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Everything posted by notin
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I think baseball did a good enough job speeding up pace of play by watching him retire...
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Mike Hargrove is turning over in his grave at the mere thought. Which is made even more significant by the fact that he is't even dead yet. In retrospect, that might explain a lot of that movement in the grave...
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And Chin-Lung Hu as well...
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Also, I need a ruling on Jim Palmer and Jim Botttomley? And Pete LaCo.. nah forget that last one....
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Exactly. And that is why I don't like judging managerial and general managerial decisions based on results. I thought the Hanley Ramierez contract was a good decision for multiple reasons. But it didn't work out. I also thought the Sandoval contract was stupid from the first minute, although my proposed alternatives on BDC were really a cheaper version of the same ineffectiveness...
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And that is where we differ. I'm not cool at all. My daughter like to remind me of this...
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Can I get a ruling on Jeff Francouer, whose name loosely translates to "French Heart"?
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As it was said before, no manager in baseball pulls Kimbrel from that inning, despite his struggles. He had some control issues, but it's not like the Yankees were hitting him that hard. They only hit 3 balls off him the entire inning and two of them were weak groundballs. And really, if the only thing that matters are results, the Sox did win the game. All Kimbrel did with his control issues was make it more interesting than it should have been. But they still won, which was not something that was guaranteed if they brought in Kelly...
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That's why we need Robot Managers. Also, Robot Closers...
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I think the Sox logic here is simple. Price is their second best pitcher. Like me, maybe they don't have much faith in post-season stats as they typically come from a small number of innings or plate appearances scattered out through multiple seasons. And I doubt they are putting any faith in Price's last start, since he struggled against the Yankees all year and they think that might be a bigger factor in his poor outing than any post-season willies...
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Joe Maddon used Travis Wood in left field once in a game in 2016 in order to let Pedro Strop pitch to one hitter. And of course, that hitter flied out to left field. The MLB rule book allows managers to move a pitcher to a new position once per inning, but makes no mention of what happens to a DH. The Cubs were not in a game that used the DH, so no help there...
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They have 217 million reasons to give Price every opportunity...
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Rule 8.03 allows a relief pitcher a maximum of 8 warm up pitches. This is typically enforced. Rule 5.07c says a pitcher has 12 seconds to throw a pitch from the time he receives the ball and the batter is in the box. If MLB enforced this rule, it would help give them the pace of play they want....
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Their weakness last year was the bullpen. It's better this season...
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What if Grigorious had hit a home run? Would that have been better or worse for the Yankees?
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I'm in that club, too. The only reason I ever liked it was the opt out, which looked like a obvious end when compared to the contract Zack Greinke received that same offseason at the age Price would be at opt out time. But I think the Greinke contract is not likely to repeat itself anytime soon for anyone below Kershaw level...
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I'm trying to get some momentum for my umpire accountability plan here...
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Who was the umpire who called Bellhorn's home run in game 6 of the 2004 ALCS as a double? Was it also Angel Hernandez?
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"Crash must have called him a 01100001" - Annie Savoy (modified)...
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I wondered if anyone would do that...
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True dat...
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So they’re not flipping Porcello and Eovaldi? I’d rather see Porcello out there if there is a game seven...
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While Ruth was the biggest loss, the Sox basically shipped half a team to the Yankees for nothing. They also traded Herb Pennock (Hall of Fame), Carl Mays (should be in the Hall of Fame), Bullet Joe Bush (62-38, 3.44ERA for NY in 3 years), Sad Sam Jones, and Everett Scott (argument can be made for Hall of Fame) to the Yankees. But in return for all that talent, the Sox did get "Geriatric Jack" Quinn...
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Also, breaking up the late 1970's Sox teams because the incompetent manger couldn't control them to his desires. But hey, Stan Papi!!
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But we had to create an opportunity to trade Anthony Rizzo for Adrian Gonzalez.
