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Post by Guidas on May 31, 2013 22:14:14 GMT -5
Chip i n the ball, scanner on the plate, set a uniform strike zone and let these bozos call fair/foul/outs and minutae such as balks and catcher interferance. They can maintain their uinion numbers by putting the one of each crew with the best vision up in the booth to review replay on the safe/out/fair/foul HR stuff. you want to speed up the game Bud? That should buy you 4-5 sec per pitch sequence, alone. 10 sec if Wendlestat or Bucknor is behind the plate.
And if Doubleday had access to chips and scanners( and cups and sunglasses) he would've used them and had the umpries just selll beer to the other fat guys.
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Post by jrffam05 on May 31, 2013 22:30:51 GMT -5
I'll call out my biase as I always when I make this statement.
I thought once again tonight was an inconsistent strike zone for both sides. Cc got the calls that Lester didn't. I think it changes the gane more than people give it credit for. Inconsistent strike zones are my biggest pet peeve in baseball. I don't care if it's a tight strike zone or not, it should be consistent for both teams through all 9 innings. I really don't even like it when it goes I'm the sox favor, which I feel happens less but still once in a while.
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Post by wcp3 on May 31, 2013 23:04:09 GMT -5
It was not inconsistent for both sides. CC got all the close calls that he should have gotten, but Lester got none of the close calls he should have gotten.
I know the technology is better and what not, but holy hell, umpires are beyond awful these days.
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Post by sarasoxer on Jun 1, 2013 9:25:51 GMT -5
I fear with Doubront tonight, we may be in for a double dose of what happened with Lester. Doubront has less stuff (now) and less control. Youk & Texiera are good judges of the zone. I'd be very surprised if Doubront gets past 5...especially with a lead. Tomorrow Buch is coming off a minor injury but may be cautious in letting it go. Who really knows how long Ells will be out. Groin injuries can certainly linger.
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Post by Guidas on Jun 1, 2013 14:30:29 GMT -5
No Ells again tonight. I wouldn't expect to see him until Tues unless they DL him.
@scottlauber #RedSox at NYY (RH Hughes): Nava LF, Carp RF, Pedroia 2B, Ortiz DH, Napoli 1B, Drew SS, Salty C, Iglesias 3B, Bradley Jr. CF. Doubront
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Post by godot on Jun 1, 2013 14:42:05 GMT -5
"Jason Bay is a reasonable trade target. He still can hit lefties. Also he is cheap. We don't need to give up too much to trade for him."
Don't know how cheap he will come. He hit two home runs today, now at 8. He only has 18 rbis, but has been batting 2nd and sometimes lead off for the Ms. Then again, it is trading with the Mariners, and pitchers are probably not taking him too seriously yet.
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Post by mattpicard on Jun 1, 2013 16:04:18 GMT -5
Regarding Bay, what are we going to do with Gomes and the $8 million or so we still owe him? Bay is not a significant upgrade on the bases or in the field, and he's only getting on base a little more often than Gomes.
From 2010-2012:
Gomes: .249/.340/.434/.774 Bay: .234/.318/.369/.687
Bay has also been extremely fragile with concussion, hammy, back, knee, and shoulder injuries, and he's not getting any younger at 34. Gomes will start hitting better soon enough.
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Post by sarasoxer on Jun 1, 2013 16:15:51 GMT -5
Does Gomes have the most awkward swing this side of Ichiro?...and Napoli's swing is sooo long, he can't catch fastballs it seems. Bay is better than Gomes IMO but we may not want to spend our remaining "powder" now.
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Post by thelavarnwayguy on Jun 1, 2013 16:20:40 GMT -5
Assuming no umpires are on the take, a big assumption IMO, there does seem to be a tendency to give the Yankees the Michael Jordan treatment. It is helpful to the league financially if the Yanks do well. They pay the most in salaries, in luxury tax penalties, in revenue sharing in general. Even the umps benefit from the Yanks doing well if you think about it. At least some of them know and appreciate where their bread is buttered.
The Yankees just lost 4 in a row. They are starting a new series against their arch rivals. Someone has to fill those $20,000 season ticket seats. The money involved in the Yanks organization is so huge even the crumbs are significant. No one even has to tell the umps who the league wants in the world series. It's pretty obvious.
