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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Nov 1, 2023 23:35:28 GMT -5
Kind of cool for a franchise to win their first WS title. Congrats to them. I don't follow baseball much outside of the Sox games and such, but they had a pretty good team all year and didn't have an easy run through the playoffs, having to play other very good teams (especially from the AL East), and they ran the gamut. Pretty impressive, i would say, and worthy of praise. Now, we turn our attention back to the Sox and the heretofore (and yet to be determined if he actually knows anything about POBO work. because he has no experience doing such) leadership of Craig Breslow, a relief pitcher. Let the franchise return to glory commence !!!!
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Nov 1, 2023 9:26:53 GMT -5
I dislike the aesthetics of a bullpen game too, but I believe the Rattlesnakes' only option for a traditional starter would have been Ryne Nelson whose ERA and multiverse stats were all above 5. Strategically I think the bullpen game was the right way to go. (Nelson was third on the team in SP IP with 138. Pfaadt was fourth at just 90. #5 hasn't pitched since July and #6 has been released. No one else pitched so much as 20 innings as a starter.) But feel free to blame MLB for constructing a playoff format that allows a mediocre team to ride two starters all the way to the World Series. I think the larger point is there is no way to determine whether the bold would be a better option, absent actually making that choice. The fact that they went the way they did was, strictly speaking, a guess (option). That option is loaded with bias (derivative analysis). Whereas, IMO, that starter option has more credibility because, well, that is what a player has been trained to do. His numbers to this point aren't really indicative of what could happen in a 5 inning or so stint.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Nov 1, 2023 2:46:22 GMT -5
The Tampa model is to blame for all these shenanigans, and by extension, an overreliance on data / analytics.
Change happens and teams innovate to compete, but some of this stuff if overthinking it, to put it pretty mildly.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 30, 2023 22:00:02 GMT -5
bu..bu..bu..bu...but....Corey Seager contract is gonna be awful at the end.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 30, 2023 21:54:24 GMT -5
that is awful strike call. in a GD world series. I think the people that run sports and / or umpire just don't care.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 28, 2023 21:12:59 GMT -5
I have a question. I just turned on the World Series game on TV, while at the same time having the Yahoo game summary on my computer. The Yahoo game summary is posting the results of at-bats before the AB culminates on TV. Is the televised feed of the Series on some sort of delay? I would say yes. they want to be able to break from the game if something bad happens. That is some serious pitching by the D-bags guy
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 27, 2023 20:25:43 GMT -5
it would have been great if Verducci said to Pham, "Hey Tommy, how is your fantasy football team doing this year ?"
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 27, 2023 20:00:51 GMT -5
i don't like the O's much either, but i am not sure I would want to let my top employee go to one of my closest enemies either. Seems fairly rational to me thinking to me, if it were my company. On another note, real surprised that this thread has only 7 pages. Is that indicative of anything about Red Sox interest, generally speaking ? Maybe because it hasn't been announced and WS is gonna happen. Uh.. no thats wrong.. If this was a lateral move they would be justified in blocking it, blocking an employee from leaving for a promotion is petty as well as makes you look like a donkey yet it happens all the time in corporate America. Businesses don't want to give up good employees. He signed a contract, the expectation should be he honors it, from the employer's perspective. He will get his chance soon, if he is as good as they say he is.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 27, 2023 16:52:51 GMT -5
i don't like the O's much either, but i am not sure I would want to let my top employee go to one of my closest enemies either. Seems fairly rational thinking to me, if it were my company.
On another note, real surprised that this thread has only 7 pages. Is that indicative of anything about Red Sox interest, generally speaking ? Maybe because it hasn't been announced and WS is gonna happen.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 25, 2023 13:07:35 GMT -5
I will be the one to say it (sorry...umass said it as well), since it appears no one else will. While he was on the list of candidates, this is a weird hire. He doesn't have the requisite experience, which does matter when you are running a major market team. We found that out just recently.
I don't know if it is a good hire or if he will do well, certainly hope he will. But for POBO, this is a strange hire.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 25, 2023 9:30:18 GMT -5
it's baseball. its the way they set it up. but i don't have to like it. Would have rather seen the Star power play in the WS, i have kind of gotten used to that over the last 50 years.
Great news for the Boston connection, though. Happy for them.
Sidebar: maybe it shows just how healthy the league is for teams like this to make the WS. it wouldn't be good for just the same teams all the time and there should be a place for smaller markets in the league showcase. Maybe, i need to change.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 24, 2023 9:53:21 GMT -5
Yes. very happy for the Astros to lose, but it isn't like I care bout the Rangers either. Sorry for any native Texans out there, but there isn't much that excites me about that state. LOL.
Regarding the playoffs system. Is it now time, with the balanced schedule, to just scrap divisions all together ? play the string and then you take the top teams and seed from there.
I might even be open to just 8 games each with each Conference team (112 games) and the remaining 50 you fill out by having the previous years playoff teams face each other from each conference and the non-playoff teams face each other (whichever portion works best). 4 game sets, less travel. Am i a genius or what ?
