Hugh2
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Yes he had a nice average, but you could see it at the plate. He wasn't getting good hits, he hit for ZERO power during that time frame too. I'm not too worried though, but he's in a little funk.
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Nick Yorke is not having a great May, hope it's a small sample size and he continues to come roaring back this year. .584 OPS this month.
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This is a good point. It would be a different situation if Jansen was having a bad stretch; weeks of bad play looking totally lost night after night then things would be different. No reasonable manager pulls their closer after one game. none.
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Fact KJ is a future hall of fame closer Fact KJ was having an elite year before this series Fact the best pitchers to ever play the game have blown leads/saves Baseball is a mental game, sometimes the best thing you can do is get back out there and get back on your horse. What Cora did, was the same exact move ANY other good manager would have made. There's a difference between rolling a guy out there who is failing day in and day out for a long period of time and then throwing your closer out there after ONE bad game. Should we bench Raffy if he goes 0-4 one game?
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To be fair, I'm not any better. I make unrealistic assumptions about people who say that as well. I just assume they're stupid and don't understand statistics or they're just really old and don't like change. My opinion may be biased as someone who studied finance in academia and extensively studied and used statistics. And I'm fairly certain, when using my rational brain, that these people are in fact not stupid and not always unaccepting of change. We all have our biases, I'm trying to fight mine.
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The Irony is, everyone uses analytics. Baseball is a game where every little thing is measured and recorded. Everything is a stat, EVERYTHING. Those people are just uncomfortable with anything that they couldn't read off of a baseball card growing up. At bats, Hits, Average, Doubles, Home Runs, RBIS, SB's. etc.
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Yup. Right, because those guys are obviously good pitchers throwing to the wrong guy. Lets for one second assume I'm wrong, you're right, now I have to sing a song.....even advocates of CERA present data that the increase ERA is what? a run or less per game? These 7.08 and 7.11 ERAs are insanely high. It's obviously NOT the catching....these guys suck right now. Kluber and Pivetta Suck.
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Without question Dalbecs value isn’t at an all time high, not even close. But it’s also likely not as low as some think it is as well. GMs aren’t like fans and get emotional and let those emotions drive opinions on players like us fans are. Teams know what Bobby D is, they know he has serious issues, they also know there was a MLBer in there at some point and they might see something they think they can fix. Think of it this way. Most fans in here at the end of last season would probably assume Jarren Duran had no value, he still had value because there wasn’t anybody out there who didn’t think he couldn’t do what he was doing now….they just probably figured it a long shot. Long shots happen, now Durran has even more value, but he had something earlier too. Don’t expect a top ten prospect for Bobby. But you get something for him.
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There are plenty of teams who would take Bobby Dalbec.
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I have zero problem moving Houck to the bullpen, but why so quick to give up on Jensen. He’s been money up until this weekend?
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Any Manager would have put Jansen in there yesterday. At that point he had looked dominant and blew one save (not much help from the defense). Anyone would have figured it’s best to throw him right back out there and shake it off.
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Let’s also keep in mind that $20 in two years will buy you what about $17 million gets you right now. You don’t think someone would give him 4/$17.5 now if he was a free agent? Maybe he takes that number for an extra year. Personally I wouldn’t mind paying a few extra a year for him to keep the contract less than 5 years. Let the 5th year be his final arbitration year. Which might be pretty expensive. $100 might be too hefty, but 5/$85 isn’t crazy.
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Didn’t take much to crawl out from under that rock huh?
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5/13 Cards @ SOX 4:10PM ET
Hugh2 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Chris Sale has always been good. He just needed to get healthy again. -
Let me reiterate a point from above. YOU CAN NOT just go by batting average. Especially in a small sample size. It’s a lesson some just never learn. There’s so much happening with a guy in the minors that you never see or know. But the team does. Here’s a perfect example. Jarren Duran. He was batting .195 in AAA before he got called up. If we went with Arm chair GMs take on stat hunting we’d have moved Kike to CF and brought Hamilton up to play SS, and that might have been a disaster. But aren’t you happy they saw what lies underneath and called up Duran? I certainly am. Because sometimes talk like it’s advance stats vs. “the eye test” ummmm, it’s both.
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3 weeks ago I was beating the Casas will be elite drum despite pushback from seemingly everyone. My reasoning was simple, and I said the same thing about Yoshida. His plate approach is elite, he was still walking and was top 10 in all of MLB in pitches seen per plate appearance. No one can have that elite knowledge of a strike zone and not eventually hit. Also, as a rabid follower of prospects I saw Casas briefly struggle after a few promotions only to quickly figure it out. You have to look at more than just a BA. The kid has the plate discipline we wish Devers had that would truly make him elite. Will Casas be that guy? I think if he can hit LHP better he could be. Now we just need a RHB for the next several years to split Devers and Casas. Even in the minors it’s absolutely INSANE how many LHB this teams has.
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May 12th Cardinals @ Red Sox
Hugh2 replied to moonslav59's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Connor wong has surprising pop. Doesn’t look like a typical power hitter but he can hit ‘em far for a littler guy. -
May 12th Cardinals @ Red Sox
Hugh2 replied to moonslav59's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Told y’all not to freak out on those bad AAA starts. Never know what guys are working on. Paxton has only made one mistake tonight, which one can be forgiven for after not pitching in two years. -
That seems about right. I could see a Pivetta trade, but I think it's a little premature. It would be a bad look if he pitched well somewhere else, not that he's going to be an ace he's Nick Pivetta, and teams know what they're getting. He will have a nice consistent run of mediocracy at some point this season and probably end with a 4.75 ERA. A team with playoff aspirations who are comfortable with the top of their rotation but lacking depth would find value in him; but how is that going to look here if you lose a guy or two to injury? They've already shown they're willing to option Bello once and that surprised me then, it would surprise me even more now if they did it again but that is the life of someone life him at times. But it feels like we're just scratching the surface with him, and once he's more comfortable he will be more consistent. He could be our #2 behind Sale. Bleier is on my list too. I didn't realize Bernardino has options, the dude is 31 years old!!! and has options.
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So Piveta to the pen, who is out in the pen? When Whitlock comes back and Houck goes to the pen who is pushed out of the pen then? (I know some would start Houck and Move G.W. to the pen but I don't think the Sox are going to do that...yet). Could a Braiser DFA actually be in the cards over the next month?
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They were in on him, but a lot of teams were. I really wanted Senga, but I hope they folded to go harder after Yamamoto, who might be better and is 6 years younger.
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https://www.soxprospects.com/transactions.htm https://www.soxprospects.com/org.htm Not entirely sure, but these pages seem to be up to date. My guess is they were one spot short before the transactions of the day went down, so adding 3 subtracting 2 gave them 28.
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Doesn't Bloom get credit for "not trading" them away???
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I’m glad I stuck to my guns on Bello. You could see his potential last night, he’s still very young and learning to pitch but he has that competitive edge you love to see on the mound.
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I understand this point, but when you consider we have no ideal what his medicals look like or could also mean it’s not as serious as an injury that would require TJS. I don’t think you, or anyone else on this board, definitely including me, have the expertise to call it half measures. Most doctors wouldn’t recommend an agressive surgery that wasn’t required. It could be a good sign