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Post by soxfansince54 on Mar 14, 2024 11:37:09 GMT -5
I lived on Midway Island in 1960-1961 (14 months). My father was in the Navy and i was 12 years old, learned a lot in that time period about the Japanese and Midway. The best part was finding a grenade, we told the MP's and they let us go out in a boat to explode it.
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Post by costpet on Mar 14, 2024 18:00:49 GMT -5
The submariners sometimes stopped there instead of going on to Pearl. They hated that. Except for watching the Gooney birds, there was nothing to do. The best rest site was Australia. Most of the local men there were fighting in the Middle East, so our boys had a blast with the Aussie girls. They would say when you crossed the International Date Line, you weren’t married anymore. When you crossed back, you were. Sounds about right.
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Post by manfred on Mar 14, 2024 18:12:43 GMT -5
I am a doctor, have not broken my toe, can't dance anyway. Maybe tape will help? Doc… will I be able to dance? Of course… no problem… Good! Cause I never could dance before! |
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Post by costpet on Mar 14, 2024 19:14:14 GMT -5
I did the same trick on my doctor. Will I be able to swim after this? She said yes. Good, because I never swim before. I made her laugh.
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Post by costpet on Mar 14, 2024 19:18:14 GMT -5
The next time I saw her I told her I was getting a new doctor. His name is McCoy. She looked at me funny. Then I said McCoy Startrek? He just waves something over you. She laughed again.
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Post by rhswanzey on Mar 15, 2024 1:14:22 GMT -5
Borrowing this from redsox04071318champs in the Abreu thread. I think their analysis is spot on…
…but I would at least like to consider carrying neither of Dalbec or Cron. If you’re not especially confident in getting consistently competitive at bats out of either player, then being right handed isn’t enough reason to roster them. Obviously, Casas isn’t playing 162 games, but are you going to PH for him? No. How many games is he not going to start? Maybe 20?
Gonzalez and Sogard can also hit right handed. They also have much stronger secondary skills and more defensive utility than either Dalbec or Cron. If it’s okay to play Christian Arroyo in RF and start Bobby at SS, maybe it won’t kill us to play Reyes at first two or three games per month.
It’s fine to still land at the decision that we want power with swing and miss over another middle infielder. I don’t know that either guy should have all but automatically won a spot from the onset of ST.
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Post by asm18 on Mar 15, 2024 6:59:03 GMT -5
Seriously the Rays picked this guy up from us last year as a waiver claim random middle reliever - WTF
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Post by incandenza on Mar 15, 2024 9:06:16 GMT -5
Red Sox should have told him to aim for the middle of the strike zone I guess.
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Post by julyanmorley on Mar 15, 2024 9:35:31 GMT -5
Red Sox should have told him to aim for the middle of the strike zone I guess. My mental model is that Chaim picked up guys with good Stuff+ ratings in the spreadsheet, then Bush/Varitek gave them 4-dimensional 35 point plans to turn them into the next Curt Schilling, then they fail to execute that and get waived. The Rays look at the same spreadsheet, pick the same guy up and tell him to only throw the pitches with good Stuff+ ratings and to aim for the middle of the strike zone.
This may or may not be completely accurate.
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Post by James Dunne on Mar 15, 2024 10:06:39 GMT -5
I think Littell was more a last-in/first-out scenario - they picked him up when they had a spot open and then cut him when they needed that spot back. And it's not like him having success is completely out of nowhere, he'd been a very good pitcher in 2019 and 2021.
I do take some issue with a couple of the guys they chose to keep at the margins, though.
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Post by greenmonster on Mar 15, 2024 10:30:29 GMT -5
Red Sox should have told him to aim for the middle of the strike zone I guess. Dave Bush probably did but nobody could understand him because he had his hand over his mouth |
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Post by julyanmorley on Mar 15, 2024 10:35:16 GMT -5
Combined with that earlier report about Whitlock's extension being way down, I wonder if Winck is in the driver's seat for the #5 starter job
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Post by scottysmalls on Mar 15, 2024 11:02:11 GMT -5
Combined with that earlier report about Whitlock's extension being way down, I wonder if Winck is in the driver's seat for the #5 starter job Ill take Whitlocks several year track record of having the best stuff on the staff over a few spring training games |
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Post by bettsonmookie on Mar 15, 2024 11:02:50 GMT -5
A bit random BUT…
My buddy owns a sneaker store in Estero Florida called “The Archive”
He will be hosting a meet and greet featuring Nazzan Zanetello and Antonio Anderson. He will also be doing a pop-up shop as part of the event for AA’s apparel brand.
Anyone in the area check out their IG to stay in the loop on the event!
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Post by incandenza on Mar 15, 2024 11:13:49 GMT -5
Combined with that earlier report about Whitlock's extension being way down, I wonder if Winck is in the driver's seat for the #5 starter job Ill take Whitlocks several year track record of having the best stuff on the staff over a few spring training games And if we were to make much of those few spring training games, it is not totally encouraging that Winckowski is still getting Ks at a rate that's not really adequate for a starting pitcher. |
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Post by asm18 on Mar 15, 2024 13:00:56 GMT -5
The duality of Winckowski -
Great stuff:
Meh results?:
(All of this of course in small sample in Spring Training against mixed competition.)
