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Post by sox fan in nc on Jan 8, 2018 16:43:54 GMT -5
Pitchers+Catchers February 14 .41 days ESPN announced 2 televised spring training games for the Sox March 23 1pm Yanks vs Red Sox March 27 1 pm Cubs vs Red Sox I hope that March 27th game is home.....that would be a long bus ride to Mesa AZ
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jan 8, 2018 16:45:37 GMT -5
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Post by sox fan in nc on Jan 8, 2018 17:13:35 GMT -5
Seems to be a good idea seeing that both teams open up the season in Florida. I know there's scheduling fairness and all with teams not wanting the early season gates that are normally lighter than summer gates, but even they have to understand the 5 or 6 cities like Clev/Detroit/Minn/Bos/NY/Denver and maybe one or 2 more, are weather suicide in early April.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jan 8, 2018 17:39:48 GMT -5
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jan 8, 2018 17:43:23 GMT -5
Seems to be a good idea seeing that both teams open up the season in Florida. I know there's scheduling fairness and all with teams not wanting the early season gates that are normally lighter than summer gates, but even they have to understand the 5 or 6 cities like Clev/Detroit/Minn/Bos/NY/Denver and maybe one or 2 more, are weather suicide in early April. Teams often have scrimmages that aren't part of Spring Training en route to where they open the season. Last year the Red Sox were SUPPOSED to play two games in DC as they flew north, but of course the one normal game at Nats Park (the other was at the Naval Academy, for military personnel only) got rained out. I don't think there's any thought to avoiding the north though. They basically alternate opening at home and on the road, not literally year-for-year, but something like that, I think.
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Post by soxfanatic on Jan 9, 2018 7:32:47 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2018 8:33:48 GMT -5
Thanks. Great reading material. Brendan McKay LHP/1b seems to be a good story. Another two way player(Otani) in the Ray's system.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2018 11:17:19 GMT -5
Read an article stating that each MLB team will or already have received 50m each. This stemmed from the Disney purchase of BamTech . BamTech would enable ESPN stream games and recover some losses from the other streaming networks. Just wondering if teams are waiting on this money could this be part of the cold hot stove. And could this help the lower revenue team sign top free agents.
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Post by James Dunne on Jan 9, 2018 11:35:11 GMT -5
Read an article stating that each MLB team will or already have received 50m each. This stemmed from the Disney purchase of BamTech . BamTech would enable ESPN stream games and recover some losses from the other streaming networks. Just wondering if teams are waiting on this money could this be part of the cold hot stove. And could this help the lower revenue team sign top free agents. You know they aren't paying the free agents in up-front cash, right? Pssst, JD, check out this briefcase.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2018 11:53:54 GMT -5
Read an article stating that each MLB team will or already have received 50m each. This stemmed from the Disney purchase of BamTech . BamTech would enable ESPN stream games and recover some losses from the other streaming networks. Just wondering if teams are waiting on this money could this be part of the cold hot stove. And could this help the lower revenue team sign top free agents. You know they aren't paying the free agents in up-front cash, right? Pssst, JD, check out this briefcase. Hahaha. Wait?!?! Do you think we can fit the whole 50m in one briefcase or are we going to need two.
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Post by sox fan in nc on Jan 9, 2018 12:22:16 GMT -5
I live in the Winston-Salem area and try to catch a few games when the Salem Red Sox come to town to play the Dash (White Sox High-A club). Any posters live around the Triad area (Winston/Greensboro/High Point)? I live in Midway (just south of Winston). I do catch the Salem Sox when they come to town (at least one game per visit). Love the new stadium, just hate they play insanely loud music in between innings and batters. Can't even talk baseball.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jan 9, 2018 12:26:23 GMT -5
Was there? In the video it looked like Martin and Scott to me.
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Post by soxfanatic on Jan 9, 2018 12:40:19 GMT -5
Was there? In the video it looked like Martin and Scott to me. There's an interview with him on the Red Sox website.
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Post by sittingstill on Jan 9, 2018 13:29:12 GMT -5
Was there? In the video it looked like Martin and Scott to me. There's an interview with him on the Red Sox website. The more the merrier! Not sure why it's so hard to find a list. But I believe they said there were ~100 players, and the Astros did send four last year.
