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Post by juanpena on Dec 2, 2015 2:36:22 GMT -5
I'll bet that people will be rethinking this one shortly. I'd much rather the team have Porcello than Cespedes. Coming to you from the great Northwest I'll second that, the Porcello we saw close out the year is a bargain and legit #2. Porcello's finish was encouraging, and I think he'll be solid in 2016 and beyond, but I think "bargain" and "legit #2" are a stretch.
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Post by juanpena on Dec 1, 2015 23:11:43 GMT -5
Well that is mucho dinero. But cero in terms of prospects and draft picks surrendered.
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Boras
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Post by juanpena on Nov 23, 2015 17:22:40 GMT -5
In the end and after the weeks of discussion, Boras client Matt Harvey pitched 216 innings last year. Plus two hitters too many.
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Post by juanpena on Nov 23, 2015 17:19:55 GMT -5
Allan Webster designated. A trade we were all suspect of last year dosnt look so bad. I've been wrong a lot, but was right on Webster. Kelly is next up. I wouldn't put Kelly in the same class as Webster. Kelly's been maddening inconsistent, but he's shown in stretches he can get major league hitters out. Webster never really did. I'd love to see Kelly in the pen this year, assuming the Sox acquire that top of the rotation guy TBA.
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Post by juanpena on Nov 13, 2015 17:21:42 GMT -5
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Post by juanpena on Nov 9, 2015 17:20:33 GMT -5
Isn't the guy who's seen all your internal reports the absolute last person you want to be in a trade negotiation with? I wouldn't be surprised if he started picking up some of our castoffs, but it's not like we've had any dealings with Theo since he left. Not with the Sox, except for Doubront (which could be a steal for the Sox if Marco Hernandez can become a useful utility player), but Theo knew what he traded away in Rizzo and got him from the Padres.
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Post by juanpena on Oct 20, 2015 19:33:57 GMT -5
I've never seen Williams Jerez pitch, but judging from his writeup here (inconsistent velocity but can hit 95) and his good, not great stats in his first year as a pitcher, I think he needs to be protected.
A team with pennant aspirations drafted a righty in Jason Garcia, who had never pitched above Greenville. Jerez pitched two levels higher than that this year, and has potential to improve, especially because he's so new to pitching as a pro and is left-handed. A contender might take a shot on him, and a team building for 2017 or beyond could definitely snap him up and give him a chance to learn on the job.
Lefty relievers seem fungible, but sometimes you really have trouble finding them, and you have to send out a cooked Craig Breslow for 65 innings.
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Post by juanpena on Aug 26, 2015 10:22:01 GMT -5
-- He will have solid range. He's one year away from projecting to be a -7 SS, which requires hugely more range.. He's one year and about 20 pounds of bulk away from his days at shortstop. Hanley got too big in the offseason, really limiting his mobility. It would be nice in the offseason is he changes his workouts and reshapes his body that allows him to be quicker and more flexible. He'd still be strong enough to hit homers.
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Post by juanpena on Jun 16, 2015 15:46:06 GMT -5
Is it me or does it look like Allen could be related to Farrell?? Yes, he does have the same square jaw. Of course he's smiling, and Farrell hasn't had reason to smile since 2013.
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Post by juanpena on Jun 12, 2015 21:42:15 GMT -5
Baseball America ,discusses every teams draft and around the 19:00 mark they hit on the Sox. They basically loved it. From what. I understand when they picked Benintendi basically he could end up the best player or hitter in the draft by far or there taking a chance basically from limited production. They way they explained it I at peace with the pick that's all I can ask. They love the kid and pick and are trusting there scouts. If there was more baseball production he might not of been there at 7. Law brings this up to. He said if Benintendi had another year of good production or a summer on the cape he could be a 1-1 candidate. At this point the Red Sox are also looking like a 1-1 candidate for next year.
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Post by juanpena on Jun 10, 2015 11:11:11 GMT -5
Under-6-foot center fielders are the new market inefficiency. :-)
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Post by juanpena on Jun 9, 2015 13:12:14 GMT -5
I know you don't draft for need, but are there really no pitchers on the board with a higher ceiling than a fourth outfielder type with no plus tools?
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Post by juanpena on May 25, 2015 14:25:18 GMT -5
Kelly was unlucky, but he was also pretty bad. A couple plays behind him and it would be like 3-0 or 4-0 instead. In a 36-pitch second inning, he got two swinging strikes, allowed a walk, and gave up one line-drive home run shot. Bloop single, ground ball double, bloop single - he could have gone 1-2-3. Then it followed with ground ball single, popup, FC because it was hit too soft to be a double play, walk, HR, ground ball single. Then Barnes came in to give up a ground ball single and an infield single before the strikeout. There could have been 9 outs in that inning. If he gets Mauer or Plouffe and ends the inning down 4-0, you could chalk it up to bad luck. Every hitter has an innings with bloops and bleeders, but the key is to stop it when it gets out of hand. A walk and a meatball for a three-run bomb is all on Kelly, whether the inning "could" have been over before that or not.
