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04/22 SOX @ Rays 7:10PM ET
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Ironically, when he got to Boston last summer he was Diekman, throwing as hard as he could and liable to hit the mitt, the batter or the backstop at any time. -
Unfortunately, I base my opinions on not having "very high expectations to being with." ... which only revisits the true disappointments by me and many others here with the organization for not recruiting better options this winter.
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Me as culpable admits Wacha has been a pleasant surprise... especially after being demoted to mop-up, then basically cut, by the pitching geniuses in Tampa. The only major disappointments in the rotation have been the unavailability of certain starters to pitch whenever -- and wherever -- their team needs them.
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Maybe you're right... for those of us who watch nightly, we often see relievers used more frequently on a weekly basis, thus giving the perception of guys more hot and cold in the regency role. There are also other factors that have to affect bullpen performance that include, but aren't limited to, high stress situations, inherited runners, umpire adjustments to different deliveries, the ability to loosen up after sitting for hours in various weather, and when/if stimulants/opioids have kicked in. However, when a starter has a "bad" year, it's usually due to a nagging injury or radical change like banning the sticky stuff.
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Geez, you act like baseball statistics don't constitute hard data. To make a claim that qualitative determines quantitative would be like saying what sometimes constitutes a strike or a ball is based on a base ump's perception of a check swing, or that a hit or an error is often determined by an official scorer's opinion.
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But I bet Toronto fans in the front row behind first base say their prayers every time he winds up to sail a throw.
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After watching the flabbergasting Gausman make the Sox look ghastly, did anyone else agree you get what you pay for? For those against investing in top pitchers for market rates, maybe it's just a matter of accepting the inevitable drag of the backend of a longterm contract for the elite front end of the front enders... When the Jays get Teoscar Hernandez back they'll be even harder to beat, and could even go all the way... as soon as they install a real shortstop and shift Bichette somewhere safer.
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It's like when the Red Sox tried to talk Damon into rejoining them for a stretch run once.
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I proposed they adjust the record books, but a town council member burned them before it was too late.
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I thought Gonzalez was the perfect guy for the Sox to acquire. But I realized something was off when the Padres took Rizzo in the deal instead of the more highly-touted Lars Anderson. Were our evaluators somehow wrong in their assessments? After all, AGon was an overall number one draft pick... not a "former", by the way -- he really was picked first overall. But now he was traded twice, and still in his prime... Then what did Epstein do as soon as he took over Chicago? Got Rizzo back in a trade to be his new cornerstone.
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Yep, quality starts aren't as important as quality finishes. Relievers don't get high WAR scores, but their key metric can be found in the standings.
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Another thing going against Bard's conversion was that he was coming off just a brutal last month from '11... He went from a lights-out set-up guy all season to the biggest loser (0-4 in Sept. and I don't know how many blown saves). Whatever the problem was, the Sox decided his next move would be straight into the starting rotation. Somehow, I can't see Cora approving of that until they "got him right"... (like they haven't yet with Barnes).
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Don't be deceived by those legendary starters from '11; they were all pretty bad or hurt in the September collapse...
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Going by memory here, but Bard was tried as a starter because the Sox' rotation was so whack at the end of 2011 that they were relying on Kyle Weiland (career: 0-6, 7.23) and were ready to sign Bruce Chen just to start a playoff for a playoff if needed... Bard was a candidate with the youngest and fastest arm, but his arsenal and polish were nothing like that of Garrett Whitlock...
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Gotta give credit where it's due for the first-place Red Sox: Strahm, Diekman, Robles and Whitlock. All were unheralded pick-ups by Bloom, deftly used by Cora, and arguably the most valuable players on the team through the first dozen games. Hopefully, if management has learned anything from the past few years, it will take steps soon to fortify this core before inevitable burn-out. Counting on meaningful contributions from Paxton and/or Sale, and thereby moving another starter to the bullpen is a longshot. Maybe some younger, flexible arms promoted from the farms can give a second-half boost...
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Disposable Syringes
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His bat-to-ball potential was the skill talked about when he was drafted out of Uncle Beltran's academy in Puerto Rico.
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It's incongruous to equate 6-year-olds with big leaguers, when the only tattoos that kids get are rub-on temporary stickers. Unlike the pros, youngsters don't yet have the education to research the chemicals going onto their skin, nor the pain threshold to receive multiple jabs for the permanent tats of their role models.
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The same players who once turned down college scholarships because they wouldn't get the required vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella?
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Legend has it that after stadium lights go out, the ghost runners hover over the batter's box and take turns swinging at all the dead arms...
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This is a board about a baseball team, and I have esteem for team players. The fact is the Red Sox qualified for the postseason last year on the final day of the season. The Blue Jays missed the playoffs by exactly one game. Any player who chooses not to follow requirements for participation and is thereby banned from contributing in games in Toronto is jeopardizing Boston's chances this year.
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It wasn't the adultering, it was the chicken! Everybody knows that once Boggs' wife caught him straying, she stopped cooking those magic daily pregame dinners that led to annual 8 WARs. Margo couldn't cook, and worse, her take-outs from KFC made his WARdrobe plummet...
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But you couldn't possibly trust the science of someone who's been the director of the national institute of infectious diseases for 40 years, over the wisdom of the scholar athletes in the Red Sox clubhouse... ... most of those guys have been alive for at least 25 years!
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Just like the requirements for all these guys their entire lives before entering elementary school or college.
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4/18 Twins @ Sox
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to Maxbialystock's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Walk Dugo, pitch to not Story.
