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  1. notin
    So you’re saying you doubt that a hitter with a .385 OBP will be on base more than a hitter with a .287 OBP? What do you think OBP stands for? You wanted proof Devers would have more RBI chances. OBP alone puts Bregman on base one more time FOR EVERY 10 PLATE APPEARANCES than Rafaela. How is that NOT proof?
  2. notin
    And the reality of it is that W-L records for pitchers are almost meaningless and certainly not reflective of the pitcher’s talent…
  3. notin
    I don’t get this argument. Devers has driven in Ceddane Rafaela 16 times. Rafaela has a .287 OBP. Devers has driven in Duran 15 times. Duran has a .322 OBP. But somehow someone is trying to argue that the .287 OBP and the .322 OBP hitters would be on base for Devers more than, say Abreu (.336 OBP) and Bregman (.385 OBP). Really? This isn’t Rocket Science or Nerd Math. This is “Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader Being Asked Questions In A Language He Doesn’t Speak?” type stuff. The only possible argument here is “Bregman would clear the bases more often and leave Raffy with no one on.” But thsts really not a good defense unless you cheer for Devers’ stats more than team wins…
  4. notin
    Judge might not be the best example to prove your point. Judge has 19 HRs and 48 RBI. That means he has driven in 29 baserunners this year who are not himself. For some perspective, Jarren Duran has driven in 30 (4 HRs, 34 RBI). Thats not science. It’s math and it actually happened…
  5. notin
    Channeling your inner Dan Quayle? It’s been a long time since anyone has busted out a good Quayle reference. (For those of you may have never heard or forgotten about the former Vice President of the United States because you’re too young, too old, or too Canadian, Mr. Quayle actually thought folks in Latin America spoke Latin. And this man was one plate of bad clams away from being the Leader of the Free World.)
  6. notin
    Mookie was going to be a free agent after 2020 anyway. I wouldn’t pin that on Cora. Mookie should have been extended long before 2019 even started…
  7. notin
    As the decades-old baseball adage goes “if your starting pitcher for the third game off the season is Ryan Weber, the first two games were already a waste of time”…
  8. notin
    Whats weird is when you answered about two DHs and a rover, I read that and immediately attributed it to 5Gold…
  9. notin
    My question if the Sox want to improve the offense - maybe buy some torpedo bats? Especially for players like Wong, Gonzalez, Toro (who has a .976 OPS since his May 9!! WTF!?), and Hamilton. You know, players with something at stake here….
  10. notin
    So you think the Sox should ignore cheap, easy, FREE proposals that could be done today until after the trade deadline? If the Sox had some Roman Anthony-equivalent pitching prospect (or even a Jhostnyxon Garcia-equivalent) I could see prioritizing their promotion. But the Sox don’t. All pitching upgrades are likely to come from other teams, many of whom are not ready to make deals yet. So what’s the advantage of waiting on promoting Anthony here?
  11. notin
    If you’re equating changing up the Sox offense to “re-arranging deck chairs ON THE TITANIC”, can you at least acknowledge it’s a problem? Even if it isn’t the biggest problem, that doesn’t mean it should get ignored, especially for proposed internal solutions that can happen long before any team cares to trade with Boston. I mean, I wasn’t there, but I would bet anything that, while the ship was sinking, not a single crew member said “Hey!! Who’s been f***ing with the chairs?!??” …
  12. notin
    Isnt that what happened to John Denver?
  13. notin
    Agreed, but I’d feel better about them if they had a healthy and much less hittable Houck…
  14. notin
    Just because Devers isnt the problem doesn’t mean he can’t be part of the solution. Devers has come up with 168 runners on base this year and driven in 38 of them (plus himself 12 times), making for an insane 22% of runners driven in. I can’t get exact numbers on how many men have been on base for Sox cleanup hitters this year, but it’s definitely higher than that, given thats a shade above league average of 159 and Devers himself has been on for following hitters 95 times. If he can continue driving on 22% of all runners, certainly he could top his current 50 RBIs. Granted Devers and his .400 OBP wouldn’t be there, but pushing him further behind the guys batting 8th and 9th should help enough. Id be surprised if Cora moved him down, but the idea isnt without merit. But I think Cora is happy begetting 38 more PAs from Devers…
  15. notin
    Will the Sox be calling up the entire Worcester team?
  16. notin
    Devers soured Cora on the whole idea…
  17. notin
    Ok if that happens, Roman Anthony has a very legitimate complaint…
  18. notin
    Holiday got sent down because he posted a .170 OPS in his first month. Campbell posted a .902 OPS in his
  19. notin
    Rob Bradford is not an “insider,” and his suggestion involves moving Devers to 1b, which is the type of task to make Sisyphus say “yeah, not again “…
  20. notin
    They’re also the only organization to NOT complain about AJ Pierzynski..
  21. notin
    Also Full Metal Jacket and The Lost World: Jurassic Park
  22. notin
    Cutting up the jerseys might have been a prime example of leadership. The White Sox had numerous critics of management at that time for a bunch of reasons. I could see that as a unifying act, despite its childish nature. But for the most part, I have very little idea on which players actually embody positive leadership….
  23. notin
    The demoted comment was a joke after you called him “assistant” GM, implying his role had been much larger in that capacity. I hate explaining jokes, but that one might be on me…
  24. notin
    Some of that is Newcomb (4.43 ERA as a starter) and Houck (much worse, currently on the IL)….
  25. notin
    “Suggesting he should be DFAd” isnt the same as saying his benching is the first step
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