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Post by geostorm on Jun 11, 2017 19:12:33 GMT -5
phew...
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Post by geostorm on Jun 11, 2017 10:25:33 GMT -5
I thought Hanley was a dog once upon a time, when he was with the Marlins and went half hearted after a ball and his manager and he got into it. He went to Ortiz with it and Ortiz set him straight. I thought the Sox might be getting a dog with Hanley, a sourpuss type of attitude. I saw a guy get injured playing a position that he had no idea how to play (then I saw Swihart do the same thing). Instead of seeing a guy with a crappy attitude I saw a guy playing with a smile on his face and having an easy going personality. This guy isn't who I thought he was. I thought he was aloof Manny. That's not the case with Hanley. When Hanley is injured, which happens quite often with him, he struggles. When he's healthy, he's a very dangerous hitter, as we saw last season, a year in which he was healthy. Same deal with Pedroia. He finally was healthy last season and he played as well as he's played in years. Then as soon as he had surgery in the offseason, I knew it was going to be one of those years for him. And sure enough he isn't doing what he did last year. The Red Sox offensive decline is more than losing Ortiz. It's also having two injury prone players in Pedroia and Hanley at less than 100% which affects their performances. But no Hanley has to be dogging it. Yeah, Right. www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ramirha01.shtmlwww.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sandopa01.shtmlPapi had a remarkable, likely unprecedented age 38 season, in 2014, and the Sox scored 634 runs, a level not seen during a full season, for 20+ years. Imagine that year with w/o Papi...and what could next season look like, and the years thereafter...after all, what did MLB history look like, for 38 year olds? I'm sure Red Sox ops did. As I recall, the Sox rushed in paying a premium, likely targeting what they perceived as the best available bats, they perhaps thought could bolster the offense, currently, w an expectation that over the term of their contracts, would help mitigate the loss of Ortiz. I remember thinking that while Pablo's numbers were trending down, over the last 2-3 yrs w SF, I saw a player still only 27, and a player who played well in the playoffs, so seemingly not afraid of the spotlight, making him more likely to fit under the microscope that can be Boston...and I thought Hanley an offensive upgrade that for whatever is non-baseball issues may have been, could always hit, and w (what I thought might be) a yr w/ Papi, would transition into DH role... ...this is a simple analysis, admittedly, but if the 2017 Red Sox got at worst Hanley's career average OPS+, and Panda's last season (2014) as a Giants, and Hanley could play 1B consistently v LHP, and in NL rules games, as needed, I'd feel better about the hitting settling in, this season and the duration of those contracts. 100% agree w the representation that a healthy Hanley will hit, and at times hit well enough to help carry a team for stretches. That a healthy Hanley can play a passable 1B, as needed, and as DH, would give you 80-90% of Ortiz' production... ...on what happened to Pablo, w/ numbers in decline, yet still only 27 at the time of his signing. Don't know. I can understand the thinking at the time, that perhaps Pablo contract, through what should've been his prime, albeit w declining numbers, and in a new league entirely, might be a sufficient bridge to the next home grown Red Sox 3B (despite the "cost overruns" on that bridge! . I found it interesting during this season that there is a question on the void created by no longer having Ortiz, where, in 2014, the Sox seemed to be anticipating that, partly, in executing two transactions that they thought that together w/ where they projected player development would facilitate the Post-Papi transition, wherever that might break, and I think if this team gets an approximation of Hanley's 2016 season/career average, and the equivalent of Pablo's 2014 production from anyone at 3B, the offense will be okay.
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Post by geostorm on Jun 6, 2017 22:37:22 GMT -5
...I'm taking a stab at this and saying that for all the entertainment and potential talking points from that very entertaining game, the primary focus, tomorrow, on talk radio/TV/social media will be the Remy-O'Brian exchange regarding the "extra guy on the mound" aka "the translator"...
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Post by geostorm on Jun 6, 2017 21:47:07 GMT -5
THAT was entertaining!
