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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jul 3, 2015 11:21:54 GMT -5
Daniel Nava sighting last night. I forgot about him and his "injury". Nava got Da'za'd
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jul 3, 2015 10:15:39 GMT -5
Who goes when Victorino gets activated? Swihart to AAA? Or, DFA Leon. I'd guess we send Swihart down. If Victorino stays healthy, I know. Quit laughing. Will we play JBJ enough to keep him up?? Especially, given Da'za's hot bat.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jul 3, 2015 9:58:45 GMT -5
It baffles me why they are so stubborn with there pitching staff. Quoting Bill Parcells our pitching staff is holding the Sox hostage. I wonder why they always skip over Noe Ramierz for the bullpen promotion. I can't believe Miley he barley made five innings. They keep Breslow because he is a lefty but he is ineffective but keep him around because he is a lefty. Makes sense. I actually like a lot of this team but how can the FO not see where the issue is? Which of the relievers we've called up has pitched well? I consider S. Wright a starter.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jul 3, 2015 5:45:27 GMT -5
Just win baby.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jul 2, 2015 12:54:35 GMT -5
If noone else is going to say it, I will. I suspect there is some chicanery here. As long as he doesn't give em 5/95m or extends em for 4/82.5m, I'm cool.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jul 2, 2015 12:40:30 GMT -5
If we can get two prospects rated that highly with our spending limits, I'd make Romero our GM. Greg, they never say anything especially Shawnessey about how good they are with Romero Jr. I'm think Romero as our GM and Alex Cora managing in the not too distant future.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jul 2, 2015 8:32:14 GMT -5
Jesse Sanchez @jessesanchezmlb Source: #RedSox agree to a $300K deal with OF Simon Muzziotti of Venezuela @mlbpipeline Jesse Sanchez @jessesanchezmlb Source: #RedSox agree to a $300K deal with OF Alberto Guaimaro, #14 on @mlb Top 30 Int’l Prospects list atmlb.com/1JyMP1Z @mlbpipeline In all seriousness, how'd we do that? Success of the current Latin players in the system? Or, an established relationship with the scout? Combo of the two??
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jul 1, 2015 17:56:41 GMT -5
Glad I missed the debacle. I'll save Mgoetze the time. Have to like the 13.5/k rate today, eh? And, zero walks?? Sign me up for four more years of that! Darn, ball over the wall bad luck bit him again. Maybe, he'll be a little luckier against the Marlins.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jun 30, 2015 8:34:10 GMT -5
If we can get two prospects rated that highly with our spending limits, I'd make Romero our GM.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jun 30, 2015 7:50:15 GMT -5
I wouldn't trade JBJ for Fielder, let alone Buchholz. How many DHs and injury risks can we have? Fielder an injury risk and Buchholz not? Is this some sort of parallel universe? I know you sabremetrics guys don't appreciate guys who come to play everyday. Take a look at Fielder's games played during his entire career. Last year was the exception, not the norm. Smokey Joe Buchholz annually misses starts.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jun 29, 2015 21:40:50 GMT -5
Hey would you look at that 2 in a row. 8-5 since the 7 game losing streak.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jun 29, 2015 11:38:06 GMT -5
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jun 29, 2015 10:55:59 GMT -5
I watch some other games. Not a lot. Are we using the top of the strike zone to our advantage? It certainly appears many umpires are giving pitchers that letters-high strike. If you're throwing hard, like a Joe Kelly or Matt Barnes it's a difficult pitch to hit. Not good to throw 88 up there. But, if you can run it up like those two. Would think it's gotta work. Many of the HR's those two allow seem right down the middle waist high. Like it's on a tee. Kelly may not have the command to throw up there, but Barnes has pretty good control.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jun 28, 2015 15:25:51 GMT -5
The reverse lock wins again! It's unbelievable. Great to win the series. But, it's a good example of why we consistently lose to good teams. We had 3 wp's and 1 pb after we were up 4-0. Tazawa hits a guy with a 2-2 count. Brings the tying run in. Da'za's retarded slide. We're just not a sound team.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jun 28, 2015 15:04:10 GMT -5
Looks like he's out. De Aza never tried to tag the base. Dumbest slide I've ever seen. Puts both hands outside the width of the bag. Slides head-first like he's trying to headbutt it. This is absolutely the dumbest team I've seen.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jun 27, 2015 20:57:30 GMT -5
