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Post by Gwell55 on Jun 17, 2015 12:37:11 GMT -5
Boggs can't teach his hand-eye coordination or vision, which is probably the hole in that theory. Gedman had that same Walt Hreniak swing, he should know the technique. Gedman wasn't into that swing until it was taught to him and he didn't fair so well with it then either. "But critics roll their eyes when they see hitter after hitter with the head-down, one-handed style. The argument also can be made that for each one Hriniak has helped, he has hurt another. Former Red Sox catcher Rich Gedman, now with Houston, is perhaps the best example. A left-handed line-drive hitter with opposite-field power, Gedman often resembled a plunging helicopter when he uncoiled his revamped swing, and his career took a dive along with it." articles.sun-sentinel.com/1990-08-06/sports/9002070593_1_walt-hriniak-swing-holy-war Seems the consensus was about 50-50 with that swing that it helped or hurt.
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Post by Gwell55 on Jun 8, 2015 19:00:20 GMT -5
Not going to lie, my main hesitation about Benintendi is all the terrible spelling we're about to see on these forums. Maybe he should be nicknamed immediately.... something like ... ... Video LOL
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Post by Gwell55 on Jun 5, 2015 22:22:11 GMT -5
Wade Miley called Sogard a pussy as he walked off the field. Love it. The funny thing he is right!!!! Also Remy got his best line in of the year... something about Sogard was shaking the wrong hand after Miley hit him... And with the replay Jerry was right... Miley called it right too apparently!
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Post by Gwell55 on Jun 4, 2015 17:28:16 GMT -5
Hah this team is just funny. But it actually looks like Hanley's knees are killing him when he runs. And we now send slow runners from first on a single? The whole coaching staff is dingy it appears.
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Post by Gwell55 on Jun 3, 2015 19:22:20 GMT -5
Seems like the lineup in the first game was aggressive at the plate and swinging early on. Looks like the regulars are back to slow it down take good pitches till you get in a hole. I'll say this again, for those of you who missed it the first time. The Sox got Hughes out of the game by waiting him out with full counts to where he had to throw the ball in the zone. They clubbed it and he was gone. Go watch the replays. I watched the game too... it went like this as I saw it Pedey K foul foul no out 4 pitch single, mookie K, foul, swing K out 3 pitches... ortiz ball foul in play double 3 pitches... Hanley foul foul ball, in play out 4 pitch... Naps K foul ball called strike. 4 pitches... and that was just the first... nine total pitches in second ... third inning Pedey one pitch single... mookie foul, ball (2 pitches) and the screw up out ... Ortiz foul, foul, double ... Hanley called strike, single ... Nap ball, in play out ... Holt ball, foul, Out ... 14 pitches anyway that is the aggression I was talking about and it worked a pretty good and the game was going a lot smoother.
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Post by Gwell55 on Jun 3, 2015 19:03:30 GMT -5
Brock Holt in the 2 hole... Will it pay off? Takes two solid strikes and he is in the hole then same ole same ole!!!
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Post by Gwell55 on Jun 3, 2015 19:00:23 GMT -5
Since when was Trevor May a Cy Young candidate? Seems like the lineup in the first game was aggressive at the plate and swinging early on. Looks like the regulars are back to slow it down take good pitches till you get in a hole.
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Post by Gwell55 on May 19, 2015 19:21:39 GMT -5
Now he gets a hit? ? He needs to figure something out quick or he will be gone.
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Post by Gwell55 on May 13, 2015 17:41:21 GMT -5
There's only two weeks until the Salem Sox are in Frederick, MD, so let's get him up to Salem asap ... SoxProspects South would turn out in force for those games, I'm sure. Midweek games = no dice for first-year attorney who would need to leave work at like 2 to beat the traffic and just got extra time off to go on his honeymoon. (Also missing a Sea Dogs weekend series in Bowie because my wife decided to visit that weekend, but hey, at least it's just Portland?) Hey I thought attorneys bought planes for those short jumps. Looks like your going to have to get with the program. Heck our attorney here has a LearJet cuz he is so far out in the boonies and then he rents it out when he isn't in it. Get with the program so we can get our info faster!!!
