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Everything posted by notin
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We did have to expect a serious drop off without Ortiz. Leading the league in runs scored again would be great, but with the additional of Sale and eventual return of Price, Thornburg and Smith, it might not be so bad even if the Sox don't...
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Nobody is stalking you. No one from this PC anyway. Having contrary opinions isn't "stalking," regardless of how many times they get reiterated. I haven't even used harsh language or insults.
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Oh I am not denying we've had some back and forth and differences of opinion, as I have with all of those names. (Except, ironically, dannycater, as the rest of that thread bore out.) But to call it "stalking" is laughable. I comment on your comments on a message board. That I attribute your opinions to you is nothing more than my good memory, and I do this frequently with plenty of others. That you that response so readily available response could be considered ironic and makes me wonder who is stalking who here. Not that I think anyone here erally is. It's an anonymous message board, and I have no idea who anyone is in real life
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Oooh. Can I obfuscate on this like you would? "I never said you were anti-stathead or a denier. I have no idea what point you are trying to make. When I call out statheads as being soft and obese, that's not an insult. My best friend is soft and obese." All I need to do now is call you out for some random generic comment as predicting misery for some completely unnamed group of people, and I'll have the whole act down pat...
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Umm.. because all I do is comment on some of your commentary I disagree with. If you view that as stalking, maybe message boards and the internet are no the proper venue for you. Hey, if it bothers you, go to freeforums. I never go there anymore...
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Sox have 11 home runs as a team, or 3 more than Eric Thames. This would be less concerting if the pitching staff had not surrendered 24 home runs...
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I'd say Betts was pretty key loss when he sat out with the flu...
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If mvp's point was that Sandoval is playing better than he had with the Sox previously, he's probably right. "Better" doesn't mean "good" if the previous bar was pretty low...
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I actually think trading guys at the right time is usually very obvious. I think it's more a matter of having the guts to trade a player whose actually performing...
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I do think it was that obvious of a situation...
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I think the AL Manager also may have selected him due to his versatility. You know, since that game matters for some awful reason. Really Holt was having a good season and a lot of teams - notably an injury-stricken Washington team - could have used him. They wouldn't have dealt an elite prospect for him, but it wouldn't have been a straight dump deal like the Buchholz trade either...
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Always thought Holt should have been dealt after he made the All Star team. When your utility infielder becomes an All Star, it's time to move him, because clearly you have much, much bigger needs all over the place on the roster...
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Hence 54 pages of the clutch thread...
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I figured Holt would be the easy replacement over Hernandez if the Sox did a switch at third, but this vertigo issue could be a bigger deal. It's not something a lot of players seem to get diagnosed with, so my only reference point is Nick Esasky, whose career was completely derailed by it...
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Hanley definitely had a better excuse, but at the time very few on this board (or technically BDC) seemed to care. He did get labeled as a colossal bust almost universally, to the point where Cafardo insisted Dombrowski's number one task was going to be to unload Hanley. Hanley certainly did turn it around last year despite a slow start. But he is also a far, far more talented hitter than Sandoval...
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Sandoval was an awful signing. I thought that was evident from Day One. My only hope is that he can turn it around this year and at least be a respectable player. The slow start isn't encouraging, but I am hoping he can be like Adrian Beltre (yeah right), who had a .624 OPS at this point in 2010 and had wiped out two left fielders before turning it around and putting up an MVP-caliber season. I doubt Sandoval ever improves enough to be a marketable trade chip. But the Sox (and many other teams) have survived awful contracts before and still been successful.
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Larry gritty? The man was pure silk on the court! "Gritty" is a term I always hear applied to the tough defenders, like Beverley or Tony Allen or Marcus Smart. ..
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In the NBA, "gritty" means "can't shoot"...
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Joe Morgan?
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Also, you failed to address the issue of the subjectivity of errors. Now it is a fact that you do have a very long history of doing just that, going all the wsy back to BDC...
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Touche. Interesting you got that response in while I was actually editing out the condescending parts. Even I felt a tad guilty there...
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Explain how that's personal. Also, is it a valid point that eschewing UZR and WAR due to variability while advocating eye test as valid might be a bit, to be polite, silly?
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Not if you're paying attention. I've seen numerous plays ruled as errors and wondered why, and countless more where I thought an error should have been charged but the play was ruled a hit. And that's not even getting into the completely awful guidelines used to attribute throwing errors. If you're watching baseball at all, none of this should sound unfamiliar. Oddly, even as a denier you admit 10% of them are subjective. .
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So .... Sox batters are pitched to differently on days Chris Sale pitches?
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It does seem odd to rail against WAR and UZR based upon their variability while advocating eye test for defense, yes?
