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  1. illinoisredsox
    Since your mind is made up anyway, I doubt there's anything anyone could say that , in your opinion, would refute anything you said on this subject.
  2. illinoisredsox
    Not to mention that Junichi has warmed up multiple times and not come in to pitch in the game. I'm not saying it hasn't happened, but seldom if at all has Koji done this.
  3. illinoisredsox
    Not sure I agree at 1B. I think people forget how good Napoli was that year. Hanram has a higher BA, but Napoli's OPS was 45 points higher than Hanley's is right now and the other night not withstanding, 2013 Napoli is the better defensive player. Napoli also is/was the better baserunner (I'm not talking about speed, but he was a smart baserunner and never had the brain farts out there that Hanley seems to have all too often). I call it a wash at best, and IMO a slight edge to Naps. Pedroia 2013 and 2016 are also a wash pretty much a was, but I'll go with the 2013 version if only defensively, because 28 yo Pedey had slightly better range than his 31 yo counterpart. Catcher is a really tough call. Leon >> Salty on defense, but offensively, Salty struck out a ton; he also had 40 doubles that year. Leon isn't going to keep this up (nobody ever has in the history of the game) and when he crashes back to Earth it isn't going to be pretty. The 2013 team was a veteran team that seemingly was better than the sum of its parts. This year's team has more raw talent, but the operative word there is raw.
  4. illinoisredsox
    Actually, you hit on the answer. You just have to leave the starter in for 6 innings minimum every game, no matter what. Of course, that leads to other issues, but it does allow one to ration bullpen innings.
  5. illinoisredsox
    I think it helped that the homer was the type of hit it was (liner that was not guaranteed to go out); it made Hanley have bust it out of the box right away. There may have been a staredown had it been a moonshot.
  6. illinoisredsox
    Especially in the AL. In the NL during an inning that long, the pitcher at least gets to break up the monotony by going to the on-deck circle and the batters box for a couple minutes. He wasn't that sharp before the 4th. It just caught up to him that inning. I think the fact that he hadn't pitched since July 7th played a big factor (although he won't say it did). That's a long time off for any pitcher to go without live action. The guy posted an ERA under 2.5 and made the NL All-Star team; I doubt he forgot what he was doing on his cross-country flight.
  7. illinoisredsox
    Agreed. Deleted the one I added because it does not belong in this forum and I have no wish take the thread off course. Now back to trade talk.
  8. illinoisredsox
    To be fair, that inning was weird. If I remember right, yeah, there were the home run bombs, but Green's hit was either a grounder or a bloop(?) and the last 2 combined may have reached 3rd base. I'll chalk it up to being a little amped up and not having pitched in nearly 2 weeks.
  9. illinoisredsox
    Always remember the requirements for any new member of the Red Sox. You must start out like Ted Cox and then morph into Fred Lynn. Anything less than that is unacceptable.
  10. illinoisredsox
    Baylor for Easler prior to the 1986 season was the last one that involved impact players directly, and there have been a total of 3 deals since. http://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/trade-partners.cgi?franch_ID_1=BOS&franch_ID_2=NYY
  11. illinoisredsox
    Hey the Sox got the immortal Mario Guerrero in that deal as well. On second thought, ugh.
  12. illinoisredsox
    That actually was unkowingly a very meaningful trade. When Stanley went to the Yankees, the Sox got Tomy Armas Jr. in return. Armas Jr. was later flipped to Montreal for some pitcher named Pedro Martinez
  13. illinoisredsox
    And the Giants remain winless at Fenway since 1915 (they beat the Braves in June that year).
  14. illinoisredsox
    To borrow a hockey tradition, the 3 stars tonight are: 3. Brown (the Giants catcher, 3 hits including a homer) 2. Barnes 1. Hanley
  15. illinoisredsox
    Well that will allow Hanley to get a shot at his 4th.
  16. illinoisredsox
    Okay, let's play manager. Do you bring Barnes back out for a 3rd inning? I say yes (not sure they have a choice since Ziegler will have the 9th and it's Buchholz and Noe Ramirez as the other choices):
  17. illinoisredsox
    Sox have 3 players who have hit 3 home runs in a game. Hard to believe none of them is named Ortiz. Betts and Pedroia are the others on the roster who have done it.
  18. illinoisredsox
    I would not have pulled Hembree. Yeah he gave up 3 hits but 2 were really soft. He had more to give. This is the kind of game that can screw up a bullpen for days.
  19. illinoisredsox
    We aren't going to win this one folks.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Shaw's inexperience at 3rd cost 2 runs. Nice play to end the inning though.
  21. illinoisredsox
    To be fair the last 2 hits have not exactly been scalded. That's 5-6 really soft hits for SF tonight. There were some loud outs as well though.
  22. illinoisredsox
    Shaw has to make that play.
  23. illinoisredsox
    Decent job by Ross to stop the bleeding
  24. illinoisredsox
    Hasn't pitched in 2 weeks, he wasn't sharp early on and it caught up to him. I'd give him a couple outings before everyone goes nuts.
  25. illinoisredsox
    Only if you know it's your last batter; whoever does is going to get tossed.
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