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Post by jmei on Apr 25, 2014 20:02:04 GMT -5
Peavy has had some crazy movement on his fastball tonight. That two-seamer moves like a frisbee.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Apr 25, 2014 20:18:31 GMT -5
That's because this board is filled with a bunch of negative nancies. It frustrates the hell outta me too. You hit the nail on the head, plus WMB and JBJr are having good games. Most of these posters do not like to eat crow when the players (they do not like or want traded) on the team (they supposedly cheer for) do well. That's why I avoid a lot of the topics here, like lets move Xander to OF or to 3B or make him 1B or DH or lets sign Drew or trade for Stanton. Give me a break. I am a Die hard Red Sox fan since 1977 (favorite player as a kid was Freddie Lynn) from Washington Heights, NYC I went to High School with Manny (yes that Manny) and I took it on the chin for so many years from Yankees and Mets fans. But this is our Century (once again, please don't trade this century's version of Ruth, Xander or Devers), no one is better than the Red Sox right now, from top to bottom, we are the envy of all baseball, we just won a championship with no one but Nava and Koji having career years and the future looks so bright, you know the rest. Dude. You stole my bio, except I was '75 and an upstater
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Post by thelavarnwayguy on Apr 25, 2014 20:22:51 GMT -5
Real encouraging game from Middlebrooks. If he gets going we will drive in some runs. Also, real encouraging start for the year overall from Peavey. It looks like he wants one more big contract. He needs another duck boat. And a lifetime supply of chew.
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Post by brianthetaoist on Apr 25, 2014 20:58:12 GMT -5
JBJ has really cleaned up his front foot in his swing. He used to have a lot of wasted motion and got his front foot down really late ... now he's got a bit of a high kick as a timing mechanism, but it's much, much better. His swing looks a lot better to me than it used to.
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Post by pedroelgrande on Apr 25, 2014 21:14:07 GMT -5
Hopefully they can get a consisten run going here.
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Post by Guidas on Apr 25, 2014 21:28:38 GMT -5
Jeez a guy can't go out to dinner and a movie?
Great win! Will watch the replay in a bit but judging from the box, much to like!
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Post by pedroelgrande on Apr 25, 2014 21:53:20 GMT -5
Jeez a guy can't go out to dinner and a movie? You should go out more often if they gonna play like this!!!
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Post by Guidas on Apr 25, 2014 22:05:59 GMT -5
I was out last night,too. Look what that did.
It was the Genghis Khan paraphrased quote I left the lads with before stepping out this evening. They took it to heart.
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Post by taftreign on Apr 25, 2014 22:27:12 GMT -5
Serious guys, we're finally winning a game, and crickets? It is a Friday night after all. I got held up at work. : / Man is it just me or is Peavy a really easy guy to root for? It's easy for fans to pull for a player like Peavy because he's both a solid rotation contributor (minus a few past injuries) and appears to outwardly have passion when on the mound. There are worse options than Peavy if the Lester extension falls through. Obviously there are better targets (Scherzer/Shields) than Peavy but a two year deal with an option year isn't the worst idea. You could be looking to fill rotation spots for Lester, Peavy and Doubront (TBD). I imagine if Peavy throws well and provides 180 plus innings there will be the QO discussion come year end. Is he rated well enough for a team to give up a 1st or 2nd round pick for him? I could see a team give up a 2nd in the scenario where it only requires 3 years on a deal. Worst case is you have Peavy back on a 1 year slight overpay deal who adds rotation depth or trade bait during the summer.
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Post by marrcus on Apr 25, 2014 23:02:04 GMT -5
As good as Peavy looked I thought he left some fat pitches in the early innings, that a better team would have done damage with. Some of the flat went away and those so's of Bautista were nasty.
Glad to be out of Boston with all the distractions both on and off the field that I think contributed to this sub-par start.
WMB looked good and with just a tad better zone management he's going to be a difference maker to this lineup if he continues to go to all fields. Yeah he and Victorino turn this into a different club.
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Post by FenwayFanatic on Apr 25, 2014 23:16:29 GMT -5
Red Sox win big, the Yankees got hammered AND the Rays blew a save!
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Apr 25, 2014 23:18:18 GMT -5
Serious guys, we're finally winning a game, and crickets? That's because this board is filled with a bunch of negative nancies. It frustrates the hell outta me too. Aren't knuckleballs great?
