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  1. notin
    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.)
  2. notin
    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...
  3. notin
    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…
  4. notin
    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?
  5. notin
    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…
  6. notin
    Most people took the under. Some saying they’d “be lucky to win 70”…
  7. notin
    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…
  8. notin
    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…
  9. notin
    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…
  10. notin
    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…
  11. notin
    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.
  12. notin
    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…
  13. notin
    That speech is right out of Grumpy Old Diatribes 101…
  14. notin
    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!
  15. notin
    You did say baseball is down across the board. So now that doesn’t refer to the talent levels of the players?
  16. notin
    Those guys are all well over 70. So, no…
  17. notin
    No, you get called grumpy because when things are going well, you complain about how the “old days were much better”, and base it on nothing except a strong desire to make sure no one enjoys a product you don’t like. Also you left out illiterate moron, but to be fair, that one isn’t age-related and solely focused on your inability to understand printed text…
  18. notin
    Fair point. In fact OBP is at its lowest since 2014 while BB% is the second highest it’s been in that range…
  19. notin
    Sure they do. Launch angles. They actually practice hitting the ball at the optimal angle for distance…
  20. notin
    A side effect of eliminating the 4-seamer. More sliders = more pitches catchers struggle with…
  21. notin
    Would you rather we called you the Hypocrite? Or the Guy Who Doesn’t Understand How Irony Works?
  22. notin
    It means the Red Sox are doing better than he expected, and doing it using the Black Magic of Analytics as opposed to hoarding star players.
  23. notin
    I somehow omitted Price, who was probably the worst one. Or at a minimum was the most expensive. And might have been the one that broke Henry…
  24. notin
    But if you look at the worst 5 contracts in team history, most likely Crawford, Hanley, Sandoval, Sale, and Story. And we can add Rusney in there. These deals span 12 years and 4 GM/CBOs. There isn’t one singular individual logic that leads to these signings. Is the Sox success rate with these deals better or worse than everyone elsewhere? I bet they’re par for the course with regards to these type of deals. And the reason is they all involve older players…
  25. notin
    Anthony is 20 and in AA ball…
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