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Everything posted by notin
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And that was exactly where all the injuries that derailed the season occurred...
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I certainly hope so. Right now, the only name mentioned was Jake Marisnick, and even then no one is certain how interested the Sox really are. But if the Sox still have a good OF, they aren't going to bench Martinez to let Pedroia DH. And that's with assuming Pedroia can do that much. Now if the plan is to trade Martinez, and let Pedroia DH, that's different (and unwise). But they certainly wouldn't be trading Martinez just to clear a place to play for Pedroia...
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Dombrowski did try to get a lot of bullpen depth, none of which really panned out. But at least he did not ignore the problem. However, he did nothing for the starter depth prior to acquiring Cashner...
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Well, given that the Sox are reportedly going to move Bradley and Betts and have no minor league outfielders ready to play at the MLB level not named Rusney, if Pedroia goes to DH, it would probably push JD to the outfield. While not ideal defensively, the Sox don't have a ton of other options right now. I know there will be additions, but as of today, if Pedroia plays DH and Martinez plays, say, LF, is that better or worse than having Martinez at DH and Cole Sturgeon in LF?
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I don't see the Sox having 40 man roster issues. Even with Pedroia currently on the roster, they still only have 34 players on it. And those 34 players include Sam Travis, Brian Johnson, Trevor Kelley, and Bobby Poyner. Even if these players were claimed, there is nothing special there. Not to mention, Heath Hembree, Jackie Bradley, and Sandy Leon also still have spots along with questions about their return. And Josh Osich has a spot. That's nearly a quarter of the occupied slots taken by players who are not coming back or are not difficult to replace. Counting the six spots already vacant, I'm not too worried if Pedroia has to spend a month or two on the 40 man roster. I also doubt the Sox need 15 spots to add worthy minor league players...
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Really? Those three also started all of 59 games, where as one would expect fully the fully healthy trio to start 96 games. Think the Sox still would still win a minimum of 86 games knowing their best SPs would get replaced for 37 games by Hector Velasquez, Brian Johnson and Ryan Weber?
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Or he is 60 day IL material, which means he does no take a roster spot...
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The team won 84 games despite getting bout 320 IP combined from Sale, Price and Eovaldi. If you knew before the season that the team would only get 320 IP from those 3, how many wins would you expect?
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Oh it's very easy to overestimate them...
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I know. I can't tell you how many fans from teams all over have looked at an 85 win team and screamed for the whole thing to be blown up and rebuilt...
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And what does that accomplish?
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The values would be so small and clustered together, they wouldn't mean much...
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And right away. If you're going to do this stuff. at the very least don't wait until the 8th inning of the next day. That's just starting a whole new issue...
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Not to mention, it’s not like this team won 60 games last year. They won 84 games, which is a lot of wins for a team with one pitcher in the starting rotation...
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Didn’t you see Moneyball? When Billy Beane is telling Scott Hatteburg he is going to play 1b. “It’s not that hard, Scott. Tell him”. “It’s incredibly hard.”
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Before we accept them as fungible, maybe we should see if it works, first...
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Maybe they want the entire coaching staff to be former members of the 2013 Red Sox. Maybe Shane Victorino will be the hitting coach, Ryan Dempster as the pitching coach, and Mike Carp will be the bench coach...
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He should be penalized the same amount as Machado was penalized for his .213/.268/.382/.650 in his 23 post-season games....
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Or not.
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Well. some hitters did, too. Steve Balboni leaps to mind. No idea why. No one should ever unwillingly think of Steve Balboni...
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I think this is how Woodward and Bernstein got started...
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Do teams do that or independant retailers? Or both? Even then, some of the unlicensed stuff has agreements, especially if it has a players name or number on it...
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... named "Sonny"?
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I'm actually impressed teams can steal signs even with technology. The catcher and pitcher often vary the important sign in the sequence, which can change with every pitch. Something like "strikes plus one", so on a one strike count, the second sign is the true sign. If another strike is thrown, the third sign becomes the important one and the others are decoys. And they can change the modifier at any time, to maybe "balls plus two" or whatever. Merely recording it and watching the signs play out is still very difficult to establish what is the actual sign...
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OK, but I think again that is only among the portion the league gets. "Between 11 percent and 15 percent of the merchandise sales will go to the league and is then shared equally among the teams. The rest goes to the manufacturer." Source: https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/10/03/good-question-sports-merchandise/ Worth pointing out, that is 3 years old and might be outdated. But maybe the 48%/52% split is of the 11-15%, which means teams are getting about 5%-ish of the revenue from each jersey sale. So for a $75 jersey, that selling team team gets between $4.29 and $5.85 and the revenue sharing portion is between $3.96 and $5.40. That seem about right? The manufacturers do make a bundle on these things...