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Post by geostorm on Jun 6, 2017 21:45:09 GMT -5
In other news, Scooter Gennett hit four home runs for the Reds tonight. They're already calling it "Revenge of the Scooter"...(okay...I am)...finally settling the score, for "this", from over 20 years ago! ...and passing Willie Mays, Johnny Bench, Larry Walker, Jim Thome, Ralph Kiner and immortal Casey McGehee, all of whom hit 3 HR in a game vs Cardinals!
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Post by geostorm on Jun 6, 2017 19:17:29 GMT -5
HanRam!
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Post by geostorm on Jun 5, 2017 11:14:14 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Jun 4, 2017 19:26:17 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Jun 1, 2017 15:33:51 GMT -5
If he returns in time to help a playoff run, not so brutal. On the other hand, the Mayor of the mystical city, friend of the B-Boys, 3B/1B solid defender, cost-controlled, hitting well with 25HR pop, etc. Is a loss under the circumstances. Might have been a better choice than Rutledge, Hernandez, Marrero to back up Panda and Mitchie Two Bags. (who says great baseball names are things of the past?). This is especially true with talent coming up from AAA and AA (in addition to Scott and Taylor). Hindsight is a bitch. ...and, on the other hand - if you will allow for a third hand! - there's also "this" to factor in the assessment of this deal - www.milb.com/milb/news/milwaukee-brewers-mauricio-dubon-fitting-in-quickly/c-233543252/t-185364810
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Post by geostorm on May 21, 2017 13:28:35 GMT -5
Good Afternoon...
I'm Ron and live in New Mexico.... been a Red Sox fan for all of my 59 years - having grown up in Connecticut. Don't have much time to post, although I do visit the site daily...
Have had a few great Sox memories, and a few not-so-good ones... I was at fenway for Mo Vaughn's first game,,, quite a few opening days back in the 80's... and was in attendance back in 1990 when Dwight Evans hit a walk off against the Orioles (when the sun came out on a cloudy day just before the hit, and went back behind the clouds after he circled the bases)...
Anybody remember that one ??
This is my "go-to" site for Sox news and opinion, kind of like one-stop shopping...
Was that the game when Evans had previously homered to tie the game in the 8th inning? If so, I remember listening on the radio. I was nine, and Evans had been my favorite player since I started following a couple years before that. He wasn't playing very well that season either, so that was a particularly nice moment. Clemens was fantastic that day too if I recall correctly. Had a sib (one of three brothers), in Air Force, back in RI, on leave, and my Dad picked up tickets to that game & next day's game, v Orioles, for the five of us. Dewey, was one of his fave players, and he had picked up a copy of MLB's first issue of magazine "The Show", which was rockin a sweet pick of Dewey on the cover... thumbs.ebaystatic.com/images/g/EEUAAMXQTghRNhlt/s-l225.jpg...my brother swears that was the talisman that allowed for Dewy's heroics, through-out that weekend. He tied the game in the 8th, then, after Tettleton hit a bomb to put the O's on top, in extras, and here come Olson, who had not allowed an HR, up to that point in the year... ...and dawnbringr, you are 100% correct...I remember another sib's joking, as the sun came out..."it's a sign!...it's a sign!", trying to make the best out of what we'd just seen from Tettleton, half chuckling, half hopeful...and, well, you can imagine us after Dewy's 2 run shot walked off the Sox w a 4-3 Win. (...then, next day, his HR accounted for the only 2 runs, in a 2-0 Sox win, with my AF sib of course mentioning his critical "play" in again bringing along his now even more treasured premiere copy of The Show, "for luck".) That we saw, in person, a couple of his last career Sox game winners - iirc, he beat the Twins on the 4th of July, on a walk-off HR, that year, and another team, later in the year, w a HR in 1-0 game - is still something we revisit, now and then. It was a bit of a bummer, 1990 wasn't his final year in baseball...that he & Sox couldn't come together, for 1991. I absolutely do not like that 1992 Topps #705...does NOT look right!
