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  1. S5Dewey
    It strikes me that this proves the old adage of 'be careful what you wish for because you might get it'. MLB has been trying to build "parity" (a/k/a "We need to stop the same teams from winning all the time") for years. That's why they instituted Revenue Sharing and the Luxury Tax. Now the owners have figured out that they can intentionally 'tank' for a few years and by doing so they can not only get RS money while losing they can also receive the draft picks to help themselves reload. Wherever there's a system there's going to be someone who's trying to beat it.
  2. S5Dewey
    Meh. Call it what you will but Miller thought he was done in baseball and the Sox persuaded him to come back because they saw "something" that made them think he could pitch again. I read that article some time ago and knew I should bookmark it.. but I didn't. Damn it.
  3. S5Dewey
    If it were that easy to find the hidden gem everyone would be doing it. I often think that it's more a matter of 'stepping in it' than finding it. The FO "found" Rich Hill, Doug Fister and Koji just by throwing things against the wall and three of them stuck. The only hidden gem they "found" was Andrew Miller, and that was because they saw a curable flaw in his delivery, and even then they had to repeatedly call him to show up for a tryout.
  4. S5Dewey
    Never pass up an opportunity to make your whipping boy look bad, huh?. IIRC Hanley was the one who thought he was 19 again and could stretch singles into doubles.
  5. S5Dewey
    I was at a D-1 game yesterday and was chatting with an O's fan there. The Dodgers have shown a big interest in Machado but the O's want both Buehler and one of the other pitchers involved in the no-no and thus far that's a price the Dodgers haven't been willing to pay.
  6. S5Dewey
    And a more debatable form, depending on what one's bias is.
  7. S5Dewey
    It could. Anything is possible. But I'm rapidly coming around to having the opinion that Mookie is one of the few players in the game that you build a team around. I know it's easy to jump on the Mookie bandwagon right now while he's hitting almost 1 HR/game, but even if you look at his production on both sides of the ball over his career his stats scream SIGN HIM... whatever it takes. Disclaimer: "whatever it takes" means letting him go to FA (if necessary) and then paying slightly more than the next highest suitor.
  8. S5Dewey
    Don't blink. This thing could be over in two hours.
  9. S5Dewey
    If Joe keeps doing what he's been doing keeping him is a no-brainer. He found his stride ever since he plunked Austin. Ya, he's got an ERA of 2.63 but when a pitcher has a limited number of innings one bad inning can balloon that stat. I like that 0.80 WHIP though. For those people who don't want to sign Kimbrel and are willing to settle for what may be a second-rate closer to save some money JK may be just the ticket.
  10. S5Dewey
    We had two hits taken away from the Rangers by our outstanding OF tonight. How many runs did it save? We don't know - so we pretend the answer is 0.
  11. S5Dewey
    This is the outfield we should have out there in every game against AL teams. JBJ made a catch in CF tonight that Beni doesn't make and Beni made a catch in LF that JDM doesn't even come close to.
  12. S5Dewey
    Now we do, and that had to feel good to Devers!
  13. S5Dewey
    You 'n' me, Mr. Moon!
  14. S5Dewey
    You know you're preaching to the choir here, don't you?
  15. S5Dewey
    Excellent post. Thank you. For some reason I can't understand some people are more willing to tolerate poor defense than they are poor offense.
  16. S5Dewey
    I guess we'll disagree on that. IMO JH doesn't want to make a 3year/$35M commitment to a #4 outfielder who may push him into the "nuclear option" penalties or keep the team from improving for the next two years. If he were making the ML minimum he'd be up now.
  17. S5Dewey
    IMO the key to that for this year is getting Kelly back. I believe that if we have Kelly in our pen the outcome of last night's game could have been significantly different. THE REASON (again IMO) this team still has a lead in the AL East is because of Kimbrel and if we're going to be without him next season we need to improve in other areas. You kind of hit on the reason why we need Kimbrel back for next year. If you believe that everyone is going to maintain their statistical status-quo next season and if you believe that Kimbrel is the reason we still have a lead in the AL East (I do, and I think it's obvious) then we need Kimbrel next year to compete with the EE.
  18. S5Dewey
    That's correct, but there is no "KEY GUY". You can have a triple-crown winner and not win the WS. The Sox have done it. (Yaz & Williams 2x). You can have the Cy Young award winner and not win the WS. The Sox have done it.(Pedro, Porcillo, Clemens 3x) You can have the MVP and not win the WS. The Sox have done it,. (Pedroia, Rice, Clemens, Vaughn). There is no "key guy". It takes a well balanced team, but the more outstanding parts a team has it would seem the better their chance of winning the WS. I agree that a big payout to Kimbrel would jeopardize our chances of keeping other players. We might be better off with, say Joe Kelly, as our closer but if the team is going in that direction they need to improve significantly in other areas to avoid needing a lights-out closer.
  19. S5Dewey
    We both know that's not true. The only thing keeping him in Pawtucket is his salary.
  20. S5Dewey
    That's a great picture and one that settles the entire issue of "clean and legal". I hadn't seen it. Thanks.
  21. S5Dewey
    If getting paid is the only criteria then he's fine... I guess. IMO he'd like to not only get paid but be on a MLB roster.
  22. S5Dewey
    Now all we have to do is talk the closers into not seeing themselves as closers and rather as Firemen where they come in to put out the fire regardless of the inning. That may be a difficult sell to them because "closers" have prestige and prestige = money. I can hear them now. "Hey, I have to feed my family." I'm a big Kimbrel fan but at the same time it irks me to hear the guys on TV or Radio say that Kimbrel "likes to start with a clean inning". Well, whoop-de-f***ing-do. Who wouldn't? As to the second point, I'm not certain it would have made a big difference if Mo had been used as a Fireman or as a Closer. It's possible that he could have "saved" some of the games the Yankees lost if he'd been used earlier and someone else had closed the game out.
  23. S5Dewey
    Salary considerations aside I'd love to see what Castillo can do as the 4th OF. I can't imagine it would be much worse than Martinez. Of course in the real world salary considerations exist and once the Sox bring him up there's no sending him back down as far as salary goes. They have to continue to pay him no matter where he is. Whose idea was that anyway? It looks like the players got hosed on that one.
  24. S5Dewey
    There wasn't one. That's where the entire incident started. Austin went after Holt's leg - the video using the angle from LF shows it clearly - and Holt said something, taking exception to it. Austin then came at Holt and apparently words were exchanged. Again, if you look at the video you'll see that Austin didn't just saunter over toward Holt, it was clear from his body language that he took exception to whatever Holt said and "wanted to make something of it". That was where it started. I'm aware that as a fan of the Yankees you think that because these players are YANKEES they're entitled to do anything they want to do and everyone else needs to shut up about it. Unfortunately for everyone else in the league Joe Torre (who wears a pinstriped suit to work every day) supports that. As long as Torre is in charge of handing out punishments things aren't going to change but it makes the Yankees a real easy team to hate.
  25. S5Dewey
    But only if you ignore the cheap slide that started it.
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