Hugh2
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Let’s just keep not trusting Jansen. It works
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I predicted that double play. I don’t feel special. Why is cooper on this team?
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This is true, I also think if the offense was a little bit better they could plug him 7-9th and just plug him in with no pressure.
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Can we just appreciate the season Tanner Houck is having He leads the American League in WAR, he's 5th in innings pitched, 11th in K's. Get this.....HE'S THE ONLY GUY WHO HAS PITCHED A SHUT OUT THIS YEAR. That's right there's only been 4 complete game shut outs across baseball and 3 of them have been in the NL.
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I'm not getting exciting about it, but just saying it might happen.
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Correct, I was wrong. He needs to be added to the 26 man or DFA'd. So whether people like it or not the Sox may do just that to see what he does.......or he gets DFA'd.
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He's was 21 and rushed to the bigs, of course they figured him out. This by no means guarantees he will ever figure it out but it's way too early to start judging him too. I think as fans we expect players to just come up and immediately be good. Progress is never linear, just look at how guys like Pedrioa, JBJ, and Duran broke into the bigs. Even a guy like Xander Bogaerts had a sophmore slump and took him over 600 ab's until he turned into the player he really was.
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He could be pressing now, the good about him is his defense looks fine at 2nd base to me
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in only 75 ab's though?!?!?! meanwhile he put up a .921 OPS last year and a .419 OBP in AAA about 400 at bats. He was only 22 last year, he was brought up and throw into a playoff race, I don't think we've seen the best of Grissom yet. I hope so at least.
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I expect we will see something from him soon. As soon as his rehab assignment is over the Sox will have to either add him to the 40 man or DFA him.
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What do you think he's juicing with Celery and Kale with some pinneapple?
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Wait this actually happened? I suppose nothing is unbelievable today. Of course people are injury prone!!!! I do think it's worth noting that people can be injury prone for different reasons. We are all put together differently. Length of bones can vary, where muscles attach can vary. These things can effect someones flexibility and how certain motions put stress on tendons/ligaments etc etc etc. Also, poor training habits and muscular imbalances can be a leading cause to a lot of injuries as well. With the later..........we can do something about that. Even before the recent rash of injuries I've been advocating for the Sox to invest more into well qualified strength and conditioning coaches up and down the system.
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in 1871 Starting pitcher Al Spalding started EVERY.....SINGLE.....GAME. They certainly don't make em like they used too.
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Not a knock on Koufax at all, but just a general observation. How the heck can anyone definitively say someones curveball was the best ever from 60 years ago? No one who played back then has had to face a MLB curveball today and no one playing today was alive to face one back then. We also couldn't measure spin rates and break back then either.
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Sure they can. I just aim straight up at the sky and let it rip.
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I guess I might be a little worried too. Just not big worried.
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Didn't he get sidelined with the same injury twice? as in, it sounds like they worked him back too quickly? If he gets sidelined again I'll start to worry. Arias is nice, I've heard people really like him. But at his age, level, track record I don't think he's anything to rave about.......yet.
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I think it's also worth noting that the guys who had the physical tools to be superior athletes might not have even gone into baseball back in the day. The way sports are marekted, with all the youth programs, college programs, and the knowledge that atheltes are paid handsomely and parents pushing kids talented into said programs nowadays there's a far greater chance of superior atheltes being lined up with going into sports. You just look at the average athlete today, the average athlete back then look like the guy on my softball team loading up on beer and wings every night. Oh wait, that's me.
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So what you're saying is using a teams record at this point in the season to say we beat a "good" or "bad" team is irrelevant? I agree.
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If the sweeping was the other way around the Rays would currently be a playoff team.
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Maybe I missed something here. But I've been arguing that starters with long term control are rarely traded these days.
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It's highly subjective, but I agree.
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FOR THE RECORD Just because I don't consider guys with 1 year of control as being long conrtrollable doesn't mean I'm opposed to aquiring such guys. Also. Just because I don't consider guys with 1.5 years of control long term controllable arms doesn't mean I'm opposed to aquiring such guys.
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changing my range by .5 years doesn't change my point. To be honest I dont' have a set range, I don't live in a world of absolutes. Only the Sith deal in absolutes.
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Conversely, for the sake of argument, lets flip the script to the position side. Maybe this will make it easier to explain my point. The year is 2027, and I want guys like Kyle Teel, Marcelo Mayer, Roman Anthony in my lineup playing for the league minimum, so I can still fit in my budget going out and spending $30 million+ on a power bat to play 2B/3B/RF (wherever) and fit in the lineup. If everyone on my team is 1.5 years away from free agency I'm looking at breaking that team up in a year or two or going over budget and the reality is I'm not the METS. That's why I want guys who are cost controlled for long periods of time. Perhaps my definition has been a bit amorophous but 1 1.5 years certainly does not project into your long term plans unless you're INEVITABLY PAYING those guys, in which case they're no longer "young, COST CONTROLLED, players"