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 22, 2023 10:47:29 GMT -5
not good for Texas. Astros....jeez....gotta be stopped. Rematch of last year would be quite compelling, but i would rather not see it
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 20, 2023 16:09:38 GMT -5
I agree, but it does make the transition to the next person to be a bit wonky if their values aren't aligning or if they end up hiring additional people to hand hold the new person (Breslow comes to mind). I know from my own perspective, the last thing I want to read during FA is, "so and so really wanted player X, but ownership wouldn't allow it to happen or the FO made the new GM take player y". I'd like for it to be a smooth operation right out of the gate where everyone is pointing in the same direction. I 100 percent agree with this, whoever they hire as the #1 decision maker needs to have autonomy to make the moves they see fit. I guess yea this point is where it could get murky that people are turning down interviews so I do see the angle but at the same time it really doesn't bother me. Maybe I'm in the minority on that. It also doesn't help that the Boston media are hammering them on why they haven't hired anyone. If there is any negative angle this toxic media can run with with against the Sox they don't hesitate to do so. there's a natural barrier to media or fans making this too hot a topic of discussion right now. The MLB playoffs. Perhaps, the FO knows this as well. The timeline isn't all that important, but it is getting more important each week. Also, I have a hard time believing that applicants rejecting offers and free agents rejecting offer isn't a reflection on the organization as whole. There was a time, i seem to remember, of that happening once in the proverbial blue moon.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 20, 2023 15:27:16 GMT -5
Gabe Kapler for GM ? Craig Breslow ? I am trying to string words together to articulate how i feel about them, but my train of thought gets to manic and I can't from a sentence. Best to use 1 word. No.
Not at this time, we need an experienced guy who had these type responsibilities before and is willing to take appropriate, sometimes high level, risk. This Levine guy seems like he is the Dude.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 16, 2023 16:22:16 GMT -5
Yordan Alvarez is the best hitter in baseball is that really true ? I don't know enough to form an opinion. Doesn't it help, though, that he bats lefty and plays in a little league park ?
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 16, 2023 16:19:46 GMT -5
what i can take from this series and keeping track of the series so far, is just how much of these games is built on momentum. Which squares with what i have seen all my life watching sports. I never quite understood people downplaying that, and there were many times i have read that.
Now, the Astros get a bomb, it opens the door for that kind of change. Always fascinating to me.
The greatest example of that was the dreaded 86 Mets game 6. Sure, there was a lot of bad luck, but the momentum, while they couldn't get the last out, was palpable to myself and everyone i was watching with (which was easily 90 percent Mets fans)
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 16, 2023 16:03:24 GMT -5
is there a better current modern day example of a pitcher who transitioned from throwing gas to being a better overall "pitcher" than Nate ? Yes, he still throws hard, but I remember when he was with the MFY's, he was just a guy that threw real hard. Seems to me he has been a guy who has really honed his craft.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 16, 2023 15:46:02 GMT -5
Are all the silly, overpriced contracts the Rangers signed still being called ridiculous ? Asking for a friend ! LOL.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 16, 2023 12:55:30 GMT -5
lots of opinions about what is going on here, hard to really know what has truth, shades of the truth, complete BS, without being in the room.
Using some degree of critical thinking, i don't buy that recruiting is harder because FSG has many other ventures to tend to. That is why Kennedy is constantly out there for them. Top level ego wants these jobs. Don't think that a certain degree of owner absenteeism would be a deal breaker for those types.
I do think it is more plausible that potential candidates may factor in the power structure (Cora overexposure) and / or the last 2 GM's dismissal (both pretty hardcore, in review) in their thinking.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 15, 2023 17:56:25 GMT -5
am i understanding correctly ? that these applicants will be interviewing with Cora ? That is profoundly stupid and quite unnecessary, IMO. I can see sitting and talklng with him to discuss philosophy, but not in a classical interview way, like Cora is gonna have a say in the hire.
I am probably in the minority here, but I don't want any current member of the FO in the top position and would rather have them clean house. I think Bloom was done a disservice by (likely) not being able to bring in his own guys. I am all for loyalty, but these guys have had a great run and I think a new guy should be able to choose if he wants to retain them or get some new folks.
Seems like a full reset is the way to go, acknowledging it is more risky.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 13, 2023 0:06:13 GMT -5
Reason #1 to dislike ESPN, and current society in general, ESPN.com currently has a cover picture / lead story of Taylor Swift and Brittany Mahomes on ESPN.com celebrating a ho hum 19-8 Chiefs win, as opposed to a major upset in the baseball playoffs. It makes me sick and glad that i was born and grew up when sporting events and sports players were the celebrated class.
dang. that is cranky. Congrats to Phillies, no excuses for Braves. You either win or lose, that is the way it goes.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 11, 2023 18:14:54 GMT -5
HARPER STARRING DOWN ARCIA WHILE ROUNDING THE BASES!! Acuna ? what is the backstory here ? Edit. nvm...google is my friend
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 11, 2023 17:53:51 GMT -5
I feel like the playoff series should be best of 7, like they were for years. That would help mitigate some of these lower seeds success. You have to account for randomness and upsets, but you would likely find the better constructed team in a 7 game series, than a 3 or 5 game series.
Shorten up the baseball season by a week (probably never happen), or my preference, play October baseball games, then have the WS be played at a neutral site starting Nov in a better weather city. Then play all the games in a row between the league champs, just like they have to do in the regular season. Sell the WS rights separately and split the gate / rights to all the teams for that event.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Oct 10, 2023 15:57:47 GMT -5
please don't make me follow another Astros LCS. It isn't much to ask.
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