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  1. notin
    Maybe you could argue he ruined Steven Wright’s season. But career? At the time, Wright was 32 years old and still had made three times as many starts in the minors as in the majors, with plenty of inconsistency there as well. His career was always going to be in question...
  2. notin
    Disagree. This is based on the myth that relief pitchers are inconsistent and therefore you can get. a good one for cheap. I think that it is true that inconsistent pitchers do become relievers, but paying for consistent relievers is acceptable. And platoons are small market baseball. It’s a strategy for teams that realize they cannot pay one good player, so instead they pay 2 players who only stink part time...
  3. notin
    No. It was about getting a starting pitcher to replace Doubtont or Workman in the rotation. Maybe that wasn’t possible for Middlebrooks. Although I’d have thought the White Sox should be interested in him since they hadn’t had anyone at3b since Joe Crede. But maybe they weren’t...
  4. notin
    I think either the Sox liked Middlebrooks or no one around the League did. Or both...
  5. notin
    Actually it was Iglesias vs Bogaerts. Fans wanted the idea of keeping Iglesias at shortstop and converting Bogaerts to 3b. But the Sox for some odd reason liked Will Middlebrooks at third. And they liked the idea of Bogaerts at SS for the future. Later that season they did employ Bogaerts at 3b, but reportedly he was just very uncomfortable playing the position and couldn’t get settled in. Apparently they scrapped the idea. In fact, due to frequent injuries to Middlebrooks, the Sox were actually using Iglesias at 3b and Stephen Drew at SS. They really appeared to think of Iglesias as a utility player since they had nowhere for him to play regularly. (The Tigers wouldn’t have either if not for Jhonny Peralta’s PED suspension.) Probably a big part of the reason he was expendable. Although I wanted Middlebrooks to be the one gone...
  6. notin
    He did a lot to rob us too. I remember Ortiz hitting a blooper into shallow left against the shift and Iglesias running further than ivyseen any shortstop range from the other side of 2b to catch it in the air...
  7. notin
    Only because of Bogaerts. All things considered, it worked out perfectly gor Iglesias...
  8. notin
    The big issue will be financial...
  9. notin
    Well than he was right 50% of the time. Although Alex Wilson has only pitched 11 IP and has plenty of time to turn it around. With Justin, it was probably strictly financial. Although he does make less than Steve Pearce. It’s really surprising because DD hasn’t hesitated to add his former Tiger players to the Sox organization, including JD, Dan Schlereth, Jhonny Peralta, etc..
  10. notin
    I was surprised DD passed on Justin Wilson an Alex Wilson, since he’s acquired both before with Detroit. Justin has been good. Alex not so much...
  11. notin
    Why not? Catchers can’t play everyday. If there was any position that should have two co-starters, it’s catcher. Yet it’s done at other positions all the time, typically based on opposing starting pitcher. But a smart catcher platoon could be based on your own starting pitcher...
  12. notin
    Twenty years from now, no one will list the game’s best players as “Ruth, Aaron and Mays.” The proper way will be Ruth, Aaron, Mays, and Trout.”
  13. notin
    Not true. All that bench time has given him hemorrhoids...
  14. notin
    When your problem is too many injuries, Cameron Maybin is not the cure. What’s the logic here? Grab one of the most injury-prone guys in the league and hope he takes the injury meant for another player?
  15. notin
    Who traded Yoan Moncada?
  16. notin
    Tampa? They did win 90 games last year and are lead by the 2018 Cy Young Award winner. Seattle won 89 games last year and is off to a very good start...
  17. notin
    Greg Bird getting healthy...
  18. notin
    They could start the year with someone like Jedd Gyorko or Yangervais Solarte at 3b. Or spend up for Josh Donaldson...
  19. notin
    So a hitter with a .270 OBP and .430 SLG is “terrible”? Sorry, Salvador Perez. You’re terrible...
  20. notin
    But when will they show up?
  21. notin
    Oh you can still love them
  22. notin
    Eh. Sometimes people use message boards as a cathartic way of expressing frustrations. If contributing negative messages to a game thread prevents a poster from taking out his frustrations in other ways, like, say, abusing his dog, then I’m all for it. Unless it’s a poodle...
  23. notin
    The Actually a safe bet. Cora has apparently hinted he isn’t thrilled with Devers’ defense at third. He has hinted he does like Dalbec’s. And the Sox are going to need a few cheaper players in the immediate future...
  24. notin
    And the majority of them are bad defensive outfielders, which experience has shown...
  25. notin
    And that’s one reason Trout makes a bit more money than Bradley...
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