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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 15, 2014 23:00:47 GMT -5
Going for a top 5 pick is starting to look pretty good. Blow it up. Big Papi your achilies bother you. Pedroia you are out for the year, fix your wrist. Napoli you have a busted finger stay away for the year. Can I assume you're kidding. I'm not expecting a World Championship, but waving the white flag 14 games into the season is kind of ridiculous.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 15, 2014 23:02:43 GMT -5
This is another game that the 2013 Red Sox would have found a way to win, but the 2014 Red Sox finds a way to lose. Too early to give up but this season feels SO much different than 2013.
This is what I was referring to when I felt that just about everything went the Red Sox way last year and was unlikely to do so again in 2014.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Apr 15, 2014 23:06:51 GMT -5
Weird to lose a game because of a successful SB.
Nick Cafardo ?@nickcafardo 3m
Napoli dislocation reset. Day to day according to John Farrell
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Apr 15, 2014 23:13:31 GMT -5
Napoli has a dislocated left ring finger. That's about as good as news as the Sox could have gotten. They're saying day-to-day, but the odds are he'll be on the DL for a few weeks. Starting to get the feeling we won't see the starting lineup intact at any point in the season.
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Post by atzar on Apr 15, 2014 23:18:18 GMT -5
Bogaerts botched that play for sure, but any 1B worth a half a **** needs to catch that. I'm about done with Carp. He's a butcher at any position on the field. Great timing. I'm actually eager to see how he fares in an extended look. The sad thing is that he may be our #4 or #5 hitter w/ Napoli DL'd. First off, apologies for the profanity. Second - the thing is, I like his bat. I think Carp is a solid hitter. But solid isn't good enough when he's shown himself to be incompetent at every defensive position he's played. That really wasn't a hard short-hop to deal with. I think Ortiz would have even handled it just fine. Like, with the news that Napoli's thing was just a dislocation, I'm actually wondering with about 20% seriousness whether Ortiz is healthy enough to handle 1B for a couple of weeks so Carp can just DH.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Apr 15, 2014 23:32:54 GMT -5
Scott Lauber ?@scottlauber 15m
Bogaerts on error: "You can use it 2 ways: I can be down and keep going down from there, or I can use it as a turning point" #RedSox
Just for fun: Low quality morph of the current 25 using gameday photos. I had also made a gif out of it but it's too long and would slow the thread down too much.:
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Post by Guidas on Apr 16, 2014 7:43:10 GMT -5
OK, I am taking all the blame for the bad start. I left my lucky Red Sox underwear in Hong Kong - white for home games, gray for away, and the requisite blue and red for the Friday games, all with MLB approved Red Sox logos of course. They were at the cleaners but wasn't in the package they sent back to the hotel, which I didn't even check til I got back to the U.S. The cleaners are FedExing them so they should be here Thursday or Friday. Everything should be fine after that. Again, apologies. I keep forgetting I have items of apparel that affect the outcome of sporting events in which I have no direct participation.
(on the other hand, my Incredible Hulk underoos have a lot to do with my success with supermodels and B-Level actresses).
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Post by godot on Apr 16, 2014 7:55:17 GMT -5
Ya know, I miss Salty. While watching a piece about Boston Strong, realized what an important part of the team he was as a person, and he really enjoyed Boston and being a Red Sox. He has started off well with Miami, at least with the bat. Not saying he was the "glue" or his absence is hurting the Sox on the field, just think he was a good guy and that counts for something.
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Post by jimed14 on Apr 16, 2014 8:17:43 GMT -5
It won't be long til we're hearing Three Little Birds and everything is gonna be alright.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Apr 16, 2014 8:31:24 GMT -5
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
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Post by JackieWilsonsaid on Apr 16, 2014 8:49:27 GMT -5
OK, I am taking all the blame for the bad start. I left my lucky Red Sox underwear in Hong Kong - white for home games, gray for away, and the requisite blue and red for the Friday games, all with MLB approved Red Sox logos of course. They were at the cleaners but wasn't in the package they sent back to the hotel, which I didn't even check til I got back to the U.S. The cleaners are FedExing them so they should be here Thursday or Friday. Everything should be fine after that. Again, apologies. I keep forgetting I have items of apparel that affect the outcome of sporting events in which I have no direct participation. (on the other hand, my Incredible Hulk underoos have a lot to do with my success with supermodels and B-Level actresses). Wtmi!
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Post by mrnewengland on Apr 16, 2014 9:56:00 GMT -5
This thread is really making SP.com seem like a bunch of p*ssies. Blow it up? We're half a month in with Pedey, Shane, and WMB coming back. We've had some bad luck but that tends to correct itself through a season as long as baseball.
We'll be fine.
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Post by iakovos11 on Apr 16, 2014 10:11:48 GMT -5
So is this going to be another case of Farrell leaving a pitcher in one batter (or two) too long, or did he learn from last year? He learned how to win the World Series
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Post by FenwayFanatic on Apr 16, 2014 10:14:13 GMT -5
This thread is really making SP.com seem like a bunch of p*ssies. Blow it up? We're half a month in with Pedey, Shane, and WMB coming back. We've had some bad luck but that tends to correct itself through a season as long as baseball. We'll be fine. I think they were joking.
