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Everything posted by notin

  1. notin
    Better than having Adrian Beltre come back and cripple all our left fielders...
  2. notin
    Well if you love Vazquez, maybe Slasher needs his own thread...
  3. notin
    Hey Sandoval is having a better season at the plate than Mookie Betts...
  4. notin
    No love for Vazquez with a performance thread?
  5. notin
    The Sox aren’t going to be in play for Stroman or Wheeler or Bumgarner or any of the other highly sought after starters unless they do something drastic like trade Benintendi or Chavis...
  6. notin
    I think it’s easy to estimate. Betts will bring back more from a contending team. But Benintendi, due to his salary and years of control, will appeal to every team. They may not give up what the Sox want, but the salary won’t scare them away either...
  7. notin
    The biggest difference between this year’s Porcello and last year’s is the fewer K/9 and the higher percentage of contact on pitches out of the zone. Hitters are swinging at only a slightly higher percentage of pitches out of the zone, but hitting more. And his BABIPA is actually higher despite this, meaning his “chase” offerings are missing his spots and are slightly more hittable. The likely cause is slightly less action on the 2-seamer away to RHH. Perfecting the release and velocity of a 2-seamer to get the right break is tricky. So it’s possible he was not given adequate opportunities or he simply cannot repeat his motions properly...
  8. notin
    Well, one year ago today his ERA was 3.57...
  9. notin
    Think Benintendi brings back more than Betts?
  10. notin
    I fell for that kind of thing again. Where’s my dunce cap?
  11. notin
    Atlanta’s outfield may not be the same soon. Riley is out there because Donaldson is at 3rd. Markakis has a team option for next year and could be gone. They do have Christian Pache on the horizon, but if Riley switches back to 3b and Markakis’ option is declined, he can only replace one player. Camargo was worth 3.7 bWAR last year, but Benintendi was worth 3.9. This year, Camargo has been worth -0.3 bWAR to 1.1 for Benintendi. And with Freeman, Albies, Swanson, and Donaldson/Riley, he has no clear path to playing time. Toussaint is but one possibility. Heck I’d settle for AJ Minter, despite his control issues this year. Or any of their other upcoming pitchers. The Sox could also add something to even it out.
  12. notin
    Well, Chavis has to go somewhere
  13. notin
    Yes, let’s get one of Odirizzi, Hamels, Ross or Fulmer, all of whom are injured right now...
  14. notin
    Would you trade Benintendi to Atlanta for Johan Camargo and RHP Touki Toussaint? Camargo is having a rough season playing part time all over the place, but is an excellent fielder who hit 19 HRs and had an .806 OPS last season playing regularly...
  15. notin
    If 3 division titles and a WS title in 3 years is losing a trade, sign me up for more losing trades...
  16. notin
    It’s not just about the IP total. It’s also about how they’re spaced. If you were training for a marathon, would you run one mile course 26 times or one 26 mile course? There’s an expected ramp up sequence that Cora appears to have avoided...
  17. notin
    What I got out of that announcement for some reason was “Look, we can’t expect Eovaldi to handle a starter workload this season, so we’ll let him close since we need help there anyway.” If he can handle the reduced workload, I’m fine with that. Getting an “over the hill” closer strikes me as a move for the sake of making a move. DD tried that before in Detroit with Joe Nathan, and learned that Nathan was over the hill to the point of no return. FWIW, DD has had an opportunity to make such a move already this year and passed on Fernando Rodney. Odd, because DD was the guy who made him a closer in the first place. Closer or not, the Sox need a good reliever. Last year, even at the end of the season, Ryan Brasier was fourth man in the bullpen depth chart. This year, he was in the top two to start. The Sox need at least one more arm to mitigate the use of their lesser relievers and to prevent using Brasier and Josh Taylor in key situations. Like it or not, the closing situation can work itself out...
  18. notin
    It’s basically the same type of promo always attached to Christian Yelich. It didn’t affect him very much..,
  19. notin
    Collectively it appeared to have s negative impact. But when you look at each individual human being, the effects varied, because, well, they’re all individual human beings. Heck Steven Wright hasn’t pitched in two years and came out of the gate just fine...
  20. notin
    Then that’s 100% on him. He has to make his own adjustments without excuses. The PR department has the job of finding ways to promote the players and the team. The players are just supposed to play to the best they can. And even hinting that the PR department is causing anything negative play for Benintendi or any player means the player is not focusing on his job and spending too much time glossing over his press releases...
  21. notin
    In some ways, Brian Johnson is a lot like Rich Hill. Both are left-handed. Neither is a power pitcher. And both spend more time in the Injured List than on the mound...
  22. notin
    The whole idea of picking a single date for when the impact of the lackadaisical spring wore off is silly. Every pitcher got into the groove on his own schedule and the improvements weren’t denoted by a singular point. Some of them still might have occasional momentary lapses...
  23. notin
    OMG they all grow up that way now!! My daughter hates it when I tell her that getting better is up to her. But she finally decided to listen and we spent half the spring in batting cages and playing catch and now she’s going to her first All Star tournament. (This is not a travel team, however. That stuff is crazy!)
  24. notin
    No, because he still has 0 blown saves. He turned a 10-3 game into a 10-6 game. I’m not fretting his performance as a short term mop up guy. But Dombrowski better rise from his spring-summer hibernation and add an actual MLB arm someplace on this team to replace Kelley at some point...
  25. notin
    I lost the ability to take this post that borders on Conspiracy Theory very seriously. You’re actually saying to Benintendi “It’s not your fault!! It’s Big Baseball! They did it to you!!”
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