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Post by redsox4242 on Jul 1, 2014 20:36:11 GMT -5
WTF!!! Farrell left him in their to long!!!! CMON MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Jul 1, 2014 20:38:46 GMT -5
I know I'll get ripped for this....but the Xander to 3rd is total bull. It's clearly effed his head up. Only the Boston Red Sox would take their crown jewel and screw with his head like this. Seriously, what other organization would've signed a freakin guy who has no future with the club to replace the best prospect they've had in 30 years. It made no sense when the signing occured...it makes even less sense now. I'll go on record as saying it has clearly hindered his numbers and developement. You're right. There is literally no other explanation for why he could be slumping.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Jul 1, 2014 20:41:32 GMT -5
I know I'll get ripped for this....but the Xander to 3rd is total bull. It's clearly effed his head up. Only the Boston Red Sox would take their crown jewel and screw with his head like this. Seriously, what other organization would've signed a freakin guy who has no future with the club to replace the best prospect they've had in 30 years. It made no sense when the signing occured...it makes even less sense now. I'll go on record as saying it has clearly hindered his numbers and developement. NO.. Moving to third did not mess with his head... THe book is out on him he is terrible at hitting sliders at the moment. Pitchers will contiune to throw sliders until he fixes it I know I'll get ripped for this....but the Xander to 3rd is total bull. It's clearly effed his head up. Only the Boston Red Sox would take their crown jewel and screw with his head like this. Seriously, what other organization would've signed a freakin guy who has no future with the club to replace the best prospect they've had in 30 years. It made no sense when the signing occured...it makes even less sense now. I'll go on record as saying it has clearly hindered his numbers and developement. He hit home runs in his first 2 games at 3B. Great. There's only one way to really know and that is to compare his numbers at both positions. I don't have to go through that exercise because you both know the answer. Keep telling yourself there is/should not be a problem with the change. I don't need your confirmations to know the truth.
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Post by grandsalami on Jul 1, 2014 20:42:46 GMT -5
NO.. Moving to third did not mess with his head... THe book is out on him he is terrible at hitting sliders at the moment. Pitchers will contiune to throw sliders until he fixes it He hit home runs in his first 2 games at 3B. Great. There's only one way to really know and that is to compare his numbers at both positions. I don't have to go through that exercise because you both know the answer. Keep telling yourself there is/should not be a problem with the change. I don't need your confirmations to know the truth. GO look at the stats I just posted... HE is TERRIBLE AT HITTING SLIDERS... Until he fixes that issue, PITCHERS WILL STILL THROW HIM SLIDERS and get him out again and again and again IT takes a while for a book to get out on a player... That book is now out on him, and his inability to hit sliders
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Post by redsox4242 on Jul 1, 2014 20:42:53 GMT -5
Miller!!! nice job Andrew!
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Jul 1, 2014 20:44:58 GMT -5
NO.. Moving to third did not mess with his head... THe book is out on him he is terrible at hitting sliders at the moment. Pitchers will contiune to throw sliders until he fixes it He hit home runs in his first 2 games at 3B. Great. There's only one way to really know and that is to compare his numbers at both positions. I don't have to go through that exercise because you both know the answer. Keep telling yourself there is/should not be a problem with the change. I don't need your confirmations to know the truth. Correlation does not equal causation.
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Post by Guidas on Jul 1, 2014 20:50:30 GMT -5
First rule of statistics.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Jul 1, 2014 20:52:47 GMT -5
Great. There's only one way to really know and that is to compare his numbers at both positions. I don't have to go through that exercise because you both know the answer. Keep telling yourself there is/should not be a problem with the change. I don't need your confirmations to know the truth. Correlation does not equal causation. In many cases it certainly does...but that's beside your point.
