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Probably a lot, if the stadium is withing 30-40 minutes drive.

31 Dalbec (424 ABs) 20 Ockimey (380) 16 Campana (409) 14 Tendler (349) 14 de la Guerra (368) 11 Witte (352) 11 Olt (238) 10 Ohlman (232) 9 Chavis (152)

The minor league Rule 5 draft pick leads Portland with 61 RBI, while his 14 home runs put him second. -soxprospects.com

Day off, Sale and ERod returning soon, each OF'er got a day off from the turf in the Trop, I think we're primed for a nice winning stretch, again.

It's like everyday these guys homer.

I think there's something like 2 million people in the triangle area. That may be enough, since Carolinians love baseball. The Tampa metro is something like 3 million.

He had a good month before going down hurt.

He'll never be a plus fielder, but it's not hard to be as good as Devers is right now on D. I still look forward to Devers return and think he'll be a plus going forward.

Why be surprised by a guy returning to who he is-- good or bad?

NC must have about 15 minor league teams. They love baseball. A park near 40/540 could draw enough from Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill might work. I'm not sure Charlotte could draw enough by itself, and if you place the stadium on the way to Greensboro or the triangle, say Salisbury or Ashboro, you may not get enough people from Charlotte to make the trip. It's about 45 mins to Salsibury and 90 minutes to Ashboro... way too far. It;s about 90 minutes from Raleigh to Ashboro, making it a nice central location but too far from anywhere, except maybe Greensboro & Winston-Salem. Salisbury is about 45 minutes from Charlotte, Winston-Salem and Greensboro. That might be too far for both. Charlotte may be the best single location, but it's too far from other NC cities to get a sizable draw from elsewhere. I know many Sox fans travel from Maine, NH, VT and CT, so maybe it might work. Maybe place the park as far North East from Charlotte as possible so as to not lose many city fans.

I'll still take Devers over Nunez/Holt at 3B, despite the fact that Nunez seems to be heating up a little bit.

There were some penciling Eovaldi into the second slot of our playoff rotation with Price in the pen. It never ceases to amaze me how some posters continue to fall for the most recent short sample size buzz over and over and over, and then scratch their heads and wonder...

Dream on... You guys suck vs weak teams. This will be a cake walk.

North carolina probably could support a ML team, but the problem is where to put the team where a few cities would go to the games. I'm not sure just one NC city would be enough. I wonder about Indianapoli or Buffalo. Maybe San Antonio, San Jose or try Montreal again.

I, for one, see many more flaws in traditional stats and trying to place value of league-wide rankings based solely on personal observations and a few flawed stats. Although I realize the flaws in WAR, I believe they are less than other methodologies I know about.

I thought plays were ranked by difficulty and more points were awarded for making the more difficult plays, or is that just Inside Edge Fielding? Maybe I need to go back and study.

I'm hopeful Pedey can give us something in 2019, but we should not count on it. We'll probably roll the dice and hope one from Holt, Nunez, Marco Hernandez, Lin or Quiroz step up, if Pedey never returns. If second base is a mess again next year, we might make a mid season deal for one. If second base is our biggest weakness, we aren't so bad off.

MLBTR reports... Left knee problems have limited Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia to 13 PAs this season and shelved him since May 31, though there is optimism he’ll return in 2018, according to manager Alex Cora (via Jason Mastrodonato of the Boston Herald). “We don’t have anything set as far as timetables, but we’re feeling good with the progress,” Cora said of Pedroia, adding that the 35-year-old will “contribute here in the dugout” even if he’s unable to play again this season. The Pedroia-less Red Sox haven’t gotten much production from any of their second base options this year, evidenced in part by their minus-0.2 fWAR at the position, though the team has still managed easily the majors’ best record (90-40).

lmao!

1. Betts CF 2. Beni LF 3. Pearce DH 4. Martinez RF 5. Bogey SS 6. Moreland 1B 7. Kinsler 2B 8. Nunez 3B 9. Leon C

To me, the most useful part of stats and WAR is the area that has been discussed many times before. Most of us watch only the Sox game with maybe a few others here and there plus playoff games that we are not a part of. We may not even see some players for one inning on TV. Others we may see for 3 games on TV. Others six. Some we see live 1-2 games and on TV another 15-16 times, if they happen to play in the AL east. We see Sox players 100-162 games a year. It's nearly impossible, with any degree of certainty, to know or claim our guy is better than theirs. I know I'd be more than 17% off, if I had to just use my own observations to rank and value players with a single number by myself. We all look at a player we've never seen, who is hitting .320 45 120, and we know he's a damn good player. How do we know that? We rely on stats and data. When it comes to defense, it gets a little more hazy, because FLG% is a horrible measure for defensive greatness or ineptitude. While I realize UZR/150 is flawed, it is light years better than my own observations and fldg% by themselves. I do see other great plays by CF'ers in Sox games. I see some on Sports Center. I know other great defenders are out there. How good are they? How do they compare to JBJ? Nobody know for sure. Even if a single person watched every play by CF'ers one very team over a given year, there would still be bias. For arguments sake, lets say there was a metric that was 100% accurate for evaluating a CF'er's defense. Then, we ask each of us to numerically place a value on each MLB CF'er. How far off do you think we'd be? How would I ever know how to value the Padre CF'er, of the Diamondback CF'er, and on and on...? I'd be 80% off on some, for sure. I'd be much more than 17% on just about everyone, except maybe a few Sox players and AL east players, for sure. I try not use UZR/150 like the Bible, but I know I have come across like that at times. I do trust it more than my own observations, even if I think JBJ might be slighted by it. I'm happy to know he is a top 5-10 defensive CF'er and know his defense brings so much value to the team that his offense is not a concern to me. I'm glad UZR/150 and WAR back up my belief by always rating him a plus. While I don't need metrics to tell me JBJ is a big plus, I do use it to know about other players with a certain degree of confidence. I guess some of us have more "confidence" than others, and I understand why some feel slighted when WAR and UZR are continuously thrown in their faces, but I have to say that I probably sometimes feel the same way when someone who obviously does not watch every CF play by every player in MLB can claim that JBJ is the best defensive CF'er in MLB in a way that sounds like he is so sure of it. Maybe JBJ is the best defensive Sox CF'er in each of our own generation. That claim makes more sense, because it may be likely we've seen close to every play made by a Sox CF'er in decades, but I think it is more folly to claim, by observation only, that he is the best CF'er in MLB today than to use UZR/150 to claim he is the 5th best defensive CF'er. Neither method is perfect, but it seems clear to me, one is better than the other.

I did not research how many times a SP'er gave up 3-4 runs in 1-2 IP, let some men on base, was left in and went on to clamp down and give 2-5 more good innings.

I'm not sure anyone has ever said WAR proves a 1.2 player is better than a 1.1 player or a 6.5 player better than a 6.0 player. They might use it as supporting data, but as far as I know, only harmony is a slave to WAR (and even projected WAR).

Don't sit in sections 5-10. The whole game you are facing CF and have to crank your neck to see home plate. Enjoy!