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Everything posted by notin
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As great as that is, the specialization in today’s game ensures no one will ever come close to that, but that shouldn’t be held against today’s pitchers...
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A couple ways to look at it. They had at most 3 games per year, and it is easier to be effective 1-3 times than 6 or 7, especially against postseason teams. On the other hand, if they were tired or injured that year, a couple bad performances become magnified in that small sample size...
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To be fair about the postseason legacies for Gibson and Koufax, there was only one round of playoffs for the bulk of their careers...
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It’s easy to say who was better in hindsight, but was it so obvious at the time which of the two would be the smarter sign?
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Schilling was an extremely impressive post-season pitcher. But is he the standard all pitchers need to be held up to?
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He was on a playoff team 2 years ago...
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Scherzer wasn't an easy sign, especially when you see how far Washinton was clearly willing to go...
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They did. But they weer all from different years, etc. These pitchers were probably in varying health and fatigue in each season. Even one season to the next, you might be looking at two completely different pitchers despite it being the same guy...
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I'm sure if I looked into it, I could find as many samples to disprove this as you could to prove it. I also think anything a player did 9 years ago is not relevant today. Players just don't maintain the same physical skills at the same level over that time. To me, you can't tell me on one hand a player needs to "make adjustments" to survive in this league, and then hold him accountable for his pre-adjustment stats as if they can be used to predict what he will do tomorrow. For any stats, I find anything older than 3 years old is probably obsolete by now. And in the post-season, it just isn't fair to take data points from a widespread number of years, when the player was in varying stages of development and adjustment, and very likely in different physical and/or health conditions, and then lump them all together and say it paints an accurate picture...
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Remember the good old days when Yankee fans bragged that if they didn’t win the World Series, the season was a failure? It’s getting really funny how far that bar has fallen. “If the Yankees get the Wild Card and just advance farther than Boston, the season is not a failure!!”
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But the point is it always gets applied the other way - with post-season stats all lumped together as if they all occurred in the same week. It’s almost as dumb as when they give you a player’s stats vs one team. For some veteran players, that can literally be against dozens of pitchers who had nothing in common except wearing the same laundry...
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It is forever in an occupation where the average career length is one season...
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Just trade with the Dodgers for a utility infielder.like Brayvic Valera. There is something about the water in Los Angeles that makes every utility infielder to play there suddenly morph into an All Star caliber player. From Jamey Carroll to Justin Turner to Keke Hernandez to Max Muncy. And probably a couple more. We missed out on Charlie "Pinch Homer" Culberson. Are we going to keep passing on these guys and their obvious path to stardom?
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He does have more time than that at 2B. Pearce to 2B. Holt/Nunez to 3B. Done By which I mean, all infield defense is Boston would be officially done...
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I do. Especially if it is spread out over 9 years. Can you do everything today you did exactly as you did it nine years ago?
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Or does it open the door for the Sox to dig deeper into Manny Machado talks? It doesn't matter if you like or don't like Machado. What matters is, Dombrowski apparently does...
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Nelson Cruz was coming off steroid issues. I’m neither surprised nor disappointed the Sox avoided him...
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Any deal the Sox can negotiate for Merrifield probably involves players the Sox shouldn’t trade...
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While it might be true, we really don't know if it was bad medical advice or bad luck...
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Theo Epstein signed all the much bigger and equally awful contracts that Cherington unloaded and he somehow found another job. Most GMs hake bad moves. I don't think it is the career killer many think it is...
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If it was only so easy to unload the players you name. Maybe Hembree can be traded. But Pomeranz and Nunez? Really the Sox shoud probably get a bullpen arm. (30yo Ryan Brasier is not likely to hold this pace.) And a 2B who is an upgrade over Brock Holt might be the only other acquisition thought. If the player isn't an upgrade over Holt, why bother trading for him?
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Huh? He's had 75 plate appearances spread out over 10 years. That's hardly an unusually high amount. He has only played in 5 post-season series. Have you checked out the performance of Justin Verlander through his first 5 post-season series? Post-season stats are usually worth ignoring for the exact reasons I stated earlier...
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Dombrowaki has won a WS. Just not with Boston...
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To be fair, Bailey and Hanrahan got hurt. If nothing else, when it comes to acquiring injured closets, both GMs have a lot in common...
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Maybe because they didn’t command seven year deals? If you sign one and he flops, let him walk...
