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Post by James Dunne on Apr 24, 2013 13:54:36 GMT -5
You know, I've been rather harsh on Farrell the last week or so, but sometimes I watch other teams and realize I'm taking stuff for granted. Only Eric Wedge would bench Brendan Ryan for a worse hitter.
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Apr 24, 2013 16:10:16 GMT -5
You know, I've been rather harsh on Farrell the last week or so, but sometimes I watch other teams and realize I'm taking stuff for granted. Only Eric Wedge would bench Brendan Ryan for a worse hitter. When you think about how much smarter teams are in the post-Moneyball era, it's truly bizarre that on-field management continues to go in the opposite direction.
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Post by amfox1 on Apr 26, 2013 19:40:24 GMT -5
MFYers lose Cervelli (broken hand) and Nova (elbow) to injuries tonight.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Apr 26, 2013 20:35:03 GMT -5
One guy I wish the Sox could have kept, Anibal Sanchez, is on his game tonight. No runs, five hits, and 17 strikeouts. That was in eighth innings.
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Post by mainesox on Apr 26, 2013 22:33:57 GMT -5
One guy I wish the Sox could have kept, Anibal Sanchez, is on his game tonight. No runs, five hits, and 17 strikeouts. That was in eighth innings. Against the Braves no less.
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Post by leo on Apr 27, 2013 12:35:42 GMT -5
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Post by amfox1 on Apr 28, 2013 12:03:56 GMT -5
Expo called up by Orioles (Teagarden injury).
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Apr 28, 2013 19:30:53 GMT -5
So you know how I've been ranting about modern bullpen usage? I just noticed something interesting checking my fantasy team. Ned Yost saw fit to use Tim Collins for one third of an inning today, in a 9-0 win that was never in doubt.
He threw two (2) pitches.
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Post by iakovos11 on Apr 28, 2013 19:47:52 GMT -5
He just needed some extra work
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Post by ray88h66 on Apr 28, 2013 19:50:13 GMT -5
So you know how I've been ranting about modern bullpen usage? I just noticed something interesting checking my fantasy team. Ned Yost saw fit to use Tim Collins for one third of an inning today, in a 9-0 win that was never in doubt. He threw two (2) pitches. It's even worse than that. They play two today.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2013 8:54:42 GMT -5
My non-red sox discussion topic of the week:
There is an old cliche in April that you can't win a pennant in April but you can lose it. By and large there is some truth to this cliche. Most pennant winners did well in their first 25 games or so. Most of the teams that got off to poor starts also finished poorly. There are exceptions to that, such as the 2005 Astros.
The Toronto Blue Jays were the pick of a lot of people to win the division this year. Yet they have gotten off to an awful start. Their bullpen sucks and virtually all of their off-season acquisitions have been terrible thus far or gotten hurt. They find themselves 9.5 games behind the Red Sox and firmly in last place.
Are they done? Discuss.
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Apr 29, 2013 17:28:01 GMT -5
Not sure I'm going to write the Blue Jays off yet. I still think they're going to hit. The bullpen has been bad but if there's anything you can rebuild on the fly it's a bullpen. The rotation... this is where you really start to lose me. There's a whole lot of "meh" there. Dickey, Johnson, Morrow... these guys all have potential to be great, but how likely are any of them to deliver on that potential? The other guys are chewers and that's fine, but ultimately you need some top of the rotation studs and none of these guys are anything close to a lock to be that.
I pretty much bought into the Rays during the offseason, in retrospect there was a lot of wishcasting there. It goes to show how hard team building is these days. You need star talent and you certainly can't sign it, and increasingly you can't even trade for it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2013 19:34:41 GMT -5
I've seen a couple of interesting points.
First off when a team does as badly as the Blue Jays they really have to play lights out for the rest of the season. Just to win 90 games at this point will require playing at a .596 clip. Unless they turn it around in a hurry that's going to be nearly impossible and they'll have to do it without Reyes and possibly without Dickey.