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Post by godot on Jun 1, 2013 16:23:13 GMT -5
Bay's swing reminds me a bit of Middlebrooks. BTW, agree Matt.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Jun 1, 2013 17:06:13 GMT -5
Please don't try to create a pro-Yankee bias/conspiracy, whatever you want to call it. . . It was one guy doing a bad job. You don't think the MLB does well when the Red Sox are winning as well?
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Post by godot on Jun 1, 2013 17:48:38 GMT -5
On a side note while we are waiting for the game, is the end near for Beckett? A few articles report that he is experiencing numbness in the fingertips of his right hand, a new experience for him, and he is contemplating retirement. He had a MRI, and it seems like it did not tell much. I gather he has had the issue for some time now, which has him thinking of hanging up the glove.
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Post by sarasoxer on Jun 1, 2013 17:51:21 GMT -5
On a side note while we are waiting for the game, is the end near for Beckett? A few articles report that he is experiencing numbness in the fingertips of his right hand, a new experience for him, and he is contemplating retirement. He had a MRI, and it seems like it did not tell much. I gather he has had the issue for some time now, which has him thinking of hanging up the glove. The once mighty has quickly fallen. I am sorry for Beckett but the last few years he was a shadow of his Marlin days. Even as a devoted Sox fan, I could see a certain arrogance or sullenness which did not endear him.
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Post by Guidas on Jun 1, 2013 19:20:20 GMT -5
let' s see if Napoli can show some plate discipline here
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Post by jmei on Jun 1, 2013 19:22:07 GMT -5
Biggest at bat of the game is right here. Let's see what Napoli has in him.
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Post by jmei on Jun 1, 2013 19:24:03 GMT -5
That was impressive. Gets down 0-2, lays off a couple tough pitches, and then drives an outside fastball out to the opposite field. Huge.
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Post by godot on Jun 1, 2013 19:27:47 GMT -5
Maybe that will give him a few days reprieve from Guidas, just a few though. He does so much better when he goes to the opposite field, Napoli, not Guidas.
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Post by Guidas on Jun 1, 2013 19:50:55 GMT -5
lol. I'll take it. Just sick of him expanding the strike zone to the batters' boxes.
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Post by marrcus on Jun 1, 2013 19:56:47 GMT -5
That would have been a huge squander.
Felix has a high pitch count but keeps his concentration, hitting 90 and not walking people.
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Post by sarasoxer on Jun 1, 2013 20:01:33 GMT -5
That would have been a huge squander. Felix has a high pitch count but keeps his concentration, hitting 90 and not walking people. Unless Doubront re-discovers his fastball, he is the odd-man out in the rotation with the return of Morales. I so hate to watch the Lester, Doubront and former Dice-K be at 110 pitches after 5 innings. We can't win anything with that kind of consistent performance. There will be too much pressure on the bullpen that has vulnerabilities too.
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Post by widewordofsport on Jun 1, 2013 20:05:26 GMT -5
I don't care if it's in the wrong thread... so far for the player of the week calculations, I have Xander at a 1.824. And can't figure out a way that it's wrong...
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Post by widewordofsport on Jun 1, 2013 20:07:57 GMT -5
Isn't there a reason Morales ended up as a reliever? I'm not trying to suggest he's Andrew Miller, but as well as Aceves and Morales have pitched in a few random starts, I'm not sure Morales is a better solution, even maybe for the rest of this year, than Doubrant. I hope he gets the shot, I'm just not going to 100% trust in it.
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Post by Guidas on Jun 1, 2013 20:39:36 GMT -5
Hell of a game by Doubront.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Jun 1, 2013 20:40:37 GMT -5
All in all a very encouraging start from Doubront. Struggled out of the gate but found his comfort zone and went 6 after throwing ~50 in the first two.
B-Ref.com has Nava's earliest free agency at 2018. . . is that true? Do they have this guy under control for another five years? That's outstanding.
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Post by jrffam05 on Jun 1, 2013 21:24:33 GMT -5
Loved that commentary
"Tough play, this is Iglesias, WOW" "Was that quick?"..... "Made that look easy"
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