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If the Sox are 62-46, they better not be in Sell Mode…
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Ok… but which ones would someone want? Also - pitching? None that anyone wants?
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Hey sometimes I think their logic is - you’ll never be safe on a bad throw if you don’t force them to make a throw… -
So if the Sox do manage to stay close and have to make an addition or two at the deadline, what prospect(s) would folks deem expendable but good and intriguing enough to deal for help?
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The only issue the Sox commentary came to the right conclusion on a very, very different path. But you were clearly on the very small train of optimistic before the season started…
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Duran watching Raimel Tapia’s inside-the-park grand slam wasn’t so bad once he completely misjudged the ball. After that Verdugo was closer to the play and had a much better arm anyway. All chasing it down would for Duran is make him look better on TV. Of course, he managed to limbo that bar anyway with his asinine press conference when he asked the world if they could catch a flyball obscured by the twilight. “Gee, Jarren. It just doesn’t come up in my job as a manufacturing engineer. But as long as we’re asking people unfamiliar with the jobs, I bet I can catch a flyball in the twilight before you can validate a process using CpK.” THAT was the low point for Duran in my eyes…
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I really don’t think of him as a gifted defender, but as I stated before, outside of Yastrzemski, the Red Sox have never really had anyone with a good glove in LF. O’Neill is the only one to come in with a reputation and some accompanying hardware, but he might not spend a ton of time out there. I’m more critical of Devers and Casas on defense than I am of Yoshida…
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Really what matters is whether or not you’re out or safe. Aggressive baserunning by definition is taking more chances. Some of those will come back to haunt you. But I think Cora seems to want this, which is why it happens a lot. And why Hamilton is still on this team…
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Some of not all of that could be playing time and opportunities. O’Neill so far has only 34 putouts in 180 innings in the outfield. Verdugo leads MLB with 71. So maybe some of that is missed time plus pitchers who might not give up as many flyballs…
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"NOW you tell me!!" - Aaron Rowand...
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1. Crisp certainly established his reputation with highlight reel Web Gem plays, which, while certainly take some talent, are not necessarily indicative of being a good defender. 2. His defensive reputation was probably also bolstered by following Johnny Damon and occasionally alternating with Jacoby Ellsbury. If you can catch a cold on a rainy day, you can look good against that crowd. Coco may have been overrated, but I'm not always sold on watching televised games for outfield defense, mostly because that heartless bastard who directs the telecast always waits until the ball is midflight and the outfielder is in mid-pursuit before cutting to him. But Crisp did come from Cleveland with questio marks surrounding his defense, and was moved from CF to LF because of them. (Along with the emergence of Grady Sizemore, which certaily factored in.)
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I don't think I blame Yoshida for that freak occurrence. Outside of Yaz, is Yoshida really significantly worse than anyone else who has played LF in Fenway since World War II? Williams? Rice? Greenwell? Manny? Hanley? Troy O'Leary? Not exactly a parade of Roberto Clemente Field-Alikes out there...
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The Red Sox will never do well with Defensive Efficiency. Never. It has nothing to do with their players. The stat is stacked against them. DE is calculated by (number of non-strikeout putouts / balls in play). Very difficult to excel at this stat when your ball park has a 23 foot tall wall, and balls hit between 9’ and 22’ 11” on it are considered in play with no out recorded. At this point in the season, the Sox have only a handful of home games, so the Green Monster has not sabotaged the DE for the Sox to its fullest just yet…
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Pretty sure the errors on the base paths are related to Cora telling the team to be more aggressive, which would make sense given the lackluster performance from the offense so far. If they weren’t, I’d expect more benchings. And if Cora didn’t tell this team to be more aggressive on the base paths, what the Hell is he waiting for?
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I didn’t really ever give a number. I just said the pitching would be better than expected, which is true so far. And that they would make the playoffs if the original starters gave them 700 or 750 IP. Not sure which I said, and probably said each at one time. Of course that was back when the starters included Giolito along with Bello, Pivetta, Crawford and Houck. So it’s not very likely that crew comes even close to either total…
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Most people took the under. Some saying they’d “be lucky to win 70”…
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It doesn’t matter whether or not Merloni is “the worst of the bunch”, which is a straight up opinion. You’re still ignoring him because he said something you don’t want to believe…
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I’m one of the minority who was optimistic in February and March. Not so overly optimistic as to predict a title. This team is struggling now but as people come back they will improve. They need to extend Pivetta, O’Neill and (as much as it irks me) Cora ASAP…
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So your defense is “I never mentioned Felger.” So you concede to Mazz. More important is the Congirmation Bias mentality. “The journalists who say stuff I want to believe are credible and know more than you. The ones who disagree with me - I will attack their credentials and therefore promote my position against their knowledge.” Got it…
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In fact, there’s a pretty good argument that the American League in the 1960s was probably the weakest for any baseball league in MLB history. They had a disproportionately low number of Hall of Fame pitchers, and the hitting was so bad they made the most radical rule change in professional sports history…
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I’m just saying it isn’t the worst Twins’ team of all time. For a guy who went out of his way to tell us Felger and Mazz know much more than we all do, you sure like pointing out how much more you know than Lou Merloni, who would tell you a million times over the league is deeper and more talented than ever. And the notion of “the stars of yesteryear are better” as proof of anything is always so weak because it involves forgetting about the rest of the league. Yes, Yaz had to face legends like Luis Tiant and Sudden Sam McDowell. But he also faced plenty of nobodies like Booby Locke and Jimmy McShittypitcher.
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It probably stacks up to a lot of Twins’ teams from the past, absolutely. Is your logic seriously “the Twins are winning but this isn’t the best Twins team ever so therefore baseball is watered down”? Please tell me that’s not it…
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That speech is right out of Grumpy Old Diatribes 101…
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5/04 SOX @ Twins 2:10PM ET
notin replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
And while Price sputtered out the final years in Boston and LA, his deal, while the largest in Sox history for a pitcher (to this day?) has been surpassed so many times. The thing is, I get avoiding free agents. They really are players in their 30s who want to be paid for what they did in their 20s for another team. Ok, avoid them. But sign your own guys!! And sign them early! -
You did say baseball is down across the board. So now that doesn’t refer to the talent levels of the players?
