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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 23, 2022 16:35:52 GMT -5
I don’t care about the regular season records. I am rooting for the Phils. But were it not for Machado, I could support the Pads. I like seeing teams rewarded for going all in. The Phils were good for baseball… off to a bad start, they didn’t fold, but instead were buyers. If teams see that as worth it, more teams will fight to the finish. I like that. A lot of people here thought the Red Sox should have waved the white flag at the trade deadline because even if they made the playoffs they had a minuscule chance of winning the World Series - 0.7%, per fangraphs. Well the Phillies were at 1.9%. Heck, the Guardians were at 0.5%. I wonder if the people who thought the Red Sox should have traded Eovaldi and JDM for whatever 35 FV prospects they could get think the Phillies and Guardians should have been sellers at the deadline?
Except that the Phillies were getting better as a team and the red Sox were falling apart. I mean it was pretty obvious to anybody watching the team. Are you really surprised they were the weakest of 5 AL East teams and wound up nowhere near the wild card. To make the playoffs, the Phillies had to top the Brewers. I'm not married to those odds you constantly quote from fangraphs. The Phillies and Guardians were improving as teams as the year wore on. The Red Sox had one really good stretch that didnt include any AL East competition. Any surprise that once the Sox got a steady diet of AL East teams they withered and died? If it was I'm not sure what you were watching. At the very least the Sox should have gotten under the luxury tax limit as it is foolish to wind up just above the limit for a team that clearly wasn't worth it.
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Post by pedroelgrande on Oct 23, 2022 16:37:41 GMT -5
I hope Big Papi just trolled them because otherwise I need answers.
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Post by incandenza on Oct 23, 2022 16:40:04 GMT -5
I'm assuming this is anti-Yankee psyops by Big Papi until proven otherwise.
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Oct 23, 2022 16:49:56 GMT -5
Wow
EDIT: Hader was warming in the bullpen. If you don't bring him in to face Harper, representing the go-ahead run in the 8th inning, when are you bringing him in?
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Oct 23, 2022 16:51:58 GMT -5
Say what you will about Harper but he doesn't shrink from the moment.
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Post by benzinger on Oct 23, 2022 16:53:34 GMT -5
We should all be eternally grateful that Cashman chose Stanton(and Clint Frazier) over Bryce Harper when he was a free agent. That decision set the Yankees back several years. The Harper-Judge combo would have been unstoppable.
To a lesser extent, Cashman blew it not trying to sign Machado when he had a chance at him, as well. Both of those guys wanted to go to NYY.
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Post by benzinger on Oct 23, 2022 16:54:18 GMT -5
Say what you will about Harper but he doesn't shrink from the moment. I don’t understand all the hate Harper gets. Is it just about his hair? He’s an unbelievable talent and an easy HOFer one day.
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Oct 23, 2022 16:55:23 GMT -5
We should all be eternally grateful that Cashman chose Stanton(and Clint Frazier) over Bryce Harper when he was a free agent. That decision set the Yankees back several years. The Harper-Judge combo would have been unstoppable. To a lesser extent, Cashman blew it not trying to sign Machado when he had a chance at him, as well. Both of those guys wanted to go to NYY. I guess Harper would've at least made up for Judge's post-season no-shows.
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Oct 23, 2022 16:56:07 GMT -5
Say what you will about Harper but he doesn't shrink from the moment. I don’t understand all the hate Harper gets. Is it just about his hair? He’s an unbelievable talent and an easy HOFer one day. Jonathan Papelbon on line 2...
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 23, 2022 16:58:22 GMT -5
Say what you will about Harper but he doesn't shrink from the moment. I don’t understand all the hate Harper gets. Is it just about his hair? He’s an unbelievable talent and an easy HOFer one day. Harper is on a HOF track. His annual salary isn't too crazy either. It's just a very long contract but he just might hit the majority of it. The lessening of defensive shifting, like most LH batters, will help him going forward and should lift his average a bit. But yeah that's the biggest hit of his career. Let's see if Robertson can close this out.
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Post by manfred on Oct 23, 2022 16:58:59 GMT -5
This postseason has changed my view of Harper. I admit I thought he was a bit of a loser. I questioned his attitude and clutch. Maybe partly cause the Nats got better when they lost him. But this year kinda puts paid to any of those questions. He’s been massive for the Phils. It makes me actually really like him… the fire isn’t bluster.
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Post by manfred on Oct 23, 2022 17:02:13 GMT -5
My sense based on this series alone: Melvin is not a very good manager.
