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Post by soxfanatic on May 26, 2014 14:39:40 GMT -5
Hate to say it, but JBJ doesn't look like a major leaguer.
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Post by jmei on May 26, 2014 14:49:56 GMT -5
I'm willing to bet Sizemore will be DFAed when everyone is healthy again. He'll have had two-and-a-half-months to show what he can do, and if he can't really play center field or drive the ball with any real authority, there's no reason to play him over Nava.
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Post by fenwaythehardway on May 26, 2014 14:58:31 GMT -5
Grady Sizemore is a worse bet vs. LHP than Nava, JBJ, and just about anyone in all of baseball. .475 OPS and falling... Grady Sizemore is a tire fire. The fact that this team actually need to keep starting him speaks to some poor decisions by management. And I know that the (questionable IMO) demotion of Nava and non-availability of Victorino play into that, but if this team wanted some more depth in OF they really needed to dig up someone a little more reliable than Grady. Someone who maybe played baseball last year and has been productive more recently than 2009.
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Post by ray88h66 on May 26, 2014 15:12:34 GMT -5
Sox should talk to Clay about going to AAA. If he won't , then he should be put in the pen.
Good comeback for the hitters.
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Post by brianthetaoist on May 26, 2014 15:31:41 GMT -5
Grady Sizemore is a worse bet vs. LHP than Nava, JBJ, and just about anyone in all of baseball. .475 OPS and falling... Grady Sizemore is a tire fire. The fact that this team actually need to keep starting him speaks to some poor decisions by management. And I know that the (questionable IMO) demotion of Nava and non-availability of Victorino play into that, but if this team wanted some more depth in OF they really needed to dig up someone a little more reliable than Grady. Someone who maybe played baseball last year and has been productive more recently than 2009. The OF in general is a tire fire, not just Sizemore. There is *nothing* positive in the OF so far this year ... some of which I was worried about before the season (JBJ's hitting, Victorino's health and right-on-right experiment) and some of which I wasn't at all (Nava). Sizemore was a flier that teased with your stereotypical spring training flash, but he's being exposed because of everything else going wrong. In general, I thought the IF was going to be good enough that some problems in the OF were going to be ok, but ... well, you know. Not so much.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on May 26, 2014 15:33:59 GMT -5
Buch with that evil ERA: 6.66 Ouch. Speaking of 666....
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Post by mgoetze on May 26, 2014 15:57:46 GMT -5
Boston Red Sox redsox · 1m The tarp is coming off the field. No official re-start time announced yet.
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Post by mgoetze on May 26, 2014 16:13:18 GMT -5
Woah what's with the moustache? Doesn't look good IMHO.
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Post by mgoetze on May 26, 2014 16:19:38 GMT -5
This pitcher reminds me of Buchholz.
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Post by FenwayFanatic on May 26, 2014 16:28:47 GMT -5
AJP getting it done.
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Post by pedroelgrande on May 26, 2014 16:30:24 GMT -5
They not dead yet.
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Post by jimed14 on May 26, 2014 16:31:06 GMT -5
Grady Sizemore is a worse bet vs. LHP than Nava, JBJ, and just about anyone in all of baseball. .475 OPS and falling... Grady Sizemore is a tire fire. The fact that this team actually need to keep starting him speaks to some poor decisions by management. And I know that the (questionable IMO) demotion of Nava and non-availability of Victorino play into that, but if this team wanted some more depth in OF they really needed to dig up someone a little more reliable than Grady. Someone who maybe played baseball last year and has been productive more recently than 2009. Not to toot my own horn, but ok, I'll toot my own horn. forum.soxprospects.com/thread/1623?page=4&scrollTo=73426
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Post by brianthetaoist on May 26, 2014 16:39:29 GMT -5
This is the first game I've actually been able to watch in a couple of weeks ... to the team's credit, they're pretty fired up.
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Post by mgoetze on May 26, 2014 16:41:34 GMT -5
Andrew Miller warming up ... on the road ... we are doomed!
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Post by mredsox89 on May 26, 2014 17:01:17 GMT -5
Nice play by JBJ to cut that off in the gap and then throw a one hop strike to 2B to snag Heyward after he slid past the base
He continues to play near flawless defense, which would make his bat bearable if nearly the rest of the lineup wasn't amidst a disastrous slump and the pitching wasn't such a mess
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Post by mgoetze on May 26, 2014 17:18:45 GMT -5
Koji's splitter still not looking quite right.
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Post by wcp3 on May 26, 2014 17:19:39 GMT -5
Finally.
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Post by johnsilver52 on May 26, 2014 17:21:43 GMT -5
Can look at it as they did beat Atlanta, a team of hackers if there is one. Sill this isn't a bad team to be playing to get out of a funk if it's possible at this point.
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Post by grandsalami on May 26, 2014 17:23:21 GMT -5
A win? What is the world is that?
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2014 17:28:21 GMT -5
And just when we were getting used to the moniker of "loveable losers."
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Post by grandsalami on May 26, 2014 17:48:27 GMT -5
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Post by ray88h66 on May 26, 2014 18:01:27 GMT -5
For those who wanted to sign Brian McCann.
McCann 222 272 373
AJP 270 305 397
Those numbers were going into today. Add in length of contract and what the sox have coming up I still think they did the right thing.
Looked up caught stealing on a hunch.
McCann has thrown out 32% of base stealers. AJP 33 %, and Salty 19%.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on May 26, 2014 18:05:24 GMT -5
Great job by the pen today. Mujica has started to throw better. He mentioned that he likes to pitch a lot. In his last 6 outings he's pitched 7 innings. Given up 6h 2r 2er 1bb 3k. The HR's against Toronto are the only glitches on the radar. Looks like we're going to need all of them to keep going strong with this rotation.
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Post by jdb on May 26, 2014 18:50:03 GMT -5
Sounds like Clay might get skipped next time.
Pete Abe tweet
That John Farrell said the #RedSox have to discuss whether Buchholz makes his next start suggests he will not. 7:21pm - 26 May 14
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Post by jmei on May 26, 2014 19:01:32 GMT -5
For those who wanted to sign Brian McCann. McCann 222 272 373 AJP 270 305 397 Those numbers were going into today. Add in length of contract and what the sox have coming up I still think they did the right thing. Looked up caught stealing on a hunch. McCann has thrown out 32% of base stealers. AJP 33 %, and Salty 19%. Yeah, but McCann's struggles are mostly BABIP-related and he's almost certainly going to end up with the much better offensive numbers by the end of the year. He's also the much better defensive catcher in terms of pitch-framing and blocking. Whether that's enough to cover the disparities in their contracts is a fair question to ask, but there's still no doubt in my mind that McCann is the superior player by a fairly wide margin.
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