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Post by maxwellsdemon on Sept 7, 2015 14:55:43 GMT -5
Best last place team ever. Not for long, and say goodbye to the protected pick.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Sept 7, 2015 14:54:47 GMT -5
Every one else is playing MLB, JBJ is playing beer league softball.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Sept 7, 2015 14:35:28 GMT -5
Somewhere in Massachusetts, Ben Cherington sits on his couch, muttering, "you have GOT to be f***ing kidding me." True, but now someone with a long term view is bound to offer him a job with the power he needs/deserves (as long as he hires someone to do a better job on MLB player evaluation)
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Sept 7, 2015 14:33:32 GMT -5
Hoping that David Price is paying attention as he ponders who to sign with this off season in his quest for ring that the Jays probably can't get with their pitching and as the Jays hitters begin to age out while the Sox (except for the ageless Big Papi) age in.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Sept 7, 2015 14:28:15 GMT -5
April 2016 can NOT come soon enough!
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Sept 6, 2015 13:03:10 GMT -5
Votto's contract might be the most concerning in baseball with it running until he is 40. Yeah because payers can't perform/hit until they're 40 anymore, right Big Papi? I'm just trying to exchange problems here meaning that Votto can play first, does get on base and can become the DH while Hanley can (probably) play first at an acceptable level for a rebuild and has a shorter contract that frees them up by the time they are ready to contend again.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Sept 6, 2015 11:23:20 GMT -5
Do you believe the Reds would trade Chapman without tying Phillips or Votto to him? This would dramatically affect whether the Red Sox would chase Chapman. Chapman and Votto for Miley and Hanley (plus?)?
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Sept 6, 2015 10:18:21 GMT -5
Jmei while you use evaluations to back up your contention I note that the SP one is the standard blurb which really doe not get updated much and that the other two you cite are dated July 10, 2014. CV made his major league debut on 7/9/14 so I'm not sure they are the best examples of how he was viewed by scouts AFTER SPENDING 3 Months in MLB where he seems to have wowed a lot of people and gained the trust of the pitching staff.
I'm not in a position to argue this case either way, but based on what Eric has presented your response seems to be more debating points and not illumination.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Aug 25, 2015 18:31:04 GMT -5
Actually please let him be a league average defensive 1B with his typical slash line of 367/495/862 with 26 jacks. And maybe a tad better with less wear and tear. That would make him both valuable and tradeable. typical huh Really can't imagine him being as bad at first having experience in the infield. Definitely creates potential at moving him to offset some salary or hold until Ortiz's demise. Good idea all around. #LetJBJplay www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ramirha01.shtmlI should have said per 162 games for the 26 HR, but yeah the slash line is his average
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Aug 25, 2015 17:59:58 GMT -5
Actually please let him be a league average defensive 1B with his typical slash line of 367/495/862 with 26 jacks. And maybe a tad better with less wear and tear. That would make him both valuable and tradeable.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Aug 24, 2015 22:46:50 GMT -5
I think there is no chance that the Sox end up with a protected pick, the young players are too good for even the poor bullpen to overcome. With Erod and Owens added to the rotation losing is likely to become even more difficult and with the September call-ups just days away the level of competition is about to become further diluted while the Sox call-ups have filtered in earlier and have had the chance to adapt to MLB and it's starting to show.
The team has talent and energy and I bet they play better than .500 ball the rest of the way with even some veterans having something to prove to the new management. So the "free" aces now seem limited to Price and Cueto.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Aug 24, 2015 22:36:12 GMT -5
Was very careful to use the sarcasm italics It's the one thing about the mobile app that sucks. Italics are invisible. I'm guessing that's why it was missed. Norm gets a pass anyway, but that's good to know, thanks.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Aug 24, 2015 22:19:02 GMT -5
"G'dammit, we're holding JBJ out to give him time against the lefties and we'll keep doing it until it works!" People need to stop using this meme because it's BS. His OPS against lefthanders this year is 1.344. Maybe they are saving him for port siders Was very careful to use the sarcasm italics
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Aug 24, 2015 21:00:52 GMT -5
Possibly those mistakes weren't costly at the level of ball played in Cuba and he will learn that that style doesn't play in the big leagues.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Aug 24, 2015 15:48:51 GMT -5
"G'dammit, we're holding JBJ out to give him time against the lefties and we'll keep doing it until it works!"
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Aug 15, 2015 14:46:15 GMT -5
And the umpiring has become sooo much better as well, haven't heard any ball and strike complaints for at least the past 15 innings
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Aug 15, 2015 12:51:41 GMT -5
That must be Xander's 50th weak ground ball single between 1B and 2B this year. I wonder when teams will start shifting him like Papi. One game before he starts hitting ground ball singles through the undermanned left side?
