Kimmi
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It's not about the results achieved by the end of May. It's about the results achieved throughout the entire season. A big part of the 'resting' philosophy is that the team will likely lose a few games early in the season to benefit the W-L record in the long run.
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I have none. Convince me otherwise.
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Thank you.
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You often don't know if they belong in the MLB until you give them a try. The best relievers often seemingly come out of nowhere. At the same time, a reliever who was one of the best one year might struggle mightily the next. FTR, I'm still on the Colten Brewer bandwagon. His results have not been there, but his potential is still there. His peripherals are very promising.
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I wasn't expecting them to play at the same level as last year, but I expect them to play better than 1 game over .500. That they're not is kind of inexplicable.
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I get the feeling that the team had a sense of complacency during and coming out of spring training. It was too easy for them last year. With so little competition in the AL, I get the sense that they felt like they could somewhat coast to the playoffs this year. I don't think Dombrowski was complacent with his offseason moves. IMO, there wasn't much that needed to be done, and he was somewhat handcuffed by finances. But I think Cora kind of set a sense of complacency with his ST approach. I'm not saying that his approach was necessarily wrong. Either way, it is on Cora to re-light the fire under these guys.
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Solid post Oldtimer. IMO, the team doesn't really have any needs, outside of some BP reinforcement. The talent is there, both on the offensive side and the pitching side. We just need to stay healthy and perform to levels of expectation.
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The team has been extremely frustrating to watch. They went on a tear for about 3 weeks, when they played like we know they are capable of playing. But the remainder of the season, they have been underperforming, along with often not appearing to have their heads in the game. The strange thing is that this is almost exactly the same team as last year's. Did they have a leader last year? Did they have the fire last year? It's hard to explain what is so different from last year to this.
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That's a lot of time. Teams have blown 7-8 game leads in a month. We have to have patience, though. We are not likely to make up all that ground in a month. It will be a season long process.
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I'm not a fan of LaunchBall, but I don't have a problem with the analytics behind this one. It's one of those trends in baseball where the pitchers will have to make adjustments to what the batters are doing. Also, I think the juiced baseballs are more to blame here than anything else, which I do have a problem with. I don't like the shifts because I don't like players playing out of what we have typically considered their position. To me, it feels like changing the basic structure of the game, whereas launch angle doesn't. It's the same reason why I don't like instant replay and robot umps.
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I disagree. Come August or September, that might be the case, but not before then. The philosophy is hard to accept sometimes, but it's the correct way to go.
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This season is a little before my time to know how Zimmer managed the team, but I see that the Sox had its largest lead of 10 games on July 8, and a 9 game lead on August 13. So if Zimmer was indeed going all out to win every game early, this would be Exhibit A on why not to do that. Also, this season serves as one of many reminders that it's way too early to give up on the 2019 Sox.
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There is still a long way to go in the season. No one should count the Sox out. Back to back to back to back.
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A voice of reason. As with Eovaldi, unless there are health concerns that dictate moving him to the pen, it would not make any sense to do so.
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Blown saves are just terrible stats. You can have a reliever come into a game after the starter loads the bases with 0 outs, give up nothing more than a sac fly, and get a blown save.
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I completely agree with Cora's philosophy here. You manage the marathon, not the sprint. If a manager continually goes all out to win today's game, he will burn out his entire team by late August and September.
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Fair point. Personally, I really dislike all of the extreme shifting, and moving defenders based on the count. That said, it works. Even though I don't like some of the things that analytics has brought to the game, I'd rather see this happen than have teams blindly do what they've always done, just because it's the way it's always been done.
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Saves, Holds, Wins, and Blown Saves are all in the 'worst baseball stats' category.
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That would make sense if momentum were a predictive thing.
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Well word on the street is that Dombrowski is very much in the market for a 'shut down closer'. I don't think we need to designate a closer. The way Cora has been handling the pen had been working very well, until just recently.
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I prefer a set line up as well. I don't mean the lefty/righty thing in terms of who the opposing pitcher is. I mean the lefty/righty thing in terms of alternating the batters. Pick a line up that the players are comfortable with, and stick with it no matter who's pitching.
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Everyone in the history of the game has assumed that what they are doing is correct, just because they've always done it that way. To show how wrong everyone in the history of the game can be, just take a look at Jeter's Gold Gloves. Thank goodness for stat geeks.
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That's what I'm talking about. Thank you!
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Why are we all talking about the wildcard anyway? No one has wrapped up the division yet!
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The Mariners are still alive.