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Post by julyanmorley on Oct 23, 2022 17:06:54 GMT -5
Could really do without the NBA arena sound effects between every pitch
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Oct 23, 2022 17:09:23 GMT -5
This postseason has changed my view of Harper. I admit I thought he was a bit of a loser. I questioned his attitude and clutch. Maybe partly cause the Nats got better when they lost him. But this year kinda puts paid to any of those questions. He’s been massive for the Phils. It makes me actually really like him… the fire isn’t bluster. I feel more or less the same way. I never really hated him. I mean if you're giving me Bryce Harper's team vs. Manny Machado's team (and they very much are those two things), I'm with the Phillies every day and twice on Sundays. Similar talents but Machado is simply a dirty player and he doesn't pretend not to be. Harper is a cocky SOB and even the Philly announcers just now were pointing out that he wasn't running out of the box on a ball that was hardly a no-doubter. But I also sympathize with him, given the spotlight that's been on him since Jr. High. And it's hard to criticize his on-field performance for most of his career. If the Phillies bullpen can hold this lead, Harper's going to have another addition to his trophy room.
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Oct 23, 2022 17:11:45 GMT -5
Two chances to tie it with a single or one chance to take the lead on a single...
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Post by foreverred9 on Oct 23, 2022 17:12:21 GMT -5
My sense based on this series alone: Melvin is not a very good manager. I don't understand the sac bunt move there - give up an out to get to your number 9 batter? With 8/9 up I think you have to just hope one of them doesn't get out and maybe squeeze out a walk or get lucky with a hit. 2 chances at getting lucky with men on 1st/2nd vs. 1 chance of getting lucky with men on 2nd/3rd doesn't seem like the right tradeoff.
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Oct 23, 2022 17:12:52 GMT -5
Nola pops up the first pitch and Dave Dombrowski is in the World Series with his fourth different club.
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Post by taiwansox on Oct 23, 2022 17:13:19 GMT -5
Screw you Machado!
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Post by taiwansox on Oct 23, 2022 17:14:00 GMT -5
My sense based on this series alone: Melvin is not a very good manager. He was a guaranteed first round exit in Oakland
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Oct 23, 2022 17:14:43 GMT -5
There's a woman near the radio crowd mic who is losing her natural mind.
And they're playing "Dancing on my own" over the PA...
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Post by manfred on Oct 23, 2022 17:15:07 GMT -5
My sense based on this series alone: Melvin is not a very good manager. I don't understand the sac bunt move there - give up an out to get to your number 9 batter? With 8/9 up I think you have to just hope one of them doesn't get out and maybe squeeze out a walk or get lucky with a hit. 2 chances at getting lucky with men on 1st/2nd vs. 1 chance of getting lucky with men on 2nd/3rd doesn't seem like the right tradeoff. It is like they were playing for a wild pitch. If so, might help not to have your 9 hitter swing at the first pitch. Pretty pathetic inning overall.
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Post by julyanmorley on Oct 23, 2022 17:16:26 GMT -5
The Phillies seem likeable enough, I'll root for them in the Series.
Miss Schwarber. In hindsight I guess I'd have been okay with bringing him back using the logic that it's okay to acquire fun players that do not fully maximize spreadsheet wins.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Oct 23, 2022 17:17:39 GMT -5
Let's go, Astros, you cheating SOBs. We don't need a replay of the 2009 WS. We also didn't need a replay of the 1998 WS.
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Post by foreverred9 on Oct 23, 2022 17:17:57 GMT -5
Had the Sox retained Schwarber, I think he would have been my favorite guy on this year’s team. It’s a shame that they let him walk. He’s a winner and they need MORE guys like him. This is my biggest gripe about the offseason - especially given that they went over the luxury tax. His plate approach was so valuable to the team, and he was the rightful heir to JDM. And I still believe that if we wanted him, he was staying. But not to rehash it, I'll just say imagine how different this post-season would have been if we signed Schwarber instead of the Phillies. I can't see the Phillies making the post-season without him, let alone the World Series. DD spent wisely there.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Oct 23, 2022 17:20:31 GMT -5
My sense based on this series alone: Melvin is not a very good manager. I don't understand the sac bunt move there - give up an out to get to your number 9 batter? With 8/9 up I think you have to just hope one of them doesn't get out and maybe squeeze out a walk or get lucky with a hit. 2 chances at getting lucky with men on 1st/2nd vs. 1 chance of getting lucky with men on 2nd/3rd doesn't seem like the right tradeoff. It wasn't intended to be a sac bunt. It was intended to be a surprise drag bunt for a hit. Didn't work.
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