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Post by Gwell55 on May 7, 2015 13:25:59 GMT -5
Team management is on the hot seat. What is the biggest problem? The last place pitching staff. Farrell is a former pitching coach. Anything we say is speculation but my guess is that probably he is holding his people accountable for their performance and that starts with the guy in charge of the pitching staff. Farrell is not happy with his chosen mamager of the pitching staff and it doesn't seem to be improving any time soon. He needs better performance from the group, so he's moving in a different direction so to speak.. Farrell awhile back (week or so I think it was) stated that he had to work more than he ever had with the pitchers. That comment kind of looms large to me right now. In fact that wouldn't surprise me if that is the real reason Juan is gone.
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Post by Gwell55 on Apr 11, 2015 14:01:26 GMT -5
Wow, Kelly's stuff looks incredible right now. Other than the 2nd inning, he has been dominant. Yea, like he predicted, and he is still in it for a CY
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Post by Gwell55 on Apr 7, 2015 11:43:46 GMT -5
And Buchhholz was horrible last year. I agree with Abraham's statement 100%. Read it in context - it's not like they're giving the clear worst pitcher the start, but his point is that it's not like Buchholz is clearly better than Porcello. That Buchholz is the returning guy is what tipped it in his favor. I feel like this is pretty clear, honestly.At one point Roy Halliday was the best pitcher in baseball. Doesn't mean he should be starting on opening day right now. Who cares about 2013 when he was terrible last year and is a bit of a headcase? Seniority is absolutely the primary reason why he was starting on opening day, at least among these starters. If they went and signed Scherzer, then fine, but the point is that Porcello wasn't better by enough for them not to give the nod to the one guy coming back from last opening day. Also, making all of one's starts and staying healthy is a skill that the metric you used here ignores, or actually completely forgive a pitcher for. Give me Kershaw's 7.9 WAR over 236 innings over Buchholz's 4.3 over 108 any day. Was the fact that Buch could train during the off-season two years ago and wasn't healthy enough prior to 14 to train properly relevant also? I'm sure the staff knows these type of situations make a difference prior to anyone else.
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Post by Gwell55 on Apr 7, 2015 11:34:56 GMT -5
99 mph is 99 mph no matter which side of the plate you're standing on. Diekman has a career 2.91 FIP and 3.03 SIERA. Proposed alternative analysis: the Red Sox hitters are pretty good. He was clearly struggling and Hanley is a pretty good bet to not be phased by a 99 mph fastball thrown by a lefty. Reminds me of Barry Bonds pulling 500 foot fouls off Eric Gagne. I would have been bitching about it if it were reversed. Like I said, I'm probably overanalyzing. When you analyze Hanley's at bat that first pitch 99 mph fastball was fouled straight back making it appear that Diekman was scared to throw it for a strike again. Then he handed up that 80+ mph pitch and after our great announcers were wondering why? Also another pitcher just may of seen the same result as Hanley appeared prepared for anything in that AB.
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Post by Gwell55 on Mar 23, 2015 20:35:51 GMT -5
1. How many games will the Red Sox win in 2015? 87 2. Who will win AL MVP? Mike Trout 3. Who will win AL Cy Young? Felix Hernandez 4. Who will win AL Rookie of the Year? Rusney Castillo 5. Who will win the World Series? Washington Nationals 6. Which current or ex-Red Sox player/prospect will get the most MVP vote points in 2015? Hanley Ramirez 7. Who starts the most games for Boston after Porcello, Buchholz, Miley, Masterson, and Kelly? Steven Wright 8. Who is the first player to be added to the 25-man roster on or after April 15? (players coming off the DL do not count). Rusney Castillo 9. Who is the first player to earn a permanent promotion after the season starts? (from any level to any level - not just to Boston - but excluding rehab re-assignments or call-ups from XST) Yoan Moncada 10. Name one player the Red Sox will draft in 2015. Kyle Funkhouser
Red Sox minor league system only 11. Which pitcher has the most wins? Brian Johnson 12. Most strikeouts? Henry Owens 13. Which hitter hits the most home runs? Sam Travis 14. Best OPS? (min 200 PAs) Rafael Devers 15. Most stolen bases? Manuel Margot 16. Who will be voted the Offensive POY as voted by the SP Community? Rafael Devers 17. Pitcher of the Year? Eduardo Rodriguez 18. Breakout POY? Sam Travis 19. Comeback POY? Garin Cecchini 20. Which prospect will make the biggest jump in the SoxProspects rankings? Trey Ball
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Post by Gwell55 on Mar 20, 2015 9:01:43 GMT -5
PeteAbe with a piece about the Sox relative failure to develop international players includes a nice shoutout of SoxProspects, but some faulty logic/reporting: Seems very odd that he can do this entire piece and not mention that one of Cherington's first moves was jettisoning Craig Shipley, no? Yes, that's bizarre. They had a novel approach. It didn't work. So they've gone back to more traditional methods. Though if Xander became a star, wouldn't that be something? Also, was Anibal Sanchez a Theo signing or Duquette, cause he's worked out well for both sides of that deal. Another question than should be was Ben the coordinator of international scouting when Hanley and Sanchez were signed or was he head of baseball relations or just operations assistant? We do know he was there when both were signed by the club.