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Aug 8, 2015 19:26:52 GMT -5
How about 4 years for $80mm, with an opt out after 2 years with payments of $30mm each of the first 2 years and $10mm each of the last two thus insuring he exercises the opt out if he's at all healthy (maybe even sweeten it with $5mm if he opts out)? It reduces the AAV maybe, not sure how it would be scored, and gives him some security in case of injury.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 29, 2015 12:54:55 GMT -5
You can't concede the above and then say the phone can be used as a bargaining chip, the point was he would/should NEVER turn over the phone. That's not really true. There are mitigating measures that can be taken to protect the confidentiality of its contents. Only a naif would trust the NFL with the sensitive info that was undoubtedly on that phone. That plus the precedent of a member of the NFLPA turning over a personal device. In Kraft's statement today he noted that the devices of all non NFLPA members had been turned over, there is a reason he made that distinction. Add: If you haven't read Kraft's statement it is very powerful.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 29, 2015 11:44:53 GMT -5
Question, would you turn over your phone that likely contains information as to your passwords, private correspondence, off-hand comments to and from friends, relatives and co-workers not to mention in the case of Brady, private numbers and contacts to well known individuals (given the circles he and his wife travel in) to an organization that leaked false information about the case (11 of 12 footballs more than 2 psi under the low limit), sanctioned a report that accepted a referee's memory of the psi of 12 (or more footballs) to an accuracy of one tenth of a psi while rejecting his recollection of which of two gauges he used for the measurement and had the the same person essentially act as judge jury and executioner? Seriously? Maybe if Brady said all that before publicly giving his phone the bass-o-matic treatment he would have had more support. Even conceding the entirety of the above, you should absolutely still retain the phone (a) in case it could be used as a bargaining chip (e.g., the NFL might say "if you give us the phone, we'll eliminate the suspension") and (b) in order to avoid losing the P.R. battle (which, as the Rice saga has taught us, means a lot). You can't concede the above and then say the phone can be used as a bargaining chip, the point was he would/should NEVER turn over the phone. As for the PR battle, that's already been lost thanks to the bias of ESPN and other toadies to the NFL, the non-reaction to the overwhelmingly ridiculous Wells report and the ongoing general media hatred of the Pats and their success including some within the NE press corps
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 29, 2015 10:29:42 GMT -5
Question, would you turn over your phone that likely contains information as to your passwords, private correspondence, off-hand comments to and from friends, relatives and co-workers not to mention in the case of Brady, private numbers and contacts to well known individuals (given the circles he and his wife travel in) to an organization that leaked false information about the case (11 of 12 footballs more than 2 psi under the low limit), sanctioned a report that accepted a referee's memory of the psi of 12 (or more footballs) to an accuracy of one tenth of a psi while rejecting his recollection of which of two gauges he used for the measurement and had the the same person essentially act as judge jury and executioner? Seriously? Maybe if Brady said all that before publicly giving his phone the bass-o-matic treatment he would have had more support.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 26, 2015 17:34:07 GMT -5
jmei said "...If the value of prospects has gone way up since the Gonzalez trade, it follows that you'd need a bigger prospect package today than you did back then, which cuts against your argument and in favor of mine..." I may be getting older but it seems to me this is backward. If prospects are more highly valued now than then fewer or lower caliber ones would be required to equal the same value as prior.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 26, 2015 12:56:16 GMT -5
So is the moral of the story that they should hold prospects back and sign more career minor leaguers at all levels so they can win more games? Right, that's just what I was getting at.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 26, 2015 12:26:50 GMT -5
Perhaps another element of this discussion would be how analytics are actually applied during games by the Sox and mfy (and Rays, Royals, Pirates, etc). For example, how many face-palm moments do their fans have that are equivalent to bringing in binkies like Craig Breslow in a 1-1 tie or an overused Koji or Juni in a 10-5 blowout, j. Gomes against RHP, sending Papi against Cespey's arm. Then we have the anti-binkie thing, like sitting JBJ for long stretches then sending him back down,staging Johnson's debut after a long periid of building up rust, pushing out XB for Drrew, letting Nava wilt. In such ways improper use of analytics can lead to face-palm losses (and the players are fully cognizant of these gaffes) which certainly derail a "culture of winning". The Pats do have "it". The old Celtics were drenched in it. The mfy can't seem to lose it. From the first day I wondered if the instant personality cult of the 3-amigos (which automatically isolated Mike Napoli) would have a negative effect on the rest of the team. How would they model for XB and Mookie, and who would be excluded. I don't think its a stretch that this exlusive trinity has, on many levels, been devicive and counter-productive in the exact opposite manner of the cohesiveness of the 2013 band of bearded brothers. It is almost as if traditional team-first players like Pedey, Nap, XB, Mookie, Nava, Brockstar, have been, improbably, marginalized. If this continues so will losing ways. Agree with almost all of this Gerry. Especially the part about not using talent properly to win at the MLB level. I don't know if this extends to the minors where at least player development is a valid reason to not always do the optimal analytical thing. Farrell is certainly very weak on tactics and best use of personnel and perhaps that is the biggest reason why at the MLB level the MFy are outperforming the Sox.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 26, 2015 12:16:00 GMT -5
The Red Sox had a better organizational record in 2013 and 2014 though. Thanks for doing that research. Do you happen to know that relative rankings of the farm systems by the usual suspects, sometimes it can be a bit like primary presidential politics where the early key is to "outperform expectations"
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