moonslav59
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Johnson's issue was in his head last year. He's still shown good stuff over the last couple years. I guess I'm seeing a blip on my radar with Johnson approaching the airport.
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He might be better than Pablo defensively at 3B, but it's hard to tell. Marco has not played 3B that much in his career, and Pablo's defensive profile is hard to pinpoint after such a horrific 2015 season on defense. It's too bad Marco and Brock's best defensive positions are 2B. It's the position locked up the longest. I've been a huge fan of Marco's since the trade, but I'm pulling hard for Pablo to play better.
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I was thinking the same thing about posters getting upset over a tiny sample size from Beni. In the long run, I'd like to see him bat #1, so he can steal some bases in front of good hitters.
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Wright has had many more good starts than bad. I just went with the odds. I don't put much stock into a players last 2-3 starts as a guide to my expectations going forward. He has a career QS% of 51, but last year it was 63%. It might have been higher had he not gotten injured. Have faith in the guy. He's a good pitcher who happened to have a tough game last week.
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I'd like power from 3B as well, but it's not like Pablo is a major power source, even when doing well. He's only had over 16 HRs twice (last time in 2011) and over 27 2Bs twice (last time 2010). Marco has hit 20 HRs in his last 1,000 PAs in the system, including 9 in 356 ABs last year. Marco has 58 2B+3B in his last 1,000 PAs as well. That's not far from what Pablo gives us. Pablo has 13 HRs and 27 2B+3B in his last 500 PAs (26HR/54 2B+3B pace) and 29 Hrs/56 2B+3B in his last 1200 PAs (24 HR/50 2B+3B pace for 1,000 PAs). I'm not happy with Marco's defense at 3B either- not that Pablo has returned to his old decent-defending self (yet?). As much as I love marco, I'm sticking with Pablo. I'll give him a long leash, too. At least his few hits have been big ones!
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I meant can we recover and be highly competitive from 4-6 years out. It won't be easy, but I don't see us being bad, even if we lose Porcello, Bogey and Pomeranz.
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Only 1 ER though, so I'll take 6 IP 1 ER over my projection of 7 IP 2 ER.
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Maybe he's begun to turn thing around after settling down after the first.
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Almost got to 100 mph!
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Holt/Hernandez, because Holt can play the OF and 1B.
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Although Thornburg is a righty, he is one of MLB's best RP'ers vs LHBs. His reverse splits are among baseballs most extreme. His reverse splits are nearly 200 points in OPS against!
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I haven't heard one poster say our farm will be garbage, or we'll have nobody to call up. Our future 4-5+ years out looks worse than it did before all these trades-- much worse. Can we recover? Maybe- maybe not. One thing is for certain, the rules have changed making it harder to buy your way into acquiring the best young talent via international free agency and draft picks who slide down the draft due to "signability issues".
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Certainly trading away so many nationally, highly ranked prospects is going to affect the future 4+ years from now. By how much is up for debate. It won't be easy to stay highly competitive into the extended future
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Present tense does not include yesterday, or last week, or two weeks ago. You chose to make you cut off on what counts just these last two starts to say they "stink". That's subjective. They don't stink. Thay have stunk for the last two weeks. I see a difference, but maybe it's just semantics.
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I haven't "given up", but they are both off my radar right now- Owens more so than Johnson.
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Sorry. You never mentioned HanRam, so I assumed you meant Papi. You are right. Without HRam, our middle of the line-up is much weaker. We still have Betts, but nobody else with 30+ HR power, except maybe JBJ (who is out until maybe Friday).
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Maybe even 50-60.
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If Hernandez ends up replacing Pablo, how much power will we lose? 8-10 HRs over a full season? While I agree replacing Papi is going to force the team to redefine itself, I wouldn't say we are "without the big bat in the middle of the line-up." We have these players returning: Betts .318 31 113 HRam .286 30 111 J.B.Jr .267 26 87 Bogey .294 21 89 Not to mention these 2016 hitters pro-rated to 650 PAs: Young .276 25 70 S Leon .310 15 80 I'm not trying to minimize the loss of MLB's top OPS guy last year, but we still have some top quality hitters on this year's team. Here's how our top 4 hitters placed among all MLB batters with 600+ PAs last year: #15 Betts .897 #24 HRam .866 #31 J B Jr .835 #39 Pedey .825 #47 Bogey .802 I'm not sure any other teams have 3 in the top 30 and 5 players in the top 50. The middle of our order should not be a concern.
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It seems like every one of Pablo's few hits have counted.
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Yeah, he might go 8.
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They don't "stink". They've just pitched like stink in small sample sizes.
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Pablo was never a big HR guy either. I wish Marco was a better defender at 3B, but he might be our best 2nd option.
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At least he's had a couple of big hits.
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This is... Chris Freakin' Sale ...we're talking about.
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Plus, Bogey only has about 30 PAs. I do like the idea of Bogey in the 2 hole for the long run, but I want Beni leading off--assuming he proves he belongs.
