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Everything posted by notin
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You back pedal nicely. He’s an excellent CF. If you were actually judging solely by the eye test (as you claim), you would have noticed he’s played 150 out of 194 games in Boston as a CF. So not sure where eye test has so many positions. Overall he has struggled to hit this year, but given his career offense and his extremely good defense at multiple positions, he is a good ball player. No one called him a superstar. No need to try to exaggerate…
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Anyone who says Kike isn’t a good ball player or thinks he’s “just a utility man” and then spouts off about the EYE TEST showing him everything he needs to know, needs to visit an optometrist and is a lousy advocate for the Eye Test Crowd…
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Matt has an ERA of 1.74 since coming off the IL…
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Agreed. NEXT!!
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Mrs. Brasier, for one…
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dh! Dh! Dh! Dh!
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I’m sure someone mentored Lucchino at one point in his career. But yes, Epstein was the interim GM until Bill Beane declined the offer and decided to stay in Oakland
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Denny!!! We agree on something related to baseball!!
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That might be 4-5 pitchers per decade..
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I see no problems with that. Epstein was just starting out. Lucchino was a seasoned sports executive with a World Series ring, Super Bowl ring, and Final Four watch to his credit. And Epstein was clearly willing to listen because he knew he didn’t know how to run an MLB franchise. Yep, even Epstein could admit that. Humility is very important…
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Judging any player by just one year isn’t good. Any player can have a bad year. And when I was a wee lad, I met a wise man and he told me “never trust a man who judges outfield defense by watching games on TV.” At the time I didn’t know what to make of it…
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In response to your comment about wanting a more complete player..
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He contributes. He was a 4.1 fWAR player last year. I don’t care if you don’t like fWAR either…
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You are the only one constantly referring to it..
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Any real discount probably disappeared 3 years ago when there were arbitration years to buy out and Devers had legitimate time to worry about injury….
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Luzardo would be our top pitching prospect. Assuming he wasn’t already in Fenway…
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He’s actually one of the best defensive CFs in MLB. What he isn’t is a leadoff hitter. That needed to stop back in April…
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Duran has shown us Kike’s true value…
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Don’t get hung up on pitching roles. The team just needs to target the best pitchers they can afford (via either cash or prospects) and let the roles work themselves out. And the whole 1-2-3-4-5 nomenclature for pitchers is a bit silly to me. I’ve been asking for years on multiple forums what an ace is. No one seems to know…
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He lets some of us call him Pedro…
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Absolutely the drop off in Kike’s performance is a factor. He was instrumental in the success last year and his down year is an equal factor this season. But this is all incredibly obvious stuff. And I’d still bring Kike back in a heartbeat…
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No. You’re as bad as me. It’s ok. No one expects you to know. And not knowing doesn’t mean you still can’t criticize his execution of that plan. Or the results it obtains…
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And maybe you need to do the same…
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Kike had a bad year. He was a good player last year. What’s the point here?
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Hey I honestly have no idea what a plan looks like. I take someone like Speier’s brief summary, and I think it’s often a far-reaching philosophy. And THAT is why I don’t criticize it. I only criticize short term plans that involve heavy spending and leaving nothing but destruction in their wake…
