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Unless the Revisionist History Police get there first...
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I think hand signals will be fine for now. There have only been like 3 deaf players in MLB history, and only one was a pitcher, and he pitched in the 1860's. Apparently, the Miami Marlins have an A-ball prospect named Cason Sherrod who is a deaf relief pitcher. So he and Grendell (if he ever catches back on anywhere) might be the only two pitchers who need hand signals. The game can survive this...
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Three extremely underrated players not getting nearly enough votes in this projection are Omar Vizquel, Andruw Jones, and Billy Wagner. Seriously, how are all three of these guys behind Scott Rolen?
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And now they are being sued by a former prospect ma,ed Garrison Lassiter who claims the Yankees suppressed and ruined his MLB career to accommodate Derek Jeter. Apparently they also ruined his collegiate football career at Miami and his basketball career at Alabama, and his law career at the unaccredited Mass Academy of Law. And important to note, the fact that he couldn't hit A-ball pitching was certainly not a factor in his not getting promoted...
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I think they should just all learn to speak Navajo, or, better yet, the pitcher and catcher can have his own codetalker help relay the signs in Navajo. And the batter can't. Of course, this assumes there is a Navajo word for "curveball."...
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Not to mention, sometimes the reasons for these traditions was rooted in a long, outdated logic or is simply no longer applicable. Not sure of the history behind pitcher/catcher hand signals, but if it's anything like the history behind the signs used by the fist base coach and third base coach, maybe it can go for the most part. Base coach signalling was only started to accommodate former Red/National/White Sox CF William "Dummy" Hoy, who was deaf. Now if there are any deaf/hard-of-hearing pitchers out there - and there might be (the Angels recently had hard-of-hearing southpaw Kevin Grendell in their minor league system for example), hand signalling will be a necessity for them. But so far, there have only been a handful of deaf players in MLB...
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Yeah you might be reaching here....
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2018-19 and 2019-20 can and should all be lumped into one giant boring off-season. Actually, this year we have added Martin Perez, Jose Peraza, and Kevin Plawecki (The "Killer P's). Last year, the big off-season addition was Colten Brewer....
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Even if it all works out for Andujar, Urshela is already a terrific defender at 3B. Voit slowed significantly in the second half last year, which might be from injury, but I think at some point it's just reality catching up with him. Bouncing Miggy around the field is NOT how you treat a young superstar hitter. And most definitely not how you help him improve at 3B. That's a white flag. Bench Voit. Not trade, bench. Have the depth. Start Andujar at 1b...
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a lot of times now a days they change the sequencing with every pitch. The catcher will flash a series of signs for pitch and location, but they will use something like "strikes plus 1" for the one that matters. meaning if the count is 1-1, the second sign matters. And it stays the second sign until the pitcher throws another strike, when it becomes the third sign. Plenty of teams do this, but how they know what the baseline is to steal signs is beyond me...
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That you call her “first wife” doesn’t support this behavior as a key to a harmonious relationship...
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Who is the greatest under-the-radar player in Sox history?
notin replied to Northern Star's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
No love for Javier Lopez. Or the late great (against the Yankees anyway) Vaughn Eshelman? -
Or not...
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Rebuilding the farm could take a year or more. Signing some low risk/moderate reward potential contributors like Keon Broxton, Trevor Rosenthal, Yimi Garcia, Nick Martini, Kyle Barraclough, Joey Rickard, Nick Tropeano, Zack Godley, or Ryon Healy could have already happened...
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Oh he's been given a tough task when it comes to off-loading some salary. But so far 45 players have signed minor league contracts, and Bloom has not signed a single player to one. (He has signed two players, Marco Hernandez and Josh Osich, to split contracts. But that was also after non-tendering both of them.) And while the majority of these players who sign minor league deals won't amount to much, they do occasionally pay off. And while rare, some pay off very big. There were a lot of players who signed MiLB deals elsewhere who were worth a gamble. After all, there is no such thing as a bad minor league contract...
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So the guy cannit field, and the idea is to get him into more positions? Why not have him catch and play CF while you're at it? First base is where all non-fielders go to die. Move Andujar to 1B. Bench Voit. If 2018 taught the Yankees anything, depth is a good thing. Or... the Yankees could try some bizarre strategy where they move Miggy around the field, keep Sanchez behind the plate, get Stanton back into the OF, learn that Torres might not be much of a shortstop, and watch as defense becomes their Achilles Heel in 2020...
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Yeah his personality does not seem to have much in common with that of his comedian namesake...
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And it would be hypocritical of me to hold that strategy against Dombrowski while embracing Bloom. If anything I am more disappointed in Bloom for this, because unlike Dombrowski, he hasn’t been given Carte Blanche. What other options does Bloom really have?
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But while there is certainly some Recency Effect, it could not have been be the impetus behind the Eovaldi Lust of last off-season. There’s no way any GM entrusted with managing a a nine-figure payroll is less thorough than I am...
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It's getting to the point where my biggest gripe about Bloom is the complete lack of minor league deals. I get having a budget that limits your ability to sign players to major league deals, but why not take some zero risk chances on minor league deals?
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They both just repeatedly swear and curse the other when alone in the room/car/subway/movie theater...
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The Butterfly Effect tells us that we have no way of knowing that the Sox would not have won the title that year even if they had not claimed Tony Randa off waivers from the Diamondbacks. While it makes all the sense in the world that Tony Randa did not matter for the title, the bottom line is you can never prove otherwise.
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Oh trading Bogaerts could really backfire . The Sox might enter 2021 with Price and Eovaldi still here, but Bogaerts, Betts and Martinez all elsewhere...
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Eovaldi has never been able to stay on the field, but teams were still all over him last year like dung beetles on, well, dung...
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Or trade Bogaerts? Unlike Price, Eovaldi and Martinez, there is a market for Bogaerts. It’s also an option...
