moonslav59
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I'm not sure why an all star pitcher pitching a good game against the Sox is something that needs to be rehashed, so much. -
I guess the point is, we make all star pitchers look like all star pitchers.
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From 30th, last year.
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I think Story's bat will come around- just not to the level it was a few years ago. Maybe, .750-.825. Some team would take him at .725-.750, if we paid some of his contract. SS defense is still highly valued in MLB
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We should have drafted a pitcher, instead of him.
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11 of our 13 pitchers have an ERA or 3.00 or lower! 10 are at 1.80 or lower 9 are under 0.82 8 have yet to allow an earned run in 32.2 IP! Crawford, Houck, Pivetta and Whitlock have these combined numbers: 28 IP 17 Hits 3 BB 38 Ks 2 ERs (0.64 ERA) All RP'ers not named Joely or Campbell: 20.2 IP 9 Hits (Jansen 0 in 3 IP) 10 BB (Jansen has half) 25 Ks 0 ERs (0.00 ERA) 4 SVs in 4 Sv Opps
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Sox leaders after 7 games played (over 4% of the season:) OBP .478 O'Neill .469 Duran .375 McGuire .333 Yoshida & Wong .313 Story .300 Casas SLG .667 O'Neill .435 Devers .400 McGuire .393 Duran .348 Rafaela .345 Story .333 Valdez, Wong & Yoshida OPS 1.145 O'Neill .862 Duran .775 McGuire .715 Devers (Only 4 players are over the team OPS of .667!) .666 Wong & Yoshida .658 Story .579 Rafaela HRs 2 O'Neill 1 Devers & Valdez RBI 4 Story & Valdez 3 Rafaela XBHs 3 Story & Devers 2 Rafaela & O'Neill SB 6 Duran
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Maybe Governor!
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Sox are 5-2 and 20th in MLB OPS at .667. (15th in OBP at .318/ 21st in SLG) (PHI .668, TBR ..682, NYY .693) 14th in runs at 29. 6th in SBs at 8. 1st in ERA at 1.54 (1/2 the 7th place Astros at 3.16) 1st in K:BB at 5.92 2nd in K/9 (10.8) and 4th best in BBs allowed at 14. (Lowest BB/9) 10.77 K:BB is 2nd to PHI 3rd best record in the AL (6th in MLB.) Note: these stats are current, and games are still going on, when I looked.
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Even if it lasts through November!
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Every season, almost every good team has a losing record vs some poor team. It's nice to get the job done, even if the expectation was to win. Before, this series, I think most of us would have been thrilled to be 2-2 v SEA and 2-1 v OAK. I'm really hoping we can go 2-1 or 3-0 v LAA.
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4,436 out of the 6,436.
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Another excellent start by our much maligned rotation.
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EValdez taken off the hook. Good to see players having each other's backs.
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Not even close to the plate.
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We have no players below 0 on DRS, so far. My guess is Kike was -2 by this time, last year.
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Do as you wish. It would save me from pointing out your mistakes.
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Considering how low his picks were, due to winning, he did very well with them. He also had one IFA signing period cut off due to penalties carried over from the Ben era. He was also not able to milk the comp pick train like previous GMs were able to do by exploiting loopholes in the system.
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By and large, I defend our GMs and managers. Hell, I was the last one to say Valentine needed to go. I criticized DD and our other Gms, too, but not as harshly and with such broad strokes as others. The term "emptied the farm," when Devers was not traded, is by itself inaccurate. I often posted about the fact that DD traded away over 20 prospects that at one point were top 20 in he system, but that is not claiming it was emptied. Plus, he could have traded Devers, Houck and others, but if he replaced them with others, it's still not "emptying." You might then have been able to say, "He emptied the farm of DD prospects" but not the whole farm.
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Nope. It was never my position.
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More like a double or single, unless he robs a HR or makes a game saving catch, like last night.
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Not at all. Look up the meaning of the word. I admit I was somewhat harsh on DD, at the time, but I never said he emptied the farm or tore it down.
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I forgot him. I added him on the next list, along with Dubon.
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My expectation is that 2 of our top 3 prospects will end up being very good players and likely all stars (Anthony, Teel & Mayer.) I also expect 2-3 from the next group to be good to very good: Rafaela, Abreu, Cespedes, Bleis, Wikelman, Perales and maybe Yorke. We may see one surprise prospect do very well. If we don't meet these expectations of mine, I'd say I overrated them.
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You missed a key word: "in hindsight." I'll answer this in several years. At the time, I felt DD went overboard on trading top prospects. I'm not being hypocritical to nowsay, in hindsight, what he did worked, well. Many of the highly or somewhat highly rated/ranked prospects got hurt or underperformed expectations. Do you disagree? Did DD get lucky on that? Maybe or even likely, IMO. GMs are routinely judged in hindsight. It is the nature of their profession. Brez is already being criticized for Gio getting hurt. That's the nature of the beast. Judging DD's farm moves in hindsight reveals he did much better than many felt he was doing during is tenure, here and even 1-2 years afterwards. Now, I think is is pretty clear, he kept better inherited prospects than he traded, and he added some surprisingly good prospects, despite having lower draft picks and penalties on IFA signings that were not his fault. (Also, the comp pick rule changed, so it was harder to gain more prospects that way.)