Secondly, if the team isn't going to be in the race come July they have to at least think about trading Josh Johnson, assuming he pitches well enough to be worth anything, and possibly trading Buerle. That doesn't give them a lot of time to right the ship.
The Rays are a different story. They are only one game under .500, have great pitching and could possibly add Will Meyers at some point. They haven't dug themselves as deep a hole as Toronto has. If the Blue Jays don't have a winning May, they should possibly think about selling.
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Post by gatortough on Apr 29, 2013 20:39:58 GMT -5
I've seen a couple of interesting points. First off when a team does as badly as the Blue Jays they really have to play lights out for the rest of the season. Just to win 90 games at this point will require playing at a .596 clip. Unless they turn it around in a hurry that's going to be nearly impossible and they'll have to do it without Reyes and possibly without Dickey. Secondly, if the team isn't going to be in the race come July they have to at least think about trading Josh Johnson, assuming he pitches well enough to be worth anything, and possibly trading Buerle. That doesn't give them a lot of time to right the ship. The Rays are a different story. They are only one game under .500, have great pitching and could possibly add Will Meyers at some point. They haven't dug themselves as deep a hole as Toronto has. If the Blue Jays don't have a winning May, they should possibly think about selling. Fangraphs had an interesting blog entry about this today. Doesn't bode well for the Jays. www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-blue-jays-are-in-trouble/
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Post by Oregon Norm on Apr 29, 2013 23:39:52 GMT -5
AL West bottom feeders take a bite out of AL East contendahs: Astros put 9-1 whuppin' on the the MFYs; while Joe Saunders pitches a complete game and the Mariners beat the Orioles 6-2. Who woulda thunk it.
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Post by amfox1 on Apr 30, 2013 5:54:57 GMT -5
Brandon Moss hits a home run in the bottom of the 19th inning (his second of the game) to walk off against the AAAAngels.
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Post by okin15 on Apr 30, 2013 9:36:47 GMT -5
Strasburg has forearm tightness. Cursed?
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Post by nothingball on Apr 30, 2013 13:32:01 GMT -5
DL likely for our old friend Youk. Per Heyman. Pretty sure everyone on the board saw this coming.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Apr 30, 2013 14:01:31 GMT -5
DL likely for our old friend Youk. Per Heyman. Pretty sure everyone on the board saw this coming. It's too bad. When he's on the field and healthy, he's still productive. That's been less and less of the time, unfortunately. The back is really a problem at this point. That's never good.
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Post by jdb on Apr 30, 2013 18:04:52 GMT -5
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Post by mredsox89 on Apr 30, 2013 18:14:43 GMT -5
Theres a chance that the Angels somehow get MFY syndrome only 1 or 2 years into their major contracts. It could be a complete disaster there between Hamilton and Pujols. That being said, they could turn it around and be very productive until the final year or two of the deal
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Post by charliezink16 on Apr 30, 2013 18:18:51 GMT -5
DL likely for our old friend Youk. Per Heyman. Pretty sure everyone on the board saw this coming. What surprises me is that Hafner has gone a whole month without hitting the DL. The Yanks are due to regress, no clue how they're 15-10.
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Apr 30, 2013 18:59:52 GMT -5
DL likely for our old friend Youk. Per Heyman. Pretty sure everyone on the board saw this coming. What surprises me is that Hafner has gone a whole month without hitting the DL. The Yanks are due to regress, no clue how they're 15-10. I'm pretty sure that when scientists eventually develop a working Theory of Everything, it will be built on the idea that the Yankees winning 90+ games a year is the lynchpin of all natural phenomena in the entire universe.
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Post by Oregon Norm on May 1, 2013 0:11:37 GMT -5
Anti is not the right word. I think a lot of us were simply skeptical. I know Iwas. That's a lot of money. I felt there were better ways for the Sox to spend it. The guy dazzles when he's on a tear. But he's on the downside of 30 now. There may be a lot fewer of those episodes going forward.
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Post by okin15 on May 2, 2013 22:45:27 GMT -5
How the hell does the MASH unit that is the Hankees have the second best record in baseball???
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