Kimmi
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I think managers and the coaching staff bear some responsibility for the way the team plays throughout the season, on the whole. I have said many times that the most important aspect of the manager's job is what takes place off the field. Things like instilling trust and confidence in the players and creating a positive clubhouse atmosphere are factors that I believe help a team to perform better on the field. I am speaking in general terms over the course of the season though. A manager is not going to be able to make his team perform better for any particular series or stretch. Likewise, a manager is not responsible if the team performs poorly for a particular series or stretch. Those things just happen as part of baseball. IMO, it's ridiculous to think that the team lost to Cleveland because Farrell did not have the team ready or 'pumped up' or anything along those lines.
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2016 Non-Red Sox Postseason Gamethread
Kimmi replied to Youk Of The Nation's topic in Other Baseball
No worries. He/she was actually kind of funny at first, before stepping way over the line. -
Dombrowski gets credit for being decisive about who he wants and then acting quickly on it.
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IMO, if a team builds a strong farm system and fills the holes with the right choices through free agency, they should be able to remain competitive year in and year out. Building a team with no regard to the future will inevitably result in a 'rebuild'.
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I clearly said that Dombrowski's tenure in Detroit cannot be considered a failure. I just disagree wholeheartedly with the philosophy of building a team by buying a lot of free agents and trading away your farm for other big name players. The Tigers inability to build a strong farm system is my main issue with their philosophy. Building a strong franchise starts with the farm system, not with free agents.
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If a team is making moves with little or no concern for the long term outlook of the franchise, that is what I consider a win now mentality. Win now does not necessarily mean only a one year shot. The Tigers FO knew that they were sacrificing the future of the team in an attempt to win a World Series for the aging Ilitch. If the Tigers are happy with their 4 straight division titles and the current state of their franchise, then their plan was a success.
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I am a fan of both JD and Stephen. IMO, neither one of them got the credit they deserved.
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I had no problem with Iggy as our SS. Saying that I agreed with the trade is not saying that I didn't like Iggy as our SS. It's just that we had a better overall SS available, which made Iggy expendable. If we did not have Bogaerts plus other depth, I would have been very much against the trade, and I would have been very happy keeping Iggy.
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If the Sox are in contention, I think we should trade JBJ midseason next year for a Peavy type pitcher.....
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It's too bad Miggy's contract is so large. He would be an excellent replacement for Papi at DH.
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The ultimate goal is to win a championship. I would not in any way call Dombrowski's tenure in Detroit a failure, but even with all of the division titles, they never won the big prize. Now they have a lot of huge contracts to deal with and a bare farm system. The long term ramifications are setting in. This is Exhibit A on what's wrong with the 'win now' mentality.
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Drew's metrics have been all over the place. I think he was a poor defender to start his career, then became much better with experience, until he got injured. Once fully recovered from the injury, his defense was good again for a couple of years, but then perhaps age took over? His metrics were favorable for the years that he played in Boston. I had no problems with Drew.
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2016 Non-Red Sox Postseason Gamethread
Kimmi replied to Youk Of The Nation's topic in Other Baseball
I'm pulling for the Cubs just because it's been longer for them, though I can't really pull against the Guardians. I wouldn't mind seeing either team win. I'm just hoping for a fun, well played series. And 7 games would be nice. Go baseball! -
I'm with Bell and Eddy on this. Great posts by both of them on this topic.
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Interestingly enough, JBJ rates well on 'Arm' runs at +5.6. Where he was hurt this year was on 'Range' runs, costing the team -1.7 runs. His 'Error' runs were +0.7. I will duck out of the way now.
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JBJ did may not have had what we've come to expect as a 'typical' defensive season, but nor was he bad at all. His +11 DRS puts him in the 'Great' category defensively. His 4.5 UZR puts him in the "Above Average" category. He still had a very good year defensively. That's all I was trying to say. Plus, as you and others have pointed out, we cannot really assess what kind of defender he is based off of one year's worth of data, just what kind of year he had defensively. And no, advanced defensive metrics are not influenced by hard plays made to look easy or easy plays made to look hard (Jeter anyone?).
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No, it wasn't a short series, but still a short enough period of time not to make anything of it. All teams go through stretches like that. Ours just happened to come at a very visible time, as you said. Two of the losses were by 2 runs, and 4 of the losses were by 1 run. Those close losses or wins usually have more to do with randomness/luck than anything else. I'm not sweating it as any shortcoming of the team and/or manager.
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2016 Non-Red Sox Postseason Gamethread
Kimmi replied to Youk Of The Nation's topic in Other Baseball
I think that if the Dodgers win tonight, which they have a very good chance to do, they will end up winning the series. At this point, I don't think I will be unhappy with whomever wins the World Series, though my preference goes Cubs, followed very closely by the Guardians, then the Dodgers. -
The stats that Moon quoted are team stats, not player stats. The team stats at CF include Castillo's 9 innings, for which he had a whopping 127 UZR/150, Benintendi's 30 innings with a -35 UZR/150, and Young's 25 innings with a -27.7 UZR/150. Bradley's individual defensive stats place him 4th among qualifying CFs with a 5.1 UZR/150 and also 4th in DRS with +11 runs.
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Sorry, but I pretty much disagree with this entire post. Iggy certainly was expendable. At the time, the team had very good depth on the left side of the infield. He was not in the team's future plans. That makes him expendable. They did get good value for Iggy. Did they overpay? Probably (and that's debatable), but that's how deadline deals work. It's not a panic move when a team chooses to strengthen its chances at the deadline by filling a need. The FO gave us another World Series Ring. I would hardly call that blowing it. Not getting Lester re-signed because they offered him $70 million - that's blowing it.
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I like this post.
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What went wrong is that we were outplayed by a team that is playing very good baseball right now. It was a short series. You really can't conclude anything from what happens in a short series. All this mumbo jumbo about home field advantage, Farrell didn't have the players ready, etc. is just that - mumbo jumbo.
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With a .376 BABIP.
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The biggest problem with the 'win now at any cost' philosophy is that it doesn't guarantee anything. Look at the Tigers, who took on some big contracts and sold away their farm. They had a good run at making the postseason, but won zero championships. Now, it appears that they are going into rebuild mode, which is usually inevitable after sacrificing the future like that. If you go all out and come away empty, then it really hurts. However, if a team does end up winning a World Series Championship, which the Red Sox did after the Iggy trade, then that changes the entire perspective of the trade or trades. After all, that's the whole point. That's not saying that I agree with the philosophy of winning now no matter what the cost, but if you do win the championship, I think it makes it worth it.
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I agree that moves need to be made with both the long and short terms in mind. I have said many times that I do not like the 'win now at any cost' philosophy. That said, trading away Iggy really did not sacrifice this team's future. Getting Peavy was a 'win now' move, but it wasn't 'at any cost'. Iggy was expendable. The team likely did not even see him as part of the team's future. It's similar in that sense to the Kimbrel trade, which I really didn't like in terms of the cost to us. However, our farm system was deep enough that giving up those 4 prospects did not sacrifice our future, and those prospects likely did not have a place on the team. I understand the idea that if you're going to trade players, at least get better value for them, but that's not always realistic when you're a team in need, especially at the deadline.
