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  1. Kimmi
    It's not any of the specific players or any specific trade. It's the magnitude of what he did. He took our farm system from a top 3 system to a bottom 3 system in less than 2 years. You simply cannot have long term sustainability without a strong farm. We are paying the price for that now, despite our success this season.
  2. Kimmi
    They were under the luxury tax for several years. They are now able to spend like drunken sailors because they reset and because they have a great farm system. Bloom will exceed the luxury tax when the time is right.
  3. Kimmi
    The difference is that Theo built that team from scratch. It was his to do with what he wanted. While I don't necessarily agree with how he left the team, at least it was his own work that he scorched. Dombrowski came in out of the blue and scorched the hard work of his predecessors, in record time I might add. We didn't win the 2018 WS because of Dombrowski, we won that because of Theo and Ben. Even with the pieces that Dombrowski added, they wouldn't have been possible if not for the work of Theo and Ben.
  4. Kimmi
    ftfy
  5. Kimmi
    For me, the payroll was never the issue. It's what he did to the farm.
  6. Kimmi
    Are you not enjoying this season? Winning the division 3 straight years when you know that shortly thereafter the team will have to rebuild is not sustainable success. Sustainable success is what the Dodgers have.
  7. Kimmi
    His team would be in 5th place in our division.
  8. Kimmi
    You can bet that what happened at the 2021 trading deadline is a direct result of fixing what Dombrowski did.
  9. Kimmi
    How do you explain a player with good overall career clutch numbers (a supposedly clutch player) being below average in clutch in as many seasons as he was above average in clutch? If there is no way to correlate or predict what a player is going to do from one season to the next in clutch moments, how can it be classified as a skill? It's just like BABIP.
  10. Kimmi
    But weren't you in support of Bloom during the 1st half of the season? I think these past few weeks have changed a lot of opinions.
  11. Kimmi
    That would be my prediction as well.
  12. Kimmi
    I understand the reason for the rules and I agree that having these rules in place for 2020 and even this year was the right thing to do. I disagree with keeping the rules in place beyond the pandemic as a means to shorten the games or quicken the pace.
  13. Kimmi
    I would prefer no ghost runner at all. Let the teams play 18 innings if necessary.
  14. Kimmi
    The fact that David Ortiz is a great hitter, period, has a lot to do with his performance in the postseason.
  15. Kimmi
    Actually, I don't think we disagree on whether it was worth it or not. We won the World Series, which makes it worth it. I just think we could have had the same success without going to such extremes.
  16. Kimmi
    Exactly. There are clutch moments. There are clutch games. There are clutch seasons, and maybe even clutch careers. But 'clutch' is not a skill. It's pretty much random.
  17. Kimmi
    The variance is large enough that there is no correlation in the stat from season to season. If there is no correlation, then clutch or choke is not a repeatable skill. It's a random factor. A player might have had a clutch career, but not because he is a clutch hitter. I looked at Fangraphs' "Clutch" stat on a season by season basis for each of the players that you mentioned in your opening post, except for Montgomery because I didn't know which Montgomery you were referring to. Also, I used the "Clutch" stat rather than BR's High/Medium/Low leverage because I could see all seasons on the same page (my laziness.) Gallo was pretty consistently bad in clutch situations, except for 2020 in which he had a positive clutch stat. For the other players, Judge, JD, and Ortiz, there is no rhyme or reason to their season by season data. They were unclutch just as often as they were clutch.
  18. Kimmi
    To me, data that has no statistical significance is anecdotal. I'm not at all trying to shut down the discussion. This is the type of discussion that I love. My point is that people will always be able to show cases of where players had very clutch seasons. It is not a repeatable skill. Even with the players who had 'clutch careers', I'm guessing that their clutchness varied from season to season.
  19. Kimmi
    Well, I don't agree with that statement.
  20. Kimmi
    I don't blame Dombrowski for 2019. There is a reason why Dombrowski was let go in 2019. Teams simply cannot operate like Dombrowski does for the long term. We would be seeing 2020 all over again if Dombrowski had stayed. The team, namely the farm system but also the financial flexibility, was in shambles when Dombrowski left.
  21. Kimmi
    the cliff!!!
  22. Kimmi
    Did you have these same opinions just a few weeks ago when the Sox were playing well? I really don't have any issues with any of the moves that you mentioned here.
  23. Kimmi
    I am very confident that the Red Sox will be playing postseason baseball.
  24. Kimmi
    Comfort level and confidence are very huge factors when it comes to the pitcher/catcher tandem.
  25. Kimmi
    The 3rd time through the order thing is very real. The data on this is overwhelming, even with your best pitchers.
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