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Post by Chris Hatfield on Aug 9, 2024 16:48:43 GMT -5
Does Booser need to go back after this or is having a baby a loophole to avoiding the “must wait X number of days to come up after being optioned”? When you're up, you're up. That said, Bello will be back in 3 days and I think Criswell can be activated whenever, so I can't imagine either Keller or Booser has a long stay.
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Post by wkdbigsoxfan on Aug 9, 2024 16:53:04 GMT -5
Random but does anybody have any open spots in dynasty fantasy leagues?
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Post by asm18 on Aug 9, 2024 16:54:22 GMT -5
Does Booser need to go back after this or is having a baby a loophole to avoiding the “must wait X number of days to come up after being optioned”? When you're up, you're up. That said, Bello will be back in 3 days and I think Criswell can be activated whenever, so I can't imagine either Keller or Booser has a long stay. Would Booser go down though? We were all wondering why Booser got picked to go down instead of Bernardino when Booz has been definitely better lately - but it sounds like foreknowledge of Baby Bello allowed them to option Booser for two days that he wouldn’t have been available anyway? (He had pitched 4 of 5 games before being optioned). If they don’t need to send him down now, that was a smart maneuver
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Post by oldfaithful2019 on Aug 9, 2024 16:55:05 GMT -5
I’m all for this, but whose roster spot would he take? Feel like you gotta keep Coop up w/ the club. It would honestly make sense when you consider that Pivetta has arm fatigue and Houck and Crawford have looked absolutely gassed lately. I guess it comes down to whether or not the org thinks he’d do a better job eating innings than someone like Dick Fitts Might as well give it a shot. He got his work in today and we need a starter tomorrow.
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Post by benogliviesbrother on Aug 9, 2024 17:06:31 GMT -5
So maybe the Booser demotion isn't attributable to Cora having an illogical affection for Bernadino or some other implied quirky, or dastardly, delusion that was all the rage a couple of days ago? Maybe Cora, and the FO, had substantially more pertinent information than the armchair GMs & MGRs on this board?
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Post by benogliviesbrother on Aug 9, 2024 17:07:37 GMT -5
When you're up, you're up. That said, Bello will be back in 3 days and I think Criswell can be activated whenever, so I can't imagine either Keller or Booser has a long stay. Would Booser go down though? We were all wondering why Booser got picked to go down instead of Bernardino when Booz has been definitely better lately - but it sounds like foreknowledge of Baby Bello allowed them to option Booser for two days that he wouldn’t have been available anyway? (He had pitched 4 of 5 games before being optioned). If they don’t need to send him down now, that was a smart maneuver Not all.
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Post by stevedillard on Aug 9, 2024 17:22:18 GMT -5
When scouts who spoke to Rob Bradford said Rich Hill looked “impressive”, did they mean impressive just in a general baseball sense, or “impressive for a 44 year old who hasn’t played all year and is jumping in”. Because those are two distinct things Bear in mind Bradford is to Rich Hill as Jon Heyman is to Scott Boras
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Post by dirtywaterinla on Aug 9, 2024 17:45:31 GMT -5
When scouts who spoke to Rob Bradford said Rich Hill looked “impressive”, did they mean impressive just in a general baseball sense, or “impressive for a 44 year old who hasn’t played all year and is jumping in”. Because those are two distinct things Tbh any warm body who can start games, has MLB experience and throws w/ his left hand is a win at this point.
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Post by dirtywaterinla on Aug 9, 2024 17:47:30 GMT -5
Another X factor w/ Rich Hill and the Sox is that Breslow played w/ him in 2015 👀
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Post by seamus on Aug 9, 2024 17:53:55 GMT -5
I like the idea of mid-40s former big leaguers being part of a "substitute teacher" pool who can get assigned to throw 5 innings of 4 run ball for some random team, the equivalent of babysitting a social studies class that's watching Glory.
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Post by incandenza on Aug 9, 2024 18:07:57 GMT -5
Would Booser go down though? We were all wondering why Booser got picked to go down instead of Bernardino when Booz has been definitely better lately - but it sounds like foreknowledge of Baby Bello allowed them to option Booser for two days that he wouldn’t have been available anyway? (He had pitched 4 of 5 games before being optioned). If they don’t need to send him down now, that was a smart maneuver Not all. You weren't *wondering* this at all? You were savvy enough to deduce the whole paternity leave machination from the get-go? You should share that sort of knowledge next time!