Exactly how does Tampa Bay keep coming up with good pitching staffs year after year after year. They've lost Shields, Price, Cook, Moore, Odorizi and they still come up with the Archer's etc etc. All their pitchers seem to have fast ball command and a change up to get outs. They change the bullpen on a yearly basis and they come up with lefties, righties that do the job. Boxberger was a decent starter last year and he transitioned to closer, seamlessly. I think they were a team maybe 8-10 years ago that realized that were not going to compete with Boston, NY, Toronto by spending money so they totally concentrated pitching as the great equalizer. You notice Maddon went to the Cubs but Hickey must have been given enough money to stay. The scouts working for the Rays that spot pitchers must be something else. They've got pitchers, Longoria and a bunch of role players. How much are they paying Astrubal Cabrera or that little guy in left field? Not much, as compared to Panda and Hanley and Porcello. You have to think that the Sox organization is a complete mess right now. They kinda remind me of a college football team that loses a really good coach and hires a bad one. For the first year, maybe two years the bad coach gets by on the other guys talent. Then the whole thing just collapses, poor play, lack of discipline, poor recruiting, the whole program takes a nose dive that takes years to dig out of. That's what the Sox seem to me right now. Poor decisions, poor planning, little to no focus on how to go about winning. Everybody seems to be just winging it right now. John Farrell is the Larry Coker of MLB. I like it. BC is his head recruiter too, I guess.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jun 27, 2015 19:57:20 GMT -5
Seems that Rusney is handling his demotion well. In his 4 games at Pawtucket he's 6/17 with one bb and 1 HR. Scored 5 runs. An extended period of success should get him back in the bigs once we move Victorino. He'd be our 4th of. Play LF on days Hanley is the DH, spelling Mookie and JBJ. Can use him to pinch run, pinch hit and defensive replacement for Hanley on other days.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jun 27, 2015 19:39:23 GMT -5
Another season, another joke of a team. Apathy will set in if we have many more seasons like 3 of the last 4. You won't be able to charge very high ticket prices to watch a bumbling, stumbling product too much longer.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jun 27, 2015 9:27:32 GMT -5
Hanley is going to be one of the top ten hitters in baseball as a DH, so we'll see if the tone changes then. Sandoval truly has been terrible throwing the ball, and his defense has hurt this team situationally more than Hanley's. He's been ok lately though. But, you have to pay him 44 million to butcher LF for two years. Not great resource allocation by BC.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jun 27, 2015 8:08:05 GMT -5
Mookie straight up blanked on who the Sox starting pitcher was during his post game interview. Harmless, but if it was Hanley or Pablo, and an L instead of a W, they'd probably get ripped for it. Nice strawman argument. You listening to Felger? Nobody cares what happens after the game. Players deserve to be criticized for in-game mistakes though. Glad you're enjoying Kung Fu Panda and Return of Hanley. Two movies I wish I had never seen.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jun 26, 2015 9:44:24 GMT -5
If the season ended right now, BOS would have the worst record in the AL and the 4th pick in the 2016 MLB draft: 1. PHI ---- 2. MIL -1.0 3. MIA -4.0 (4-game losing streak) 4. BOS -6.05. COL -7.0 6. CHW -7.0 7. SEA -7.5 8. OAK -7.5 (5-game winning streak) 9. SDO -8.5 10. CLE -8.5 11. CIN -9.5 12. ATL -9.5 13. ARI -10.0 (tiebreaker order of the above teams is ARI, COL, BOS, CHW, PHI, CIN, MIA, SDO, ATL, MIL, CLE, SEA, OAK) Remember when the AL and NL alternated picks? The worst team in the AL would pick first, and then the NL team second. They'd flip it the next year. AL was odd-numbered years. We'd be picking second.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jun 26, 2015 9:34:09 GMT -5
Let's tip our hat to the Orioles and call them our daddies. /close thread
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jun 26, 2015 8:36:44 GMT -5
Gotta love that Sunday match-up. Reverse lock. If Porcello can't pitch to this line-up in this stadium, I don't know what to say.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jun 25, 2015 13:31:53 GMT -5
Just to be clear here. We're ok with moving Mookie to RF. But, we weren't willing to try him at 3b because he didn't have a strong accurate enough arm?? As I was told time and time again this past off-season. Fixed. Whatever makes you sleep better at night. His arm wasn't accurate enough for 2b either??
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Jun 25, 2015 13:25:27 GMT -5
Just to be clear here. We're ok with moving Mookie to RF. But, we weren't willing to try him at 3b because he didn't have a strong enough arm?? As I was told time and time again this past off-season.
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