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  1. jad
    Yeah, that Brock Holt is just not ready for the majors. That .400 average and that 3 run homer just now--that's just bench player stuff.
  2. jad
    I'm not sure whether we should imagine that the RS are tied for first, or two games out of the cellar, but this is beginning to look a lot like two of the last three years.
  3. jad
    I don't understand. If he's great, then how can he be over-rated? As for his not being an everyday player, does consistently outhitting all his teammates when he is used everyday count? (or are there those 'intangibles' which prove one simply MUST play the overpaid Victorino's and Gomes's of the world).
  4. jad
    That was fantastic! Did anyone object that it wasn't a legal throw, or that the first baseman didn't 'establish control' simply by holding the glove?
  5. jad
    Well, they probably won't lose 130 games this year, but so far, the most promising performances are by Holt (a bench player, since he isn't being paid enough to start), Boggaerts, and by what's happening in Pawtucket. The FO theory that all will be well as long as everyone has a career year may have worked miraculously in 2013, but the strategy of ridding the team of all its strength (pitching) in order to make room for routine hitting is a bit too Zen for my taste.
  6. jad
    Hey, good thing we got rid of that washed-up bum Gonzales, no?
  7. jad
    Not as many as we're going to lose by having veterans like Victorino and Craig in the batter's box.
  8. jad
    Both RC and JBJ are hitting well in 3A. I'm pretty sure, even if you don't want to play Nava (I guess you're not paying him enough?), that they could hit .130 in the majors.
  9. jad
    So we have a right-handed pitcher. And therefore, we use a right-handed .130 hitter instead of the .330 hitting lefty? Hell, why not put Craig in for Betts, or DH instead of Ortiz.
  10. jad
    Although many of the proposed trades have been no less absurd, I think, in my heart of hearts, that SoxHop was being ironic.
  11. jad
    Right. And RS have their $80million Crawford-esque ace up today, no?
  12. jad
    Yeah, A-rod sucks, huh?
  13. jad
    I don't see the problem with 'clutch'. If it existed, it would be the easiest thing in a sport like baseball to demonstrate. All you would have to do is define situations we could agree for the purposes of argument are 'clutch' (and numerous definitions would be acceptable), then show that the same players who excel in those situations (or who play better in those situations than in others) are the SAME players who do so year after year. (The studies I've seen show that they aren't.) If you are going to say that a player's 'clutchness' varies (i.e., that SOMETIMES a guy is a great clutch hitter, but not always), then of course you have said nothing whatsoever.
  14. jad
    Betts, Bradley, Castillo, Nava, Craig, Ramirez, Victorino. That's the order of hitting success this spring. #2 and 3 get sent down, and # 7 and 8 start. This needs to be fixed, and the least likely way it will be fixed is by Victorino suddenly becoming a .300 hitter as in distant memory, over so many injuries, he was once rumored to be.
  15. jad
    Well, at least the powerful, .158-hitting Victorino has solved this problem by explaining that all these guys need to be traded for pitching, and oh yes to make RF comfortable for him (that is, on the 2 or 3 days this season when he is healthy enough to play).
  16. jad
    Just looking at the box scores, holy crap, has Bradley developed a swing this year?? and is he not a lost cause after all? (or is this just the 'spring training' swing)? Has anyone watched closely enough to have an opinion on this?
  17. jad
    I think you're dating yourself, youngster! My memory of the Sox in the late 50s (pre-Yaz) is that this rivalry was as intense (at least for RS fans) as it ever has been since. Of course, the RS sucked, so I'm not sure whether it meant anything to NY fans.
  18. jad
    Ha! You're right on. After the 2004 Yankees series, I swore I would never get so invested again. Now, when games in any sport get unbearably close/tense, I just turn it off, and check the results the next day. I can generally replay it if I'm that interested. (Let the Pink-Hat accusations begin.)
  19. jad
    It doesn't matter if the views are obstructed and teh facilities aren't the best. As long as the place fills up with fans willing and eager to pay top dollar (which it does), and players aren't refusing to play there (which they aren't), then it is by definition a great ballpark, since that is what they are designed to do.
  20. jad
    On a lesser note, RS and Nava just submitted arbitration figures: 2.3 vs. 1.3. Good grief, just pay the dude. It's going to be hard to argue to the arb. committee that the low figure is just, after paying such stiffs as Gomes 5 and Drew 10 for about a months worth of service.
  21. jad
    Well, not insanity at all, but greater sources of revenue. Plus the fact that players are no longer 'property' of their supposed owners.
  22. jad
    The meltdowns in the dugout after one of his increasingly numerous K's seemed like 'intensity', but they were just idiotic temper tantrums that even pissed his teammates off. I always wished Manny had beaten the crap out of him.
  23. jad
    I'm really not being sarcastic. I just think upgrades in these areas are very expensive for what could be minimal gains. Also, do you think Ch has a plan? (as in "let's go with the kids and if that doesn't work, we'll deal all our pitching and spend big for bats.") It seems as if he is just making it up as he goes along. Which, given the unpredictability of baseball, may be the best policy.
  24. jad
    Well, true. Ramirez played 15 or so more games than Holt or Nava (which may be worth 1mil. or so per game; not sure). Sandoval was pretty durable (except for that two year stretch around 2011). So yes, as long as they play more games than Holt or Nava, then indeed they play more games. (Doesn't really matter if you miss them due to injury, as did both Ramirez and HOlt, or because you define a player as 'not full time', whatever that means).
  25. jad
    OK. so they now signed two phenomenally expensive .270-.280 hitters. But given that they already have two phenomenally cheap .270-.280 hitters at these positions in Holt and Nava, I don't see that this is going to turn things around.
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