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  1. notin
    Are they or are they not competing with the AL East teams? They’re 4 games behind Toronto with 36 to play. Not exactly insurmountable. And they can’t stop Baltimore, Tampa and Toronto from making moves. They didn’t build an Oakland roster…
  2. notin
    So… the crybaby stuff (while I get was an inside joke on moonslav) took this into account? No one has proclaimed Bloom a success. Even his staunchest supporters have piled numerous gripes, not enough of which contain the words “Mauricio Llovera”, a man who is making many of us miss Kaleb Ort. But the reality of tjs situation is both teams have performed the same, and one is getting rewarded while the other condemned. Look at it this way. The Sox have played horrible defense. Their baserunning numerous times has been beyond questionable. They play in a division where it took a long losing streak to put only one team under .500. Yet somehow, they’re still as good as Philly. How bad is that Philly team that they aren’t doing much, much better than a team that can’t field, can’t run the bases, and went far too long with half a rotation?
  3. notin
    Is not taking them into account realistic? I mean, if we look at W-L records, is Philly that much better than Boston that it explains the 80% difference in postseason likelihood? The reality of the situation is since Dombrowski took over Philadelphia, the two teams have nearly identical W-L records. But one you call a success and the other a failure. And then you refute the clear and obvious reason why. Or are you just simply that much more dazzled that Philly has one more win over 2+ years?
  4. notin
    Mainly because the actual topic was his mediocre defense. You were the one who hijacked it and took it in another direction…
  5. notin
    Again, not how analytics work. Judging them on one play is like assessing a players batting average on one at bat. I take it once again you’re simply not sure what you’re talking about. I’ll wait for your standard giveaway “I’ve already explained it once” to confirm this…
  6. notin
    So back to the bunt highlight - what did your eye test tell you?
  7. notin
    I splint call it a mediocre fielding play, or even an easy play. But the point is you don’t wrap up one guy’s career worth of fielding by one play, regardless of the situation. A couple weeks ago I was watching a Cubs-Cardinals game. With 2 outs in the ninth and a runner on base, Alex Burleson launched one to straight away CF. Cubs CF Mike Tauchman ran back and timed his leap to pull it from back over the wall and preserve the win. Was it a great play? Absolutely. Does it make Tauchman, whom many of us are familiar with from his days as a Yankee, a great defensive center fielder? Absolutely not. He’s mediocre at best…
  8. notin
    Again - not how analytics work. Also, not really how the eye test works. What did it tell you?
  9. notin
    Oh goody! A quiz! 1. Last night was just more evidence about why the Sox need Chapman. 2. You do the precious Eye Test that “tells you everything you need to know” on highlights!?!? 3. Analytics are not applicable to a one game sample size. The same is actually also true for the Eye Test, but I see you haven’t worked up to applying it over a full game yet…
  10. notin
    See this is the problem with Eye Test Advocates. They see one or two plays and draw deep conclusions from them…
  11. notin
    Ummm … I think you made the opposite point…
  12. notin
    One great play doesn’t make him a great defensive player…
  13. notin
    I would wager Devers over Urias…
  14. notin
    Yes, but Gallo is less likely than Mookie to hold out for $400mill…
  15. notin
    Some of the A ball guys will move around eventually. But Matt Lugo has been playing 3b. I believe Cutter Coffey is as well…
  16. notin
    Yes. He is a very talented defensive RF. Minnesota already had gifted defensive RF and CF types, so they played the second best defensive corner outfield in all of MLB at 1b and DH. Duvall is a good defender, but Gallo is just better out there. I see no problem with wanting OF defense…
  17. notin
    But only on the pitchers whose careers weren’t over…
  18. notin
    Juan Soto disagrees…
  19. notin
    Baseball America had them at #5 recently. I posted that link earlier in his thread. Obviously BA and MLBPipeline have different criteria. If MLB Pipeline takes pitching into account instead of high volume of good prospects, I could see this. Particularly if they focus on MLB-ready or at least MLB-adjacent pitching…
  20. notin
    He’s not much defensively, but he was absolutely the type of hitter the Sox needed. Before the off-season, I wanted the Sox to go after a high OBP count worker, specifically Brandon Nimmo. Of course, that was before Nimmo was offered Manny Ramirez money. Yoshida does have a similar offensive skill set. His glove, however, is far behind Nimmo’s…
  21. notin
    If Nathan Eovaldi was born 30 years earlier, he never would have made MLB. Not because of the talent, but because he tore ligaments in his elbow in high school (and again in MLB)…
  22. notin
    Why? On those throws, the guy throwing the ball wants the first baseman to catch it. He’s doing everything within his power to make catching his throw as easy as possible. Hitters are not so considerate with batted balls. In fact - complete opposite…
  23. notin
    Twenty years ago, not many kids played travel ball. Back when it was reserved for elite players. But there are literally hundreds of teams and various levels now. It’s taken off a lot…
  24. notin
    Actually in the negotiations the Sox initial offer was reportedly close to what the Braves offered Matt Olson because the Sox felt that was a good positional comparison. So I think they did spend that much money with the plan of eventually moving him off third. If you ask me (which no one does), the perfect time to move Devers is when there is a readily available defensive replacement handy. I won’t name any names. Let’s just call him Chatt Mapman…
  25. notin
    But not for Boston
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