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Why are people so quick to push Bradley out the door?
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No doubt the Yankees will be extremely good next season. But desperate dave can not go into fireman mode this offseason, over react and do something stupid!!! I would advise him to stick to the plan, but we all know he does not have one.
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For me, I find it hard to believe we could have the same amount of injuries in 2018 as we had in 2017. For 2018 my crystal ball says: I expect improvement from betts, benintendi, Vazquez, bogey, devers, porcello, Thornburg and Ross. I expect about the same from holt, Bradley, Leon, Hanley, Kelly, sale, Pomeranz, smith, Barnes and Kimbrel. That leaves the wild cards: Price - what is the extent of the tear? Rodriguez - post surgery recovery time needed? Pedroia - can we get more than 20 to 30 healthy games from him? 1st base - who be on first? 5th starter - lots of candidates in house or do we sign someone? 4th outfielder - not a lot of candidates in house, so who do we sign? Lefty reliever - not a lot of in house candidates, so who do we sign? Our season will rest on how many wild cards exceed expectations!
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We could bring back lackey in th cheap for a year. Or we could sign gee on the cheap and move him to the bullpen when Rodriguez returns.
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Sox will have tons of competition for Martinez.
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A guy that intrigues me is Garza. He is not what he once was, but as a stopgap til Rodriguez comes back, he might work. Plus he brings some leadership,
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Would Carlos Santana work for us? He may not be a power hitter per se. But his on base is consistently over .350.
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A lot of people think Cobb has declining peripherals and would be a bad investment. However he did spank our zombies around at will this year.
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Everything that has been said and written about him. And while votto may not want to leave Cincy, the fact remains, he is a competitor, a warrior. Winning is important to him, we offer him that chance and his position is a position of need, All that being said however, we do not have the prospect capital to make this happen. So we need a veteran who can come into our fractured clubhouse and command respect from day one and has some power and plays a position of need,
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The single biggest need in the Red Sox for next year is a veteran leader! An experienced veteran to hold the other players in the locker room accountable, someone to focus them, someone to motivate them to want to win, someone to teach them how to bring the intensity while avoiding distractions and most of all someone to provide leadership! This past season was a pathetic display of numbness and distraction by our hitters, Now I understand that pedroia fractured the clubhouse and caused irreversible tension and distraction in the room that lingered throughout the year. The fact that we lacked a veteran leader that could bring everybody together and discuss it and move the team past it was very sad and totally avoidable. The best clubhouse leader in all of baseball is Votto. But I do not know if we want to spend the prospect capital to acquire him. Stanton is not the guy, So time to look for plan b.
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Cora is the kind of hire that could motivate our hitters to actually play hard and not be zombies, No idea if Cora can handle a pitching staff or bullpen, but hopefully he has a Great bench coach to help him, At the end of the day, Cora will probably save desperate dave from the axe.
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I believe Farrell said price has a tear in his pitching elbow. Unless he is hitting stem cells injections, there is no way he can make 30 starts next season, Ps: I realize Tanaka also has something torn in his arm but still made his starts this season. No idea how he does it or how significant his tear is.
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I really wonder what swihart is now after two injury plagued seasons. Three years ago, he was on my untouchable list. Had a beautiful swing and made lots of hard contact. Now he is probably a double a player stuck in triple a.
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6 Inning Starts + 6 Man Roration = Fewer Arm Problems
Larry Cook replied to bosoxmal's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
The six man rotation works if you go with 13 pitchers and have at least two holt’s on the bench. I would instead propose that we go to a 13 pitcher squad, but every other cycle the Long reliever gets a start starting June 1st, and we stay on rotation even when we have a day off. It is so important to get these pitchers locked in and focused on throwing strikes and secondary pitches through the first couple of months of the season. I think we do not give our starters enough innings in spring training and they come out rusty to start each season. -
I expect the Yankees to go hard after talent this offseason by either trade or free agency.
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Does Leon work better with Rodriguez?
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Sox to hire Alex Cora as manager
Larry Cook replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Who is the worst 3rd base coach butterfield or way them in Kim? -
Sox to hire Alex Cora as manager
Larry Cook replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Seems like desperate dave was locked on him from day one, He needs to make sure this works. -
Groome has some incredible stuff. His curveball has a chance to be Kershaw like. Can he put it all together next season? Hard to say. But if he does we have s future #1 starter on our hands. Ps: our record of developing together by pitchers is not what I would describe as spectacular!
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If Rodriguez is going to miss the beginning of the season and price's elbow is hanging on by a thread, then desperate dave should look for two starters this offseason. In my mind, we need to sign free agents ohtani and Alex Cobb!
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I thought it was "Fran-in-a-coma"!
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Wasn't yaz the same height? He did ok at first if I remember correctly, but I was very young back then.
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Nobody on this board has bashed desperate dave like I have, but even I have to admit desperate dave did the right thing by going all in on sale. And if everyone is honest, we all knew sale had a tendency to wear down in the second half of seasons. Out of devers, Moncada and benintendi, desperate dave was smart to part with Moncada. So I give him props for that as well. Now he needs to put that same focus squarely on signing ohtani.
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If Nunez had a torn pcl, he will need surgery and at least a six month recovery period.
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Whoever we sign or marrero or Lin.