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  1. illinoisredsox
    Bradley has the better arm but he doesn’t always control it well, especially to home (throws are often up the line or spiked into the infield). Betts is much more accurate.
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    They’ll get away with it; the Yankees don’t have to abide by the same rules as the other 29 clubs.
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    I have no problem with JD trying first base; if it works out, fine, if it doesn’t, oh well. However, one condition; he should never, ever, ever play it with ERod on the mound.
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    Your mistake was reading anything by Shaughnessy. He defines Spiro Agnew’s nattering nabob of negativism. I really think he is incapable of writing a positive word about anything.
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    Consider the source. Given this and his 9:50 am post in the Bloom Move Your Assss thread, I think the Ghost would be wise not to drink and post.
  6. illinoisredsox
    Oh, I know that. But it's fun to try and poke him.
  7. illinoisredsox
    They would have that Yankee stench though. And for whatever reason (I think it's the clubhouse drinking water), very few players seem to do well once they leave the Bronx.
  8. illinoisredsox
    Still waiting on that proof that Pedroia fractured the 2017 locker room and ruined the season.
  9. illinoisredsox
    You don't know s***. Show some proof he somehow fractured the locker room of a team that won 93 games and a division title. The incident took place in April 2017. For a fractured team, they sure played pretty well the last 140-145 games of the season. C'mon, man up and show proof, although I know you won't. I'll repeat myself, you don't know jack about anything.
  10. illinoisredsox
    The rules relating to jobs of major league baseball players are not what normal people deal with in their jobs. He has a contract, they STILL HAVE TO PAY HIM and it will still go against the team's overall payroll. There is no roster crunch that will apply once they get to the end of spring training and he's not keeping anyone worth a darn off the 40 man or from being exposed in the Rule V draft. In other words, as moon, notin and several other have said, releasing him accomplishes nothing (other than to soothe your ego).
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    Boggs would not have done much to help the 1978 team. He was 20, spent the year at AA and although he hit .311. his slugging was only .370. He apparently wasn't that good in the field at that point either; he had 61 appearances in the field spread out among 3B, SS, 2B and the OF and must have DH'd/PH the other 48 games he played in. He really didn't start showing flashes of the hitter he became in the majors until 1981.
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    My guess is they were looking for a little more power out of a corner infielder; Boggs only hit 9 homers in 6 minor league seasons and until his last year in AAA, there weren't a lot of doubles either (71 total through his first 5 minor league seasons). His last year at AAA, he hit 41. Boggs was a late bloomer. He was a 7th round pick, so it's not like he had star written all over him out of high school. Some guys take longer to figure it out; maybe he just had to mature physically. He was an anomaly in that he hit better in the majors than he did in the minors (although he did hit pretty well for average there as well), When he first came up (1982), he played as much 1B as he did 3B; the Sox had Carney Lansford at 3rd and all he had done was win the batting title his first year with Boston in 1981 (and he still hit .301 in 1982).
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    Are you seriously obtuse? 1) Releasing him means nothing salarywise. He has a contract; the team has to live up to the terms of the contract and pay him. 2) Offering him a front office position does nothing to change 1). 3) Assuming he can’t play (not exactly a bold prediction), he will go on the 60 day DL sometime during spring training, which means he won’t count against the 40 man.
  14. illinoisredsox
    Good grief, get over it. However much you wish he was "earning" it, multiply that times 1000 for Pedey's level of wish. He got hurt on the field. It wasn't doing something stupid off in the off season. He did everything he could to get back whenever he was hurt. He never sat out with a hangnail the way some guys do. He left it out on the field every time he played and often played when he probably shouldn't have. Save the angst for the Buchholz's of the world.
  15. illinoisredsox
    Evans, Lynn and Rick Miller are obvious picks. Yaz for 4th choice? The only other OFs who played much back then were Juan Beniquez and Bernie Carbo. Of those two I’d have to go with Beniquez. I’m also guessing that Miller and Beniquez won theirs with other teams.
  16. illinoisredsox
    Chacin elected free agency late last week (not that it really matters).
  17. illinoisredsox
    5GG, if you hit the little button that says Reply With Quote down on the lower right of a post, it will bring put the post you are responding to in a much more readable format than the quotation marks you seem to be using.
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    I also wouldn't go back too far. Results from the 80s are really not relevant at this point; spending rules have changed, luxury tax, etc. Maybe stick with this century. And our sane Yankee backer above has a good point about losing seasons being taken into account; just off the top of my head it would impact the Astros ranking as they several horrific years early this decade while they were building their current juggernaut. Might tweak the win totals slightly though. 82-80 gets a point while 80-82 loses one, even though they are virtually the same season? Maybe with a 60-65-75-85-95-100 split, or something like it.
  19. illinoisredsox
    Cashner, Chacin, Holt, Moreland, Pearce and Porcello all elected to become free agents today.
  20. illinoisredsox
    From a team (franchise) standpoint, it was the Guardians before this series and still is. Cleveland now gets the longest city drought as well (1948).
  21. illinoisredsox
    So what is your specific objection?
  22. illinoisredsox
    You mean Soto?
  23. illinoisredsox
    Given how the relievers have s*** the bed, maybe Hinch should have left Greinke in.
  24. illinoisredsox
    Good question. Are they paid their percentage up front or do they get x percent each year of a contract?
  25. illinoisredsox
    Disagree. As well as he was pitching, one homer did not merit removal. Hinch pulled him at the right time; the Kendrick homer was fluky.
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