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And they didn't use four players for defense. Feigner added a fourth "fielder" just in case his team loaded the bases, they still needed someone to bat...

False, as they will no longer be the only team to ever do it...

Start printing more money. And put your own leaders on it this time...

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Well, build a wall and keep us out...

No. Because no one has done it since...

There are a few ball sizes, but I’m guessing you mean 12 inch. I’m in Chicago, where all the slow pitch leagues are 16 inch and no one uses gloves. Guessing your league differs on both counts...

And it might also have been, as you put it, less ambiguous to not call them “the only team ever,” which really does negate your point since you didn’t say it between 1973 and 1996, when it stopped being true...

He was the best starting pitcher on a team that made the NLCS last year. But hey, one bad inning, right?

Tommy Pham is 4 1/2 years older than Mookie Betts. Mookie has yet to experience that stage of his career...

A reasonable trade is Marcus Walden for Mike Yastrzemski...

Over Johnson and Velasquez? Hell yes!

In men’s slow pitch only. I assume this is 16 inch?

Re-read your sentence and decide if you still want to stand by that...

Cheering against Joe West?

That it’s defined as subjective supports his usage...

He needs to learn more physics...

Oh, Mr. Clarifier. Maybe Atlanta was the first team with 3 players with 40 home runs, but not the only team ever. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/COL/1996.shtml https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/COL/1997.shtml

He did say "rarely"....

Or they might let him fend for himself like they did to Michael Pineda. The Yankees have less cap space before the luxury tax in 2020 than the Red Sox do, per sportsrac, at $41.3million. And upcoming arbitration cases for Sanchez, Judge, Paxton, Kahnle, Green, and Montgomery. That should eat all of the $41mill, and possibly go over I assume Greg Bird will get non-tendered. Even if they go over the $208million threshold, and I expect them to, Betances would become a luxury tax penalty that may not even contribute at all...

I've always said every Red Sox message board is incomplete without a couple Yankee fans. But that doesn't mean there should be no controversy (about the baseball only). But as a Sox fan, it's a waste of time to go to Yankee forums. I've only been on a couple, but I found on them if you do anything but openly fellate the Yankee organization, you get banned fast. And even on neutral baseball sites, the most ridiculous commentary is always from Yankee fans. Granted, it's probably a probability thing. But it absolutely exists...

Guardians don't really matter other than being a team the Sox need to pass...

So it's based on 3 starts? Bryan Mata's last 3 starts as good a Schmidt's last 3 starts. And Mata is 3 years younger...

2080baseball has a very different assessment of Clarke Schmidt. They certainly do like him, but not as much as whatever overly optimistic Yankee prospect site you use. "Showing four pitches, Schmidt impressed in his return from Tommy John surgery in 2018. He throws his 92-94 mph fastball for strikes to work ahead, then mixes his three secondaries for whiffs and weak contact, including a future above-average change-up to neutralize lefties. His slider works well for chases to same side hitters, and an average curveball rounds out the repertoire. His arm action isn’t the prettiest, but he repeats his low-effort delivery with a sturdy lower half. While there isn’t a true plus pitch in the arsenal, the control/command of a wide repertoire could make Schmidt a backend starter." Certainly being called a backend starter while in the low minors is very good. But apparently they were less impressed by the degree of wipeout on his slider. And really, he is just sort of a slight step up from Tanner Houck, who also gets the ceiling of a backend starter. On the Sox p[rospects side, we haven't even gotten into Darwinzon Hernandez...

But HR/9IP is also a function of the ballpark. If you look st the xFIP for both pitchers, which incorporates all the same stats and doesn't make stupid distinctions (like awarding one pitcher better on the basis of 4 more strikeouts per 90 IP), you see the two are very close. Gil had a 3.06 xFIP and Ward had a 3.48 xFIP. This difference only translates to about 42 earned runs per 900 IP, or maybe 8 ER per 180 IP season. Using velocity as any sort of guide is always misleading. Radar gun readings are tempting, and you simply cannot teach someone to throw harder. But velocity isn't the tell-all for a pitcher. There is a reason Reynaldo Lopez isn't better than Max Scherzer or Justin Verlander, despite throwing harder. And soxprospects.com isn't as optimistic as it used to be, back in the days when it offered MLB Comparisons (and Lars Anderson failed to be the next Justin Morneau.) They've actually gotten a lot more realistic and could even be considered pessimistic sometimes. This is a site that said Ty Buttrey was a potential middle reliever and Frankie Montas might never make it past AA. And if we disregard the contingency of health, I would think Jay Groome would also be an ace level prospect as well, right?