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Hey Guys, I don't recall anybody posting this. According to Cot's contracts, Stanton has full no trade protection. Also, he has an opt out after 2020. So, if the Sox REALLY want him, they'll have to sweeten his pot somehow.
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Ah, now I understand! It's aggressive base running when the other team has to make a play to get you out, and doesn't. And, it's boneheaded base running when they do make the play. Simple
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As usual, I'm confused. "Everybody" says that wins are not a good measure of a pitcher. So how come WINS above replacement has any relevance?
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Awhile back, somebody (probably Moon) posted the OPS numbers of Sox players for 2014, 2015 ,2016 and 2017. I've been waiting for someone to point out that the 2017 numbers are pretty much the same as 2015. Except in 2015, we had Papi "protecting" the lineup and finished last. This year, no Papi, and the Sox are in 1st with the same OPS as 2015. Maybe it's the pitching. I think I remember somebody mentioning "regression to the mean" Perhaps 2016 was the exception and the Sox got lucky, like, say 2013. Don't want to be "Debbie Downer" but maybe our hitters just aren't as good as we wish they were. PS: I live in south Miami-Dade county and my daughter and her family live in the lower Keys. My friend Irma was a bitch.
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I'm no expert and my eyes aren't very good either. Last night on the HR derby I seem to recall the announcers saying something about special bats for the contest. Also, watching a slo-mo of one of Judge's blasts, I didn't notice any flex at all at contact. There, I've said my piece, and now I'm done with it.
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Well, the Sox noffense (with apologies to whoever coined that word a few years ago) showed up again last night for Porcello. What I really want to talk about is something I haven't seen anybody mention. It's the bats, not the balls, that are juiced. Awhile ago the bats were shattering all the time, with spears flying all over the place. Not so much now. In golf, the pros, with very fast swing speeds, use extremely "stiff" shafts to hit the ball a looong way. Us seniors with slow swing speeds have to go to a "whippier" shaft. So, have they found a way to make the bats stiffer for all these harder swinging guys? Is that why the balls are going farther this year? MLB insists the balls haven't changed, and as I understand it they supervise the manufacture of the balls. Are the bats subject to the same type of supervision? I don't know, that's why I'm asking. I suppose I could look it up somehow, but I suspect there'll be posters here that already know.
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This is my first attempt to post on any forum, and I don't have a clue if I'm doing this right. Rick Porcello has been awful this year, but I submit that even if he had pitched just like Sale, he'd still have a losing record. In 7 of his losses, the Sox had scored zero runs by the time he left the game, and in the other 2 they got 1 run for him. I'm no stat geek, but I suspect that very few games are won when you don't score any runs. In 5 of his losses, he did pitch like Sale. He left after giving up 2 or 3 runs . In those games the Sox scored a total of 5 runs. Sale has pitched great, no doubt about it. He has 5 victories where he left after giving up 2 or 3 runs. In those 5 games the Sox have scored 30 runs. Last year Porcello was the lucky recipient of the tremendous run support, but this year the worm has turned.