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  1. moonslav59
    It looks like our catchers are going to hit muc better than their .450 start. JBJ may end up over .600-- hopefully .700+. Bogey is looking like he should be .800+- maybe even .850+. Beni looks for real, and tyhis gives us 3 guys that should end up over .900. We need to keep Moreland hitting or hope Nunez, Pedey, Devers and others take up the slack. We just need health to be on our side.
  2. moonslav59
    ...and JD.
  3. moonslav59
    Plus, once we add him, there's no getting him off the luxury tax budget again. We'd go over the $40M penalty this year, and the penalties are rather stiff. He's stuck in purgatory. There's no way around it.
  4. moonslav59
    You're right. My bad. We don't have what it would take to pry him from the Reds.
  5. moonslav59
    Man-O-Man JD is just killing it! This line-up had loss written all over it. Okay, okay, we were just playing the White Sox, but still: nice win!
  6. moonslav59
    It's like saying pitcher A has a 5.75 ERA every last 2 starts of July. He sucks.
  7. moonslav59
    I'm not saying Cincy would do the deal, but 2 months of Scooter for 14 months of JBJ does have something going for it.
  8. moonslav59
    Vaz & JBJ 3 for 7 with an HR. Swihart is 2 for his last 21. I wonder if SF would take Swihart for Pablo (currently at .787). Just kidding!
  9. moonslav59
    Too bad natick was "done with" JBJ, the HR doesn't count.
  10. moonslav59
    Looks like this homework assignment proves past performances in small sample sizes prove nothing.
  11. moonslav59
    Man, Nunez, Travis & Devers 4-5-6 must scare thehell out of the CWS!
  12. moonslav59
    Is there a homework assignment embedded in this post?
  13. moonslav59
    Yup. Of course the majority of pitchers do better vs weaker teams.
  14. moonslav59
    cots has us at just over $38.3M over the limit. That leaves less than $1.7M to spend on an acquisition. A pro-rated contract of about $4.5M could be traded for on July 31st. That's it, unless we shed salary somehow. If someone signs HRam, we will gain about $0.7M or so. We could trade... (not saying I want to)... Not pro-rated numbers $10.5M Pom (rental) $6.1M JBJ (2 arbs left) $4M Nunez ($4M next year) $2.2M Holt $2M Thornburg $2M Leon $1.4M Vaz ($13.5M/3 afterwards)
  15. moonslav59
    Yes, I heard the injury (back?) argument a few times, and I'm fine with blaming it on that, but the fact is he was not worth any where near the $40M we paid him for 2005. Somehow, I feel like if Ben had made this deal, he'd be blamed for it, and the injury argument wouldn't count as much. Afterall, HRam was hurt a lot, Pablo had some injuries and is at .787 with SF right now, and Price has been hurt (DD's guy).
  16. moonslav59
    Small sample size numbers that are spread out are not good indicators of what is to come. Even the guy you mentioned, Beckett, who was on his way towards becoming MLB's greatest playoff starting pitcher in history, sucked in his last 4 starts (twice the sample size as Porcello's with the Sox).
  17. moonslav59
    On Sale.... Career Opps' OPS against: .626 Late & Close: .556 High Leverage .610 Med Leverage .605 low Leverage .664 Men on base: .622 2 outs, RISP: .583 Tie game: .610 Within 1 run: .602 The only thing that bothers me about Sale is this... OPS against by month .549 May .592 June .628 July .645 Aug .750 Sept ERA under 2.28 April, May, June & July 3.22 AUG 3.78 SEP Currently, Sale is tied for the ML lead in games started (14) and is 3rd in IP (89). I see no indication of the team limiting his IP of GS'd, except for pushing his start back a game this week by starting Beeks.
  18. moonslav59
    Exactly, like why do you think they are called good pitchers to begin with? Could it be that they get batters to make outs more than lesser pitchers? Gee, it's remarkable! On a side note, just from my own observations, it seems like our hitters do better than most vs the good pitchers and struggle with rookies and unknowns more than we should. (No stats to back this up.)
  19. moonslav59
    Isn't that true for just about all pitchers?
  20. moonslav59
    Very true, but had Anderson played a key roll in us winning a ring that year, we'd be looking at that trade a little differently. Remember the Curt Schilling & Brady Anderson for Mike Boddicker deal? At least Mike was signed for more than 2 months.
  21. moonslav59
    I usually hate the "spotlight" argument, like when it was used with Melancon and others, but didn't LaRussa or someone say he knew all along he'd wilt under the spotlight? No matter the reason, Renteria was a big let down and ended up costing us close to $40M for one year of play back in 2005, which is worth at least $50M in today's MLB dollars.
  22. moonslav59
    I totally agree. The new MLB schedule has more days off built into the schedule. They could have waited for Pom to get back to think about throwing a 6th starter into the mix for one game.
  23. moonslav59
    Except for Sale- the one guy who seemingly needs it the most.
  24. moonslav59
    You mentioned trading Betts, assuming we win a WS this year, and then spending large and long on Machado & Harper. That doesn't sound like you want Betts as much as some of us. Betts is the best fielding RF'er I've ever seen. In Fenway, that's a huge plus. I'll sign Betts over Harper, and my guess is Betts will take what Harper gets. No, you're not delusional to want Harper over Betts, but I'm going with Betts. No way am I paying Machado 33, Harper 33 and Price 31 and then scramble to hobble together the rest of the team by not going over the $40M mark. No Sale. It's a pipe dream thinking Pablo's money plus what Sale makes now is going to be available, and if it is, we'll have nobody left but scrub farm guys that are currently ranked very lowly. You really think it is prudent roster construction to spend $130M on 4 guys? You think Henry is going to pay a 50% tax for 4-5 years in a row? I don't. We are going to need players making mid-level money to have any chance to extend the window. Signing anyone to $30M might not even be in the plans, let alone 3 more.
  25. moonslav59
    Price and Thornburg look like his only two bad moves, but if we don't win a ring in the next 2-3 years, the Pom, Kimbrel and maybe other trades may be judged more harshly, especially of someone goes on to become Jeff Bagwell.
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