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Shaw takes Taylors spot for a while, but when Taylor returns, yes- for Shaw.
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Losing ERod and Ottavino will hurt, but the overall loses, including Richards, Perez, Andriese, Marwin, Santana & others is close to a net addition by subtraction in production value, alone. When you look at the budget savings and add Pedey's lost cost, we should be able to greatly improve this team by attrition. This one reason why I think we viewed this past trade deadline as a "don't make any moves that greatly impact the future of this team" philosophy. I also think Henry will give the okay to go over the tax line, if it looks like a big gain can be made to put us in high-contention status.
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The reverse seems true for the Sox. Were we playing way over our heads until a few weeks ago, or is this the real Sox? Gotta like the shorter sample size: 3 in a row and 4 out of 5, while you guys have won just 3 of the last 6.
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That's my guess, but I have been off quite a bit. I was projecting Wilson being DFA'd for quite a while, and when I stopped predicting it, he was then DFA'd.
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I'm not sure how it "turns off fans," since most ignore them or have never heard of them. Many of the ranking services have remarkable records of getting the rankings correct, and many times they end up being "wrong" is due, at least in part, by injuries. Sure, there have been huge misses not just by services, but by all teams' evaluation systems- see missed draft picks, mistakes made on prospects, left and right. Many fans are drawn to paying attention to the farm and its players. They like to know what non-team biased people think about those players. Those who don't want to know, can and mostly do ignore it all, until the kid is raking it in MLB or flopping. To each his own.
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These things seem to go in cycles. Recently, we were worried about the rotation or the bats. Maybe the pens picks it back up. They’ve actually been the most consistently good part of our team, this year. Keep the faith. If can get all 3 areas doing well, watch out!
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Barnes has been throwing less pitches per IP, so he's actually not headed towards a career high in pitches thrown in a season.
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3 way tie for 3rd best record in AL. 68-50 CWS 68-50 OAK WC 69-51 BOS (.001 down in win%) WC WC race -2.5 NYY 65-52 -4.5 TOR 63-54 -5.5 SEA 63-56 OAK goes to CWS Monday NYY plays LAA for 1 before playing BOS (2 on Tue and 1 on Wed) TBR plays BAL Mon HOU @ KCR Mon TOR @ WSH Tue SEA @ TEX Tue
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Cordero to AAA. Shaw is late inning defensive 1Bman for Schwarber.
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The book was likely closed, even without Shaw.
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Then, explain this: NL West vs AL West: 43-33 (.566) NL West vs NL East: 59-51 (.536) Kinda makes the NL East look better than the AL West, right?
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We lose 6 to free agency (or extend/re-sign): ERod Ottavino Marwin (already DFA'd) Santana Robles T Shaw We likely will not offer the options on these 3: Richards ($10M) Perez (6.0M) Andriese (3.5) Schwarber will likely refuse the mutual option, but JD will likely stay. That's 10 out of 43 (Bazardo, Brasier and Taylor are on the 60 Day IL or C-19 IL) My guess is, these guys go, too: Potts Rosario That makes 12. Bubble: A Davis Arauz Brasier R Hernandez Y Rios Maybe 13-15 total gone. We add 4-5 free agents and 5-7 Rule 5 guys. Bello Jimenez Winckowski Crawford Downs Maybe 1-2 from Santos, Dearden, Feltman, German, Granberg, T Reed, T Ward
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Who's next after Santana? Andriese?
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It's a straight DFA (waiver) and claim. Nothing goes back to MIL. It's not a trade.
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Woo was 2 hit, today, but Ockimey walked 3 times to bring his OPS to .809. He looks like a career AAA player, since the Sox chose Travis Shaw over him. Lopez hit a solo shot. Downs walked twice- his best game is a while. Seabold goes 5, allowing 3 hits, 2 runs and just 1 BB with 5 Ks. Brasier got lit up: 3H, 1BB, 3 ER in 1 IP. Rios let up 2H, 1BB, 1 ER in 1 IP. Portland won 10-5. Granberg making a push for Rule 5 protection by going 3-5 with a 2B & HR (.825 OPS). Cottam also went 3-5 with a 2B & HR (.938 OPS). Williams went 3-5, Casas 1-4 w BB. Potts 2-5 with a dinger. Greenville won 7-3 Dearden 2-5 w 17th HR, Davis and Groshams HR'd. Sogard went 3-5 Salem was shut out 5-0, but Wu-Yelland went 5 IP, 1 H, 3BB and 0 ER. T Reed went 2-4 (.820 OPS)
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You've gone 11-5 in the last 16 and 13-6 in your last 19. 23-12 since July 4th (G1 of 2 that day). The Sox have gone 19-20 since July 1st and 25-20 since June 25th. 6-11 the last 17. 15-19 the last 34. The Sox are 21-14 in one-run games. The Yanks are 19-12 in one-run games.
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Pivetta: 0.75 ERA since August 2nd. E- Rod: 1.10 ERA since July 30th. Eovaldi: 1.29 ERA since August 7th. Houck: 2.21 ERA since April 19th (2.08 career). C Sale: 3.60 ERA since April 1st.
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Clutch vs. choke - do these numbers mean anything?
moonslav59 replied to Bellhorn04's topic in Other Baseball
Clutch is real: it's just not a sustainable skill. It's still exciting as all hell. -
Even Nelson Cruz makes only $12M.
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Agreed. Even with tomorrow, Thursday and next Monday off, he should get rusty.
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They did add Berrios, but that's probably not enough. Their best chance is for the Yanks and M's to tank.
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Right now, he's taking Taylor's roster slot, and since we have 3 of the next 8 days off, maybe we go with one less pitcher for 8-10 days.
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Not worse enough to make TOR & NYY sub .500 teams. The A's have clearly had an easier record, so far. They still have SFG and CWS to play... both not in their division. Once the whole season is done, let's take another look, but I seriously doubt the AL E playing the NLW instead of the NLW would flip teams to losing recordsor ALW teams to winning ones. Why do mutual records vs ALC and NLC central not count in the equation?
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I'm not saying I am certain I want to keep both JD and Schwarber, and your points are very strong, but having Fenway's LF does allow for us to take certain liberties with one weaker defensive OF'er on the roster. It does hurt when we play in NL parks, but that rule may change, this winter. The fact that Kike can play CF and 2B well is a big plus. Arroyo is okay as a back up SS and Dalbec at 3B. Since Verdugo can play CF and RF well, we can get by with Schwarber and JD just fine, at least for one year, as long as we add a utility player better than Marwin. Cordero offers minor league OF depth and maybe 1B. We'd need an IF utility player. Agreed.
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I'm starting to lose the great respect I had for you, harmony. So, the A's play the NL West and we play the NL East. That does not outweigh the fact that we play the Rays, Yanks and Jays as much as the A's play the Astros, Mariners and Angels. Part of the schedule being unbalanced is based on playing way more games against your own division than others- not just inter league differences. The Sox have played 77 games vs 500+ teams. The A's just 53. The Sox have played 42 games vs sub .500 teams. The A's 64. How can anyone skew that to say the Sox benefited from the unbalanced schedule? You keep posting AL East vs AL West records like they matter more than everything else. The fact is, they matter very little. The only AL East team that could possibly have had a sub .500 record by playing the NL West not the NL East is Toronto, who is currently 8 games over .500. Are you suggesting that unbalanced schedule would have flipped them to sub .500?
