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  1. Emp9
    My feelings exactly.
  2. Emp9
    Well shhhit its about time. I missed this yesterday somehow. Between watching the Sox, managing my Fantasy team, that Tor/Tex brawl, and of course GOTs... oh and finding my winter hat because of the North East temp drop. I do find it interesting by comparison only, that Mookie a HS bat getting cups of MLB coffee at the age of 21, and here we have Benny a College bat at the age of 21 just getting promoted to AA. Do we see Benintendi in Sept? Is it really delusional on my part to even ponder that? I'll accept a yes or a no. AA should get us closer to that answer anyhow. Either way, exciting times are upon my friends!
  3. Emp9
    /s/
  4. Emp9
    Yeah, he really pulled that triple. : /
  5. Emp9
    http://fullcount.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/2016/05/15/sunday-red-sox-farm-report-eduardo-rodriguez-loses-fourth-rehab-start-andrew-benintendi-walks-it-off-in-salem/ Moncada & Benintendi are leading the league in almost every single offensive category and if they're not leading they're a close 2nd. Plus... Castillo waking up a little?
  6. Emp9
    Yes. I never said he hits HRs to all fields. I said he hits to all fields. HR power to all fields is a whole 'nother topic. XB has the same issue. They both need to develop HR power going the opposite way. That should come in time.
  7. Emp9
    Uh, Only when he gets a pitch inside. Thats why pitchers try to stay away from giving him anything inside. Thats why they go to the outside corner so much on Betts.
  8. Emp9
    Last 7 days: .290/.313/.548/.861 W/ 7 R, 2 HR, 9 H, 9 RBI, 3 SO, 1 BB. Again, He's trying to adjust to the outside corner, which is usually a ball but is getting called a strike more times than not. More times than it should be, i'll say that much. Betts is not a Pull Happy kind of hitter either, he hits to all fields. Again, his stats are very comparable to seasons past. It's not uncommon for Betts to be batting .256 mid-May. If you think it is, my guess is that you simply haven't been paying attention. I could also make the argument that w/ Betts leading-off, seeing the most ABs actually helps him as the season goes on. You're missing the forest for the trees.
  9. Emp9
    Meh... I've seen worse.
  10. Emp9
    It wasn't a bad bunt, if there was 1 out it'd been fine. Unfortunately there were two outs. Papi tied the game, so it was more of a free pass to try and win it if the defense was caught as off gaurd as I was. If we were down a run I could be upset about it.
  11. Emp9
    If Hanley's bunt worked it would've been regarded as brilliant (Especially vs a tough closer like Gregerson). It didn't work, so I have to ponder what would've happened if he went for a typical AB because Hanley's typical AB this season cld very well have been a hit anyway.
  12. Emp9
    Best defensive player in my book so far has been... JBJ. I don't want a Jeter out there jumping for a ball that he could have made way more easily if he didn't jump at all. If you jump up 4 ft and catch the ball waist high, guess what? You didn't need to jump. And it shouldn't be a Web Gem (if WebGems still exist?). JBJ covers so much ground so easily, it seems we've already taken it for granted. Those spectacular diving plays will come, but theres no need to force them.
  13. Emp9
    Yeah but at least you actually went to the ST games and just reported on what you saw. I can't fault you on that. It had some basis to it (especially those first two weeks). But The middle of last summer when the whispers of him moving to 1B started, many posters just knocked it out of some weird need to be negative... Like... on principal. Big difference.
  14. Emp9
    There should be room to schedule a double header this weekend. Sat game time is 1:05, Sun 1:35. I don't know the forecast for those days though.
  15. Emp9
    That was my first question, will it rain?
  16. Emp9
    An OF bat would still help us more this season me thinks and I don't foresee an in-division trade happening between Tor-Bos for Bautista.
  17. Emp9
    I did actually. But I wasn't posting here at the time so it's a bit hard to prove. Maybe some fellow BDC posters could vouch for me? I was saying HanRam at 1B not only isn't that big of an experiment, there was an off chance he'd thrive there.
  18. Emp9
    Braun cld also, however unlikely, play 3B in a pinch, but hasn't played 3B since 2007... so perhaps not. In a way an OFer can sometimes pitch in a pinch when theres nobody left to pitch in some marathon extra-innings game type of way.
  19. Emp9
    They're also looking for record contracts. If we cld find away to dump a little of ours away, gain a LFer who could always DH. I love Bautista & Encarnacion but Encarnacion is strickly a DH isn't he? I like the maneuverability w/ Braun at half the price (if we could dump Castillo that is).
  20. Emp9
    I'd add a prospect in like Dubon maybe? $9M annual isn't a whole lot for us to attempt to replace Papi and its still a nice salary dump for Mil.
  21. Emp9
    Castillo $11M average annual salary for Braun $20M average annual salary. With Papi retiring it would n't really block Benintendi, we could still have either one including HanRam rotate for DH. Just spit-balling here, don't yell at me
  22. Emp9
    It's the begining part of the season. Lots of issues to attend to. Many sails to right. Price was probably the last thing they thought they had to even think about. Porcello wasn't great from the start, Buch still isn't, injuries to ERod, Kelly, Smith. Wright filling in. Switching Swihart w/ Vaz... Kimbrel had his early hiccups. Etc... Lots of moving parts. Good thing is tonight Price seems to be fixed and lets hope its all a distant fading memory.
  23. Emp9
    I really liked them showing Pedroia & XB going through their checkpoints. They don't show that kind of stuff enough in my opinion. Great win tonight!
  24. Emp9
    I really thought this was gonna be a close, grind it out kind of contest. Nope. & Mookie adds on w/ a shot! This team is sick
  25. Emp9
    XB using a 8 iron? Fantastic!
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