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  1. illinoisredsox
    Dirt dog = scrappy player Nomar was not a dirt dog (Jeter wasn’t one either but he was closer to one than Nomar). Evans was not a dirt dog. Boggs was close but I don’t put him in that category. Baylor might qualify; any player who gets hit by a pitch as often has he did has to be under consideration for that description. Pokey Reese might qualify. He was a player of very modest ability who managed an 8 year career. I think Boyd qualifies also, if a pitcher can. Modest ability who stuck around for 10 years, amassing very pedestrian stats.
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    Varitek did both; he signed an extension after the 2004 season and went free agent when that contract ended after 2008. IIRC, the free agent thing didn’t go so well; he was after Posada money and resigned with the Sox for less than half that.
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    I've had it 3-4 times, it's not fun. Of course, I'm not in my athletic prime (I don't think I had one). My son was a high school wrestler and won a varsity spot as a sophomore at 171 pounds. Anyone who knows anything about high school wrestling knows that those guys, if nothing else, are in shape and generally recover from stuff pretty quickly. He caught pneumonia over Christmas and to make a long story short, he really wasn't back to normal until March, after the season was over.. Slower, less stamina, etc.
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    My favorite Johnny Mostism: "Did you see Chamberlain stick his eye into Russell's elbow?"
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    Last 6 seconds of this apply:
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    No DH (JD)?
  7. illinoisredsox
    Actually, the answer to notin’s question is yes, they did need 13 games in AA (plus 50 or 60 more).
  8. illinoisredsox
    Who does Puig play in place of?
  9. illinoisredsox
    I heard John Henry has developed an interest in theatrical productions.
  10. illinoisredsox
    Prove it and name the substance.
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    If they fire him, they have to pay him the remainder of his contract. If he's suspended, they don't. One way or the other, he's not going to be managing the Sox in 2020, so why pay him not to?
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    One of these times I'd I want to see the penalties go up upon appeal. I had several professors who had a version of that. If you felt you had been wrongly graded on a certain portion of a test, they had no issue looking at it, but they said up front that they would look at the whole exam, not just the part you wanted them to. After all, if one part was mismarked, then other parts could have been as well.
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    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.
  15. illinoisredsox
    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.
  16. illinoisredsox
    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.
  17. illinoisredsox
    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.
  18. illinoisredsox
    Oh, I know that. But it's fun to try and poke him.
  19. 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.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Still waiting on that proof that Pedroia fractured the 2017 locker room and ruined the season.
  21. 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.
  22. 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).
  23. illinoisredsox
    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).
  25. illinoisredsox
    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.
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