Is this Little League? There are ways of getting on base other than walking or being hit.
  17. jad
    Looks like they're taking the same approach to hitting that they did last night.
  18. jad
    Why isn't Nava in? Because he proved he wasn't a team player with the sole hit last night??
  19. jad
    Except for the sad fact that had he gotten the call right, the RS would have only had 16 Ks--well over half their outs. They couldn't hit anything thrown for a strike; they waved at pitches way out of the zone (i.e., Ortiz), and generally had pathetic swings. It was like local Little League--all walks and strikeouts. No solid contact all night (well, Ross had a nice foul ball--wasn't that the only decent swing of the evening?) They did nothing to deserve a call.
  20. jad
    That was the worst hitting performance I have seen in a major league game in the past half century. Left-handers totally lost, waving at pitches outside the zone, taking obvious strikes, whining about the calls. I'm inclined to think the time off finally hurt (although of course, if they had hit like they did against TB, one could argue the reverse). But last night, no one seemed to have good swings at all. It was as if none of these guys had seen Major L pitching in a while, even though that seems preposterous.
  21. jad
    "Nicks and dents"? You mean, like, broken ribs?
  22. jad
    Ha! Having a captain apparently works, then. Captain V. certainly got the RS over the hump the last two years of his reign.
  23. jad
    You're probably right about the BA (at least,I'll take your word for it). But the specific notion that the loss proved Pedro was in too long is just part of RS anecdotal lore, and it cost Little his job. The fact is, if (was it Posada?) had made decent contact, which he did not, he would have hit a lazy FB to center, and Little would be hailed as a genius. Instead, he fisted a ridiculous hit over 2nd, and Little was regarded as the goat.
  24. jad
    Hitting for average and getting on base is kinda the point, no? Bradley really didn't look like he could do either when he was here.
  25. jad
    Of course 'the closer model' works. Because most of the time, the team with the closer is 1-3 runs ahead with less than an inning to play. That is like saying 'the prevent defense works more often than not'; well, yes, because you use it when you are ahead late in the game and your chances of winning are best. Finally, on poor Calvin Shiraldi. Obviously, not a great pitcher, but without him, they would never have been in position to win or lose the WS. ALso, as I remember he was one pitch away from winning several times in that inning, and the 'hits' that beat him were ground balls through the hole that might just as well have been right at the SS. (May be wrong on this.)
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