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Post by juanpena on May 9, 2015 23:56:34 GMT -5
Let's recall that the only Cardinals player who put fear into anyone's heart in the 2013 World Series was one Allen Craig. I was VERY glad Koji picked off Wong so he didn't have to face Carlos Beltran as the tying run. Beltran was still scary in 2013.
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Post by juanpena on May 9, 2015 14:58:14 GMT -5
Damn the A's for taking Sonny Gray one spot ahead of Barnes.
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Post by juanpena on Apr 23, 2015 11:49:05 GMT -5
But, on an even more general point, I think the underrated factor on bullpen management is the warm-up of pitchers. I think it's probably the primary reason for the "roles" pitchers play. In this case, the situation got out of hand so quickly, that it went from "probable early reliever situation, better get Breslow up" to "oh hell, this is maybe the key point in the game" in the space of a couple batters. If you warm up your key relievers every time a situation may get out of hand, you will burn them out. I think that's right, and it wasn't easy to predict that Kelly, who had cruised to that point, would suddenly lose his command, give up three straight singles (none of which was hit that hard, IIRC), and then walk in a run. That said, Kelly was about to face the heart of the order, and it was clear by the second or third hitter he faced that inning that he was struggling to throw the ball over the plate (he got behind most of them, I believe). I would have preferred Varvaro, Ogando, or Mujica in that situation since I generally prefer to throw my good relievers too early (when you know you might face high-leverage situations with runners on base) rather than too late, but I'm not too upset about it. I am still very skeptical of Breslow's ability to outperform his peripherals, but maybe that's just me being stubborn. Farrell hasn't announced it, but I'd bet he's trying to avoid Ogando on back-to-back days, since the one time he did that, he was much less effective the second day -- ridiculously SSS, I know, but I don't think you want to ride a guy coming back from injury too hard. And it's hard for me to think of Mujica as a clearly better option than Breslow.
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Post by juanpena on Mar 25, 2015 17:23:50 GMT -5
It's a good thing he turned down all those zeroes so the Sox could offer the money to Mookie.
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Post by juanpena on Sept 2, 2014 21:34:24 GMT -5
If we're going to blame FO for rushing people, WMB was definitely one. I don't think the problem was so much rushing him (he was 23 when he came up) but continuing to promote him up the ladder when he had no plate discipline at all. Minor-league pitchers particularly non-prospects, make a lot of mistakes, and Middlebrooks could hit a mistake a long way, but the Sox should have made him put up more quality at-bats at a level before moving him up.
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Post by juanpena on Jul 5, 2014 14:13:55 GMT -5
I searched here and Googled and can't find anything. What's Jalen Wiliams' injury?
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Post by juanpena on Jul 2, 2014 15:27:23 GMT -5
That's not the whole story Eric. A big part of the Cater trade was that old-school baseball man/teetotaler Eddie Kasko couldn't stand hard-drinking, free-spirited Sparky Lyle and wanted him gone for anything.
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Post by juanpena on Jun 28, 2014 15:31:12 GMT -5
Jordon Austin gets in the hit column! And two scoreless innings for Williams Jerez.
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Post by juanpena on Jun 5, 2014 18:54:29 GMT -5
There is some scuttlebutt that CHC will look to trade hitting prospects for pitching (Ben? It's Theo. ...) Link? and they would not want any of our pitchers outisde of lester Wouldn't be hitting prospects for pitching prospects, not MLB pitching?
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Post by juanpena on May 31, 2014 16:10:25 GMT -5
It sounds like Gatewood is pretty raw and is a high-risk pick, but Mayo says he has "ridiculous raw power." If he's there at 27 as Mayo suggests, I think they have to consider him. If he's still there at 33, as Kiley McDaniel suggests, I think they should pick him.
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Post by juanpena on Jan 9, 2014 12:48:06 GMT -5
Just watching Wilson last year in the majors, I don't think he has the stuff, the control or command to be a MLB pitcher. Not on a team I want to watch anyway. I don't know how I can be missing a possible upside but I guess I could be. I think a good comp for Wilson is Bryce Florie. He is OK to have as the 12th man on a 12-man staff. Pitch him in low leverage situations to save better pitchers, and chances are he'll be OK, but if you get a better option for last spot in the bullpen, he can go.
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Post by juanpena on Jan 6, 2014 18:38:01 GMT -5
Anyone know if Workman didn't rank since he can be seen as ineligible because of rookie status? Not sure if we explicitly asked him or if it was just clear from how he was talking about it, but he was eligible. How well does it speak of the system that the guy who pitched the eighth inning of the World Series clincher isn't in the Top 10?
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