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  1. moonslav59
    I never thought Buchholz milked injuries, so no such analogy was intended. Both Buch and Moreland got hurt a lot. Both Buch and Moreland were inconsistent when they were healthy. That's two major similarities. I still like the comp.
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    I'm not sure many managers would stick with a career .667 OPS guy vs LHPs at this point in a lost season. He's been .562 and .620 vs LHPs the last 2 years. I love JBJ, don't get me wrong. He's my favorite player, but the writing is on the wall.
  3. moonslav59
    Moose played some games at 2B, this year (40 GS'd). I wanted to sign him and either have him play 1B or move Devers there.
  4. moonslav59
    Holt is not under team control next year.
  5. moonslav59
    That may be true, so my "nobody knew" statement may be flawed, but I don't think there was any way DD would know. It's not like routine medical examines look for obscure issues like his. Fine. Blame DD for trading for damaged goods, but I choose to think of it as just bad luck. I did think we overpaid, just like we did for Sale, Kimbrel, Pom and others before. My point was that nobody cares about the Pom trade because Espi has been hurt, yet they blame DD for Thornburg getting hurt and not giving us even decent innings.
  6. moonslav59
    Nobody knew Espinoza would get hurt. Nobody knew Thornburg would get hurt. Hindsight judgments are easy. Had we not traded for Pom and trades Espy for Thornburg, nobody would be complaining, and we'd still have Dubon and Shaw.
  7. moonslav59
    We do have Devers "left," too. I did not like the Thornburg deal, but even if he never repeated his numbers in Milwaukee, one could have expected better from him had he not gotten injured. We also let Buttrey go before ever giving him a look-see.
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    He's the Buchholz of everyday players. I was a big defender of Buch back in the day, but then I wasn't. As just about everyone knows, Moreland bugs the s*** out of me, despite being a good defender and raking RHPs often. His injury issues and platoon status was the main reason we signed Pearce instead of a RP'er. We overpaid him, too. Look what Moose got, and what he did.
  9. moonslav59
    One could argue the pen has over performed expectations 2 years in a row.
  10. moonslav59
    I try hard to avoid blame games, especially one one guy, but it's hard to not do in today's society.
  11. moonslav59
    Team Defensive Rankings by Position(Fangraphs): C 2. BOS 26.3 UZR/150 Sox Rankings 1B 21. -2.1 2B 7. +3.7 3B 15. +0.5 SS 12.+2.1 LF 19. -3.1 CF 16. -1.0 RF 4. +9.1
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    Team UZR/150 5. Red Sox 3.6 10. LAD 1.7 DRS 1. LAD 127 23. Red Sox -13 (Cue: metrics hater rants.)
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    SP'ers 1. Cole 2.62 2. Scherzer 2.92 3. Sale 2.94 RP'ers 1. Yates 2.21 2. Pressly 2.32 3. Hader 2.42 4. Kahnle 2.47 5. Anderson 2.56 6. Barnes 2.63
  14. moonslav59
    13 Ks tonight in our "pen game." The Sox have the second best K rate in MLB (9.9) Look at these sick numbers: 17.2 DHern (1st in MLB) 15.6 Barnes (3rd) 14.2 Shawaryn 13.3 Sale 12.9 Workman 11.6 Taylor 10.8 Hembree 10.7 Price 10.6 Thornburg 9.1 Brasier 9.1 Eovaldi 9.0 Kelley 8.8 ERod
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    4th post of this thread.
  16. moonslav59
    It would be nice to knock the Yanks out of home field advantage v the 'Stros.
  17. moonslav59
    The poynster back to looking decent!
  18. moonslav59
    They would have had a position for HRam had they not signed Pablito. 3B. Yes, he had been erratic and missed some time, but it's not like these amount of PAs in his previous 9 seasons screamed of fragility: 700 706 693 652 619 385 667 336 512 Even the two "injury seasons both saw 330+ PAs He had two down year, and they both were back to back in 2011 and 2012, and those were .712 in his injury year and .759 with 24 Hrts and 94 RBIs is 2012 (3 years before we signed him). From 2013-2014, he had these numbers: .308 33 128 in 848 PAs (62 2B+3B) .382 OBP .525 SLG .907 OPS He even had 24 SBs! The guy did have somethings going for him, and we did get that one good year from him: .286 33 111 (.866 OPS) He had an .811 OPS from 2016-2017 with 105 XBHs in 1045 ABs. The injury messed him up, and one can't totally blame him for that one. Like most deals like his, it was for 1-2 years too long, and putting him in LF was not a good idea.
  19. moonslav59
    Told ya, we shoulda cut Moreland!
  20. moonslav59
    Man, our pen sucks!
  21. moonslav59
    I think we have to "ignore" the starting AND Relief pitching. I do see the value in going for one more ring within this window, but I think trying to win in 2020 would mean signing someone good (or 2-3 good FAs), and you don't get "good" with 1 year deals, so trying to win in 2020 would further complicate the budget going beyond 2020 and making it nearly impossible to have a quick rebuild period. Then, there's the losing Betts part.
  22. moonslav59
    One could argue $22M is not really "elite," but I guess that depends on what you think "elite" means.
  23. moonslav59
    Lin is better defensively, and I guess he can play OF, too, but I'm clinging to the hope Marco can hit over .720- something Lin will likely not do.
  24. moonslav59
    Me too. I'm on record for wanting to offer Betts 10 years at $30M. If we don't get him, we may sign 2-3 mid tier players and maybe do well.
  25. moonslav59
    LOL. I'm still hanging onto my thin thread of hope for the guy.
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