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Apr 25, 2014 23:19:50 GMT -5
As good as Peavy looked I thought he left some fat pitches in the early innings, that a better team would have done damage with. Some of the flat went away and those so's of Bautista were nasty. Glad to be out of Boston with all the distractions both on and off the field that I think contributed to this sub-par start. WMB looked good and with just a tad better zone management he's going to be a difference maker to this lineup if he continues to go to all fields. Yeah he and Victorino turn this into a different club.My general thought as well. This is the first hame of the year with everyone available.
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Apr 25, 2014 23:22:47 GMT -5
As good as Peavy looked I thought he left some fat pitches in the early innings, that a better team would have done damage with. Some of the flat went away and those so's of Bautista were nasty. Glad to be out of Boston with all the distractions both on and off the field that I think contributed to this sub-par start. WMB looked good and with just a tad better zone management he's going to be a difference maker to this lineup if he continues to go to all fields. Yeah he and Victorino turn this into a different club.My general thought as well. This is the first hame of the year with everyone available....so it's time to leap to conclusions.
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Post by mgoetze on Apr 25, 2014 23:32:50 GMT -5
That's because this board is filled with a bunch of negative nancies. It frustrates the hell outta me too. Pedroia walked into a tag out at 2nd and WMB slid into a glove that had been holding the ball for a while at 3rd. Discuss.
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Post by klostrophobic on Apr 25, 2014 23:49:32 GMT -5
^At some point, extending the time of a game you are going to win can have deleterious effects on a team. Fatigue, complacency, etc. Intentionally running into outs is a long-term winning strategy.
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Post by mgoetze on Apr 26, 2014 0:25:56 GMT -5
^At some point, extending the time of a game you are going to win can have deleterious effects on a team. Fatigue, complacency, etc. Intentionally running into outs is a long-term winning strategy. Sounds like an argument for signing Stephen Drew if I ever heard one.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Apr 26, 2014 1:12:14 GMT -5
... This is the first hame of the year with everyone available. It's also one of the few games they've had in the last couple of weeks that wasn't played in frigid temperatures, and as a bonus there was no wind. I would have laid money down they'd revive in Rogers Stadium, their home away from home. So they did.
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Post by wskeleton76 on Apr 26, 2014 6:40:04 GMT -5
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Post by jmei on Apr 26, 2014 7:33:06 GMT -5
Random fact of the day: Koji Uehara has a -0.04 FIP, which I didn't know was possible. In 8 IP, he's been worth 0.6 fWAR.
Good lord, that man is good at baseball.
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Post by brianthetaoist on Apr 26, 2014 7:37:19 GMT -5
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Post by jmei on Apr 26, 2014 8:25:49 GMT -5
538 has an article up on the active players who swing the most at pitches in the strike zone and swing the least at pitches outside the strike zone. There is one Red Sox player in the top twenty, who should be easy enough to guess, and two players in the bottom ten, one of which is obvious but the other of which is not. Can you guess who it is?
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Apr 26, 2014 8:56:11 GMT -5
Random fact of the day: Koji Uehara has a -0.04 FIP, which I didn't know was possible. In 8 IP, he's been worth 0.6 fWAR. Good lord, that man is good at baseball. And he's a coverboy:
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Apr 26, 2014 8:59:43 GMT -5
538 has an article up on the active players who swing the most at pitches in the strike zone and swing the least at pitches outside the strike zone. There is one Red Sox player in the top twenty, who should be easy enough to guess, and two players in the bottom ten, one of which is obvious but the other of which is not. Can you guess who it is? Surprised by that but my mind is blown away by Vlad Guererro.
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Post by chavopepe2 on Apr 26, 2014 9:33:53 GMT -5
538 has an article up on the active players who swing the most at pitches in the strike zone and swing the least at pitches outside the strike zone. There is one Red Sox player in the top twenty, who should be easy enough to guess, and two players in the bottom ten, one of which is obvious but the other of which is not. Can you guess who it is? I'm a big fivethirtyeight fan and that article is interesting, but I just don't buy that it tells us very much at all. The author admits as much, but I would take it a step further and say that the methodology is so flawed it really doesn't tell us much of anything about a player's discipline. There are just too many instances where it is appropriate to take a pitch in the zone for this methodology to tell us very much.
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