moonslav59
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I hope the Yanks get one. It would mean their future would be less rosy. I'm not worried. We have a very good team and compete with anyone, as is. Sure, I'd like a great set-up RP'er, but I don't think we should give up much for a 2Bman or SP'er. Of course, if ERod, Pom or Wright can not come back, by all means, get a SP'er. I just hate getting 4-5 slot starters. Go for broke or just go with Johnson/Velazquez/Beeks/Haley is usually my mantra.
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JBJ has passed Leon and Nunez in OPS. (Devers is the next closest at .705.) He's now at .649. I knew he was bound to have a nice streak at some point, but he's been going pretty well for quite a while now (not great but good). He was at .502 on May 12th. I'm hopeful he can stay more consistent from now on.
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Thanks. I use fangraphs, mostly.
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Where do you get the OOBs numbers? Just curious. fangraphs has these baserunning numbers: 2018: 4.4 Betts 4.3 JBJ & Beni 2.9 Devers 0.6 Swihart 0.3 Pearce 0.2 Travis 0.1 Pedey -0.3 Bogey -0.6 Lin -1.7 Leon -1.9 Vaz -2.0 JD -2.1 Moreland -2.3 HRam -3.1 Holt -6.0 Nunez 2017 9.2 Betts 8.3 Bogey (what happened to XB in 2018?) 5.0 JBJ 0.4 Young 0.2 Devers 0.1 Lin -1.2 Nunez -2.2 Holt -2.4 Vaz & Moreland -3.7 Leon -4.7 Pedey -5.3 HRam
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Just guessing, but I'd say we are about at 10-15% after being near 20% last year. Here's some points I want to make: 1) A runner running all out without noticing the runner in front of him has stopped could be called "aggressive", but to me it is also "bone-headed". 2) A runner caught napping while leading off a base and being picked-off is bone-headed. (This might be hard to distinguish.) 3) A runner forgetting how many outs there are is clear bone-headedness. 4) A runner trying to take 3B with no or 2 outs, when the odds are he won't make it might be called over aggressiveness, but I call it "bone-headed" as well. 5) Not sliding when you should or diving into 1B are "bone-headed" plays. There may be more, and I encourage others to chime in with examples.
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Maybe some. Just curious on your opinion. What percent of Sox OOBs are not a result of aggressiveness, assuming over-aggressiveness is not "bonehead?"
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I'm not really concerned about Devers... maybe his defense, but it's mostly the throwing, which seems easier to fix. Our highest need area is probably a top set-up man, then maybe 2B, but I'd be fine with just some really good pen help. If our starters are still hurt by the dealine, maybe we look there.
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For sure. With no Sox fans near me, this is the best I can get.
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That logic does not fit here. Pom started 13 games in the AL in 2016. He then followed with an excellent season in 2017. He started 32 games. In 2016, Pom faced the... Yanks 3 times TBR 3 times DET 2 times LAA , BAL , CLE , SEA 1 time He then faced these AL teams in 2017 5 NYY 4 BAL 4 TBR 4 TOR 2 CWS, HOU, KCR, OAK 1 CLE, DET, MN, SEA, TEX His 2nd half ERA was better than his first: 3.01 vs 3.60.
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Devers is still a net plus. He's on the big club to stay. Plus, we have no better options.
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NP My eyes are bad, too, hence the bold print. I didn't think you were being snarky, but I wondered, if you felt I was trying to make a counter argument with the graphs.
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Maybe, unlike what many have been saying, it's a buyer's market.
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Just offering some data on Price's velocity. It shows your point is valid. He was around 94-97 in 2011 and 2012 but has been around 91-94 since joining the Sox. I wasn't trying to disagree with you.
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Back to baseball, please. Gotta like Price stepping it up as we try to get by without ERod, Pom and Wright.
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The subsequent trading of Melancon was bad, but getting a guy like Melancon in the first place was a good trade, IMO. It's like saying getting Porcello and extending him was a bad move, because Porcello sucked the one year Ben was his GM. You can't count his next years. (Now, one could argue Lowrie's subsequent years made it a bad trade, because he had some much better years after the trade.)
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Not as mysterious as the undying hatred directed towards a GM who brought us a ring and set DD up to build the team we have now. Most of us who defend Ben realize he was far from perfect and made some major blunders.
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Melancon was a good pitcher who happened to do poorly that year with the Sox. (We ended up getting Holt for him in a later trade that involved hanrahan.) I think it was a good trade. I can see how the Lowrie lovers view it differently. (BTW, the oft-injured Lowrie only played 97 games with HOU that following season.)
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https://www.fangraphs.com/graphs.aspx?playerid=3184&position=P&pitchgraphs=true&statArr=&legend=1&split=base&time=daily&start=2008&end=2018&rtype=mult>1=15&dStatArray=SI&ymin=&ymax=
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As long as you do the same for all SP'ers the numbers would be fairly comparable. It wouldn't seem fair to minus a 9 IP 0 ER from one guy and a 7 IP 0 ER from another., when the point of the argument is how well someone does in all but 2 of a pitcher's starts.
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One would think not starting your best starter in game one vs the best starter on the other team, you'd improve your odds of winning the next 2 games.
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I'm sure every pitcher's numbers look much better when you take away their worst 2-4 games, but here are Price's numbers: Team record: 14-6 Games with 5 IP & 0-2 ER/ 6 IP 0-3 ER and 7.2 IP 0-4 ER: 15 out of 20 Minus 2 worst games: 3.01 ERA (37 ER/107.1 IP) Minus 4 worst games: 2.50 ERA (28 ER/ 100.2 IP)
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Certainly some of our OOBs are due to being more aggressive, but we still seem to have more than our fair share of bonehead plays like being picked off. I don't see as many plays where runners are forgetting how many outs there are, not watching the runner ahead of them stopping and 1st or 3rd outs at 3B. I'm not sure, if anyone tracks those totals separately.
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Some decent moves on the list, right. Some seem to forget all the good ones.
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I guess that could be part of the narrative, and I was one to lay some of the blame on the manager, but we also have to face the fact that we have some runners who just plain have no instincts or lack focus while on the base paths.
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Who was the poster who claimed Ben was a bum based on the fact that nobody wanted him as their next GM?
