S5Dewey
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This is why we don't trade JBJ. :-)
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Sure. We all hate his bat with the exception of Thursday night, when we loved it! If I'm going to make some changes I want someone who's going to be above average both offensively and defensively though. For the moment I'm happy with a player who only gets one chance in 9 to screw things up rather than having someone there whom I dread having the ball hit to every time someone on the opposing team comes to bat.
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I know I may be venturing into that minefield without statistical correlation again, but IMO there's something to be said for a player's hitting where he's comfortable. To take a player who sees himself as a power hitter and placing him at the top of the order may be counterproductive, just as taking someone who sees himself as a singles hitter and forcing him to hit 4th may be also. Someone said (above) that JBJ seems to hit better out of the 9th spot. Maybe it's the best thing for the team to put him there and leave him there rather than trying to force a square peg into a round spot in the order.
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I know what you mean. Sometimes I think there's too much that's publicly available to these athletes. Sports talk radio is brutal, with people calling in whose only experience in baseball is reading Dan Shaughnessy and Twitter has become a nightmare with opinions from haters. I find that the biggest downside to internet communication is that it's difficult to determine what a person is saying without knowing the inflection or tone of voice that goes into it. Everything is taken in the way that the person reading it decides it's going to be taken, which an be entirely wrong. Well, I'm just learning how to multi-quote so I may be dangerous too! LOL
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I keep going back to Ryan Dempster in 2013. He gave us an average of ~6 innings/start and an ERA of 4.5 as our #5 pitcher and started 29 games. Most teams would kill for a guy like that as their #5. We can argue about whether he was overpaid but I'd rather pay him what he got than have some other guy who's not as effective and possibly not won the WS.
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Should Jackie Bradley Jr be traded?
S5Dewey replied to StephenCurry30's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
My philosophy in baseball is to be solid defensively up the middle with whatever offense you get that's above average being a bonus. It's also to be solid offensively at the corners and whatever defense you get from those positions above average is also a bonus. Having Bogaerts offense coming from the SS position negates the offensive deficiencies of JBJ just as having Beni's and Mookie's defense at the corners makes the team better than average. Possibly the biggest problem this team has had is that they've had a 3B who's below average both offensively and defensively. Having Marrero at 3B has solved part of the problem (what's their record since Marrero moved to 3B?) there but suggesting that JBJ (with his defense) should also be offensively strong enough to offset what we haven't got a 3B is ignoring the real problem. -
Now you're just being obtuse.
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I think most baseball people would disagree with you when you say that most productive outs are random. Is it random when Pedey hits behind a runner to advance him or when a player hits a long fly ball that results in a sac fly? Often times these guys know what they're doing.
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Of course we can't do this because we don't know what would have happened in those times we disagreed with Farrell. If, for example, he brings in Hembree when I think the smarter move would have been to bring in Abad, we have no way of knowing what would have happened if Abad had been brought in. Even if Hembree gets out of the inning there's no guarantee that Abad wouldn't have gotten out of the inning too, and if Hembree fails there's no way of knowing if Abad would have failed also.
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Should Jackie Bradley Jr be traded?
S5Dewey replied to StephenCurry30's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Yup. I'm just a fanboy. While I'm not ecstatic about that .200 BA I believe it will improve and even if it doesn't improve his defense more than makes up for that BA. -
But...but.. but... what about all the research?? What about the "fact" that a poor manager will only cost a team about 5 wins a year?? - with no mention of how many games a good manager will win?
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Obviously not making an out is always preferable to making an out. However, baseball is a game of chances where nothing is a sure thing. IMO there's a lot to be said for putting pressure on a defense to 'make the play' even though it may not be the high-percentage move.
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Then is there really any such thing as a "productive out"? Or does a team's making an out actually reduce a team's chances to score, regardless of the peripherial results of the out?
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IMO we have two must-watch tv pitchers now.
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The only reason NESN even exists is to broadcast Red Sox & Bruins games. The rest of the time is filled with what has to be the worst collection of programming on cable tv - and when you think about it, that's saying A LOT! I NEVER watch anything on NESN other than the sporting events and all the in-game promos in the world aren't going to change that. In fact, those promos are only going to reinforce it.
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You clearly have way too much common sense to be an umpire.
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So according to TC the review was refused by NY because the umpires in Boston didn't know what they'd called. Yep. That's got to be embarrassing.
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That's what I was thinking too. That the umps contacted NY and were told, sorry, that's not reviewable.
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This is two days in a row of embarrassing umpiring.
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WTF is up with this? It looks to me like an obvious misapplication of the rules (if Eck is right about the rule).
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Marrerro with a HR?? What's going on here?
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Satellite TV (DirecTV for me) in general and NESN in particular are really beginning to irk me. Not only am I now paying every month to have commercials brought into my home between innings, I'm now subjected to in-game promos for NESN as well as in-game commercials. "This pitching change is brought to you by __________". As a Sox fan, the only thing worse than having NESN is NOT having it. Ugh.
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Yep. It was Dining Playbook, a show that is only used to fill time so NESN doesn't have to run reruns of games for the third time. NESN seems to be as proud of that show as if it actually amounted to something. I had the feeling that it was going to fill the entire half-inning like most guests they have on the show. That left me with a conundrum . Do I want the half inning to go on and on so the Sox would score some runs or do I want the Sox to make outs so as to get that piece of nonsense off the tv? (I turned the sound off and watched it that way - and didn't miss a thing!)
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Yeah. It's probably things like Jim Leyland running relief pitchers out against the sox in the playoffs until he found one who couldn't do the job, Buck Showalter not using Zach Britton in the playoffs last year or John Farrell successfully using two PH's in one inning last night that give 'most people' that screwed up idea.
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That half inning of incessant blathering about a television show that nobody with any semblance of a life would watch is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in a baseball game.
