S5Dewey
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I agree with that post, and the playoffs isn't the place to be doing it. Moon rightly said at the beginning of the season that Devers would be a work in progress, and he still is. Do we want a work in progress out there defensively during the playoffs? At the risk of being parochial, I still believe that Butterfield could have made a big difference in Devers' progress.
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My bad. You're right. Now we're talking about Kinsler, Holt, Devers, and Nunez. Is that really any better??
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Should Jackie Bradley Jr be traded?
S5Dewey replied to StephenCurry30's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
It's easy to look at what he was in April/May but that's not who he is now. I'll take his defense and ."715" every day of the week, and play a double-header on Sunday. -
Devers is the one I'm conflicted about. He's a guy who can win a game with one swing of the bat. He's also a guy who can lose a game with one error - and he's made a lot of them. Devers may be the one to get the benefit of the Infield Numbers Crunch. We're talking about Devers, Holt, and Nunez splitting 2B & 3B and if that doesn't make you shudder nothing will. In a more perfect world I wouldn't let Devers even pick up his glove during the playoffs. He deserves to be an emergency DH only and I wouldn't carry an emergency DH. However, we need a body in the infield and Devers is what we've got. What would I give for a healthy Pedey?? Thanks again, Manny. You may end up being the deciding factor in whether the Sox win the WS. Ugh.
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The last series of the regular season will be interesting since the Sox will probably have clinched both the ALE Championship and the right to home field advantage by then and they Y's will be in the WC race for HFA. Does Cora rest his people and get them ready for the playoffs, thereby putting his 2's on the field, or does he go all out to beat the Yankees and send them to the west coast for their WC game? (I like Door #2. They've got 5 days to rest!)
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IMO all that's been proven in the past to BOS/NYY series is that the Sox have to keep the Yankees out of Yankee Stadium. They have too many big hitters who can hit 340 ft home runs. Put them in a stadium like Fenway with a big RF and they're in trouble. Yes, I know they put up several runs after the 340's but the 340's were the ones that set the tone for the game. Hell, I'm not even upset with David Price. He pitched well. He just gave up too many fly ball homers that would be outs in a real stadium.
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Good or bad is a matter of comparison. When a team is ~10 games back of the leader they're bad in comparison.
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This is just wrong. Even Yankee fans don't deserve to see how good Castiglione is and then have to go back to John Sterling! Ughhhh. The good news is that we only have to put up with Sterling for one inning.
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Yep. As I posted earlier, good teams find a way to win and bad teams find a way to lose. The Yankees tried to lose that game but came up short.
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Exactly, and it's why I seldom participate now. Too much bitching. Too may posters want to win every game. OTOH Cora wants to win the WSC. I like Cora's approach better.
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I saw Dalbeck play in Portland this year and one thing about him that impressed me is that he's built like an athlete. He's tall with broad shoulders and long arms, the kind of build that should generate a lot of power.
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It'll either be 2 or Champagne after the game.
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You're asking him to leave $40MM on the table. He signed what was viewed at the time as a hometown discount contract and those are usually signed as insurance against what's happened to him. I appreciated the contract at the time. My only reservation about it then was that he may not be able to play for the duration of it because of the way he plays the game.
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Kinsler is getting ~$9MM this year and without doing the research I don't know how that compares to other 2Bmen. If he's looking for anything near that I wouldn't move on him until I knew what was up with Pedey.
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That's sad. I'm truly sorry to hear that. Many a bond has been formed between a father and son over baseball. I say that from experience.
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That's my thought too. Anything beyond that is a pleasant surprise.
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Are we being unduly optimistic thinking that Pedey might be back at all? IMO there's a real possibility that his career is essentially over. (Don't shoot the messenger!!)
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Grove, Feller and Today's 6 inning pitchers
S5Dewey replied to bosoxmal's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Yep. But back in those days baseball players were deemed replaceable. They got paid next to nothing so if one of them ruined his arm it was considered the cost of doing business and the owners replaced him with another one. Grove & Feller were the exception in that their arms were strong enough that they were effective for several seasons. Now that pitchers are getting paid millions of dollars a year the owners take a lot better care of them. Now when a pitcher gets two hangnails on the same hand he's "day to day". And I DO strongly agree with what you say about sliders. It proves that every upside has a downside. -
Grove, Feller and Today's 6 inning pitchers
S5Dewey replied to bosoxmal's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Yep. But back in those days baseball players were deemed replaceable. They got paid next to nothing so if one of them ruined his arm it was considered the cost of doing business and the owners replaced him with another one. Grove & Feller were the exception in that their arms were strong enough that they were effective for several seasons. Now that pitchers are getting paid millions of dollars a year the owners take a lot better care of them. Now when a pitcher gets two hangnails on the same hand he's "day to day". And I DO strongly agree with what you say about sliders. It proves that every upside has a downside. -
I like that! From now on that's what it is.
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If a skill were repeatable a player would be able to do it every time. That's why I say that throwing a baseball and swinging a bat are repeatable skills - not with the same accuracy, but the skills to throw and swing are repeatable. Statistics have proven that some players are better at striking the ball squarely than other players which surprises me given that they're trying to strike a moving sphere with a cylinder but their ability to strike it squarely repeatedly isn't a skill anyone has. More frequently, yes. Repeatedly, no. As to BA & BAPIP, I know from personal experience (I know, but still....) that when I stepped into the batters box I'd always look at the defensive alignment. I found that on those times when all I could see was fielders I wasn't very successful at getting a hit but when all I could see was grass I was very successful. Call it mental, call it what you want, but it's the way it was.
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It may be a big situation in terms of the game but whether a player is "clutch" or a "choker" (sorry, but this is my post so I'm going to say it my way! ) depends on how that player reacts physiologically to that situation. If he's concerned about his performance at the time his mind/body will react differently than if he's casual about it. Think of it in terms of golf. If a golfer can make a 4' putt almost anytime with no pressure on him, bet him $10,000 on the putt and he'll react differently. It's the same putt but it becomes more difficult because of the pressure. He may make that putt but if he does he'll breathe a bigger sign of relief after he's done it. "Baseball is 90% mental and the rest is physical".
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Whether a person is in a 'clutch' situation resides entirely in the mind of that person.
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Statistics are valuable for two things, describing what happened in the past and predicting what might -but not will - happen in the future.
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Nothing in baseball is repeatable to the point where it's predictable.
