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Everything posted by notin
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I know you like to complain about everything - you complained about a walkoff grand slam, something that only happens a couple times a year. Heck, you complained that a win wasn’t good enough five posts back. But Casas has 30 career plate appearances. Anyone saying he isn’t ready based on that total isn’t exactly establishing credibility…
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Who is injured on the Yankees?
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JD singled the second run home…
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Rizzo has a $16mill player option, which guarantees he will cost more and get a QO. A 1b is a waste of money for a team that already has two under contract for next season and both at league minimum. Three if you count Dalbec…
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Bobby Kielty getting the first and only World Series plate appearance of his career - resulting in a home run that was the difference in the final game… -
Pedroia also looked like Eric Cartman when he debuted…
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Josh Bell is a good DH option. I disagree with him being a top 5 free agent. Or you can always unload Hosmer for a DH another team doesn’t feel good about paying for anymore (Hunter Dozier? Marcell Ozuna? Jorge Soler?)
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Top non-pitching priorities for Boston need to be Bogaerts and Brandon Nimmo Top pitching priorities need to be Wacha, Fulmer, and Rafael Montero…
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I’d just assume Casas take some hacks against MLB LHPs; it’s the only way he’ll ever learn to hit them….
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They’ve also tried Dalbec at SS and he’s played 2b. I don’t think Casas is a lock for 1b (or DH) on 4/1/23, which certainly keeps Hosmer in the picture beyond being a backup. And the notion that any backup for Casas needs to hit right-handed isn’t necessarily a good idea either…
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I wouldn’t say he sucks. He’s just boringly mediocre across the board…
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I mean this year. I agree his league minimum salary gives multiple options for the Sox…
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There’s no real point in bringing him back, is there?
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The catcher better throw the ball to the side of the bag where the infielder in motion is on stolen base attempts…
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To me, I don’t like the shift but I don’t see the point in doing this. If you think starting next year, every play will start with the infielders lined up like the start of a pitch in Nintendo RBI Baseball, you very likely not only very wrong, the solutions teams implement might make fans miss the shift. Obviously many teams will just push the limits. It’s a shift if my SS is to the right of 2b? Ok he’ll start the play 6 inches to the left of 2b. Perfectly legal. But my fear is some teams will push the limit and execute a “moving shift”. Everyone starts out in a legal position, but once the pitcher goes into his windup, the infielders run into Shift Positions. This would be far, far worse than just having a shift. And you can’t implement a “no moving during the windup” rule as infielders need to on stolen base attempts…
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It does by some logic…
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9/14 Yankems @ SOX 7:10PM ET
notin replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
That we have to go back in time 8 years to watch him pitch? -
As long as they don’t dress like that robot maid on The Jetsons. That’s just creepy…
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Effross was NOT the Cubs’ closer; he was a 28yo career minor leaguer who had 1 career save at the deal and began the season with 14 career IP. (Aside, as I know it wasn’t your point, but there is a 90+% chance Cashman got ripped off here.) I mean, the Sox acquired former actual closer Hansel Robles last year - a pitcher who actually pitched in the majors, and got him for Alex Scherff, a former 5th rounder. This doesn’t make Scherff a better evaluation pick in round five.
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No. The only other GM to do it was Friedman, who brought in utility players from other organizations like Justin Turner, Max Muncy and Chris Taylor and made them all regular starters. Cherington did bust with Hanley in LF, but why is that the example? Especially since I thought he originally brought him in to play 3b, and plans changed with Sandoval. Of course Cherington was also in charge when Mookie Betts switched to OF and signed Napoli to play 1b, so his track record for changing positions isn’t as bad as that one example suggests…
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Your time warp has forgotten that defensively, Holt was a good corner OF and 1b, and pretty bad everywhere else…
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People think Verdugo lacks the arm strength to play RF? If you’re questioning his accuracy, that’s one thing. And potentially valid. But he absolutely has the arm strength for the throws even from Fenway’s RF…
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The problem isn’t the calls they get right. It’s the fans and media belaboring the few they get wrong. It seems like it only takes one or two bad strike calls for someone to think the umpire odd bad, or worse, biased…
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Wells is absolutely “raking” with a .847 OPS in AA at age 22? Normally I’d think that’s very good, but I’m rethinking that position because the “top heavy” Sox farm system has a 21yo Cedanne Rafaela with a .841OPS in AA, and he’s just not on that list of two prospects you said are carrying the Sox system…
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I think you mean the Cardinals. The Cardinals are hackers. The Astros are just trash can bangers…
