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I’d be surprised if anything was done about 2b. If the Sox stick to any luxury tax limits, I think the only bat added at all might be a RHH 1b to compliment Moreland. It might be Pearce or another FA ( Reynolds? Valencia?) or acquired via trade (Cron?). Although this actually would be a good year to get a 2b, given the options on the free agent market. Dozier, LeMahieu, Lowrie, Murphy, Gonzalez, Cabrera, Forsythe, Walker....
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Joke?
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There is that annoying trend of wanting your child to have a unique name. Want your son to have a name no one else his age has? Well, try naming him Mike. Or David. Or James. Those names are readily available now...
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I'd like to talk about Brian Johnson for a second
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And by the way, we all know in real life that woman would not be grinning and instead thinking “Not again. I’m switching his Viagra pills with Ambien.”
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I told my daughter Cialis is a drug that makes you do stupid things like lug two small full bathtubs to the top of a mountain. I don’t consider that a lie...
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The SK Wyverns of KBO signed former Astros farmhand Brock Dyckxhoorn
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Or why former Giants/Expos shortstop Chris Speier also named his son and future major leaguer Justin, making him sound like a motivational speaker...
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NFL games are unwatchable with small children. I got sick of trying to explain what Viagra and Cialas are...
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The absolute funniest sponsorship ever is in Chicago White Sox radio broadcasts where before every game - and I am not making this up - they introduce the umpires by saying “ today’s umpire rotation is brought to you by the Spectrios Institute for Low Vision.”
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My daughter has a friend whose mom has the maiden name Ponce de Leon...
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When I was a kid I noticed this and pointed out to my mom that was our batteries had a baseball player’s name on them. She thought I was referring to Ray-O-Vac. Ray O’Vac? Never heard of him...
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He wasn’t going to get Moreland that much cheaper. He got him for basically the same deal he signed Chris Young to...
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The winner is......... Pearovaldi!!!!
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So.... not marketing tools?
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I wouldn’t sign Buchholz to platoon with Moreland. But as a depth pitcher, I make that deal yesterday...
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I'd like to talk about Brian Johnson for a second
notin replied to Dojji's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
It is amazing how quickly our opinions change on players. Johnson from “DFA!!” to “Obvious Replacement for Most Recent Cy Young Winner.” Or Jor Kelly from “Not on the playoff roster!” to “closer of the future.” Maybe if Manny Machado helps an old lady cross the street, he can get canonized on this board as “Saint Manny”... -
Lately it’s offense at the corners and athletes up the middle. A look around the league at the shortstops aged 26 and under shows a lot of terrific all-around players....
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Yuli Gurriel might not be a glorified DH, but he also isn’t a good defensive first baseman...
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For the price of only four cups of coffee at Starbucks* *Starbucks coffee not meant to be taken internally
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Unless DD prioritized financially cheap stability. I don’t want to hypothetically assign any more positive or negative personality traits to Moreland specifically, since my point is that we really don’t know and a lot of it is subjective anyway. What one person likes about a guy might be loathed by another. Moreland is a good, not great, baseball player who is extremely likely to play 1b for the Sox next year. That’s really all we know...
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Maybe he’s a great guy. But we as fans have an extremely strong tendency to assign positive personalities to players who are playing well. For example, in his first two seasons, i can’t tell you how many posters complained about how bad of a teammate John Lackey was and how awful of a human he was for always yelling at his infielders on every play as he struggled heavily in his first two seasons in Boston. But one T.J. surgery later, and Lackey is still out there yelling at infielders, but suddenly he is a good teammate. In fact, there were lots of complaints from fans when he was traded. It turns out the big problem with Lackey’s personality might have been his inability to get his ERA under 5.00...
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He might be. He might be one of those guys who gets angry at teammates for not joining his prayer group. He might be a heavy drinker or that guy who takes total control of clubhouse music. He is a good (not great, but that’s ok) baseball player. The Sox could do better at 1b, but they could do worse. This free agent class offers no obvious upgrades at 1b. The Sox could do something crazy like sign Josh Donaldson to play 3b and move Devers to 1b, but that’s not likely in my opinion...
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Frank Thomas was a DH in 1310 of his 2280 games and is already in the Hall of Fame. And he didn’t get there by dazzling anyone with his glove in those 970 games at 1b...
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I don’t know Moreland at all, so I know nothing about his character. But I used to follow Logan Morrison on Twitter because he is probably the best MLB player to follow. While occasionally he does air his gripes, he actually came across as a pretty cool guy overall who liked to let you know what was going on inside his head, and above all. Granted, it’s only Twitter. But I think I have more insight into Morrison than into Moreland. All I’ve ever seen Moreland do is play baseball...
