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Time For the Hypo Trade Talks to Begin ?
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to vegasbob's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Compared to Franchy, all anyone needs to be is a glover. He can't even put one on -- once, he misjudged the finger holes and poked the centerfielder in the eye; another time, his hand missed the glove entirely and it slipped out of his other hand... it flipped up in the air, Franchy and the second baseman stared at each other, and it fell on the floor between them. -
Time For the Hypo Trade Talks to Begin ?
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to vegasbob's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
This is the USofA, where we use standard units of measurement! The rest of the entire planet is strange for insisting on using the metric system. -
Time For the Hypo Trade Talks to Begin ?
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to vegasbob's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
It really is mind-boggling that the Red Sox are a better team today because they finally added an actual big league first baseman and outfielder. Fans can argue they lost a catcher who can hit, but at least they replaced him with another actual MLB catcher. So at the deadline, Boston subtracted one major leaguer position player, but added three. And they got rid of a reliever known as a notorious foot-finder... -
I didn't hear it, but thought it when the Bloom henchman grabbed Vaz and wouldn't let him talk to the media after he was traded. It was live on NESN, and the thug escorted Vaz right off the field in Houston. Maybe they wanted their Red Sox BP shirt returned.
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If Hosmer revives with a change of scenery for the next two months, Bloom will have another offseason trade chip. Imagine the value of a decent first baseman being paid $44 million by his old team not to play for them?
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All speculative albeit viable points. So let's say Arroyo RF was all Cora -- and the CBO watched the debacle (that also necessitated using Duran and Cordero in the outfield) just like the rest of us. Isn't this also on Bloom for not realizing it was not working at all, and not providing competent reinforcements? Or if Bloom's manager was so misusing the roster he provided, why hasn't he fired the guy yet? (granted, it's not like telling the Yankees manager in 1920, "I bought you the league's best left-handed pitcher of the past decade, and you're playing him in rightfield?")
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None of us are pretending. Before the season, you and I both agreed Tommy Pham was a decent option for a right-handed hitting outfielder. For whatever reasons -- which we'll never know for sure -- the Red Sox went an entire half season without one more legitimate MLB outfielder on their roster. Once Kike got hurt, the choices were an infielder, a guy not ready to be a big leaguer, and a guy who has proven over and over he is not a big leaguer.
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Your second line answers your first. And I agree Cora had other choices: First he asked Xander to move to the outfield, but was refused. Then he tried to get Shaw to do it and switch hit, but ol Trav had put on too many lbs. Next AC placed a call to Hanley, to try to get him to come out of retirement, but he was still sleeping. The worst part is during all this, Vazquez volunteered to play RF -- but Bloom forbid it, lest he get hurt before the trade deadline and the Sox only get someone's #30th or #31st best prospect for him.
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Haven't you read elsewhere that team interns posing as fans join forums like this to put positive spins on their organizations no matter what? It's their jobs; just accept it. And instead of complaining about them, call out their boss for specific moves or non-moves... like: 1) why add a legitimate 1B and right-swinging OF now -- did it really take 100 games to realize Arroyo in RF and Franchy anywhere on the big league diamond wasn't the answer; 2) why not add a legitimate bullpen arm or two or three -- or is the plan to burn out Schreiber, Whitlock and Houck in every game sniffing a lead the rest of the season and postseason (except in Toronto); 3) next time replacing an important regular position player -- like catcher -- get the new guy first, because really, it's ok if the tradebait return is then a little less than someone's #28 and 29 prospects.
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Someone who once won a Gold Glove in the big leagues over someone who drops every glove he has ever tried to put on?
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Panda was an impact player, the time his belt broke and he belly-flopped off the infield dirt. Grounds crew is still waiting for him to replace his own divet.
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I just read Franchy is going back to SD as the player to be blamed sooner. Reportedly, talksox will subsidize a hundred posts to help talkpads kickstart a new thread: Yoko... OH NO!
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Because they can't function like they used to in parked cars anymore, not with partners or even solo, like big league catchers?
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I am not a Bloom guy, but I support his moves yesterday, and today, because moves had to be made. I also agree with you that they should've been made a month ago, when even dumb fans like me knew they needed serious help to get through a tough July schedule.
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Time For the Hypo Trade Talks to Begin ?
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to vegasbob's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
You mean like only posting on a rival forum when your team's having a good regular season, and not when they choke in the last three postseasons they met? -
Was it OJ's private investigators (still searching) who ran into Ugueth Urbina with a machete?
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And Verdugo was at a party where Buchholz took a laptop and erased Oil Can's overdue tapes while videotaping Yaz smoking a cigarette! OMFG!!!
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Maybe someone might like to know this (from today's Cincinnati Inquirer): MIAMI – Cincinnati Reds general manager Nick Krall called left fielder Tommy Pham one of the hardest workers he has been around in the clubhouse. “He was really good, very prepared, took his craft very seriously and worked his butt off,” Krall said. “We really enjoyed having him in the clubhouse."
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Trading Vazquez shouldn't be a surprise for any fans who have been following the Red Sox since last winter, when Bloom showed he was ready to move on from Vazquez when it was disclosed there was a deal discussed for Stallings (who instead was swapped to Miami). They weren't going to resign Vaz, so at least they got two lottery tickets for him before he left. I'm not a big Bloom apologist, but at least he's showing he's not just cleaning house, after adding a new catcher and outfielder. If indignant fans could just shut up about the new guys' character flaws -- oh, the horrors -- they'd see that.
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None of the actual baseball players in the clubhouse care in the least about opinions of flawless fans devoid of human imperfections. All they care about with teammates is that they care as much as they do. Pham is highly-regarded as a hard worker who takes winning seriously; it's worth reading quotes about him from people in the Reds' organization.
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Obviously, the two-year deal is more desirable when dangling controllable asshats.
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Plus, a player to be named later. Bloom is scouring parole reports throughout the system right now...
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No misterdemeanor... disorderly: wasn't doing it right... or maybe too animated?
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For fans who grew up in the nights of drive-in movies, cars and parking lots were never considered part of the public. Maybe convertibles with the top down?
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... both turned 23 this season as Houston's #28 and #29 prospects. Both lefty swingers with promising power.
