Kimmi
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I have always been on the same page as you in terms of signing those depth players to minor league contracts. Dumpster dives, as many like to call it. Dombrowski fell asleep on that, both in preseason and throughout the season.
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Eovaldi should have been an improvement over what Pomeranz gave us. I don't think it's a fair assessment to say that Dombrowski did nothing to improve the team. No, he probably didn't make as many improvements as other teams did, but when you're the WS Champs coming off a 108 win season, really, how much improvement can be done? I get the whole argument about not improving the bullpen, not that I agree with it, but I get it. But he did improve our starting rotation, which IMO, was the main area in need of improvement. Our offense was and is fine as is.
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In fairness, I don't think you can blame 2014 on Cherington and not blame 2019 on Dombrowski. The 2014 team was overwhelmingly projected to win the division by both computer models and by baseball analysts. That tells me that the GM did his job, but the players did not get it done.
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2014 was on the team, not on Cherington. Cherington should not have lost his job so soon. The thing about 5 year plans is that they typically take 5 years. And Cherington was able to win us a WS in the midst of that 5 year plan, which is hard to do.
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It's almost like I typed this post myself.
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The length of the contract was misguided from day one. That said, there was no way to foresee Pablo being as bad as he was the year he signed with Boston. Our 3B production from the previous year was so bad, that I can understand signing Pablo. He should have been a decent upgrade. No way would I have ever given him 5 years, but I can understand the rationale behind the signing.
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I like this optimism Mal. Keep it going!
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Brother Slash
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It will end in a tie. Neither one of us will give up until the team is mathematically eliminated. I am not only hopeful, I am actually quite optimistic that the team can still get it done. One game at a time.
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It figures on a day that our pitching staff pitches very well outside of the first inning, our offense cannot muster more than 2 runs. Tip your hat to Nola, I guess, but I still think the offense should have been able to do better. The 2 base running gaffes in the 9th cannot happen, to say the least, but Xander is not to be blamed for this loss. This is on the offense, as a whole.
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If I didn't have to uproot my family and everything I've established where I am now, I would seriously consider moving to one of the Dakotas, Montana, or Idaho. People, crowds, traffic, etc. are getting on my nerves.
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What do you do when it rains, or when players lie about their height to trick the robots? Just Say No.
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Personally, I think it's a great argument. I love that some catchers can steal more strikes for his pitchers than other catchers can. To me, it would be a shame for that art to be lost.
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I agree with you on this.
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Of course he is. That Cashman tried to hire him as soon as he left the Red Sox speaks volumes.
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It's funny that our rotation, which was supposed to be a strength of our team, has come to this. They may surprise (pleasantly) though. Keep the faith.
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Ha. Well played.
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Our starting rotation now consists of ERod, Porcello, Eovaldi, Johnson, and who knows. Yikes!
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LOL But isn't that what pitch framing is all about? That's a catching skill that would be lost with robot umps.
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Incoming!
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I like this post. One game at a time. Keep winning.
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On the whole, I do not think that a closer should be limited to just pitching the 9th inning. Sometimes, the game needs to be saved in the 7th or 8th innings, and I think it's a mistake to keep the closer on the bench for a save situation that may never come. That said, I do agree with you that many, probably most relievers are creatures of routine, and they prefer to know exactly what their roles are. Kimbrel certainly comes to mind here. It's on the manager to know his players well enough to discern who can handle what. For the most part, I think Barnes' 'failure', if you can call it that, came not from the lack of a defined role, but from overuse and overexposure. Cora had to go to Barnes a lot more than he anticipated. Lack of bullpen depth contributed to this, along with the things mentioned in my previous post.
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Preach, Brother Slash!
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Seriously, the analytics guys could do a better job with scheduling than whoever is doing it now.
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A good pen might help a team outperform their Pythagorean W-L record, but that's not always necessarily the case. That is typically the case when a team has a stronger record in one run games (and maybe two run games, but I don't have a stat readily available for that, and I'm not willing to go through every game log). The Yankees in one run games are 15-13. The Sox in one run games are 16-15. Pretty similar. The telling sign for me is that the Yankees are 'only' .645 in blowout games, which is slightly worse than their overall record of .659. Usually, good teams have better record in blowout games than they do overall. This tells me that your pitching staff is giving up a lot of runs in losses.
