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9/09 SOX @ O's 7:05PM ET
notin replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Starting with you. I brought up that this team and payroll are still 50% inherited - a situation that was far, far, far worse when Bloom took over - but nope. It’s been 3 years and that means Bloom signed Sale and Martinez and all those bad deals… -
I think Cohen wants him as a headline-stealing Met. And he has shown he’ll pay for anything…
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I’ll make the least bold prediction on this subject: Judge will play in New York next season. I’m not going to specify which team…
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Now the problem they have is, with the season he’s having, how can do they afford to let him go?
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That he turned down 7 years $30mill+ AAV and has had an injury-plagued decade on his 20s speaks very, very badly for his future…
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And by “about Judge like the plague” I mean avoid him. He’s the Mother of All Albatross Contracts waiting to happen. Also I left Wacha off my list. He’s a must…
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My thoughts are about Judge like the plague. I’d focus on a few from the set of Nimmo, Bogaerts, Correa, Swanson, Fulmer, R Montero, Treinen, E Diaz (assuming he’s available), Bell, Mancini, Wong, Frazier, and a few others I have yet to form opinions about…
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The entire point Kike is making us Bloom is promising to be very active this off-season. He’s also not even allowed to talk about signing Judge right now, as that would be tampering. He can only talk to Sox players. I think we need to at least wait until March to call him a liar…
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So… you’re a troll…
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Again - you missed the point..
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Mike Hargrove was the worst. His nickname - well earned at that - was The Human Rain Delay…
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There is one? And they penalize the pitcher for taking too long?
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Great. Of course we were talking about the little cheat cards. Not sure if this has sunk into your brain cell yet, but I don’t care that the shift is gone. I care that MLB is making rules to ban strategies and not doing the stuff they need to do to speed up the game. For example, we get a 3 batter minimum rule so managers don’t change too many pitchers in an inning and slow the game down. Why don’t we get a pitch clock? Did you know there are rules in the MLB rulebook for how long a pitcher can hold the ball? Why in all these attempts to speed up the game do they ignore the clock? It seems like they’re going to limit pitchers to 3 throws to first to hold a runner before they put in a pitch clock. No idea why MLB is so deadset against this…
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I think just not signing and re-signing oft-injured pitchers would be enough…
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Their good spurts typically coincided with good health. They were playing well in May and June because they were a better team. To call it a lucky schedule because the team played nearly .700 baseball is just ignorant of how good and how bad baseball teams are. I mean, for all this “back to reality” ******** you keep pushing, did you even realize the Sox are over .500 since their 10-19 start? But - let me guess - the Sox could finish 81-81 and in last place, you’ll (emphatically) call them a last place team and never once refer to them as a .500 team..
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How does the umpire change that confrontation, besides serving as a distraction? I’m not convinced that having the home plate umpire make the determination for himself or receive a verbal cue about whether or not a pitch is in the strike zone creates this radical difference. Bear in mind 1. The home plate umpire will still be on the field making ball and strike calls. Also calling plays at the plate. 2. Calling balls and strikes is insanely difficult and also very important to the game. 3. It could eliminate stupid arguments. Sure players will try but the ump will just shrug his shoulders and point to his earpiece. End of argument.
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He’s probably in pain. He probably needed more than 15 days on the IL…
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The Sox are 4-2 against the struggling Astros, who are a paltry 40 games over .500. Apparently they played the Astros during the 6 games they were struggling…
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They didn’t play all 47 games in that stretch against the west. They only have 26 games scheduled against them this year. And the bad, bad West as you keep calling it, is poised to send Houston (89-49) and Seattle (77-61) to the postseason. Boston is 10-3 against those two teams…
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That also has nothing to do with the 3 batter minimum rule, and your post certainly implied you to believe it was analytics-driven…
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And signs, too!! Why have first and third bae coaches fo that?! We don’t need those!! The only reason coaches started using them was for the deaf players!!! (True story.)
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And are you implying the decades-old practice of using RHP to face a RHH is a new-fangled analytics thing? And not something MLB has been employing for decades?? It’s one thing to not understand the analytics. It’s another to have no idea what they are and still complain about them…
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The 3 batter minimum rule wasn’t analytics driven. It was due to September roster expansion and some managers (I’m looking at you, Bruce Bochy) would drag innings on forever by maximizing his 14 man bullpen…
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No you don’t. Even this years team was good. After a horrible 10-19 start, they made it back to 43-33. They didn’t, as you repeatedly claim, have that 33-14 run against the weaker AL West. They had it because they had a pitching staff that worked. What detailed them was that same staff - mostly the rotation - all getting injured at once. The biggest lie in sports is “Everyone has injuries; that’s just an excuse.” Not all injuries are equal and certainly not all teams get hit equally. There’s a reason the Sox are one of how many teams in MLB with only 1 pitcher with 100 IP at this point in the season?
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I’ve always heard baseball is the only sport where the defense has the ball. Although one might think Cricket also counts, although I am not sure they call it a ball…
