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I was a T Ball scout. Does that count? Just, because you know more doesn’t mean you automatically make better decisions.
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Just, because you sit in the big chair doesn’t necessarily mean you know more than those who don’t.
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Trial, and error was one thing, but both Barnes, and Robles wasn’t working early on, and to much time was wasted playing iney,meany, miney, mo.
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L-R matchups are not always necessary, or work as in the Arroyo move who wasn’t an OF, and wasn’t hitting.
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Let’s remember too on how long it has taken Cora to address the backend of the BP, and give Houck at shot at closer. I guess he figured piggybacking was more important.
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I like YS for his glove first, but yes Fitzy would be an option too.
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They have YS down at Worcester if they needed someone as a backup IF.
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Duran up for Arroyo, who is in Covid protocols.
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At the moment Refsnyder looks like a capable option as a backup RHH OF. I know it’s a small sample size, but I believe a better option than Arroyo, but if he sticks when Kike comes back is another question. I know he hasn’t hit much in the past, but Arroyo isn’t hitting either.
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There you go with that idiot word again that only you use for Spaghetti Man Bloom.
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No it is not, but not the best of ideas, and metrics won’t tell you Franchy doesn’t have any kind of good footwork around the bag. The good old reliable eye test will.
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I’ll just call Bloom the Spaghetti Man from here on out, because most of his moves are done with the idea of let’s see what sticks.
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If if if. If JBJ was a good hitter, and didn’t need to be platooned. If Barnes was the old good Barnes. If Sale was the old good Sale who wasn’t hurt all the time.
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Just a spaghetti move to me, and a move that needed not to happen if Bloom would have just gotten a RHH OF in the first place instead of JBJ, and if not a regular RHH backup OF.
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Just because someone is cheap you don’t try them in the toughest RF in baseball. He did have a position after signing Story of being the backup IF. Just like Franchy is not a 1B, and neither was Schwaber. That’s just Bloom, and Cora trying those spaghetti moves.
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Renfroe wasn’t good enough out there, and Duran isn’t either, but I think both are better options than Arroyo. Arroyo is not an OF, and especially trying to play RF in Fenway is not even an idea that should have been tried in the first place.
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He was throwing hard in the BP too.
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Story does cover a lot of ground out there, and is more like a short fielder in softball.
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John Henry get your checkbook out now, because Raffy value is only going to go up, and up.
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Myers’s contract is still running at $20M, so I agree it wouldn’t have been a fit, and not just the money part.
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Arroyo in RF tonight, which I don’t like at all especially in Fenway. Just because he is a RHH he’s not hitting much of anything.
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Is the attendance figures tickets sold, or what actually comes through the gate?
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Anything discussed on Price?
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I don’t know what else was out there for a return for Mookie, and neither do you know that the Dodgers were the only one interested. I do not hold the position that Bloom must sign Bogey, but I would like that to happen. If a fair offer is presented like to me would be 6/150 to 6/ 180, and Bogey turns it down then thanks for all you’ve done, and bye bye. I do blame Bloom for that insulting offer he made before though. If Bogey turns down a good offer it’s on him.
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I never blamed Bloom for trading Mookie, or having to work with a checking account not as big as DD, or Theo.