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Post by threeifbaerga on May 2, 2024 19:53:21 GMT -5
Hey, being able to fake it at short is a pretty useful club to have in the bag, as April showed. Jeter made the Hall making easy plays look hard.
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Post by threeifbaerga on May 1, 2024 8:28:47 GMT -5
That stinks. He just can’t stay healthy. He hasn’t played more than 140 games since his age 24 season. He hasn’t played 135 games since age 26. His career has been very good still but his health issues appear to have robbed us of him really taking aim at any cumulative records. He's just too dang big to be running around an outfield anymore.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Apr 28, 2024 9:40:59 GMT -5
Dalbec hit 33 HRs - .269 BA - .938 OPS last year in Worcester. He is a legitimate All-star in AAA, maybe even a AAA MVP, but it has not translated into the MLB. It is both interest and strange that the contrast is so huge. Dalbec struck out almost 35% of the time last year in AAA as a 28-year-old hitting in a park that helps hitters. Does park have any impact on k-rate?
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Post by threeifbaerga on Apr 27, 2024 22:09:51 GMT -5
The lineup will have a better balance with Cooper and Refsnyder in it.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Apr 27, 2024 17:34:22 GMT -5
Seems we picked up a new big boy for the Woo Sox - Sal Romano, 30 years old - 6 feet 5, 255 lbs! Career record looks pretty meh. Call me when we pick up Sal Fasano and the best mustache in organized sports.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Apr 26, 2024 18:49:11 GMT -5
I wonder what Mitch Moreland is up to?
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Post by threeifbaerga on Apr 24, 2024 8:47:09 GMT -5
That .050 difference in OBP is huge. Pedroia was having great at bats
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Post by threeifbaerga on Apr 17, 2024 15:06:24 GMT -5
Rooting against our own guys. Yuck.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Apr 14, 2024 7:48:14 GMT -5
Just anecdotally Masa's swing right now seems to have him rolling over the top of balls. Looks like he's turning his wrists early.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Apr 6, 2024 18:57:19 GMT -5
Watching all these elite pitchers dropping like flies makes me uncomfortable giving ANY pitcher $300m ever again. I think 4-5 years is long enough given all the risk involved for the signing team. We’ll see if the industry starts to adjust to this “new normal”. Unfortunately you'll never get a star pitcher if you won't sign those deals. The Red Sox have the pockets to take these risks. I just hope the league as a whole starts implementing more opt out and protection clauses. My hope is that they find a way to protect pitchers and prevent the injuries.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Apr 5, 2024 11:13:49 GMT -5
Always worth remembering that Amtrak has a station in the Angels' parking lot. It's the easiest half-hour ride from LA there is. Even if that's not your origin, driving to some other stop like Fullerton or whatever and taking the train the rest of the way will save a butt-load of driving stress. I wanted to do this but unfortunately the final train departs around 9:30p and I don’t wanna rush outta the game to catch it : / Having a train station at the ballpark then ensuring that it's unusable for game days is the biggest slap in the forehead dumb nonsense I've heard today.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Apr 2, 2024 11:52:17 GMT -5
Are different people allowed to have different criteria for how they compare and rank players? Nobody is stopping anyone from that. There's no guarantee you won't be criticized for it though.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Apr 1, 2024 10:49:39 GMT -5
SSS and all I know but if one series is any indicator O'Neill is a very good fit for the OF as currently assembled with his RHH power and solid fielding ability. He is a guy I'd like to try and keep around if a reasonable contract can be agreed upon. Even with arguably their best prospect being an OFer in Roman Anthony, O'Neill still fits well with the long-ish term makeup of the team since Anthony is a LHH and they will need RHH pop from somewhere in the lineup. As far as I can tell it doesn't appear they have much if any RHH pop coming up through the minors in the next few years, certainly not in the OF. If he's a 25+ homer guy with good defense in the corners and looks to (finally) be healthy in 6 months, does O'Neill get QO'd? Pivetta could also be a QO option, no? I was shocked the other day when I realized that all of Casas, Devers, Antony, Teel, and Mayer are left handed hitters. Wonder if there's a big trade somewhere just to try to acquire a good young righty?
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Post by threeifbaerga on Mar 30, 2024 19:19:05 GMT -5
Wait pitching machine technology isn't good enough to consistently throw a 95mph fastball when you want it to throw a 95mph fastball? Get it together robots and engineers, we need Raffy in our lineup! (Also I have no problem with Winc pitching 2 but the idea we needed him to to load manage the bullpen is weird. Totally fine with trying not to overtax our top 3 in Jansen/Martin/Campbell in that game, but I think Slaten and Weisert also looked good in the spring and they literally haven't pitched.) I wonder if this is the year we finally see that multi-inning relief ace role we've always imagined? Justin Masterson was the last one I remember filling that role.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Mar 30, 2024 14:59:19 GMT -5
Sounds like the Hoskins slide was legal but I'm on McNeil's side it's dirty. Clearly he's trying to slide hard and make it really tough for McNeil to turn the double play so he's basically going for a slide tackle not trying to reach the base as fast as he can which I don't want legislated out of the game, but if you go in spikes up on or above the ankle it's really dangerous and would be a textbook red card in soccer. Depends on which league you're watching. Hard to tell what's textbook these days.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Mar 21, 2024 14:22:36 GMT -5
I love all these posts talking about how the Sox should have just matched/beaten offers that pitchers signed for with other teams that completely ignore context. Just go sign Imanaga! Ignore the fact that he obviously had his heart set on the Cubbies and spent three weeks in Chicago prior to signing there officially. Sign Stroman! Ignore the fact that he lobbied very publically to sign with the Yanks. Sign Paxton! Maybe he wasn't terribly interested in resigning with the Sox and was interested in chasing a ring with the Dodgers.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Mar 20, 2024 9:08:15 GMT -5
OK, I've got the "gain weight" part down, can someone tell me how to grow 2 inches? Age from 16 to 20.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Mar 13, 2024 20:30:16 GMT -5
Man that's encouraging. Nasty stuff.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Feb 20, 2024 17:13:30 GMT -5
Sure am sick of owners threatening fans of a thing they bought (not created) so that they can make another dime.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Aug 7, 2023 16:53:02 GMT -5
Watching LLWS on ESPN and saw one Jaxon Kalish draw a walk against Hawaii. Couldn't find anything online but is there any chance he's related to Ryan?
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Post by threeifbaerga on Jul 25, 2023 16:14:16 GMT -5
Throwing the term rookie around pretty liberally there, Eric How do you figure? He had made 2 MLB appearances entering this year. He is literally a rookie. It was a joke about the fact that he's 31. Pretty understandable that there's little fanfare with a little context, Chris.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Jul 25, 2023 8:49:55 GMT -5
Throwing the term rookie around pretty liberally there, Eric
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Post by threeifbaerga on Jul 23, 2023 8:24:33 GMT -5
Coming up on fifteen months of recovery for a torn ACL and is seemingly making no meaningful progress.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Jul 17, 2023 21:18:29 GMT -5
After Casas' most recent AB his slash line is .236/.336/.436 which is pretty neat
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Post by threeifbaerga on May 5, 2023 19:17:11 GMT -5
Good grief this HP ump has an absolutely massive zone.
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