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All backup catcher are in the "defense first" category. And a lot of them are now used to handle one starter and give the regular catcher a break from squatting all day. I'm not sure who has more upside between Vazquez and Leon, but I do know Leon fooled a lot of people with the bat last year. I don't expect a repeat of that and neither should anyone else, including Leon himself. It's a shame Swihart missed so much time last year, because Leon was an obvious "Sell high" candidate. (Although if I know this, I would assume 29 other GMs are equally wary.)
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Plouffe is fine, but the position player roster crunch looks set to the point where having him "spell" a bench guy looks like the tiniest of upgrades. If he signs a minor league deal, that works. There is no such thing as a bad minor league deal. But I anticipate the Angels being interested as well. He's an upgrade over Rutledge, I guess. But a very, very low "wow" factor here. But the 7-10 spots in the rotation are wht needs to be addressed. Granted, Dombrowski needs to sign guys willing to take minor league deals to make this happen. And in this pitching market, maybe no one is willing to just yet...
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I think soxprospects.com is just squeezing in names wherever they can. But returning Kelly to a starting role in Pawtucket is certainly an option the Sox have and fills a need for the Sox. They aren't going to get through the season with their 6 starters they have now, and the #7 and #8 guys (Owens and Johnson) have yet to inspire any confidence in me...
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Last spring, you were citing Vazquez as being among the best defensive catcher you ever and how he needed to be handed the starting job immediately. I asked one simple question - "what if he hits .240?" You're answer wasn't "That's OK. We can live with that," Your answer was "He will never hit .240," which as an odd comment because the last time we saw him in MLB, he hit exactly .240. Not to mention, any player is capable of hitting .240, so I'm not sure why anyone would think a .240 hitter would be immune to it. With your obvious Vazquez favoritisms and denials in mind (which isn't a sin), why am I supposed to buy into Swihart "never being able to play catcher" campaign? So,
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So you're saying you watch every game played by every team? All 2,430 regular season games every year?
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It does amaze how the attitude with Swihart's defense is "he'll never learn" yet the attitude with Vazquez' offense is "he needs more of a chance. "
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Take Abad out of the picture. He isn't a guarantee to take that last bullpen slot. There are plenty of other arms available and 6 or 7 weeks until pitchers and catchers report....
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That strikes me as the most likely option, based on zero actual information. I prefer either Pomeranz to the pen or Rodriguez to AAA....
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The people who put together the UZR stat. Other than them, not really sure...
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I did catch that episode but I don't recall Youk wearing a tie. He might have been, I just don't recall it...
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And usually critics of UZR and DRS prefer the eye test, without realizing there is a far more comprehensive eye test as part of these sabermetric stats. In fact, non-sabermetric eye tests usually have no baseline and are purely subjective. And too often they turn into the "I saw that guy make an error once" test or the "reputation test", which is at least a little more accurate.
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Agreed. I've never liked Holt's defense anywhere, although he does appear to be a better outfielder than infielder.
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There is no reason to keep Brentz period. I do think the only reason the Sox still have Abad is they haven't replaced him yet...
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So Sale is going to supplement the FIVE pitchers you named? I think we can both agree it won't be a six man rotation. Sale is going to replace one of those 5 and the 37 (or more) starts you mentioned will go to the 6-10 starters, who probably start with Wright, Owens and Johnson...
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If not Rodriguez, I believe the Sox could also stash Kelly in AAA for depth. ..
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And get right back into the same situation they were in before dealing Buchholz? Not to mention, Fister can probably find a deal that puts him in an actual MLB rotation.Anyone who thinks they can get an MLB jobI is not likely to settle for a depth job. The Sox might be able to sign someone like Dillon Gee or Ross Detwiler or Vance Worley, unexciting as that is. But they do NEED to get someone like that...
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He'll easily be worth that.
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Yes if Jamie Moyer is also coming out of retirement...
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Doesn't he still have a PED suspension that he retired instead of serving?
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I'd like to see Pomeranz in the bullpen and Abad on another team, but that seems unlikely at least to start the season...
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Its not like the idea is to send ERod down and bring up Brian Johnson. The rotation would have the reigning Cy Young, a former Cy Young winner, a perennial Cy Young candidate, an AL All Star from last year and an NL All Star from last year. Its a good problem to have and when you factor in that ERod has never thrown more than 145IP in a season at any level, having him step in would bot be a bad idea at all when the inevitable injuries kick in
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On the bright side, we only have to face him 6 times a year now instead of 18...
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Well someone will not be starting, even if all six have stellar springs. Sale, Price and Porcello are starters if healthy. That leaves Pomeranz, Wright and Rodriguez. Unlike me, the Sox seem to view Pomeranz as a starter. And they probably should given what they paid for him. Wright could go to the bullpen, but in limited action he has fared better as a starter in his career. So if one guy isn't in the rotation, should it be one of the two pitchers who played in the All Star game last yea? Or Rodriguez?
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Well, were the 2015 Cubs in "win now" mode when they kept Kris Bryant down for 10 weeks? They certainly didn't do it because they thought opening day third baseman Mike Olt was the better player. Teams do this kind of thing all the time, and some who don't sometimes find they should have. For example, if the Nationals were dead set on sticking to an innings limit on then rookie Stephen Strasburg, would it have made sense to wait until June to bring him up and have him for the post-season? Or were they right shutting him down prematurely and going into the post-season with Ross Detwiler making starts in the NLDS?
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While I don't know all the specifics of how the stats are computed, I do know it's certainly possible they are more encompassing than tour original assertion. This can be accomplished through even simple means, such as comparing runs allowed to outs recorded and attributing a fractional run to each put out. While this can't be boiled down to each individual at bat, what statistic can? Dustin Pedroia batted .318 last year, but I don't remember a single at bat where he received 318/1000 of a hit. Statistics ate there to record the past. And this is true of all statistics, not just baseball. That they can be used to predict the fufuture is not meant to be so precise. And while it is true that no play exists in a vacuum, this doesn't negate the past. But boiling it down to a single at bat or play and saying statistics don't cover this is a gross misuse of the large scale data and the ultimate in small sample size arguments. No statistic anywhere is meant to be accurate or exact in that type of scenario, whether your talking baseball or weather or counting cards in LasVegas..
