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Everything posted by notin
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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?
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Yes and no. Not all errors are equal, and while many are obvious, plenty more are borderline judgment calls. If one of these errors is ruled a hit, did the fielder still give an extra out or not? Not to mention, errors are only awarded if the player touches the ball. There are a huge number of defensive miscues when no one touches the ball. And worse yet, since someone had to touch a ball to be charged with an error, the system actually rewards players with less range. How on earth oohs that a good system?
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Hanley Ramirez, two years ago. And his defense was worse...
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Ted Williams might not be the most realistic standard to hold any player to..
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A solid schedule in the middle of a flu epidemic
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Stop it. You're very weak. If I typed "anti-stathead" instead would you be less confused? Does the term stathead confuse you? If so, stop using it. It's odd you suddenly have derogatory comments on stathead. On the clutch thread, where this debate was in force, you refused to voice any personal opinion. You just obfuscated. But when given a chance to be derisive when you think someone else has your back, you can't pass up the opportunity to take shots. And given your past attempts to "police" the board from what you deem offensive, you're such a hypocrite...
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So.... you cannot lie about it?
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You did have another sentence in your post. Something about statheads and their soft hands and big butts. Very poorly deflected....
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Right. Because players who play hard only do so at key times. Probably why no one ever sees Pedroia dive for a two out ground ball with no one on base in May. Oh wait. Or maybe the anti-stat crowd is a bunch of former high school players who think thst because they played at this "elite" level, their experiences there qualify them to speak as the equivalent of major leaguers.
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I'm willing to bet he still has the job 10 days from now, barring injury. ..
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I'm pretty sure Hernandez hasn't "won" any starting jobs, and Sandoval, based on contract and career, will get more than a couple weeks to lose the jib, which, by the way, he is not in the process of doing just yet...
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I can't believe change and sportswriters are arguing that a pitcher should have been allowed to throw a complete game in April. Do the Sox really need to disk putting Sale on the DL with Price?
