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  1. notin
    That was also the logic in 2012 and 2014. Just sayin’
  2. notin
    There is a big difference between hitting high school pitching and MLB pitching. He also started catching junior year in high school . And when e played on Team USA for 18 and under, he played 1b and of. He did play SS for two years in high school, but nearly half the players in MLB played shortstop in high school. At that level, shortstop is just where the best player plays in most high schools...,
  3. notin
    Trades are unlikely this early, since no one has really decided if they’re buying or selling. Maybe some teams figure “selling” if they’re off to a horrible start, but those teams won’t want Nunez or Holt. So, assuming everyone comes back, figure on the players with options going back to Pawtucket. This does mean Smith and Lin go back, and probably Chavis, too...
  4. notin
    But the only positions he’s shown any aptitude for are 1b and LF. Players who play lots of positions and suck defensively at them aren’t hard to find. And players limited to 1b/LF who hit better than Swihart aren’t hard to find either...
  5. notin
    Of course we also probably thought that stretch against Baltimore and Detroit might have gone better...
  6. notin
    CJ Chatham isn’t the second coming of Kris Bryant. Let’s end that comp now...
  7. notin
    Swihart? Blake Swihart?
  8. notin
    If this team keeps playing like this, quite a few players should be gone by August, including Bradley...
  9. notin
    Or c... crazy thought here. We could all start to realize that Bradley has had these stretches before and always comes out of them just fine. Sure there was a time when we actually went from thinking he could be the next Fred Lynn to hoping he might be the next Darren Lewis, but it’s also been years since Bradley showed us he is a streaky hitter whose bad streaks will always raise questions but whose good streaks even things out. So why do people keep pretending his slumps are something new and always - and this does happen every year - overanalyzing his play to convince themselves ‘‘this time it truly is the end?”
  10. notin
    Last year felt that with Boston when they hit grand slams every time someone came up with the bases loaded...
  11. notin
    Which is the exact same situation if it isn’t offered at all. For one year, the risk is actually minimal...
  12. 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...
  13. notin
    Holt, Nunez, and Pearce all have OPS+’s below zero, but the problem is the guy doing better lower in the order...
  14. 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.”
  15. 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...
  16. 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...
  17. 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...
  18. notin
    It’s still April. BTW Bradley could be hitting .600 this year and the Sox would still have an awful record...
  19. notin
    Right. JBJ is the only liability on this team. They’re being dragged down by the 8-spot hitter...
  20. 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...
  21. notin
    They playing today? It’s snowing here!!
  22. 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)...
  23. 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
  24. 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...
  25. notin
    But an acceptable one, as at least it lead to a title. I’d trade 7 Ty Buttrey’s for a ring...
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