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Post by jimed14 on Jul 1, 2014 20:53:06 GMT -5
Great. There's only one way to really know and that is to compare his numbers at both positions. I don't have to go through that exercise because you both know the answer. Keep telling yourself there is/should not be a problem with the change. I don't need your confirmations to know the truth. GO look at the stats I just posted... HE is TERRIBLE AT HITTING SLIDERS... Until he fixes that issue, PITCHERS WILL STILL THROW HIM SLIDERS and get him out again and again and again IT takes a while for a book to get out on a player... That book is now out on him, and his inability to hit sliders He's only terrible at hitting sliders when he's playing 3B
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Post by grandsalami on Jul 1, 2014 21:03:07 GMT -5
this team cant score if their life depended on it
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Post by jimed14 on Jul 1, 2014 21:03:56 GMT -5
Papi's 2 steps out of the box towards 1st before the pitch crossed the plate was the highlight of the night.
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Post by grandsalami on Jul 1, 2014 21:04:00 GMT -5
1 run in 16 innings AT HOME.... GJGE
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Post by JackieWilsonsaid on Jul 1, 2014 21:04:08 GMT -5
The bobs claymation character creeps me out.
So does Napoli behind ortiz
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Post by JackieWilsonsaid on Jul 1, 2014 21:18:51 GMT -5
This is lining up for mookies first game winner.
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Post by Guidas on Jul 1, 2014 21:21:11 GMT -5
How about another lucky catch by a Cubs OF? Sheesh.
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Post by marrcus on Jul 1, 2014 21:22:21 GMT -5
The intensity of this game has been too much. I hope nobody in the 36k has a heart attack.
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Post by jimed14 on Jul 1, 2014 21:26:00 GMT -5
How about another lucky catch by a Cubs OF? Sheesh. Hate to whine, but we are really getting screwed by bad BABIP luck the last two games. It shows up a lot more when you suck though.
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Jul 1, 2014 21:29:40 GMT -5
First rule of statistics. First rule of thinking, basically.
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Post by grandsalami on Jul 1, 2014 21:29:58 GMT -5
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Jul 1, 2014 21:32:15 GMT -5
Correlation does not equal causation. In many cases it certainly does...but that's beside your point. Yeah, it does, but you have no way of knowing that playing third has anything to do with Xander's struggles. They're just two things that have happened at roughly the same time.
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Jul 1, 2014 21:32:47 GMT -5
Too bad there's not another Drew brother in the pipeline. I don't know what we're going to do without a member of that family to blame for everything. Ah don't worry we'll find somebody.
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Post by theaveragefan88 on Jul 1, 2014 21:38:22 GMT -5
Moving to 3rd had NOTHING to do with X's struggles at the plate. They didn't love his footwork at SS, felt he was a better fit at 3rd in the short (and probably long) run, so they moved him. He is a professional baseball player who was asked to move about 10 yards to his right. He will be fine. He is struggling because he is a 21 year old rookie who has spent a few months in the bigs and the league has had a chance to adjust to him (in his case apparently LOTS of sliders). Now it is his turn to adjust, this is baseball 101. Sick of people looking to make excuses to baby Xander and to blame the Sox. There are plenty of reasonable things to blame the Sox front office for, this is not one of them.
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Post by jimed14 on Jul 1, 2014 21:40:27 GMT -5
Moving to 3rd had NOTHING to do with X's struggles at the plate. They didn't love his footwork at SS, felt he was a better fit at 3rd in the short (and probably long) run, so they moved him. He is a professional baseball player who was asked to move about 10 yards to his right. He will be fine. He is struggling because he is a 21 year old rookie who has spent a few months in the bigs and the league has had a chance to adjust to him (in his case apparently LOTS of sliders). Now it is his turn to adjust, this is baseball 101. Sick of people looking to make excuses to baby Xander and to blame the Sox. There are plenty of reasonable things to blame the Sox front office for, this is not one of them. If Drew were a 3B or there were someone like him available as a free agent to sign who was a 3B, Xander would have stayed at SS. I'm sick of this argument. We shouldn't have signed him, but Xander's struggles have nothing to do with moving. But I bet he's not getting better at SS since we signed Drew.
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Post by redsox4242 on Jul 1, 2014 21:42:33 GMT -5
MAN CMON!!!! 1 RUN AGAINST THE CUBS in 2 games!!! WTF!!!
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Post by jimed14 on Jul 1, 2014 21:42:47 GMT -5
Rondon is a guy I'd absolutely hate to face.
There were guys in high school that had some velocity but no control that scared the crap out of me because I thought I was going to die. It's hard to hit in that situation.
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