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Everything posted by notin
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Don't forget about Corey Seager. His defensive metrics are not as good as Lindor's, but they are still very good. And his offensive numbers are better...
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Convert him to closer?
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Especially since he is a potentially declining Kimbrel. His walks and home runs are up over last year and his strikeouts are down. It might be a one season blip, but if this trens continues, he has the potential to be another Sandoval/Hanley type contract at some point. And if he turns into a $100mill mop up guy, that will have severe negative impact on the ability of this team going forward...
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But don't get too worked up with the variety of offerings a pitcher has. It's not like Aroldis Chapman or Mariano Rivera mixed up their pitches to be successful. There is no magic formula for success. But keeping it in the strike zone, not giving free passes, and allowing hitters to get themselves out, which they all do the majority of the time, is about as close as it gets. And if a pitcher cna do that with one pitch or if he needs three, it doesn't matter. What matters is that he does it...
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Except not win another one...
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And the pitchers who can do so successfully do become better late game relievers. Bard and Kelly both lacked that skill and try/tried to rely on pure power to blow hitters away. But there are plenty of MLB hitters who have the patience to wait them out and take what is being handed to them. A few months ago, I had some high hopes for Kelly and wanted the Sox to bring him back. I'm not as pro-Kelly as I once was because I think the Sox can get better relief pitching to replace him...
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LOL Really? I know it bugs some people when we bring up other boards, but at BDC we had a poster named bigfoot14b or something like that who would post about how badly Epstein had destroyed in game threads this team during the 2007 playoffs. The malcontents will remain as such. And people who don't post on game threads are probably not likely to start.
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My big issue with both was their inability to find the strike zone. Throwing 99mph outside the zone just means you walk players faster. And the absolute worst thing a reliever can do in late innings of close games is give free passes to the other team. That was a very big reason why Dennis Eckersley was such an incredible reliever. From 1988 through 1998, he never walked more than 13 batters in a season. If you wanted to beat Eckersley, you had to do it yourself because you got no help from him...
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Well, a lot of fans felt that not replacing David Ortiz - or effectively replacing him with Mitch Moreland - was a mistake. Especially with Edwin Encarnacion drawing limited interest from the league and overtly stating he wanted to come to Boston to replace Ortiz, as he felt that would be an honor to follow his fellow countryman. That decision did have drastic ramifications, as the Sox came in last in the AL in home runs by a very, very wide margin and Encarnacion finished tied for 8th in the AL with 38 HRs. (Moreland did hit 22, but was a significantly lesser player offensively than Encarnacion.) Of course, it is entirely possible Dombrowski was not exactly enamored with Encarnacion, as he would later turn down a Bradley-Encarnacion trade offer. (That may have also been turned down for other reasons, as well.)
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Well, they were a bit hesitant to pay for anything in 2012, when the Sox had to move Marco Scutaro for budgetary reasons, and in 2017 when re-setting the luxury tax became a priority...
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I did and still do think that is the only chance that Price opts out, but it has always been a very slim chance. And given how last year's free agent market was for spending, it's practically a negligible one...
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Kelly does remind me a bit too much of Daniel Bard. and I was no fan of Bard...
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Typical Red Sox teams are ranked below Stephen Hawking when it comes to running. So this is improvement....
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As Price was being blunt, he might as well have added “And given my age, recent history of injury, and stretches of lackluster performance, the chances of another team giving me $124 mill over the next 4 years are about the same as the chances of me flapping my arms and flying to the moon.”
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What is the story? That a guy who perennially has griped about his contracts and blocked trades suddenly found himself unable to get anything but a minor league deal, which he probably grudgingly accepted, and then got 8 ABs and one (really awesome) hit for a team that still won 99 of their first 145 games without him?
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#himtoo? #harveryweinsteinintoasmallpuddleofredooze?
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Exactly. And those situations don't happen every game...
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Pinch hit for the catchers twice in one game? It's really hard to argue the value of the defense they bring on one hand while saying their offense need be so urgently replaced on the other. And really, barring a very long game, how many critical at-bats do we expect the catchers to have? And if you expect a really long game with a lot of extra innings, that brings back the extra pitcher argument...
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If a third catcher is so important, I’d rather see Christian Vazquez or even Dan Butler make the roster. I’d trust either of them at the plate more than I’d trust Pearce or Holt behind it. That said, I don’t think the third catcher is a high priority here...
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It helps get home field, but it really doesn’t mean anything else. Some of the winningest teams in MLB history had very bad postseasons to follow...
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Max Von Sydow in his best role ever...
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And the cheaper tickets. And some people don't like going to the Bronx...
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And a few years ago, they had a utility infielder named Kevin Ross (which was George's fiance's last name)...
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Mrs Syndegaard?
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We always assume the computer has a glitch. Maybe just one time reality is out of whack...
