Old Red
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Maybe we could petition to get into a weaker Div, so we wouldn’t look so bad especially since the O’s don’t look like a bottom feeder anymore.
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100% agree. The Braves won the WS last year, and had a good BP, and they still went out, and shelled out some money for Jensen 36 (saves). You can’t have to many good BP arms. Even Colorado has seen the the importance of having a reliable closer.
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e You have your opinions,and I have mine, so disagreeing is not squelching, but you will look at it different from me, which is fine. You can have Houck, and I’ll take someone else. Schreiber could be a 1 yr wonder, and not someone I’m counting on for next year to have a big role, and even before he was hurt Whitlock wasn’t as lockdown as he was last year, so you go with your staff, and I’d go with something different.
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I’m not saying Bard is the best option, but the contract is not all that bad. Like I keep saying the BP will not get better without a reliable closer.
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A closer is the #1 need for the BP. Period! And from Nobody on the staff now. I understand what you don’t understand.
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You really want to come back with the same combo next year? Houck, and Whitlock are coming off injuries, and you want to count on Schreiber being as good next year after being so, so in his career? Also to count on Barnes. Doesn’t sound like good baseball strategy to me if you want to get better.
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Old friend Daniel Bard would be better, and a big no on Kimbrel. Kimbrel was just taken out of the closer role by the Dodgers, who may regret come postseason they did not resign Jensen.
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9/23 SOX @ Yankems 7:05PM ET
Old Red replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Whether Hill, and the D did worse, or not the BP has cost them games since opening day. -
12 games left, and 6 games under 500. 9-3 will get you there. Not going to happen this year.
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That’s why Joe Madden said they need to come down to the dugout to see what really goes on.
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I didn’t say it was. That’s my point. Like I said earlier you were grasping at straws, but it didn’t change anything especially the all important WL record.
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The Washington FB Team won their Div a few years ago with a losing record. Right place at the right time.
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March 16th is the date to start with, and not April 4th, and that’s my last mention of the subject.
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It was grasping at straws if anything else.
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The old gift, and a curse.
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You always want me to do Bloom’s work for him. Why are you limiting finding a pitcher to a FA. Go out, and make a deal.same excuse on the 1B front. Go out, and make a deal. In all of MLB there was no 1B out there that could have been better than Franchy Strangeglove? Bloom it seems to have a pattern of not being able to do something at the time of need, and those 2 examples made the team worse off, and you can deny that all you want. He’s the HOBO, so go out, and make a deal.
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I guess that was just not obvious to the powers at be, and yes things were made worse, because of it.
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Two days ago you were saying the Red Sox would have been in 3rd place in 3 other divisions, and 4th place in 2 other division besides that if they didn’t play in the BBE (Big Bad East), and of course you would have to do schedule adjustments too. Well unfortunately they are not in another Div, and they are what they are. Playoffs? Did someone say playoffs? Not in Boston. Not this year, but if we just could have been in another Div we had a chance with a weaker schedule. Oh well better luck next year.
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Once again in all of MLB there was no one out there? Wow! Once again March 16th is when the injury was announced, so why you clinging to April 4th? 4 weeks wasn’t enough time to find someone? This was before the Story signing too, so no excuse there either.
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Who said anything about trying to find a Ace? No one did. April 4th? The Red Sox announced the injury on March 16th, which was plenty of time to go out, and find a starting pitcher, so Houck, and Whitlock wouldn’t have been messed with.
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There may have been a plan to start the season, before Sale’s injury was known, but when it was Cora, and Bloom didn’t know what to do, and made decisions on the fly, and to me it showed.
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I agree, and playing piggyback was another.
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Jansen would have been alright for this year, but risky for the money going forward. I agree you need more than a closer, but to me a closer is where you start.
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NONE of these guys have a track record as a reliable closer for to long a time,and you don’t really know what to expect from any of them going into next year. Whitlock, and Houck are coming off injuries. Is Schreiber all of a sudden a reliable setup man, or a one hit wonder? Barnes who knows. Got to get a proven commodity if possible.
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Need a reliable closer to start with, and then go from there.