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Post by Guidas on Apr 16, 2014 10:22:18 GMT -5
So is this going to be another case of Farrell leaving a pitcher in one batter (or two) too long, or did he learn from last year? He learned how to win the World Series We'll see.
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Post by thelavarnwayguy on Apr 16, 2014 10:26:28 GMT -5
This thread is really making SP.com seem like a bunch of p*ssies. Blow it up? We're half a month in with Pedey, Shane, and WMB coming back. We've had some bad luck but that tends to correct itself through a season as long as baseball. We'll be fine. They are just joking...except for Guidas of course who someday will come clean about his spiderman jammies as well.
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Post by raftsox on Apr 16, 2014 10:35:28 GMT -5
This is starting to get really bad with the injuries. I'm kind of amazed how bad of a start this team is off to though. Oh well. At least we haven't lost anyone for the season. Does this show us that having lots of marginally talented depth is overrated?
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Post by jmei on Apr 16, 2014 10:53:13 GMT -5
Eh, two of the injuries (3B and 2B) have been to the least-deep part of the team. The team has great depth at SP, 1B/DH, C, and OF, but their infield depth was pretty thin entering the season (thus why I wanted to sign Stephen Drew in the offseason).
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Post by MLBDreams on Apr 16, 2014 11:01:00 GMT -5
Not surprise by numerous of one hop throws from Bogearts. I didn't like the way he throws. It's risk due to limited experience back up First Base such as Nava & Carp. It's not easy for them to scoop up the hop. I've seen enough of Bogearts and wish he made the hard throw to 1B like Nomar & Drew does from the past time with the RS.
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Post by Guidas on Apr 16, 2014 11:35:16 GMT -5
Eh, two of the injuries (3B and 2B) have been to the least-deep part of the team. The team has great depth at SP, 1B/DH, C, and OF, but their infield depth was pretty thin entering the season (thus why I wanted to sign Stephen Drew in the offseason). Let us not forget 1st base. Not sure how that dislocation will figure with Napolu. And yes, I consider the dearth of 1st base prospects in the Sox system AND "Carp" part of this thinness (which is why I was pretty excited - albeit blindly so as all I saw was video posted here - about the possibility of picking up Abreu).
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Post by mattpicard on Apr 16, 2014 11:38:03 GMT -5
Not surprise by numerous of one hop throws from Bogearts. I didn't like the way he throws. It's risk due to limited experience back up First Base such as Nava & Carp. It's not easy for them to scoop up the hop. I've seen enough of Bogearts and wish he made the hard throw to 1B like Nomar & Drew does from the past time with the RS. Just to clarify, Carp has 862 MLB innings at 1B and 564 games there in the minors (4,962 chances). He's a "natural" first baseman, just not a good one. I haven't had much of a problem with Bogey's throwing, and that hop last night should be handled by any legitimate first baseman. His slow first step has been my biggest gripe with his defense, but he's been pretty serviceable overall. Not going to lie though, I still really wish we went with the Drew/Bogey option instead.
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Post by sarasoxer on Apr 16, 2014 11:52:09 GMT -5
Bogaerts will likely make 20-30 errors this year. His minor league stats show about an error for every 5 games and in 28 major league games he has 4. He is on pace so this is to be expected. He is not J.D. Drew who had what 6-7 errors last year? Fangraphs predicts that he will have similar offensive stats to Drew from last year. So X-Man who some are saying is the best prospect in baseball and some predict to be the All-Star shortstop, has some growing pains and the Sox and fans will have to live with it as we transition to a younger core. I think letting Salty go was something of a mistake, altho early. The Sox are trusting that the AA and AAA guys will pan out. Certainly we could have signed Salty for what he got and traded him later if need be. It was a gamble. In the process we lost his better (last year) OBP and the team as a whole has lost that modality. Our team seems like the stock market...very volatile. A bad year followed by a great year followed by ?? Now, we are not likely to get a pick for Drew, so why not explore that pillow talk?
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Post by godot on Apr 16, 2014 12:15:31 GMT -5
Hit the nail on the head about the transition, plus they have had hopefully short term injuries to key dudes. Can't really blame them thou for not resigning the trio. Tough call with the "prospects" in the wings. They have three WS in the last decade, not bad. Also sure that they knew the risk and expected some bumps but were willing to sit back and take a long view. Must admit. I wish they signed those dudes, for in the long run we are all dead.
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Post by michaelgelbwasser on Apr 16, 2014 12:32:51 GMT -5
This is starting to get really bad with the injuries. I'm kind of amazed how bad of a start this team is off to though. Oh well. At least we haven't lost anyone for the season. Does this show us that having lots of marginally talented depth is overrated? But, Pedey is hitting .236 with 0 HR and 1 RBI. Ortiz is at .241/2/8. More timely hitting from the regulars would have generated at least another win or two. That the role players (Nava, Carp, Gomes) haven't produced as they did in 2013 isn't helping. But with Victorino and Middlebrooks out, and few others producing, the part-timers are being asked to do more than expected.
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Post by jimed14 on Apr 16, 2014 14:07:52 GMT -5
Well, things could be worse.
Rob Bradford ?@bradfo 30m
Farrell on @daleholleyweei: Pedroia in lineup tonight. Napoli day to day. No fracture/ligament issues for Napoli
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