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Everything posted by notin
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Or a Or a blatant “(sarcasm)” at the end of the post...
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Pile of smoky logs? What kind of pink hatter needs a fire!?! Eat your food raw like a man and quit being afraid of the dark!!
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I find them to be obvious a lot of times. It helps if you assume most people will be humorous or sarcastic from the onset and not actually attacking anyone...
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I’ll let you be Sundance to my Butch Cassidy...
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1. There is no rhyme. 2. Given the way he has pitched from the bullpen in the postseason, he might be known as Big Save Dave one day...
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There is more truth to this than there should be...
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But there are also plenty of reasons to not be frustrated with Zack Wheeler, such as his velocity is up this year and his walks are at a career low. He's not going to stay on as a team ace, but if they deal him NOW, they are the most poorly run franchise in MLB
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Actually, as far as I can tell, they do...
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Price isn't going to be a $31mill pitcher, but he will probably pitch better than anyone the Sox are able to get at the deadline or call up from the minors...
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Let's be honest. They removed the home field advantage aspect from the All Star game. As far as I am concermed, a sac bunt skills compeition would be fine after that massive and much-needed fix. Whatever they do is gong to get overblown anyway, since the day before and the day after the All Star game are the only 2 days of the year with no actual sports to cover...
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God I hope youre joking. You just advocated for replacing the home run derby with two people playing catch. I like defense, but if it ever comes down to drills like that, just replace the home run derby with a few episodes of “The Rockford Files” and call it a day...
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And the White Sox won’t ask for a ton of prospects the Red Sox don’t have. Trey Ball might be an overpay here...
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Right now the Sox need warm bodies after Sale, Price and Pocello. Shields is looking better everyday Unless people have a lot of faith in Johnson and Beeks for the second half. (And what do we do if one of them gets hurt?)
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Right. Dombrowski should just fill out the forms and in the box next to “Quality Starting Pitcher”, just fill in a “1”. Or, if he’s feeling desperate, a “2”. The problem with your sentiment is that the Sox don’t have the chips to trade for a good starting pitcher, and haven’t had them for a long time. Getting what you want for the rotation is nearly impossible. So if they can’t get a guarantee, you suggest they stand pat?
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Is there a really good “self-righteous smug face” emoji out there?
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What makes people think Zack Wheeler will be so cheap? Think that the Mets held on to this guy through injury-plagued and missed seasons just to guarantee being able to trade him for a pile of dirt?
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James Shields?
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Whether you find it acceptable or not, it happens. The Giants did it last year. And the Mets might only be saved from doing it this year because the Marlins traded away all their major leaguers...
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#8 at what? I think I missed that part of the discussion. Bob Gibson’s 1968 seems to be universally accepted as one of the greatest seasons ever for a pitcher. But Luis Tiant’s 1968 season is never mentioned, despite being only marginally less dominant than Gibson’s...
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The thing is, it does look like a lot of the “poorly” run big market approach looks like an inevitable fallout from that method. And if the goal was to avoid that fallout, there light be an upfront price of a bad season or two. The issue for fans is, many don’t like new ideas. “When you run a big market team, you spend money! When those players stop performing - which is totally the fault of the GM for signing the wrong guy - you spend money and trade bad player!! Losing is not acceptable!!” And for a guy to come in and say “I think wa can be like the 1990’s Atlanta Braves, who didn’t spend a lot but we’re insanely successful,” fans then cry “No!! Not what a large market team does !! Spend money and take your blame when it fails!!”
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Well, acquiring pitching in general. Drafting is one way to get it. In fact, drafting is the slowest and least productive method, since many pitchers can get injured or simply not get much better through the minor leagues. The attrition rates are very high. That's why Baseball Prospectus gives preference to position players when ranking prospects. But Ben also acquired Eduardo Rodriguez. So he got some pitching for the Sox...
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A good summary. And while Pablo and Hanley were bad cotnracts, even the best GMs make bad signings. Epstein certainly had his share of free agent clunkers in Boston, and even a few in Chicago. But that is more the nature of paying heavily for post-prime talent, which is the essence of free agency. Sometimes I think people focus on the dud post-prime, overpriced, unproductive free agent that a GM acquires as a problem because he is a hindrance to acquiring another dud post-prime, overpriced, unproductive free agent. This is like getting upset with someone for taking arsenic because you really wanted them to take your cyanide...
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Yeah maybe I got too colorful. Basically the strategy he was proposing for running a large market team still has the same flaws, as we have seen with a few other teams. Detroit acquired talent the same way with the same guy in charge, and what happened is obvious. But even other teams have fallen into that same trap of winding up with a roster of overpriced talent, making keeping their younger players difficult beyond arbitration.
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Well, one Cy Young winner.
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Well, he did give us Benintendi...