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Post by geostorm on Dec 6, 2016 15:14:03 GMT -5
Reports that Sox paying entirety of Moncada's remaining deal, if true, likely helped cap the prospects package...eh It's only money. The Sox have plenty of that and none of it goes against the luxury tax. Point being...if the Sox don't pick up what remains of that $31.5M paid out over three years(?) wouldn't the ask go up?...and/or another offer look better. (I don't know the payout terms on that $31.5M, other than that it is indicated as being paid out over three years, per Cot's)
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Post by geostorm on Dec 6, 2016 14:59:46 GMT -5
Reports that Sox paying entirety of Moncada's remaining deal, if true, likely helped cap the prospects package...eh
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Post by geostorm on Sept 26, 2016 13:18:56 GMT -5
I hadn't heard about the article, until today, mentioned during an EEI tease, going to a commercial break...I do see it was published, 9/21/16. None of the writer's accounting reveals anything not already public, that I can see; he does pull quite a bit, including related links, all together in an expansive opinion piece. theweek.com/articles/645685/fraudulent-myth-big-papiIf there was a 1-100 "Confidence meter", with "1" being "100% believe that was not a clean career", to "100" being "100% confidence Papi never used substances that were, at the time, illegal/banned"...how would that would break, across membership, here? I want to believe "100", but looking at the entirety of MLB history, and what's been made public, generally, and specific to Papi, I think I may be closer to 1, than to 100, if required to declare a opinion on my own Confidence meter...Not going to click on bull****. If that guy is trying to argue that his career looks like that of a PED user (and I think you have to make that argument if you're calling him a fraud), that's just so laughably wrong. Ortiz with Minnesota was essentially as good as he was in Boston in 2003 (something I said in 2003), except for very distinct stretches of terrible performance, all but one of which immediately preceded or followed a DL stint (the exception being the end of 2002, so it's reasonable to assume he was hurt then as well). IOW, when he was healthy, he was already Papi when we got him. And that's without factoring in that the Twins were trying to get him to change his style. Meanwhile, what's the PED that allows you to cut your strikeout rate to a career low at age 40? What's the more parsimonious explanation for Ortiz's ability to hit good pitches out of the ballpark, just as if he knew they were coming (while occasionally missing very hittable pitches) -- that he studies pitchers and video intensely and is rather a genius at guessing at what's coming (though of course hardly perfect), or that he has a PED that allows him to read pitcher's minds, but it doesn't always work? I mean, it's laughable. I'm 100% confident that Papi has never knowingly used banned substances. Any rational person should be. (There's also the fact that his numbers tanked for 10 games after the PED story broke, and then recovered in force, and Papi said during the collapse that he was losing sleep over the accusations. Which is the reaction of an innocent person. Find me the 10 games that Barry Bonds collapsed in after his PED accusations started.) I think there's a solid chance he had something in his system from a supplement that was technically banned when he was tested in '03, but that was not unusual at he time, and it's a world apart from doing steroids or HGH. Your last two paragraphs, reflects - and better communicates - how I feel about his career stats; on what he's been able to do, the last two years, that has been unprcedented in MLB history, one has to believe he is the hitting version of Nolan Ryan, able to sustain a high level of performance, at a very advanced age, and I do, there, as well...I 100% disagree w/ the author's opinion on Papi as a person...and sorry I took the (click) bait, as that was more his focus, it seems.
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Post by geostorm on Sept 26, 2016 11:18:53 GMT -5
I hadn't heard about the article, until today, mentioned during an EEI tease, going to a commercial break...I do see it was published, 9/21/16. None of the writer's accounting reveals anything not already public, that I can see; he does pull quite a bit, including related links, all together in an expansive opinion piece. theweek.com/articles/645685/fraudulent-myth-big-papiIf there was a 1-100 "Confidence meter", with "1" being "100% believe that was not a clean career", to "100" being "100% confidence Papi never used substances that were, at the time, illegal/banned"...how would that would break, across membership, here? I want to believe "100", but looking at the entirety of MLB history, and what's been made public, generally, and specific to Papi, I think I may be closer to 1, than to 100, if required to declare a opinion on my own Confidence meter...
(EDIT: to be clear, I'm opining strictly on being "clean" the entirety of his career; specific to quite a bit of the article, I don't agree at all, especially the author's opinion that Papi is a "jerk")
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Post by geostorm on Sept 25, 2016 6:16:08 GMT -5
After seeing the recent update on Pablo...revisiting his career & Sox regular season stats...that his post-season stats, comparatively, seeming to confirm he is anything but uncomfortable on the big stage...and the other 3B options...
