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  1. illinoisredsox
    vs. LHP Young .250/.368/.500/.868 (4-16) 4K Holt .300/.462/.300/.762 (3-10) 3K Shaw .083/.120/.125/.245 (2-24) 8K 2 of the 3 are going to play when a lefty starts, unless Rutledge worms his way into more PT
  2. illinoisredsox
    Henry "Houdini" Owens
  3. illinoisredsox
    White Sox announcers just cited a baseball first tonight. Coupled with the Nationals-Cubs game at Wrigley, this is the first time ever that four first place teams have been playing in the same city at the same time. Have to admit it's nice not having Harrelson on the broadcasts Tuesday and tonight.
  4. illinoisredsox
    Nothing wrong with that trade. Boddicker was very effective with Boston, going 39-22 with an ERA of around 3.50 and helping the Sox to 2 division titles. Schilling didn't even become a full time starting pitcher until 1993 (5 years after the trade), and Anderson was a decent outfielder, but other than 1 over the top year, was hardly a diffeence maker.
  5. illinoisredsox
    Baseball Reference has it at $6.5M for both years. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/y/youngch04.shtml#contracts
  6. illinoisredsox
    I've heard that as well, and it's absolutely sick. That surgery costs in the area of $20,000 and since in these cases it's elective, that's out of pocket. That's a year of college at many places. Another dirty little secret is that division 1 scholarships are limited to 11.7 per team. That covers 4 years worth of players, so a) almost no one gets a full ride (in some cases, you might get your books covered) and even if you do, scholarships are year to year, so even if you get a full ride year 1, odds are you aren't getting one after that because it will be needed to lure another frosh. In other words, you are going to lay out big $ anyway. Division 2 schools are allowed 9 per team and Division 3 don't give "athletic" scholarships. You want $ for college? Hit the books.
  7. illinoisredsox
    Close. More like: 1. Babe Ruth 2. Bagwell for Anderson, although Lyle for Cater is certainly in the same ballpark.
  8. illinoisredsox
    63 might be the average temp but the reality in Chicago now and tonight is overcast, temps in the upper 40s and winds at around 15 mph; I'm guessing that translates to windchills in the 30s. In other words, miserable.
  9. illinoisredsox
    Given the historical excellence of the position, it's hard to believe that LF has become somewhat of an offensive black hole for the Red Sox.
  10. illinoisredsox
    Well, there is Castillo's stellar line of .253/.288/.359/.647 in 80 games and 289 PAs last year. He also struck out 1 out every 5 PAs and murdered multiple worms while grounding into 11 DPs.
  11. illinoisredsox
    1) Do we even know if Swihart can play the OF? The factual answer is no, we don't. The majors is not the place to be learning that on the fly, or did the Hanley experiment last year teach you nothing. 2) Hanigan's job on this team is back-up catcher. Right now, he's catching Wright (no easy task), babysitting Owens (and Kelly before that) and mentoring Vazquez. Swihart has enough catching issues without having to worry about trying to catch Wright's knuckler and trying to learn a new position. Oh, and he's hitting all of .230 at Pawtucket. Would he hit better than Hanigan? Yeah, but a catcher's job is handling the pitching staff and defense first.
  12. illinoisredsox
    Very likely. When I was a kid, I read a book on Tom Seaver. In it, Seaver recounts the first time he faced Hank Aaron. He got Aaron to hit into a double play on an inside fastball. Paraphrasing Seaver, "That's it, that his weakness." Next time up Seaver threw an inside fastball again and Aaron chalked one up on his way to 755. Seaver said he learned from that that good hitters think too, and what Aaron was thinking was "Kid pitcher, got me to into that DP last time up on an inside fastball, bet he comes with it again"
  13. illinoisredsox
    Winston Smith is still holding down his gig at ESPN, editing video and erasing unpersons. In other news, Eurasia and Oceania have always skipped game 6 of a 7 game series.
  14. illinoisredsox
    Which would be wrong: 1 ph for Shaw, Holt stayed in 2 ph for Shaw, Holt stayed in 3 started, Holt DNP 4 ph for Shaw, Holt stayed in 5 ph for Shaw, Holt stayed in 6 started, Holt DNP 7 started, Holt DNP 8 started, Holt DNP 9 ph for Bogaerts, Holt stayed in 10 ph for Bradley, Holt played all 9 innings on defense (Rutledge ph for him in 9th) 11 ran for Bogaerts, Holt stayed in 12 started, Holt played ss 13 ph for Price, Holt replaced in double switch 14 ph for Betts, Holt stayed in
  15. illinoisredsox
    My older son wrestled in high school. He had a teammate who had state medalist ability (and Illinois is one of the top 4-5 states as far as high school wrestling goes, so that is saying something). But the kid never quite broke through to that level. After his senior season he was asked about it and he said he never really liked wrestling, he just did it because he was good at it. I sometimes get the impression that Buchholz doesn't really like baseball. He plays it because he is good at it (relatively speaking).
  16. illinoisredsox
    Tough to sweep any team, especially in a 4 game set. If you think about it, even the worst teams in MLB history (think 62 Mets bad) win 1 out of 4.
  17. illinoisredsox
    Thought he was safe in the live action.
  18. illinoisredsox
    There's about 13 million reasons why that's not going to happen, at least right now. But he is making it very easy for Dombrowski to decide not to pick up next year's team option.
  19. illinoisredsox
    Bunt hits to anyone don't concern me; walks and multiple line drives do.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Just arrived from BDC. Born and raised in Connecticut, I became a Sox fan at the age of 8 during that glorious summer of 1967. My favorite player was Dewey Evans; in Babe Ruth, High School and Legion ball, I would always ask for #24 if I could. My handle reflects that I have lived on the Illinois-Iowa border for the past 32 years. To date, I have been unsuccessful in convincing the locals that Sox are not White.
  21. illinoisredsox
    Made the migration over. Hopefully this will be a bit more grown up and without the "Farkel" and name calling of players that had come to permeate the BDC board. From my brief time looking around, it seems to be.
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