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Cuevas with 7 IP and just 2 hits/ 1BB (0 ER) Ockimey walked 3 times (oh for 2) Jhonathan Diaz 7 IP and 4 hits/1BB (0 ER)
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7/14 Toronto vs Boston
moonslav59 replied to DontCallMeUncleRico's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Nice to see JBJ with a big hit. Bogey comes through. Betts on base 5 times. One more tomorrow! -
MLBTR... In further unfortunate news for the Red Sox’s staff, knuckleballer Steven Wright’s recovery from left knee inflammation is “taking longer than expected,” manager Alex Cora said Saturday (via Christopher Smith of MassLive.com). Wright, who went on the DL on June 26, is continuing to deal with soreness in that knee – which he had surgically repaired in May 2017. As a result, the Red Sox will have to continue awaiting his return.
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We heard the same about the Porcello extension.
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Ross is no longer here. Maybe you meant Scott or Workman.
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And, several of his pitchers, good or bad, were dealt for some top talent.
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Yes, and had Ben not signed anyone that year, he'd have been roasted by everyone. I was firmly against the Pablo signing and was okay with HRam, but I never expected both to do so poorly.
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Certainly there are a few posters who seem to "love" Ben, but some, including myself, tend to defend him, because we feel like some posters only focus on the bad and either ignore the good or choose to only point out the bad. Ben's impact on the far was positive. he left it better off than he got it. He pulled off the Dodger dump trade that enabled the 2013 ring. He traded for Uehara and was able to get us Porcello for Cespedes -salvaging something from the Lester mess. He also acquired quite a few good players, but they did not outweigh the horrible signings of Pablo & HRam.
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I'm all for getting another pen arm. We could use a strong number 2. Getting one would turn Kelly, Barnes & Co. into a formidable set-up crew. However, I think we have a pretty good pen right now without counting on Thornburg or Blasier for anything but gravy. Although our pen might not be great after Kimbrel, I think we're pretty deep: Kimbrel Kelly Barnes Hembree Workman (These 5 are basically locks.) 3 from Wright, Pom, Johnson or Velazquez Thornburg Brasier Poyner Walden Scott These are 8 decent pitchers, of which we have to choose the best 2-3 to fill out the rest of the pen. We don't "need" Thornburg or Brasier for a key role. It would be nice if Thornburg stepped into the 2 slot, but Kelly has done pretty well for 1.5 seasons, now.
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It could just an off year, but I'd be fine with this move right now.
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That wasn't really his plan. We were supposed to be pretty good - not ring seasons but not last place either. Pablo was a horrible signing, but nobody expected THAT horrible. HRam and Porcello had decent to great seasons the year after Ben was left. Flip those two seasons, and Ben gets another season to prove his 5 year plan was a good one. Ben certainly deserves some of the blame, but so many players under performed it was sick.
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Mookie Freakin' Betts!
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I'm fairly certain Ben would have traded some prospects the next year, but he was gone by then. I wonder, if he knew his job was on the line, he might have made an earlier trade (or two). I think he expected his team to do well enough to not get canned. The last place finish was a surprise to many- not just Ben.
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Of course, no stat or metric incorporates everything into the result. War gets a lot of the big things. On all those little things not captured, how do we know how many times other players do them in games we are not watching? Does anything show us who is best in those areas?
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When Scherzer was available we needed hitting and pitching. I think Ben looked at the bigger FA SP'er class in the following year with Price, Cueto and others, and decided to go for hitting that year with the idea that he;d sign an ace the next year. The GM switch didn't change that plan as DD signed Price.
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deGrom makes more sense, in terms of need area and team control years, but he'll cost more than Machado in prospects. Does anyone doubt that Machado is a Yankee in 2019?
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So, who should the Sox trade for? I'm leaning towards Gibson or Koufax.
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Should Jackie Bradley Jr be traded?
moonslav59 replied to StephenCurry30's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
What gets me most is that many of the JBJ detractors are the ones who also often bash players over their recent numbers, yet with JBJ, they look at his seasonal numbers and neglect the fact that he;s been hitting well for quite a while recently. -
As long as we don't lower Mookie's, yes!
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ERA- Leaders 43 deGrom 51 Verlander 52 Sale Porcello at 36th (84) ERod at 38th (84) Price at 72nd (103) (MLB SP'ers with 50+ IP) If you only count qualified SP'ers we rank: 3. Sale 23. Porcello 25. ERod (our 3rd "ace") 51. Price
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MLB fWAR Leaders 6.6 Trout 6.1 Ramirez 5.9 Betts (over 60 less PAs rhan the 2 above) 13. Beni 3.6 16. JD 3.5 29. Bogey 2.9 88. Moreland 1.4 Pitching 4.9 Sale & Bauer 4.5 Verlander 4.4 deGrom 4.1 Scherzer 4.0 Nola & Severino 20. Porcello 2.2 44. ERod 1.6 65. Price 1.1 If you go by the theory that 1-30 are aces, 31-60 are number 2's, etc... we have: Sale as the best ace in MLB Porcello as a middle tier ace ERod as an exact middle road #2 starter Price as a high tier 3rd starter
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MLB Leaders BA .352 Betts (This is Wade Boggs territory) .333 Altuve .329 JD (25th: Beni at .297) HR 28 JD & Jose Ramirez 25 Trout & Lindor & Judge 24 Aguilar 23 Betts (missed time while on DL) RBI 79 JD (28th: Beni & Bogey at 57) OPS 1.123 Betts 1.075 Trout 1.036 JD (16th Beni at .897/ 28th Bogey at .875) (Moreland does not qualify but places 35th at .864 out of the 209 MLB players with 250+ PAs.)
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We ended up wasting $95M on Pablo and $80M on HRam. That's just about what Scherzer got. Spreading his money out would have helped our luxury tax budget.
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The pitching staff was good, especially after moving Tiant into the rotation, but it was not close to the staffs of 2004, 2007 and 2013. I agree on Doug Griffin. That beaning was a shame. It was too bad much of this core team kind of disintegrated before the '75 youth infusion and near ring. Some just were too old and some were gone by 1975.
