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Actually, soon after the trade he signed Victorino, Napoli (the first time), Dempster and Drew (the first time). He also traded for Uehara.
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We lived through some tough times, and yet did not let them harden us too much. I certainly have enjoyed your posts and am happy everyone doesn't all have the same thoughts and beliefs. Variety is the spice of life.
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Don't look now, but JBJ is getting close to passing a few guys in OPS: .663 Leon .658 Nunez .641 JBJ
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Yes, and Betts and others should bebetter than they were in 2016 (and certainly 2017), because they are entering prime years.
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Thanks. I did want JD and did think our offense was going to be top 3-5 this year. I was never a big proponent of a guy like JD making everyone else much better due to "protection" and other ideas. That was the thing I am sgtarting to feel differently about. Yes, I never had doubts about Bogey, Betts, Beni and others returning to norms this year, assuming good health. It bugged me when some others suggested or asked the question, "what if 2017 was their norm?" Most players improve from ages 23-26 or so. Yes, most have set backs and struggling seasons, but not all at once. I rested blaming that primarily on the loss of Papi. Now, I'm not so sure. While I expected the killer bs to improve, theu've done much better than even I expected, and I think that might be JD's doing (with Cora and other coaches helping).
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Yes, I've mentioned this before about freeing up budget space to avoid the max penalty, but I doubt we can trade either one without paying some of their money.
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I'm not sure about "excellent," and I'm not sure we'd get anybody better than Porcello, ERod, Price or the Wright/Velazquez/Johnson combination.
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He probably deserves a promotion, but we have Travis at 1B, Olt at 3B and Lind at 1B/DH there.
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Hopefully, Devers to the DL is just a precautionary move. This from MLBTR... Also hitting the shelf is Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers, who’ll be replaced by Tzu-Wei Lin. The official cause of the placement for Devers is left shoulder inflammation, though it doesn’t seem there’s much reason to anticipate that he’s at risk of a more significant underlying problem. Still just 21 years of age, Devers has compiled 367 plate appearances of .241/.292/.424 hitting this year. He had been heating up over the month of June but is back in a lull through eight games in July, which perhaps helped motivate the club to give him a rest.
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Perhaps the biggest disappointment for me was the 1972 Sox. The strike shortened season saw us finish in second place by 1/2 game to the Tigers. They played one more game than us. That team had my boyhood favorite player, Tommy Harper, in CF. (He led the league in SBs the next season with the Sox.) Fisk at catcher (Bob Montgomery as back-up). Luis Aparicio and Doug Griffn as the keystone combo. Rico at 3B. Yaz in LF Reggie Smith still with the team (RF) Ben Oglivie, Rick Miller, Juan Beniquez and Dwight Evans as pehaps the best OF depth ever. The pitching did us in, as always: 15-6 Luis Tiant (converted to starter) 17-13 Marty Pattin (another from the Brewer trade) 12-12 Sonny Siebert 11-8 John Curtis 8-7 Lynn McGlothen 5-6 Ray Culp Bill Lee in the pen with Gary Peters, Lew Krausse, Newhauser, Tatum, Bolin and big Bob Veale.
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Watching Clemens pitch changed my TV Sox viewership radically. No longer did I take bathroom breaks or beer runs to the fridge during opponent's half innings. I took them when the Sox were coming up to bat. That 19 K game vs the Tigers is still one of my best regular season Sox memories. We always knew that winning it all was largely a result of great pitching, and although we never won a ring with Roger, he was an awesome talent. Those 3-4 mediocre seasons with us before leaving were puzzling. I have to think the roids pulled him out of that funk. His behavior with the underage girl sealed the spite I have for the guy now, but he was a top talent. Pedro's 5-7 year run ('97 to '03 or '99 to '03) is maybe baseball's best ever. Certainly, he (and Schill) turned me into a believer that pitching wins rings. Sale is quickly getting himself into their class. Just get us a ring, Chris!!!!!!!
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Nice reply. Thanks. I've never claimed Ben was flawless (not that you are saying I have). He made some very bad signings and non signings. He blew the Lester negotiations with the low ball initial offer or the act of not immediately following up the low ball offer with something more substantial. To me, just one change to what Ben did might have radically changed his grade: had he signed Lester (or Scherzer) instead of HRam & Pablo, his history with us would be looked at much more nicely. Also, I didn't mean to sound like I was blaming Henry and top management for not allowing Ben to sign a 30+ pitcher long term. To me, Henry has to be totally blameless in anything. Without him, we have no rings.
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Then, maybe he goes to AA soon.
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Maybe since Holt looks to be in much better physical condition, strength wise, he won't peter out this year. Maybe Nunez's knee will improve and he'll have a second half like last year. Maybe, maybe... (I agree, a pen arm is a higher priority than 2B.)
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Well, with a guy who only has 2.5 months of team control left and some will be for rehabbing, I'm not sure the high or low stock point is as strong as usual.
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The thing is, for starting pitchers, many times you are just looking at one game per season in the post season, especially, if they had a bad game. It's not like a whole month. It might be like saying, Joe Smoe has pitched terribly every July 5th to 15th, so it would be stupid to start him tonight.
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If I tried to tell you I think player A is going to have a bad game tonight, because he has stunk for last 10-15 games, you might think, "okay with that," but if I told you he has stunk every July 12th for the last 10-15 seasons, you'd probably think, "what the hell?"
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Think of it this way: the O's are out of it this year but hope they can compete in years to come. Trading 2 months of Machado does nothing to hurt their odds this year. Their chances are already zero. My trading Machado to NYY, they not only strengthen their long term future- they weaken NY's by taking some of their best young talent away.
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How good can this team be? This good is my response.
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Great post, as always, but my guess is every good GM has had times they were not able to convince ownership of something they really wanted. While you can't believe everything you read, it was widely stated that ownership did not want to sign any 30 year old pitcher to a long term deal. That might have also been why Ben passed on Scherzer to sign HRam and Pablo. The change in ownership philosophy, if indeed it was a change, that allowed DD to sign Price should be a factor when comparing recent Sox GMs.
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See. I'm not so rigid as many might think I am.
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Pom has very little time to build trade value, but he could be a waiver wire trade guy, if he gets his act together in time. The thing is, if he gets his act together, we might need him.
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It still amazes me this needs to be repeated so often. Small sample sizes are one thing, but when they are scattered over multiple seasons, their significance should be even more minimized.
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My guess is they'd have moved him to AA, but Chavis and Ockimey are getting all the time at the corner IF positions.
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As bad as the Sox pitching prospects have beenas far back as Rheo's last few years, other GMs sure have fallen in love with many of them. Kelly was a big piece in geting us AGon (AGon enabled the Dodger dump trade to happen.) Kopech helped us get Sale. Espinoza got us Pom Logan Allen helped towards Kimbrel. Nogasek helped on A Reed Frank Montas, J Aro, Ranaudo, Alex Wilson, Pennington and others.
