moonslav59
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I think we found out not to let Johnson go 6 or 7 innings. I needed to be tried. If he keeps doing well, maybe we can try again with a big lead, but why mess a good thing again?
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Manny was tested numerous times while with the Sox. I'm not saying he was clean his whole career, but nothing proves he used in Boston, and even if he did, Sox fans never cheered him knowing he was a user- like Yankee fans cheered ARod, Clemens and others.
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True. Sox fans never knowingly cheered numerous proven or admitted PED users that led us to any rings.
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The A's would have the best record in the NL right now! Even the M's would be the second best team by inches.
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We're not going to be $39M over the luxury tax every year going forward. Tough choices will have to be made, and people better not blame Henry when he finally pulls on the purse strings. Besides, do we really want our team to become like Steinbrenner's Yankees? (Newsflash: we're heading that way right now.) Of course, I'd love to have Kimbrel back, but not at 10+% of our budget. We'll just have to find another way. If we keep Kimbrel, we'll have to let 1-2 other holes go unfilled...holes where someone pitches 100+ IP or gets up 500+ times in a year.
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Johnson sure looks like just a 5 innings guy. Too bad he can't do that in a long relief role. Gotta like how these wins just keep coming. It's been a naysayer's nightmare.
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Big difference in offense, if there was one, and the amount of Sox offenses vs Yankee ones. Don't be myopic.
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Brandon Phillips (not a prospect) went 4 for 5 with 2 doubles. Shepherd 6 IP 2 ER (9K/ 7H + 1BB) Chavis 2 for 4. Castellanos also went 4 for 4.
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We aren't like Yankee fans.
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How many times do elite closers fail? (Rivera, especially later in his career, Kimbrel, etc...) 1 out of 10 maybe? How about very good but not elite (and cheaper) closers? 1 out of 8 or 9? I think this is what Kimmi means by close or almost the same.
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Umps are monitored by the league, probably like UZR/150 observers who seem to be mistakenly rating some plays.
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Maybe because Kimbrel is looking sketchy, of late.
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It's hard to make the call on who starts the second, thrid and maybe 4th game of the first playoff series. Sale is number one. Porcello has looked like 2016 for much of the year. Price has looked sharp. Eovaldi needs a larger sample size for me to pencil him in right now, but surely, if he pitches this well from now on, he's in the mix. ERod still has time to return and pitch like he belongs. Unless there's an injury, Johnson is not in the mix, even though he seems to struggle out of the pen. Pom has almost no chance to crack the playoff rotation, but he could earn a pen slot. He's been a RP before and a pretty good one. Price looked great out of the pen last year, but if he keeps pitching well, he may be my #2. If you made me choose who deserves it right now, I'd go... 1. Sale 2. Porcello 3. Price 4. (if needed) Eovaldi Long Relief: ERod, Velazquez (Wright? Pom?) Closer: Kimbrel Pen: Barnes, Thornburg, Kelly, Brasier, Hembree (Workman?)
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I agree. Umps are trained and calibrated observers just as the UZR/150 guys are.
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I feel the same way about what makes the game great. Stats and metrics don't make me smile or get angry at plays made by my beloved Sox... the plays do. Baseball talk almost always ends up with comparisons. Past players vs current ones. Era vs era. Sox players vs Yankee players. CF'ers vs CF'ers. CF'er defense vs CF'er defense, etc... We all value some parts of the game more than others, so no metric is going to please everyone, even if we all liked to use metrics. I admire the goal of WAR. In a way it's what we all do at the water cooler, when we say, "Yeah, JD is a better overall hitter than Betts, but Betts' defense makes him a better overall player." We haggle over how much base running should play into the equation. What about clubhouse leadership? WAR tries to do just about everything all at once. It's an impossible task, but a worthy one. It should never end all discussions, and I get how some use it that way and how that sours some against it and not the person using it. BTW, I really enjoy your posts, too.
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Yanks win but burn their pen... again.
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Sonny Gray is in. Time for the sun to set on NY's hopes.
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Maybe we can trade him and 90% of his salary for Espinoza.
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Remember, I wanted the Yanks to get the bum.... not us.
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Luke was buffed out when he took that beating like a man.
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I hope the game goes 25 innings, and the Yanks burn themselves into oblivion.
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Pom had an even better first half to 2016, before the "undetected" injury, but the analogy is spot on..
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I'm not defending Pom. He has sucked for quite a while. I'm okay with trading him and paying part of his contract for a bag of balls.
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I'm not defending Pom. He has sucked for quite a while.
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Stanton with 2-run job.