...I've a feeling that somehow, some way, he might find his way onto a post-season roster, and that an early Red Sox clinch, will find him taking a bit of a regular reason test drive in the TOR series, to see where he is at, and to consider if, due to circumstances, he'd be a viable option in the post season, if things break a certain way.
Crazy talk?
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Post by geostorm on Sept 24, 2016 20:58:54 GMT -5
top 8th, CHI leading CLE 5-1; White Sox w/ two on and no one out...
...make that White Sox now up 8-1, still top o 8th
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Post by geostorm on Sept 24, 2016 20:39:12 GMT -5
Perhaps JF gave a bit of excessive rope, w/ probability high that his next regular season start projected to be short one, if at all?
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Post by geostorm on Sept 24, 2016 20:20:42 GMT -5
White Sox/Quintana leading CLE in CLE, 4-1 in bottom of 6th...
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Post by geostorm on Sept 23, 2016 21:21:32 GMT -5
Robbie Scott specifically referenced (again) by JF during NESN postgame...seems, so far, that Scott is "Acing" his audition for a post season BP roster spot
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Post by geostorm on Sept 23, 2016 20:50:09 GMT -5
Spread it out a bit, here, Mookie, to settle the 9th a bit...
(was I the only one who's heart skipped just a bit, off the crack o the bat, for Papi?)
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Post by geostorm on Sept 23, 2016 12:40:35 GMT -5
All I know for certain is that if the Red Sox are in the ALDS, I've just picked up 3 tickets for whatever their second Home game is, from the Sox noon playoff ticket release, today! I couldnt get 3 together. Ended up getting one ticket for home game 1, 2 together and 1 solo for home game 2. I got a bit unnerved, when my computer froze up, temporarily, and I thought I lost the 3 tix for Home game 2, when trying to catch a single for another game. I was so thankful that I hadn't lost my "cart", that I decided "too close" and just wrapped up the purchase. Seems you couldn't get more than 2 together, when I was in, so I ended up grabbing a single in Section 19, Row 2, which is a great seat, and then two in Pavilion SRO, which I grabbed intentionally, having been up there, before. Like the dedicated separate access up there, it being less crowded for RRs and Concessions, the great view, and that I can move around during the game, what with my working a desk job 50-60 hrs a week! Focused on 2nd Home game figuring that it would be either a Friday Night or a Sunday, regardless of whether Sox finish as 1-2-or-3 seed.
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Post by geostorm on Sept 23, 2016 11:26:29 GMT -5
All I know for certain is that if the Red Sox are in the ALDS, I've just picked up 3 tickets for whatever their second Home game is, from the Sox noon playoff ticket release, today!
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Post by geostorm on Sept 21, 2016 21:49:23 GMT -5
Alex Speier reporting on twitter that JF "could" bat Benny, 6th, tomorrow...
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Post by geostorm on Sept 21, 2016 21:40:11 GMT -5
JF on NESN postgame, on Scott coming in v Davis, esp (per Tom Caron twitter) -
"Farrell indicated that tonight was a sort of trial run for @robbyscott36 to be team's situational LHP. Struck out Davis, passed the test" ...w/ JF saying "he couldn't have done any better".
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Post by geostorm on Sept 21, 2016 21:30:41 GMT -5
Aug 18, 2016 at 2:46pm telson13 said: Aug 18, 2016 at 10:07am geostorm said: 100% agree...when you had posted on this or another thread, how this seems to be missing "something", that, as I recall, that you couldn't quite put your finger on, despite them having shown, in stretches, how dynamic their offense could be, and, more recently, how effective their SPs could be, pitching to their talent... ...the imagery that came to mind, at that time, was of kick-starting a just completed restoration of a classic motorcycle, that turned over, but didn't quite fire-up... but you knew when it did, it would really "go"!(I probably watch too much "American Pickers" or "American Restoration"! ) That's a great image. Sept 21, 2016 Hey, Telson - a month or so later, I think she's really "going", now! :-)
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