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Without clicking, was that against the Yankees?
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Greenwell also could have helped himself by maybe taking a pitch or two once in a while…
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Really? I would guess this board is your primary interaction with Sox fans. And this board is loaded with various levels and a variety of opinions whose only common thread is we’re all Die Hard Sox Addicts, many of whom post here all 12 months. Casual fans are not of that mindset. I work with a bunch of Cubs’ fans who still to this day don’t understand why the team traded away Rizzo, Bryant and Baez. Bear in mind this team had already had one 11 game losing streak that dropped them out of contention. And that all 3 are free agents in less than 2 months. And that Kris Bryant in particular (through his choice of agent) had been advocating for free agency since even before his MLB debut!! And even with all that, many of them still don’t get why the team traded away their best players! So no. Casual ticket-buying Sox fans wouldn’t understand…
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I do think that his reported biggest weakness is potentially being phased out of the game was certainly icing on the cake…
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Clutch vs. choke - do these numbers mean anything?
notin replied to Bellhorn04's topic in Other Baseball
The argument that pitchers choke based on postseason numbers is where the conjecture is. Is it possible? Sure. Is it the only possible reason? Absolutely not. When a pitcher has lots of postseason data, it has to be spread out over multiple seasons. In Kershaw’s case, it’s 13 years. Most pitchers just aren’t the same pitcher over that stretch. Really, rather than being one big sample that can be summed up solely with ERA, it’s a series of small samples being stuck together and called a big sample. I doubt 2008 Kershaw had all that much in common with 2020 Kershaw beyond the number on the uniform. And pitchers are on average more affected by longer seasons than position players. And are susceptible to a wider variety of injuries. Was Kershaw healthy and pain free across 13 post seasons? Did his various workloads affect him differently each year? Really does this example prove Kershaw simply couldn’t handle the pressure? Or that he didn’t handle physical pain as well as, say, Schilling did? -
Hence Henry Davis being drafted first…
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This doesn’t make sense for multiple reasons. Let’s start with the obvious. If the Sox were doing badly this season, it would very likely be because most (if not all) of the players named - Martinez, Eovaldi, Rodriguez, Bogaerts - were also doing badly, which then in turn makes them difficult to trade for anything good in order to do a some sort of rebuild. Typically when teams do poorly, it’s because the players are performing poorly. That the team would be underperforming while also loaded with available and expensive players all having good seasons just relies on too many stars aligning to ever happen…
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The Kimbrel deal was actually very odd. While Kimbrel is certainly having a stellar season, that he was worth more in a trade to the Cubs than the younger, cheaper and more controllable (and possibly better at this point?) Diego Castillo was worth to the Rays just seems odd to me. Then again it seemed odd to me that one season wonder Kendall Graveman aka The Human Elbow Problem also seemed to be worth more in a trade than Castillo also seemed odd to me…
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And in April, that was the song and dance. But in July/august for a team still in it. The big problem with "future thinking" is it's not like the Rays are going to lose Franco or the Blue Jays are going to lose Bichette and Guerrero any time soon. This division is pretty stacked with MVP-caliber players under 25...
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Oh it would be very funny. Especially since Henry looks like he enjoys humor about as much as most people enjoy speeding tickets....
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But only Seabold has the potential to be useful this season, and even his injury issues have made that questionable...
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No. Bloom might drop the name of a player or two that he was in talks about, but it's not likely he will end any of the interviews with "Maybe if my boss wasn't so f***ing cheap!!"
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THe big issue at the deadline was that the other teams had top level prospects to part with, particularly pitching prospects. Who's the best sox pitching prospect above A ball? Bello? This is his first good season. He might have had some value to some team. Seabold? It made no sense to trade him for useful pitching since he is looking like he could be useful pitching. One really big thing that hurt Bloom there was losing both Mata and Ward for the season back in March/April, as these were the only real pitching arms he could deal for anything of value. Certainly, neither might have been enough, but that they both went down also eliminated the chances that either one put together a good season and became a sought-after commodity, like Bello did.
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That's another factor, although there was absolutely no reason it should have been one.
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Because the team was in first place and once you send the message that a first place team is in Sell Mode, you run the risk of fans remembering that when season ticket sales start up again...
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So far, Bloom's worst trade IMO was dealing Jhon Nunez for Matt Hall, a deal that somehow actually looks worse because Hall was probably a Spider Tacker (and still awful). Nunez was not necessarily anything special, but might be near the top of the depth chart for this org...
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Of course, they did neither of those. I have my doubts this team will miss either Aldo Ramirez or Alex Scherff. I don't think punting was a viable option. If fans and the media did not like Bloom's failure to add a big name, just imagine how well trading off pieces on a first place team would have gone?
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I would have liked them to go for it, too. I just wonder what that would have meant in this case. Unfortunately, I can only go by what players were actually traded and what they were traded for. If "going for it" meant trading Tristan Casas for Jon Gray, then I can holding off on that. I remember the 1995 Red Sox trying to get Denny Neagle at the deadline, and the Pirates insisting on Nomar Garciaparra in a trade. That's certainly one instance where I am glad they didn't go for it...
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Definitely underappreciated…
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Even if Houck struggles, at least the hitters earn their hits…
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I think he’s lining them up for the stadium. He has JD in the smaller RF and Verdugo covering the expansive LF…
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Exactly. And Fenway skews it a bit because the zone for left field can’t count those balls hit 25 feet up the monster where any play is impossible. It is worth noting the Sox team defense is supported by great numbers in LF (2nd in MLB) which might mask some of the other positions, notably 3b (14th), SS (16th) and 1b (27th)…
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Andriese wants it back, FYI…
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I do. Especially since he might be primarily facing LHP…
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Clutch vs. choke - do these numbers mean anything?
notin replied to Bellhorn04's topic in Other Baseball
The entire notion of using post-season stats to determine clutch is also made up and useless. We've all seen plenty of players get post-season at-bats in blowout games. Really the notion of "clutch" in itself is pretty fabricated. A lot of times, it comes down to simply how you remember a player. I've seen people say Yaz wasn't cltuch because he popped out to end the 1978 season with the tying run on third. These people saw 39yo Yaz in that game, and, like me, clearly missed his monstrous ending to the 1967 season...
