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  1. notin
    There is certainly something to that. My only caveat is I want my best hitter who is least likely to GIDP, either through speed or flyball tendencies...
  2. notin
    Yes but it comes down to the likelihood of those cases. The #3 hitter is set up that it could happen to him 172 times right away. Certainly the leadoff and 2spot hitters will have their share as well in later innings. But some stars do have to align, like #7 hitter making the third out the inning before...
  3. notin
    There’s that. Plus you suggested naming your newborn son “Mookie” to your wife...
  4. notin
    That was all a shame. Gonzalez was my favorite of the post-Nomar Shortstop Revolving Door...
  5. notin
    I don’t think you’re crazy for wanting Porcello back. I do have other reasons, though
  6. notin
    Well, we had that Alex Gonzalez guy in between...
  7. notin
    No. I think he only signed him over Cabrera in an effort to rebuild the farm (letting Cabrera go netted the Sox Ellsbury and Lowrie, but signing Renteria cost them Colby Rasmus) and he couldn’t refuse the offer of Marte. If Epstein was just unloading him to get him out of town, wouldn’t that return be considered surprisingly successful?
  8. notin
    O Oh GMs respond to media pressure. That’s not uncommon at all. And the money hit he took was a big deal at the time. But he also got the BA #2 overall prospect in return. (And really, the money spent wasn’t that different than what untried prospects were getting as signing bonuses at the time.) LNow that guy (the late Andy Marte) was a complete bust, but that was Cleveland’s problem...
  9. notin
    I believe that is already calculated into fWAR...
  10. notin
    I haven’t seen Gallo play CF for a single inning, so we’d just be working off reputations here...
  11. notin
    As a hitter, his numbers that one year in Boston were right in line with his career numbers. He was awful defensively, but metrics had him in rapid decline the 3 previous seasons. And it was also only one season, which is more important (and really my entire point - that this whole “can’t handle Boston” thing gets thrown around so quickly). At the time, I couldn’t remember Renteria diving for a single ground ball and playing all year very gingerly. Like he had a mild injury of some soreness, which is hardly uncommon. But I think people cling to the LaRussa comment, which I always interpreted to mean “Edgar won’t be very good without me, since I’m the only manager who knows how to get anything out of him or any other player.” But then, I’ve always felt LaRussa was a bit of a megalomaniac...
  12. notin
    But add 0.5 back in for having the name “Vogelbach”...
  13. notin
    Everyone does. The point is that even with the two best OBP hitters in most teams batting 1 and 2, the third hitter will still have a lot of “2 out no one on” at bats. Unless your third hitter is Joe Carter, who got to bat behind Roberto Alomar and Tony Gwynn for a while there...
  14. notin
    And he’s actually spent more time in CF than any other position. Who saw that coming?
  15. notin
    Castillo is certainly irrelevant to the discussion. It’s very possible that Sandoval is a big part of why the Sox didn’t get involved. But with Dombrowski and bullpens, one never knows. This year isn’t the first time he has not spent on one...
  16. notin
    Very poor man’s. And not the 2019 Gallo...
  17. notin
    And probably a future Russ Branyan clone. Which does give him a respectable MLB career, but also makes him very expendable...
  18. notin
    But I agree with mvp it’s more interesting than the influx of “JBJ sucks” posts..
  19. notin
    I’m all ears. Or eyes in this case...
  20. notin
    At the hands of Ortiz, no doubt. Is it really chocking if you get beat by a Hall of Famer to be? Ok let’s take a more obvious candidate. Do you think Edgar Renteria - a man who once got the game-winnng hit in game seven of the World Series - struggled in Boston due to media pressure?
  21. notin
    I was never all that high on him. Reportedly Cora liked his defense in Spring Training, but I don’t think his fascination goes much beyond that...
  22. notin
    The definition of “legend” is “traditional story believed to be historic but is unauthenticated.” So it leaves the door open that you don’t exist...
  23. notin
    Also, stating something is an opinion makes it free for counter arguments and criticisms...
  24. notin
    But even that behavior isn’t unique to Boston or exclusive to large markets. Social media makes it very, very easy for anyone and EVERY player in MLB has detractors on Twitter or bloggers who rip them for some reason. And even then, do you think Foulke or Pedroia or whoever thought about it on the field? And it affected their play?
  25. notin
    I wouldn’t demote Chavis to accommodate Holt. Let Chavis play and make his adjustments. Demote him if a doubleheader forces a need for a bigger pitching staff short term. But that’s it...
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