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Post by huskies15 on Jan 9, 2018 14:34:26 GMT -5
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Jan 9, 2018 16:53:12 GMT -5
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jan 10, 2018 10:42:31 GMT -5
Hear hear (or do we have to say dilly dilly now?). And it wasn't like he had some desk job either - he was apparently a damn good fighter pilot too. Should mention Bob Feller, Joe Dimaggio, and Hank Greenberg as well. (Plus Johnny Pesky, Dom Dimaggio, others...) The crazy thing to me is that despite the near-universal agreement that Williams was the greatest hitter the game has seen (at least until Bonds and the question of how much PEDs affected things for him), he STILL gets under-appreciated. He'd have ranked in the top 10 at least in like every offensive category assuming consistent production in the years he lost. I've seen estimates that he'd have hit between 660 and 720 home runs in his career. Anyone who hasn't read Leigh Montville's Williams biography, I highly recommend it. Great hitter, great pilot, great fisherman/sportsman, incredibly flawed and fascinating human being.
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Post by jimed14 on Jan 10, 2018 11:00:00 GMT -5
Hear hear (or do we have to say dilly dilly now?). And it wasn't like he had some desk job either - he was apparently a damn good fighter pilot too. Should mention Bob Feller, Joe Dimaggio, and Hank Greenberg as well. (Plus Johnny Pesky, Dom Dimaggio, others...) The crazy thing to me is that despite the near-universal agreement that Williams was the greatest hitter the game has seen (at least until Bonds and the question of how much PEDs affected things for him), he STILL gets under-appreciated. He'd have ranked in the top 10 at least in like every offensive category assuming consistent production in the years he lost. I've seen estimates that he'd have hit between 660 and 720 home runs in his career. Anyone who hasn't read Leigh Montville's Williams biography, I highly recommend it. Great hitter, great pilot, great fisherman/sportsman, incredibly flawed and fascinating human being. 1941 11.0 fWAR 1942 11.6 fWAR 1943 Did Not Play 1944 Did Not Play 1945 Did Not Play 1946 11.8 fWAR 1947 10.5 fWAR That's one of the most insane things in baseball history. Imagine if he weren't playing in the worst possible park for a dead pull hitter or if he didn't miss 5 seasons of his prime. I always argue he was the best hitter of all time. The walk rate and strike out rate were unbelievable. 20.6%/7.2% for his career. He even had a 184 wRC+ in his final season at age 42.
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Post by wildcardwillie on Jan 10, 2018 11:31:28 GMT -5
I live in the Winston-Salem area and try to catch a few games when the Salem Red Sox come to town to play the Dash (White Sox High-A club). Any posters live around the Triad area (Winston/Greensboro/High Point)? I live in NC straight up 85 near VA line near Henderson!
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jan 10, 2018 13:02:10 GMT -5
Dave Cameron leaving Fangraphs to join the Padres' front office.
#neverforgetJeremyReed
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Post by jimed14 on Jan 10, 2018 13:08:13 GMT -5
Dave Cameron leaving Fangraphs to join the Padres' front office. #neverforgetJeremyReed Damn that's gonna hurt! I understand the desire to work with any major league team, but working with Preller would be at #29, behind the Marlins for me.
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Post by soxfanatic on Jan 11, 2018 12:09:40 GMT -5
Not sure where to put this, but the Red Sox are having their own development camp again:
3B/1B Michael Chavis 1B Josh Ockimey INF Chad De La Guerra INF Esteban Quiroz LHP Jalen Beeks LHP Williams Jerez LHP Bobby Poyner RHP Ty Buttrey RHP Justin Haley RHP Mike Shawaryn
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Post by ramireja on Jan 11, 2018 12:34:40 GMT -5
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Jan 11, 2018 12:56:48 GMT -5
Dave Cameron leaving Fangraphs to join the Padres' front office. #neverforgetJeremyReed Damn that's gonna hurt! I understand the desire to work with any major league team, but working with Preller would be at #29, behind the Marlins for me. There's a long discussion with Cameron about his decision here if you're curious: www.fangraphs.com/blogs/effectively-wild-episode-1161-dave-camerons-goodbye-to-blogging/Short version is that he's turned down a number of offers from teams in the past but the Padres made him an offer he couldn't refuse. He's going to be building their R&D department from the ground up.
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Post by jimoh on Jan 11, 2018 13:35:20 GMT -5
One interesting mistake/piece of imprecise writing: "Theo Epstein upheld this tradition with key picks during his reign as GM, choosing Jonathan Papelbon (24 Future WAR) at No. 17 in 2003, Dustin Pedroia (52.2 as of 2017) with the 24th pick in 2004." Pedroia of course was drafted in the second round, with the 65th pick overall. What they meant to say was, "in 2004, when they had but gave up the 24th pick, they drafted Pedroia in the second round, with the 65th pick overall."
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