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  1. illinoisredsox
    I thought Eckersley made a very good point about Price morphing into a different type of pitcher. He's no longer the flame thrower he was as a kid so he's adjusting his game accordingly. Luckily, Price has always been a pitcher as opposed to being a thrower and has decent secondary pitches, so the transition should go fine for him.
  2. illinoisredsox
    I'm also quite certain that the same conversation was held in Yankee Stadium and Busch Stadium and Comerica Field and Turner Field and ...
  3. illinoisredsox
    What need? The offense has overall been fine. How is bringing up Benintendi going to help fix the pitching staff, which is the real issue? Are you prepared to live with the kid struggling after he comes up? In the midst of a pennant race? In Boston? Because odds are that's what's going to happen. Bogaerts did okay for the 20 or so games he played in 2013, but struggled mightily in 2014. He started figuring it out near the end of that season. JBJ (who's career path was very similar to Benintendi's to date) issues are well documented. Betts did fine, but he also came up to a last place club; no pressure. Benintendi projects to be a good player, but he is not Trout or Harper. Frankly, I think the professionals who see the kid every day are in the best position re. deciding when he is ready.
  4. illinoisredsox
    True, but it doesn't matter since they don't play until Friday, at which time they will recall ERod since he is the scheduled starter on that day.
  5. illinoisredsox
    He's been pitching like #2 all season.
  6. illinoisredsox
    No. Nein. Nyet. Non. Ingen. Nee. 'a'ole. Nie. There would be no way to wash 7 years of Yankee stench off of him.
  7. illinoisredsox
    Hernandez hits lefty; they needed and wanted someone from the right side.
  8. illinoisredsox
    ^This It's not the 1950s. The Sox aren't the Yankees and the Kansas City Athletics aren't there to supply any major league ready parts needed in exchange for junk or kids who need to be seasoned and reacquired later.
  9. illinoisredsox
    Is the .620 an aberration? Last year's OPS of .975 vs. LHP was based an equally small sample size of 85 PAs. I don't know what his splits were in the minors, although I sort of recall reading that the .620 is a lot closer to his minor league LHP split than the .975.
  10. illinoisredsox
    True, but LaRussa didn't use him until the 6th inning of an 8-0 game and had a plan on "easing" the transition. Rather than having Posey try and catch him cold, he had Ruiz enter the game at the same time after catching Dickey in the bullpen so that the catcher had at least seen whatever number of warm up pitches Dickey normally uses.
  11. illinoisredsox
    Not to mention the contractual side of things re. free agency. Bring him up now and you lose a year of control (which I believe would be his age 27-28 seasons). If he's at all what many seem to think he is, I'd rather he be around at that age. They can find a D'Aza type guy out there if they feel the need to get a short term fix.
  12. illinoisredsox
    They already sent him back to the pen. With today's off day, the all-star break and another off day on the 18th, they won't need a 5th starter until July 24th. I expect they will have brought someone in via trade by then, or they will tap another minor leaguer. If Buchholz remains on the roster for the rest of this season, I think the only way he starts again is in an emergency (like somebody gets sick on the way to the park) or maybe one game of a doubleheader during a very full week of games. Otherwise, he's strictly a long reliever and will pitch only in games that get away early or extra innings when they've used everyone else.
  13. illinoisredsox
    Interesting take on a go-forward plan: http://www.boston.com/sports/boston-red-sox/2016/07/06/fix-red-sox-rotation Not sure I buy into it totally, but if you can have the main guys go every 5th day and use it only when a 5th guy is needed, it might have some merit.
  14. illinoisredsox
    Well, you would have been right had Mookie not been running.
  15. illinoisredsox
    Provided the situation allows it, Choo HAS to go down his next time up. He is WAY too comfortable up there right now against Sox pitching.
  16. illinoisredsox
    Price has at least been okay against the Rangers away from Arlington. 0-2 with a 3.82 ERA and a 1.242 WHIP over 33 innings and 5 games. Not fantastic, but at least numbers like that tend to give your team a chance. His numbers against the Rangers in Texas are downright ugly, (3-2 with a 7.68 ERA and a 1.735 WHIP in 34 innings and 7 games).
  17. illinoisredsox
    Yeah, but is that because he has somehow lost those skills or because Sox pitchers are missing so badly that it makes them moot. Seems to me pitch framing mostly comes into play when a pitch is just outside the zone and thus the catcher's mitt must move very little to "frame" the pitch. Sox pitchers appear to miss spots by several inches, which doesn't lend itself well to framing.
  18. illinoisredsox
    That would be 1.000/1.000/4.000 but everything to the right of the "and" would nonetheless remain completely true.
  19. illinoisredsox
    Because "something different" has sucked as well, in fact worse. It defies belief, but Buchholz has been the "best" of the sorry lot they've tried in the #4 and #5 slots.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Why does Kimbrel EVER throw a ball down low to a left handed hitter? Or any hitter for that matter?
  21. illinoisredsox
    That run is going to count.
  22. illinoisredsox
    No kidding? Buffoon was used to describe Farrell and his remarks after the game about Price's stuff (among other things). Now read carefully. If Price really thought that his stuff yesterday was worse than it was against the Rangers last Friday, then buffoon is not nearly an apt enough description of the person making THAT statement. Both remarks were well off base.
  23. illinoisredsox
    Neither Hanigan nor Leon can be sent outright to Pawtucket. Both are out of options, so neither can be sent to RI without exposing them to waivers. Leon probably would not clear; Hanigan would but as a 5 year vet, he can refuse the assignment. Vazquez may be the odd man out right now, if only from a roster management standpoint. Also, he does have the offensive side of the ball to work on.
  24. illinoisredsox
    Maybe, but buffoon doesn't really describe Price if David really thought he had less stuff yesterday than he did against the Rangers last Friday. That just sounds like a guy making a stock quote for the reporters.
  25. illinoisredsox
    Why was Hanley taken out of the game? Did they say anything?
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