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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 30, 2019 23:09:45 GMT -5
Jeez. Noe is having a decent year. Good for him. Let's tag him for a few. Good call Jerry, as always.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 30, 2019 23:00:04 GMT -5
Regardless of the rest of the inning, I like josh Taylor he has big guts That was some great pitching after forgetting how to pitch for 3 batters.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 30, 2019 22:49:29 GMT -5
It's a bold move to walk the bases loaded for Mike Trout.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 30, 2019 17:49:56 GMT -5
Uggh, the Tyler Skaggs story just went from bad to worse. It's reported that fentanyl, oxycodone and alcohol was found according to his autopsy. There was reportedly a employee of the Angels who had access to these opioids and gave it to Skaggs. The Angels are in deep doo doo.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 29, 2019 21:12:27 GMT -5
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 29, 2019 21:10:03 GMT -5
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 29, 2019 17:18:43 GMT -5
So the Rays, Indians, and Athletics won today. Everytime this team gets hope, they get kicked squared in the nuts soon afterwards.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 29, 2019 6:36:23 GMT -5
Scooter Gennett was released two days ago. This guy was one of the best hitting second baseman in the league last year. I'd take a chance seeing how the Sox second base position isn't exactly lockdown right now. Good resign candidate if he performs too.
Add- He's on release waivers right now, but I expect the Sox to get in the Scooter Gennett market once he clears. He should be formally released today, giving the Sox a chance to get him on a off day.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 29, 2019 5:23:13 GMT -5
I didn't think Bogaerts had it in him. Obviously he had the talent. Over a long season he tended to fade. He's matured into a competitor. He was offered a great deal and he had no problems taking it which is what you want to see from big Red Sox talents. It was that crouched batting stance 4 years ago where he was poking at the ball, instead of standing up and driving the ball like he is now. That batting stance was killing his potential 4 years ago. His whole floor and ceiling as a player changed when Cora and his coaching staff got here and changed his batting stance. He's been a completely different player than even the All-Star he was in 2016. He's been even better. It kind of ticks me off that the Sox stuck with a bad coaching staff for so long before 2018. They couldn't unlock Xander, when the talent was there to be this good all along.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 29, 2019 2:15:28 GMT -5
The Sox have played 2 more games than the Athletics. The Athletics have 2 games in hand. Tampa and Boston have played the same amount of games this season to this point. Tampa will have played one more game by tomorrow.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 29, 2019 2:08:45 GMT -5
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 29, 2019 1:49:04 GMT -5
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 28, 2019 23:56:45 GMT -5
Betts might be the 4th most valuable player on our team.... possibly 5th factoring in total package of Vazquez...... how does he think he will get that mammoth contract? Mookie is 15th in the majors in both bWAR and fWAR... in a down year. Like, do you think he's not going to get a mammoth contract? Yeah, he's getting it. Just a matter of who gives it to him and when, not if he gets it.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 28, 2019 23:28:58 GMT -5
Unbelievable. Top 3 player in the league. What a player. 121 wRC+ from a third baseman isn't that special, and he's 9th in the NL in fWAR this year. Top 3 seems a stretch. Combined with that elite defense, it's close. Top 5 player at least. He doesn't have down years either. He's averaged 120 wRC+ every year since he's been in the league.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 28, 2019 23:16:03 GMT -5
Arrenado again lol. Stop hitting the ball his direction please. And yet another nice play by him Unbelievable. Top 3 player in the league. What a player.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 28, 2019 23:13:25 GMT -5
Xander and Devers are just having HOF type of years.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 28, 2019 22:52:34 GMT -5
Arrenado again lol. Stop hitting the ball his direction please.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 28, 2019 22:29:38 GMT -5
Arrenado is sooo great defensively. He's putting a clinic in this series.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 28, 2019 22:26:27 GMT -5
30/100 for a short stop in one swing. The dream season for a short stop in baseball.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 28, 2019 22:23:02 GMT -5
If the Sox pulled it off, it would be just as great as the 2004 comeback. eh, no. Same probability. It actually might be even less probability with this year's team than in 2004. You won game 5, you had Lowe, Pedro, and a hurt Schilling (still good). The Sox will have to comeback with no Sale in 2019.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 28, 2019 22:15:32 GMT -5
A's lose, Rays down 6 - 4 in the 8th inning with the Astros threatening for more runs And so it begins......... If the Sox pulled it off, it would be just as great as the 2004 comeback.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 28, 2019 22:11:38 GMT -5
What a play by Arrenado.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 28, 2019 15:45:53 GMT -5
The stuff is about to decline, and he's about to be a lot worse. I mean, it's possible, but you're talking about one of the most dependable arms in the game, and I don't really see the collapse risk at 30 to be dramatically worse than it was at, say, 28. That's reasonable, I'm just not spending any money whatsoever if I'm the Sox taking that risk.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 28, 2019 15:13:05 GMT -5
He's worth more than that to a NL contender. He's probably worth 2 or 3 years over there at 10 plus million. Porcello's value to the Red Sox might not even be at 5 million anymore. Porcello in his 30's is completely different than Porcello in his 20's. Porcello is one of those guys where if he doesn't go to the right environment to succeed and prolong his career, he could go from decent to unplayable and out of the league pretty soon, AKA Matt Latos. His best oportunity moving forward is outside the AL East. Go find the next Porcello who's in his 20's. I'm not necessarily eager to bring him back, but Porcello is basically having the season he had in 2015 once you adjust for league wide offense. He's also throwing about the same stuff that he has for the past decade. I'm not sure why you're taking such a hardline stance on him being done at age 30. The stuff is about to decline, and he's about to be a lot worse.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 28, 2019 4:18:49 GMT -5
Minor note. After seeing Alex Scherff struggle in his first two years of pro ball as a starter, I hope they bring him to camp next year full-time as a reliever. That's his best path to succeeding at this point.
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