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wait...is there a member that wants to trade pedroia? for who? who plays 2b? betts back to his "natural" position? who plays RF?

true. there is never an "absolute". that being said.....i would take my chances with the Mets rotation in last years best of 7 series vs Royals every. single. time.

post #215.

the common thread with those teams is proven Steroids users.

we better be in the market for a TOTR starter. this is a playoff team. this is exactly the situation to trade prospects for an arm to get a parade.....

http://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/assets/4336461/20130605_hcs_sy4_008.0.jpg

personally i would have no problems locking up any of the 3 "B" boys to a 10 year deal. i bet we could do it right now with all 3 getting $150MM for 10 years + incentives (million for each AS appearance, Million for each season 185+ hits, million for each season 25+ HR's, million for each season 100+ RS, million for each season 100+ rbi's, million for each season 35+ steals, 5MM for an MVP, etc......

GAME 52 - JE JBj: DNP JE: 2-4 / E Score: JBj: 31 JE: 15 Tie: 6

to Lefty's thread: i 100% agree with trying to lockup X-Bo & Mookie to a LTC right now.

my colleagues in the UK get 6 months for Paternity leave.

happy for him. this would have been very intriguing if he was still on that hit streak.....

Manny is the only LTC / High AAV guy i can think of that was actually "worth it" over the course of contract..... most of the time you just have a shell of the player for most of the contract years.

the average umpire is wrong on 14% of the pitches and even the best umpire is still missing more than 10% of the calls. Over the course of an entire game that is a LOT of missed calls. According to Fangraphs, the average MLB game this season has 288 pitches. Of those pitches, batters swing 46.7% of the time meaning umpires are responsible for calling ball or strike approximately 154 times a game. Considering 14% of balls and strikes calls are wrong, umpires are wrong 21-22 times per game on average. That's not good. Over the course of a full season, umpires are wrong more than 50,000 times. That's even worse. Now consider that not all pitches are borderline balls and strikes. That means their error rate on close pitches is probably a lot higher than 14%. In theory, Major League Baseball could easily use the K-Zone and PITCHf/x as a way to instantaneously judge pitches and then use the 3-dimensional view for television viewers as needed. Umpires calling balls and strikes is a part of baseball. But until recently we didn't know just how bad they are at it. Despite recent improvement, umpires are still getting it wrong more than 50,000 times each season. That is too much, it is not going to get better, and there is a way to get the calls right. The time is now to make the change. http://www.businessinsider.com/major-league-baseball-umpires-balls-and-strikes-2015-9

Vegas will figure out how to hack the bots......

hey Emp. i think YotN was talking about the thread Dust started. he ended up merging it into this one.

JBj is the best defensive outfielder to ever don a Red Sox uniform. with Betts in RF...it doesnt matter who ends up playing LF for the next 5-6 years this will be the best defensive RS outfield ever. the above is just my opinion......

my apologies UN? you portend like you have ban/mod/admin powers. my mistake.

perfect. or either of the Dakotas.

Lol. the Sith rule.

as long as the robots aren't "made in NY".

i dont think he would clear waivers either. but i agree with Lefty...maybe "pissed off Clay" is exactly what he needed to be. JF will give him another high pressure situation and see how he does. we are all aware that injuries to SP can happen at anytime. a Clay with some confidence would be nice to have "just in case".....

ahahahaha. best idea. ever. IN.

i wonder what the contract states with the umpires? how about instead of year end they do week to week monitoring. if you hit a certain negative threshhold you get relegated to the minor leagues and have to earn your way back to the show.....

i saw some of this iortiz. i watch alot of games on extra innings and i have seen a ton of bad strike zone calls this season. i dont know if more teams are showing the pitchzone or what but there are a lot of "misses" by the umps so far.....

lets see how long it takes before you feel that sting called "pride" allow you to do the right thing and actually listen to fellow Sox fans instead of always trying to ARGUE with fellow Sox fans......