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Post by asm18 on Mar 17, 2024 9:10:07 GMT -5
Cora popping some news today on St. Patty’s Day:
-Winckowski to bullpen
-Vaughn Grissom will be out until “mid-April probably, late April."
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Post by scottysmalls on Mar 17, 2024 9:14:44 GMT -5
Cora popping some news today on St. Patty’s Day: -Winckowski to bullpen -Vaughn Grissom will be out until “mid-April probably, late April." This opens an interesting possibility: What if while Grissom is out for a month Valdez looks really good? |
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Post by nomar on Mar 17, 2024 10:04:25 GMT -5
Cora popping some news today on St. Patty’s Day: -Winckowski to bullpen -Vaughn Grissom will be out until “mid-April probably, late April." This opens an interesting possibility: What if while Grissom is out for a month Valdez looks really good? If Valdez looks really good then I don’t see any reason to just hand Grissom the starting role. I think there will be plenty of opportunity to go around for the young guys anyway though, and that would obviously be a great problem to have |
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Post by scottysmalls on Mar 17, 2024 10:47:20 GMT -5
This opens an interesting possibility: What if while Grissom is out for a month Valdez looks really good? If Valdez looks really good then I don’t see any reason to just hand Grissom the starting role. I think there will be plenty of opportunity to go around for the young guys anyway though, and that would obviously be a great problem to have Grissom has an option right? In this scenario I might send him to AAA. Though then you have both he and Yorke as bat first 2B only righties on the same team which isn’t ideal. |
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Post by asm18 on Mar 17, 2024 11:03:40 GMT -5
Career MLB plate appearances:
Vaughn Grissom - 236
Enmanuel Valdez - 148
Ceddy Rafaela - 89
Wilyer Abreu - 85
It’s not inconceivable that Grissom will be near or at the bottom of this list by the time he returns (especially if there is a setback).
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Post by brendan98 on Mar 17, 2024 11:29:34 GMT -5
Grissom hasn’t done anything to lay claim to the second base job in Boston. This is Valdez’ opportunity to grab the spot and never let go. If Valdez excels, it would create a great problem for the Sox.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Mar 17, 2024 12:44:30 GMT -5
Cora popping some news today on St. Patty’s Day: -Winckowski to bullpen -Vaughn Grissom will be out until “mid-April probably, late April." This opens an interesting possibility: What if while Grissom is out for a month Valdez looks really good? A hot month by Valdez wouldn't change a thing for me. It's about the next six years, the 2b on the next great Red Sox team. If not then they spent 17 million to trade away their best pitcher, which would make no sense. They could sent Grissom down under the thought of doing a rehab and acclimating him to 2b defensively but when push comes to shove he will be their long term 2b. If Valdez has a hot start he could become trade bait eventually. I sure as hell wouldn't take the next six years of Valdez's career over the next six years of Grissom's career. |
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Post by bettsonmookie on Mar 17, 2024 13:10:37 GMT -5
This opens an interesting possibility: What if while Grissom is out for a month Valdez looks really good? A hot month by Valdez wouldn't change a thing for me. It's about the next six years, the 2b on the next great Red Sox team. If not then they spent 17 million to trade away their best pitcher, which would make no sense. They could sent Grissom down under the thought of doing a rehab and acclimating him to 2b defensively but when push comes to shove he will be their long term 2b. If Valdez has a hot start he could become trade bait eventually. I sure as hell wouldn't take the next six years of Valdez's career over the next six years of Grissom's career. I’m not sure it’s this clear cut. Story will have 3 years left after this. Mayer could potentially push him off SS for all 3 of those years. Yorke is almost ready, and Valdez looks more capable of making routine plays. Not to mention the possibility of Rafaela seeing more time in the MIF (whichbecomes more likely if Bleis shines), or a breakout from Cespedes or Zanetello, who are both higher ceiling players than Grissom who could logically project into 2B. If Grissom doesn’t separate himself and show himself deserving of the spot, I don’t expect it to be handed to him. And his competition is quite stiff, both now, and later. |
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Post by sxfan on Mar 17, 2024 14:02:35 GMT -5
A hot month by Valdez wouldn't change a thing for me. It's about the next six years, the 2b on the next great Red Sox team. If not then they spent 17 million to trade away their best pitcher, which would make no sense. They could sent Grissom down under the thought of doing a rehab and acclimating him to 2b defensively but when push comes to shove he will be their long term 2b. If Valdez has a hot start he could become trade bait eventually. I sure as hell wouldn't take the next six years of Valdez's career over the next six years of Grissom's career. I’m not sure it’s this clear cut. Story will have 3 years left after this. Mayer could potentially push him off SS for all 3 of those years. Yorke is almost ready, and Valdez looks more capable of making routine plays. Not to mention the possibility of Rafaela seeing more time in the MIF (whichbecomes more likely if Bleis shines), or a breakout from Cespedes or Zanetello, who are both higher ceiling players than Grissom who could logically project into 2B. If Grissom doesn’t separate himself and show himself deserving of the spot, I don’t expect it to be handed to him. And his competition is quite stiff, both now, and later. Grissom could definitely be optioned or pushed back if there's someone like Valdez is pushing for a spot. Grissom's long term spot seems to be destined for 3B. Yoshida looks like a trade chip in the future. Hoping he rakes this year, put Devers in at full-time DH. |
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