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Post by dirtdog on Aug 9, 2024 18:13:03 GMT -5
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Post by asm18 on Aug 9, 2024 18:18:09 GMT -5
Ruh roh
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Post by soxfansince67 on Aug 9, 2024 18:18:18 GMT -5
Tanner's command just isn't right.
Leadoff walks never a good idea
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Post by kevfc89 on Aug 9, 2024 18:19:09 GMT -5
I'm guessing those are the numbers on his slider? Yea, it just doesn't look like it's fooling hitters as much anymore...maybe our pitching savior Bailey can eventually help him figure it out.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Aug 9, 2024 18:24:34 GMT -5
Duran immediately helps.
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Post by TearsIn04 on Aug 9, 2024 18:25:14 GMT -5
Another X factor w/ Rich Hill and the Sox is that Breslow played w/ him in 2015 👀 Breslow is actually 150 days younger. Maybe he can pitch and continue to run BB Ops. He'd become the second guy in BB history nicknamed "Double Duty." Negro League legend Ted Radcliffe was the first: www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/radclte01.shtml
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Post by soxfansince67 on Aug 9, 2024 18:31:30 GMT -5
Leadoff double and one of our speedsters doesn't budge
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Post by soxfansince67 on Aug 9, 2024 18:38:04 GMT -5
Raffy flashing it.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Aug 9, 2024 18:46:12 GMT -5
Bottom of the order shows how it's done.
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Post by oldfaithful2019 on Aug 9, 2024 18:46:59 GMT -5
Nice two out action by the bottom of the order.
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Post by benogliviesbrother on Aug 9, 2024 18:52:57 GMT -5
You weren't *wondering* this at all? You were savvy enough to deduce the whole paternity leave machination from the get-go? You should share that sort of knowledge next time!
I wonder about many things. But when professionals who possess much more relevant information than I do make decisions that seem, on the surface, questionable to me, I typically assume I lack sufficient information to reach the same conclusion as the professional did, rather than assuming the professional is stupid or devious or in some other way deficient. Bill James wrote an excellent essay on this topic (manager decisions) years ago, although I truly am surprised it needs explaining. TLDR: I was "savvy enough" to realize I wasn't savvy enough. You might try it now & again.
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Post by cdj on Aug 9, 2024 19:03:16 GMT -5
Still don’t know why Bernardino wouldn’t be the one optioned when Booser had been better, Bello needing the paternity list doesn’t change that. They both have options don’t they? Why go a game or two with the inferior pitcher if you don’t have to? I know they used Booser a bunch but I thought they did that because they knew they were going to option him (which again….why?)
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Post by Foulke_In_Athol on Aug 9, 2024 19:14:09 GMT -5
You weren't *wondering* this at all? You were savvy enough to deduce the whole paternity leave machination from the get-go? You should share that sort of knowledge next time!
I wonder about many things. But when professionals who possess much more relevant information than I do make decisions that seem, on the surface, questionable to me, I typically assume I lack sufficient information to reach the same conclusion as the professional did, rather than assuming the professional is stupid or devious or in some other way deficient. Bill James wrote an excellent essay on this topic (manager decisions) years ago, although I truly am surprised it needs explaining. TLDR: I was "savvy enough" to realize I wasn't savvy enough. You might try it now & again. Dude, take it easy, his post was hardly one to get your hackles up over. I think we were all questioning the move, that doest mean we think the people making the moves are stupid. Questioning means we were all asking why?
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Post by benogliviesbrother on Aug 9, 2024 19:17:07 GMT -5
I wonder about many things. But when professionals who possess much more relevant information than I do make decisions that seem, on the surface, questionable to me, I typically assume I lack sufficient information to reach the same conclusion as the professional did, rather than assuming the professional is stupid or devious or in some other way deficient. Bill James wrote an excellent essay on this topic (manager decisions) years ago, although I truly am surprised it needs explaining. TLDR: I was "savvy enough" to realize I wasn't savvy enough. You might try it now & again. Dude, take it easy, his post was hardly one to get your hackles up over. I think we were all questioning the move, that doest mean we think the people making the moves are stupid. Questioning means we were all asking why? Dude, you take it easy. If the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it. There were plenty that weren't "just wondering."
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