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  1. S5Dewey
    I still think we're going to get to Barria. If not this inning then next. And then we get into their bullpen.
  2. S5Dewey
    Getting caught of 2B hurt. We had something going before that.
  3. S5Dewey
    gotta stay on that base, vaz/. :-(
  4. S5Dewey
    Let's see if that breaks Barria's concentration/confidence a little. Sometimes that's all it takes.This could be the start of something big.
  5. S5Dewey
    I don't know how much B.J. has in the tank but so far so good. I say ride that horse until he drops but have another nag ready in the pen. For now we need RUNS.
  6. S5Dewey
    What? No HR in his first AB? Trade the bum!!
  7. S5Dewey
    I had only seen JDM play a couple of times on tv before the Sox picked him up so I had no opinion of his defense. I'm going to continue to stand behind what I said in ST and even early in the season. He looked lost out there misjuding balls on a wholesale basis. He usually made the play but too many of them were leaping catches or basket catches on what should have been routine plays. However... that's not the guy I'm seeing out there now. Nobody is going to confuse him with any of our regular outfielders but our regular outfielders are the cream of the crop so that wouldn't be a fair comparison. There's no doubt that it's a defensive downgrade when he plays in the OF but I now have confidence that he can make any play that an average outfielder can make and make the play like he knows what he's doing. IMO there are teams who'd love to have a 4th outfielder who plays defense like JDM does.
  8. S5Dewey
    It didn't take long to establish why JBJ is in CF. Another great catch out there!
  9. S5Dewey
    According to Weather.com there's no rain in Boston now. Scattered and isolated T-storms until ~9:00.
  10. S5Dewey
    I can get on board with that. Do we use the DH?
  11. S5Dewey
    Not necessarily, unless we had a big lead in the WC race (which we may have). A normal WC race comes down to the last day or two of the season when a team doesn't have a chance to set their rotation up for that single game. That leaves it to the luck of the draw which team gets to use their better pitcher. With pitching being as big a part of the game as it is, that's my biggest issue with the one game playoff. In a worst case scenario one team could end up pitching their #5 against another team's #1 just by whose turn it is in the rotation and who's rested. That's just WRONG.
  12. S5Dewey
    ??? Unless I misinterpreted your post Pedey's hypothetical response would be almost the same as the one he gave in the Machado incident. The correct response should be, "It's not them or me. It's US." That's the biggest issue. It should never be "me" or "them". It's always US.
  13. S5Dewey
    This is a great post in that it keeps the whole offense/defense/salary post in perspective. I know we'd all like to have an OPS of >.900 at all positions but if you can get great defense at CF and an OPS ~.650 or greater for $10M/yr that's not unreasonable in today's market. A team can't afford that at every position but a team can carry one (or two) of those guys if their defense is stellar and the rest of the team can pick up the slack. In the case of JBJ we know the potential is there for an OPS >.800 because we've seen him hit like that. I really dislike this thread and always have because it continually brings JBJ's shortcoming to the top of the thread list while ignoring his huge upside.
  14. S5Dewey
    Yep. Me too. As much as I dislike the situation we're now in with Pedroia I still don't think signing him when we did for what we did was a bad idea. I'd sign Mookie to a long term deal, then hope Machado gets traded to a NL team so he doesn't get a chance to shorten the career of another of our players.
  15. S5Dewey
    I don't see anything strange about it at all. Pedey had a choice - to stand up with his players or to throw them under the bus - and we know which one he chose. At the end of the day he chose to salve over the issue with a punk from another team who'd just injured him rather than stand up with his teammates. IMO (and apparently Slash's too) he made two very wrong choices. First, he should have sided with his team, and second, if he didn't feel he wanted to do that he should have at leastkept his mouth shut. That may not define his entire career but it does bring into question his status as a "teammate".
  16. S5Dewey
    I'd like to see him stay with the Sox regardless of his capacity. IMO it's just a matter of time before we see his number up on the wall there with the others. Can Pedey retire from baseball and sacrifice his salary, then be rehired as a coach/scout, etc. at the same salary? That would take his salary off the books as it pertains to the LT. Would that pass the smell test with MLB?
  17. S5Dewey
    Absolutely, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. There are a few players in MLB whom you should pay the price and build the team around. Mookie is one of them. I said some time ago that DD should walk up to Mookie with a 10 year contract and say, "Just fill in the numbers". (Rhetorically speaking, that is.)
  18. S5Dewey
    Pedroia's case demonstrates the risk in long term signings. A player takes a long term contract - usually with a discount - to protect himself against an injury. Most of us were happy with signing Pedey long-term as it sewed up the 2B position with an All-star player into the future. Now that he's injured and may not be able to come back that signing doesn't look as good. (Thanks again, Manny!) This is the same risk the team would be taking if/when we sign Mookie to a long term deal but many/most of us want to do that. You take your chances when you roll the dice.
  19. S5Dewey
    NO. His defense alone is enough to keep him on the field and we've seen flashes of how he can hit. Every time he goes on one of these tears we can't help but think that this is the real JBJ and that's not someone you trade.
  20. S5Dewey
    The thing about Clay is that he became a half-year pitcher, but during that half-year his stuff approached 'ace' status. I understand why the FO wanted to sign him. You just don't turn your back on stuff like that. Instead you sign him and hope that he becomes more durable. If you think that $26M is a reasonable price to pay as a full year's salary for someone who has near 'ace' stuff then $13M is reasonable for a half year. When you sign that contract you just have to know what you're getting - and that it's probably only going to be for a half season.
  21. S5Dewey
    That's what our resident sage Bosoxmal said all along! He was one of the few here who was big on Rich Hill and he was right!!
  22. S5Dewey
    You also posted this: Boston Globe reporter Michele McPhee reportedly claims that Hanley Ramirez was "cleared" only by an unidentified defense attorney: While objectivity is a heavy cross so is trolling and managing to do it with plausible deniability.
  23. S5Dewey
    "Lawyerspeak" at it's best.
  24. S5Dewey
    Ok.. that explains it. I happen to like high school and college softball very much, and the higher the talent level the more I like it. The thing I don't like about it is the running bunts and slapping at the ball early in the count but thankfully the better teams aren't doing that as much now.
  25. S5Dewey
    We here certainly appreciate your ongoing and relentless interest in all things Red Sox. It now appears that while many/most of us are saying that we should wait until all the facts are in before we decide Hanley's guilty Harmony is saying that we should wait until all the facts are in before we decide he's not guilty. What happened to a presumption of innocence?
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