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Players have two goals in spring training 1. Get in game shape 2. Don’t get injured. Now some of the MiLB and NRI players will try to make an impression, but supplanting a player under contract isn’t likely. They need a borderline candidate for that. (Like Brice.)
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Without Sale, this isn’t a bad year to give Chavis a legitimate chance to fix his offensive game and see if he has a future as a starter. Not like his potential failures would drag the team down...
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Gettys was let go by the Padres after six season of off/on production. He has some good points, like power, speed and the ability to play all three outfield positions. However, he struggles to make contact and has some holes in his swing he has yet to fix after years (plus a foreign season in 2020 as the Padres did not invite him to their alternate site). It’s not so much an oversight as maybe a player whose projected ceiling is being an AAAA up-and-down player. Every minor league system has a player like him...
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Marte was a very surprising acquisition for Renteria. I think half of the excitement was over dumping Renteria...
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The Sox benched a struggling Coco in the 2007 playoff run and went with Ellsbury. And in 2008 they benched a struggling Ellsbury to play Coco...
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Funny thing was, before coming to Boston, Coco carried a questionable defensive reputation. The Guardians bounced him back and forth between LF and CF even before Sizemore came up. Crisp played amazing defese in CF, but did not hit much in Boston (OPS+ 84 in 3 seasons.). His best eyars at the plate came much later in Oakland (2012-2014 with an OPS+ 108). Although Crisp had a very key single in elimination game 5 of the 2008 ALCS to tie a game in which the Sox trailed 7-0 just two innings earlier. And as Daniel Tosh used to say "and for that, we thank you"...
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Coco played for a long time after leaving Boston...
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What about a player who just isn't good enough for any other team to want? I got me a Josh Rutledge jersey that way. Not only is it cheaper, but for like $25 more, it comes with Josh Rutledge. (I saved the $25)...
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Who should the Sox have play CF on opening day?
notin replied to mvp 78's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Nothing. but it has everything to do with posting about having two left fielders and no right fielders prior to editing... -
Liking players and liking teams can be two separate things. Did you enjoy or not the 2013 Red Sox and all their roster turnover?
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Who should the Sox have play CF on opening day?
notin replied to mvp 78's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Too late. Can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube... -
Who should the Sox have play CF on opening day?
notin replied to mvp 78's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Well with all the shifts, he is going to spend plenty of time there anyway... -
I don't think the opener and bullpen game strategies have caught on as much around the league...
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Really it winds up making a big deal out of the third game of the season. If opening day gets rained out, they're still going to play the next day; whether it was scheduled to be Game 1 or Game 2 is irrelevant. I'll try to not be confusing here. If the Sox are scheduled to pay April 1, 2 and 3, and April 1 gets rained out, they're still going to play April 2 and 3. If they schedule April 1, 3 and 4, and April 1 gets rained out, they do get in all three games. But they still start the season on April 2nd.
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Who should the Sox have play CF on opening day?
notin replied to mvp 78's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Well, right field at Fenway is so difficult anyway, why even bother? We need to focus on how elite that left field defense will be with both Gonzalez and Renfroe out there... -
I know, but it is, was, and always will be the stupidest way to handle the rain delay issues. The more off days you put at the front of the season, the fewer opportunities to make up games the rest of the way. Having an off day one day after opening day seems like the dumbest possible time...
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I had a former college roommate pass away about 18 months ago, before there was any talk of COVID. Had not seen him in a long, long time, but it was very weird to think about...
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This might be the trend going forward. April games sell out with greater frequency than any other month, since no one is eliminated yet. So playing more games in April and fewer in months with less interest like September feels like a business move...
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My wife got her second dose yesterday. I remain unprotected...
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Apparently any talk of a player’s deficiencies or of changing his position is tantamount to trade banter...
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In theory, if Dalbec was average and Devers was below average, why not? An upgrade is an upgrade...
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Proximity to the majors gives him better projections?
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And let us not forget the infamous Carl Mays - outstanding pitcher that some think should be a Hall of Famer. Best known for throwing the pitch that ended the life of Roy Chapman. But the guy pitched for 15 years and was 207-126 with a 2.92 ERA (119 ERA+). Mays was also the first of the players sold by Frazee to the Yankees, a list that included many quality Red Sox players such as Bullet Joe Bush, Sad Same Jones, Hall of Famer Herb Pennock, and some obscure guy named George Herman something or other. It probably did not help Mays' cause for either the Hall or even to say on the Red Sox that he reportedly had a reputation as being a very unpleasant human being and had a notorious reputation as a headhunter...
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And that Fisk guy...
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But without LaRoche, we might never have acquired Casey Kotchman and his .572 OPS...
