moonslav59
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It's hard to complain about how JF has handled the staff, particularly the pen.
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How about, We won't get fooled again!"
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9 unearned runs!
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Maybe we just found our next set-up man! LOL
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Two awful games in a row. Hope we got it out of our system.
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Career stats do often give unclear pictures. Players who had good to great careers but are post prime are sometimes regarded as better than maybe they really are at the point in their career. Its' maybe one reason 30-32 year old free agents get overpaid. In HRam's case, he's just approaching traditional post prime years. There's still a significant chance he has another very good season or two. There's also a significant chance he'll never come close to h s 2016 season again. The other area where the picture often becomes "unclear" is with players in the early part of their career who either started off very slowly (like JBJ) or very well and then went on to have better or worse careers than their "career numbers" seem to indicate they should be doing (to some). I think one needs to look at what point a player is in his career, weigh his career numbers against his most recent 2-3 year numbers and trends, and then consider that not all players follow traditional bell curve careers. In short, going forward, I would expect JBJ to do better than his career numbers over the next few years, and HRam to do worse than his career numbers over the next few years.
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I've never been a HRam fan, and his numbers are padded by early career successes, but he has been over .810 in 3 of his last 5 seasons. This after a couple of down years from 2011 to 2012. He hit 30 HRs last year- something he'd only done once before. That wasn't that long ago. He had his best OPS season in 2013 (year 8 out of 13), albeit a shortened season. Maybe I'm just being an optimist. Maybe I am just feeling we need HRam to be that middle order bat that's been missing this year. Maybe HRam is toast. I just don't see anyone else on the roster I'd rather have DH right now. Next year might be another story, but at $22M, I'm not sure how many of these contracts we can just piss away.
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I'm agreeing with you that Moreland returning is possible. There are not many better 1Bmen out there this coming winter, and some might demand 3+ years. I'd prefer someone better than Moreland, but I am not for making another Pablo/HRam type mistake.
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I think we'll try and get the best 1Bman we can find who is willing to sign for 1 or maybe 2 years.
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Agreed, "proven" was a poor choice of words.
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Interesting... https://bosoxinjection.com/2017/08/25/red-sox-gearing-run-shohei-otani/
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All it takes is to open a slot on the 40 man roster (Owens).
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I've never been a Brentz fan, but I'm leaning "why not" for September call-ups. He's certainly more likely to ever be a current or future plus than Henry Owens.
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Last year's team also went on a 10-8 run after game 127 and before the 11 game winning streak and then lost 4 of the last 5 games before getting swept by the Guardians (7 of 8 games total). They went 22-16 after game 127 (including the playoffs), and we highly in consistent in the last 38 games of 2016. Basically, they were 11-15 sandwiched around an 11 game winning streak.
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No. Miranda is nearly 29. He's been in professional baseball for 10 years. He had a 1.36 WHIP in 7 years of foreign ball. He's been a starter pretty much his whole career and yet never pitched more than 20 starts until this year's 25 starts, 4.90 ERA and 1.20 WHIP. Are you taking the position that Miranda has less questions than Carson Smith, who as already proven he can pitch very well at the ML level? I'm not saying Smith is a sure bet to return to form, but he looks healthy now, and to me, there are less questions about him.
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True enough, but there are more questions about Miranda, and the book is pretty much closed on Miley.
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Good read on Beeks and Brentz and September call-ups... http://news.soxprospects.com/2017/08/scouting-scratch-potential-sept-call.html Both need to be added to the 40 man roster, but since Beeks is a rule 5 candidate and Brentz can become a FA after this seasin, if he is not added to the 40 man roster, maybe it could happen. Since Brentz made a mechanical adjustment, he "has hit .318/.387/.637 with 26 home runs, 19 doubles and 34 walks compared to 71 strikeouts in 346 plate appearances." That's a 1.024 OPS! Double those numbers to about 700 PAs, and his numbers would be: .318 52 HRs 38 DBLs
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Countdown to the Playoffs - 2017 Edition
moonslav59 replied to Slasher9's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Only 4 of our remaining 35 games are against a legitimate contender- our last 4 games vs HOU. 19 Home 16 Away We're only 4 games away from the best record on the AL and two games ahead of last year's pace. -
All I care about is Smith vs Miley. I'll still take Smith.
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After 127 games... 73-54 2016: 71-56
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Remaining Games Left 9 TOR (3H/6A) 6 BAL (3H/3A) 6 TBR (3H/3A) 4 HOU 3 OAK 3@ CIN 19 Home 16 Away (After SEP 3rd, it will be 16 H vs 9A) Basically, we are done facing any legitimate contenders until the 4 game home series to end the season vs HOU. That series might mean nothing to HOU, so they may rest many of their starters. It also means we got to the second best record in the AL (now just 4 games behind the Astros) by already playing the toughest portion of our schedule.
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According to fangraphs, our pen ranks... T6th WAR at 5.2 5th xFIP at 3.87 T1st ERA- at 69 4th WHIP at 1.19 (0.02 from 2nd place) 5th K/BB at 3.03 This is simply amazing, considering C Smith, Thornburg and R Ross have been out all year. Those three were essentially considered our 2,3 and maybe 5th best RP'ers on paper.
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I didn't agree he would be back or that I wanted him back. I agreed with "I would not be surprised [if they were both back]."
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Agreed. These two are obvious favorites of JF and DD.
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Well said. It does seem to me that with all the modern day pitcher pampering going on, there seems to be more injuries not less. 4 day rotation to 5. Extra days given when possible. Pitch limits. Longer all star break. Less double headers. Easier and more comfortable travel and sleeping arrangements. Just to name a few.
