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Everything posted by notin
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Someone needs to go to make room for Devers. Noe Ramirez?
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The only reason the Sox might be holding on to Craig and Castillo is that both have 3b experience. ...
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That said, I wouldn't complain if Craig or Castillo were sent packing. But if the Sox are going to release minor leaguers, 40-man roster spots are more valuable than AAA DH roles. Who there should go?
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I would disagree. AAA isn't a big development step like other levels. The average age of players is usually 27-29ish and many of the players in the AAA leagues are already on 40-man rosters while they wait out someone above them getting hurt. AAA is more about depth than development. ...
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Third place?
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It's easy to lik e Jay Bruce this year. And he is making it easy to forget how awful he has been in the last few seasons beforehand. I'm not sold on Bruce. The only good thing about him is his very short contract. ...
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The weird thing is, Hanley took much less to return to Boston. Talk before he signed was 6 and even 7 year deals
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A good glove and a below average bat...
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Exactly.
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But where was it leading? What was your point..
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I'm confused. Aren't these low IQ fungible types the ones you deferred to for your opinion on the subject of clutch?
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The Sox won 149 games in 2014 and 2015. While finishing in last both seasons, that was more a product of the division the team played in. The 2015 team won 78 games, most by a last place team since 2006, when both Seattle and Colorado won 78 games coming in last. (And occasionally good enough for a third place finish.) The 149 wins in two consecutive last place seasons might be an MLB record. While these teams were not good, they weren't as bad as people like to state. To say a fourth place finish would have saved his job when the team was easily as good as any fourth place team those years is probably an oversimplification...
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I think the differences in Cherington and Dombrowski are glaring. I liked Cherington, but I also doubt the Sox would have Sale or Kimbrel right now were he still here. Possibly not Price, either. On the bright side, FWIW, the Sox would undoubtedly still have Shaw and Moncada and a slew of other prospects. But Cherington really needed to learn to part with a few, and Dombrowski might need to learn how to hold on to a prospect or two. I do think you're being a bit unfair to all managers. Sure, very few of them are capable of handling med school. But all of them do understand baseball better than any casual fan. That includes me and you and anyone else on this board. The only executive ever who I felt made stupid decisions that I could have done better with was Jim Hendry, and really, even he made a few very smart moves that I never really thought of.
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Im ok with enthusiasm, but does this team really need more youth?
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Actually how hard he is throwing might be the exact problem, and for the exact reasons I noted. He needs hu s two seamer to break to be effective. It's his best pitch. But right now he is throwing it too hard, meaning it doesn't have to me to break. So it's effectively nothing more than a weak, straight fastball. It's easier to take a couple mph off a fastball than it is to add a couple on, but that doesn't mean it's easy. But Porcello and the Sox staff all know this and should be trying to help him dial it in. I would say it's not necessarily a lost season for Porcello. ..
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I think he's just throwing too hard....
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And get a grievance from Hanley's agent. Of course that really means the Sox likely settle with Hanley for cash only. But the long term effects are the potential willingness of other players being more reluctant to sign deals with options on the Red Sox. I'd hate to see Betts or Benintendi refuse to sign such an extension because Dombrowski wanted to prevent Hanley's option from being vested...
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There is a difference between being fungible and having a low IQ. I would agree certain managers are equal and interchangeable, but not all. And DO types are definitely not fungible on a basis of their moves. Do you think Cherington and Dombrowski are interchangeable?
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And I look at guys like LaRissa and Maddon specifically and think these two are classic over-managers. While plenty of the moves from both that I've questioned over the years were probably more sensible than I realized, they both seem to cater to either their own legacy or managing the way fans want - with lots of calls and moves and doing nearly everything possible to minimize the impact of the actual players. This works better maybe if you have a bad team or an average team, but having veritable all star teams never seemed to change the approach of either. ..
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You and millions of other fans. With very, very few exceptions, it's not hard to find a webpage petition calling for every manager in MLB to be fired. But managing IMO is far, far more involved than any of us realize, and the exact decisions we all question often have more superior logic supporting them than any of us ever realize. Sure even the best logic can lead to moves that simply don't pan out. But that's the nature of the sport. Sometimes you can do everything right and things still go wrong...
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Barring a trade where the Sox give up basically nothing, this is probably true. Devers would make sense because if things don't work out, it can easily be undone by demoting him. Trading for a stopgap doesn't have this advantage even if you keep the receipt....
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No. The Sox do need another starter right now.
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Mind if I ask for some specifics on why you think all MLB managers have a low IQ?
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Excellent points. And when you consider the difference between a 3.50ERA and a 4.00ERA over 180IP is 10 earned run, or m.aybe just 2 bad innings, the differences get tougher to differentiate. Porcello is throwing harder this year than last year. That's a good sign. But when your best pitch is a 2 seam fastball, that could be an issue. Throwing the 2 weaker harder means the pitch starts to break late r and ten simply doesn't break as much, which is a bad thing. Basically, it flattens out and becomes more hittable. This might well be Porcello's primary issue. Throwing a little softer is easier to fix than needing to throw harder...
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Lost among all the complaints about the Sox' inability to hit home runs is that the tram is 1 game out of first with the third best record in the AL..
