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  1. illinoisredsox
    Dewey. He caught everything (as does Betts) and while Mookie has a good arm, Evans had a cannon. Teams simply stopped trying to take an exra base on him.
  2. illinoisredsox
    You know, he seemed to be coming around a little until that fingernail issue a couple starts back. Has sucked since.
  3. illinoisredsox
    I really wonder if he likes playing baseball; not all players do. It may be something he has done because he's been good at it (relatively speaking to the rest of us mortals)
  4. illinoisredsox
    No, he can take the pounding.
  5. illinoisredsox
    I see Natick and d-money are posting; Sox must be trailing.
  6. illinoisredsox
    Well, that should guarantee a 1-0 game with the only run scoring on a wind blown fly ball off the Pesky Pole.
  7. illinoisredsox
    While Cherington only lead 4 drafts, he began working for the Red Sox in 1999. Under Epstein he was director of player development and then VP, player personnel. Baseball front offices are not one-man shows. It is silly to think he did not have considerable input into the players the Sox did draft over those years.
  8. illinoisredsox
    Straight ahead speed means little in this context. Infielders have to move laterally and have a quick first step. Brooks Robinson was one of the slowest runners ever, but he had great lateral quickness for 2-3 steps. Mike Lowell, though not as good as Brooksie, would be a more recent example. Swihart probably didn't have professional level lateral speed as a high school SS. Remember, most of these guys were shortstops, pitchers and centerfielders in high school; that's where the best amateur players play. Only a few stay there.
  9. illinoisredsox
    JBJ didn't play last Friday in Toronto; Sale went 9, struck out 15 and walked no one. Was he nibbling that night as well? I think he just didn't have his good stuff last night; no pitcher has it every game.
  10. illinoisredsox
    I was going to ask, is Nomar an introvert ? He always struck me as one. Extroverts often see introverts as unfriendly.
  11. illinoisredsox
    Vazquez was supposed to be the main guy with Hanigan as the #2 for 2015. Swihart was scheduled to be in Pawtucket. Vazquez blew out his elbow in Spring Training (requiring TJS) and was gone for the year, making Hanigan the starter. The Sox wanted Swihart to develop at Pawtucket, so they got Leon from the Nats to be the back-up. In early May, Hanigan broke his hand. Swihart was then called up and did most of the catching until July. At that point, Hanigan came back and Blake went on the DL with an ankle injury. When Swihart returned a couple weeks later, Leon was DFA'd, ending up in Pawtucket. Hanigan and Swihart then split the duties the rest of the season (Leon was brought back as a September call-up).
  12. illinoisredsox
    Never worry about 1 runner. A WHIP of 1.000 is darn good, and the DP took care of that.
  13. illinoisredsox
    Lester and Papelbon stand out, and that's over 10 years ago. After that, the highlights over past couple decades are Buchholz and Jeff Suppan.
  14. illinoisredsox
    That unfortunately has been all too true over the past couple decades.
  15. illinoisredsox
    He came over to the Red Sox from the Giants in the Peavy trade in 2014. Yes, he spent some time at Pawtucket but he was not drafted by the Sox.
  16. illinoisredsox
    You just don't get the fact that Swihart is NOT a good catcher. If he were, he'd be playing the position. He was bad in 2015 when he caught half the season. And in the eyes of the professionals, he hasn't gotten any better. This isn't some conspiracy to keep him from playing. He's not good. And although his chances offensively have been few, he hasn't taken advantage of the opportunities he's had. When you are in his position, you have to.
  17. illinoisredsox
    I'm assuming you left the Texas Con Man off on purpose.
  18. illinoisredsox
    They were sort of down to duress. The bench players that afternoon were Bryce Brentz, Aaron Hill, Sandy Leon, David Ortiz and Hanley Ramirez It all happened in the 6th: Hill hit for Brock Holt and doubled. Later in the inning, Brentz was announced for David Price. The Dodgers changed pitchers and David Ortiz hit for Brentz, drawing a walk. Betts singled Ortiz to 2nd (he was the tying run). At that point, Farrell wanted to run for Ortiz to try and tie the game up, so he used Wright with the bad result we all know. So at that point, it was leave Ortiz on, use your other catcher or send Hanley in to run and lose his bat for later (and the pitchers spot was due up one more time) The screw up was not using a pitcher for the role, but in using a guy who never runs the bases. Pomeranz, having just come over form the NL, was far more experienced in that regard, and had, as someone pointed out, pinch run a couple time earlier that year with the Padres plus run the bases as a hitter. I can't remember if Kelly was on the roster at that point, but he would have been a possible choice as well.
  19. illinoisredsox
    It was actually a Free speech related case ini 1964. Stewart never actually used "pornography" or "obscenity" in his concurrence, at least in that part of it. The whole quote was: "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description, and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that." To avoid taking this into the politics realm, here's a little more about it: https://corporate.findlaw.com/litigation-disputes/movie-day-at-the-supreme-court-or-i-know-it-when-i-see-it-a.html Beyond that, your opinion is yours and this isn't the forum to discuss it one way or the other. The applicability to baseball is you don't need stats to know that Trout or Betts is a great player, you know it when you see it, (but the stats certainly back up the "see it".
  20. illinoisredsox
    Actually, it's not. The dictionary definition is easy; saying x or y is this or that isn't. What you perceive as porn or art or whatever may not match what I think those are. I have little use for modern art; I just don't get it. I would not even define it as art. But others don't see it that way. And that's fine.
  21. illinoisredsox
    Need to add that tongue in cheek emoticon :-J to the smiley choices.
  22. illinoisredsox
    And that's fWAR. Baseball Reference (bWAR) uses similar principles, but the methodology is a little different. And Baseball Prospectus' version (WARP) is a little different again. So the generic use of WAR is ambiguous.
  23. illinoisredsox
    Baseball Reference.com has almost any information you might want: Batting by Game https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=bettsmo01&t=b&year=2018 Under Splits, it also lists the info for Game Outcome for Team: In wins, he's played in 25 games, in those, he's hitting .417, OBP of .491, Slugging ..896, OPS of 1.387. 10 doubles, 12 homers In losses, he's played in 12 games. .244/.327/.489/.816, 6 doubles and 1 homer.
  24. illinoisredsox
    There still seems to be a few "oldtimers" (not all) who have issues with the "newbies", many of whom have been here 2 years now.
  25. illinoisredsox
    If he were still with the Yankees, they (Torre & Company) would have given him a $12M bonus.
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