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  1. notin
    Which is the exact same situation if it isn’t offered at all. For one year, the risk is actually minimal...
  2. notin
    While using Wright himself as a pinch runner might not have been the best move, using a non- pitching starting pitcher as a pinch runner is something that happens all the time in NL games (or NL Parks for interleague games, like the one Wright was injured in.) The story goes Wright asked to pinch run and really wanted to, so Farrell let him. But if Farrellwanted to use a SP, Drew Pomeranz was available that day and had been a pinch runner earlier that year with the Padres. But all of this is irrelevant considering Wright’s issue right now is micro fractures in his knee and not the shoulder he hurt on the bases. But if he’s never the same again because of his knee, his downward spiral will still be attributed to Farrell and the pinch running. Like how Matt Clement’s downfall is always attributed to taking a line drive off the head when the real culprit was a severely damaged rotator cuff that he insisted on pitching through...
  3. notin
    Holt, Nunez, and Pearce all have OPS+’s below zero, but the problem is the guy doing better lower in the order...
  4. notin
    It might have been an easier sell on Henry. “My plan for the bullpen? Ok, John, remember 2003 when we just stuck Braden Looper in the closer role and we added a bunch of no name guys like Tim Spooneybargar and Chad Fox and it actually worked? I want to do that again.”
  5. notin
    It’s times like that when it’s good to be President as well as GM. It would have been a tough plan for DD to sell on anyone who wasn’t himself...
  6. notin
    To be fair, a lot of us were unaware of budgetary limitations at the time of the Pearce signing, you and me included. There is a big difference between not liking the Pearce signing overall and not liking it in place of other bullpen signings...
  7. notin
    I’d think having 4 of 5 starting pitchers with an ERA of 5.88 or worse might be a bigger factor than the 8th place hitter. Bradley also outhit the 2b platoon before Chavis, yet no one blamed them for losses and wanted them dealt. And they batted higher in the order...
  8. notin
    It’s still April. BTW Bradley could be hitting .600 this year and the Sox would still have an awful record...
  9. notin
    Right. JBJ is the only liability on this team. They’re being dragged down by the 8-spot hitter...
  10. notin
    Because the relievers efrom 2018 are irrelevant? And really, the class of 2019 can at worst be characterized as “sucked so far. Most if not all have less than 20IP and there is plenty’s time left in the season...
  11. notin
    They playing today? It’s snowing here!!
  12. notin
    So? Now you’re defending the original problem of ignoring the bullpen and prioritizing a back up 1b and defending it by results. (And, oddly, ignoring the poor results from the backup 1b)...
  13. notin
    But plenty of them will also have fine seasons, You can’t make the “still early” argument for Pearce and ignore that it alsomm
  14. notin
    That’s just one reliever who was available. There were lots of other options. And can we stop pretending Pearce has done anything of note? His OPS is 111% below league average...
  15. notin
    But an acceptable one, as at least it lead to a title. I’d trade 7 Ty Buttrey’s for a ring...
  16. notin
    The Some relievers are crapshoots. Some are not. But even the ones who are crapshoots are that way in varying degrees. Adam Ottavino, for example, is much less of a crapshoot than Colten Brewer. And signing Pearce over any sort of bullpen activity does look now like it did then - a mistake. And similar to the ones that plagued DD in Detroit.,,
  17. notin
    We don’t know that. Possibly not. But I do know he’s currently rehabbing a knee injury that’s unrelated to the pinchrunning episode...
  18. notin
    The thing about Swihart is, at some point he just gets too old to be a prospect anymore, regardless of chances. And it’s not the way anyone wants their Big Chance to end up, but sometimes key years are lost to injury. Swihart isn’t the first prospect and won’t be the last. I really think prospects are rarely ruined by being called up too early. It’s what they’ve all been working for their whole lives. And nowadays, “not ready yet” more often than not means “still eligible for super two status” or “might reach free agency before peak years end”. I don’t think you can and should start pointing fingers and blaming management every time a top prospect doesn’t pan out or every time a player gets injured. It’s going to happen. It’s part of sports...
  19. notin
    I would like to see if he has his dad’s trademark plate discipline. You know, the kind where you can single to left on a pickoff throw to first...
  20. notin
    And what are we basing the “finished his career “ on? Are you trying to argue that Wright was durable enough to pitch for 10 more years yet still fragile enough that one shoulder injury ended it all? Also, if anything has already ended his career, you don’t think it’s the DV and PED scandals?
  21. notin
    In which case the Sox break even against NOT offering the QO...
  22. notin
    So are you now defending the signing of Pearce and saying the Sox were right to ignore the bullpen? And doing so by citing a few bad reliever contracts, several of whom are still actually outperforming pitchers (plural) in our current bullpen? At least you have that (-11) OPS+ from Pearce to justify everything...
  23. notin
    Are you saying the Sox would be in worse shape with Allen’s 6.00 ERA/1.88 WHIP than with the 7.45ERA/1.96WHIP of Colten Brewer? Or the 7.59ERA of Tyler Thornburg? In a couple more days, Heath Hembree might be in this list. Bear in mind anyone the Sox sign replaces the back end, not Barnes and Brasier...
  24. notin
    I thought and still think it was a waste. The upgrade from Moreland to Pearce, if and when it happens, is tantamount to a handful of runs per year and not worth downgrading the bullpen to it’s current state of a slot machine...
  25. notin
    Not something you could say Farrell did. Wright’s off field activities might have finished his career. Wright was already well over 30. Yet fans act like Farrell went all Dusty Baker to Wright’s Mark Prior. Get some perspective. The overwhelming majority of MLB pitchers are already done before they reach the age Wright was on that day...
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