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  1. notin
    I don't like the trade, but if I'm being consistent, I never thought Shaw was anything special either....
  2. notin
    The Shaw trade hasn't worked out, but it's amazing how many people have decided it's evidence of Dombrowski's incompetence. He could make nine straight trades that worked out, and people will still be saying "But that Shaw trade...". Yes we lost Shaw. Forget about him. Every tesm makes deals like this. It's timr to move on. This is the Age of Devers now....
  3. notin
    Agreed. PCL batting averages are like SAT scores. You get 200 points just for showing up
  4. notin
    The Sox also faced uncertainty in 2005. Pedro, Lowe, Varitek, Nixon, Cabrera, and numerous other were free agents after that season. The farm system had very little above A-ball. And the World Series drought lasted 3 whopping years...
  5. notin
    Chavis would be better served as trade bait. The Sox hopefully won't have any outfield openings for a few years. However, they probably will have needs at other positions....
  6. notin
    Or when the Red Sox future was to be carried by the trio of Brian Rose, Carl Pavano and Jeff Suppan. Rose was the headliner and had the worst career by far...
  7. notin
    The 3 year window was always a myth. But you can't debunk it by naming free agents the Sox haven't signed or, in many cases, shouldn't sign. Go back 3 years on plenty of teams and see how many starters were even in the organization 3 years ago. And how many were major leaguers. Having a great farm creates these myths about the future, but the truth is the OVERWHELMING majority of prosepcts do not live up to the hype. However, many do live up to the job of making minimum wage or being adequate trade bait....
  8. notin
    That's because she is a HORRIBLE hitter...
  9. notin
    OMG his BABIP screamed "unsustainable" so loud it could be heard at both poles simultaneously. Yet whenever I mentioned this, someone would dispute this and say something "he re-tooled his swing" or something. I don't care if he learned how to channel the ghost of Ty Cobb. No way was he going to get hits on 45% of the balls he puts in play. The record is .423 held by some guy named Babe something or other. (Leon did drop a little and finish the year with a .392.) (Chris Taylor of the Dodgers with his .419 BABIP this year ranks number 4 all time, behind Ruth, George Sisler and Hornsby. Not sustainable. Oddly enough, while listening to a Dodger broadcast, the radio announcer said he "re-tooled his swing." Exact words. I am starting to think "re-tooled hi swing" is sportspeak for "lucky as hell" for people in denial.)
  10. notin
    Why would he be available? And why would he be reasonable? Healy has about 4 years of control left and makes MLB minimum wage. Oakland is in no rush to move him. Now Yonder Alonso, who is a free agent in 3 months, is a different story...
  11. notin
    Do people really want Homer, who is only good every other year? Eric H osmer (ages 25-27) - 116 OPS+, 5.4 fWAR (and counting) Player X (ages 25-27) - 116 OPS+, 7.5fWAR I won't name him outright, but the identity of Player X rhymes with Sablo Pandoval. Obviously this doesn't mean both will have equal outcomes, but Hosmer might not be the player people thi nmi he is. Travis might be a flat out better option If the Sox do opt for a free agent, hopefully they investigate the slightly older, slightly better and likely cheaper (or at least shorter term) option in Carlos Santana. ...
  12. notin
    No, the first base coach's job starts when the batter starts running. He can't wait for the hitter to get to first to wave him to second, for example. The first thing the coach does is let the batter/runner know if he is running through the base or turning...
  13. notin
    Amaro was probably the worst of the bunch. Frank Wren, another Sox VP, was actually a pretty good GM in Atlanta, but his biggest flaw was not being John Schuerholz....
  14. notin
    Actually"coffee boy" Ben Cherington is the Vice President of Baseball Operations in Toronto, the same job held by Allan Baird, another former GM, holds in Boston. In fact, the Sox probably employ. more former GMs than any other team. And that they all took non-GM jobs doesn't necessarily mean they were incompetent.
  15. notin
    But that as the one position they did trade for...
  16. notin
    Be careful, oldtimer. You're going to injure your shoulder waving that white flag so fast...
  17. notin
    If is isn't Jamie Moyer, I would be very surprised...
  18. notin
    Yet most of us recall it wasn't so long ago we only wanted to see one before we die. My dad only saw one...
  19. notin
    1. Its really not a good idea to get a player just to keep him off the Yankees. Worry about chilling your own*holes. 2. Given what Yankees pAid for Sonny Gray, no amount of tire-kicking was keeping him out of the Bronx. ..
  20. notin
    He is more likely to not be a loss than he is to be one...
  21. notin
    They strike me as the types who would complain about any trade that didn't involve getting Gray or Darvish for that same package of players...
  22. notin
    I was hoping a bat like Jay Bruce was also coming. But reportedly Dombrowski isn't looking to add a bat after Nunez and Devers....
  23. notin
    ... for Jamie Callahan and two others. No word yet if Reed was injured during the trade...
  24. notin
    The 2015 team did win 78 games, which is a lot for last place team. In any other division in nesrly any other ywar , that record would not finish last
  25. notin
    It is interesting how many complain about the Sox offense, and think the solution is Sonny Gray. If Sale couldn't replace Ortiz, is Gray going to? I expect a reliever. I hope for a hitter. But I'd be very surprised ifb th he Sox acquired anything above a depth starter...
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