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Post by Gwell55 on Mar 11, 2015 22:23:03 GMT -5
Don't you all remember the purse swinging incident in the 04 ALCS and how it was doubly great because both the Red Sox won the game because of it and first year Yankee ARod was THE reason why it happened? He was the greatest villian. And that was before PEDs were even talked about. He was a whining, greedy jerk who everyone hated. I swear, sometimes I think the Curse of the Bambino was broken when ARod was awarded to the Yankees instead of the Red Sox. Let us not forget that the only thing we hate more than ARod is the Yankees. That is all true than about the villain Slappy but isn't that what makes him a true yankee then too? I side with fairness here and Arod just showed that he was a true Yankee so why are they whinning at him again?
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Post by Gwell55 on Feb 27, 2015 14:37:04 GMT -5
The Yankees never drew lines anywhere Of course they do. It's just that, in the past, that line has been higher than where other teams have drawn it. It's fair to criticize the Yankees for undervaluing Moncada, but it's silly to criticize them for attaching a value to him. Wasn't it just a few days ago we heard the agent told them that they offered 25 and might go to 27 and the agent stated that wasn't enough? If that was true the Yankees knew it would cost more! That claim rings true enough to me.
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Post by Gwell55 on Feb 6, 2015 13:05:36 GMT -5
Pete Abraham ?@peteabe 15m15 minutes ago Breslow arrived on Thursday. Threw and ran today. Said he feels "like a normal guy again" after injury issues last season. #redsox . . . Rob Bradford ?@bradfo 20m20 minutes ago Knew you wanted video of Hinojosa (Jose Abreu's roommate in Cuba) throwing a Fort Myers bullpen. You're welcome ... fullcount.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/2015/02/06/why-you-should-take-note-of-dalier-hinojosa-and-some-others-in-red-sox-camp/ … . . . @peteabe: #RedSox invite Keith Couch, Dalier Hinojosa, Brian Johnson, Deven Marrero, Henry Owens, Noe Ramirez, Matt Spring, Jemile Weeks to ST. Kind of surprised that Barnes didn't get an invite. Good to see Spring there. Do all the 40-man guys go? Barnes is on it, so wouldn't he and Shaw, Swihart, Coyle etc be there?
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Post by Gwell55 on Jan 27, 2015 15:59:08 GMT -5
It sure appears that July 3rd or thereafter is the total intent of the league office ... I'm sure they are really busy looking after who can or should be allowed to sign this him. Also I'm very sure "The best interest of baseball" clause is in the minds of our new leadership. So the Rangers and Cubs can have the opportunity to sign him because their penalties went away for doing the same exact thing before? That doesn't make a lot of sense. For me I think in reality what the real issue is if they held out on him that gets at least 3 big money teams out of the way and cuts the cost for the rest down a lot. Seems to me Robbie might do something along those lines for the good of the league. Would it be better for the MLB owners as a group "which goes through the commish as the leader" to pay more or less to one player? I'm pretty sure they would want to keep costs down anyway they could as sky rocketing foreign player bonuses is one of their objectives right now.
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Post by Gwell55 on Jan 27, 2015 12:16:25 GMT -5
It sure appears that July 3rd or thereafter is the total intent of the league office ... I'm sure they are really busy looking after who can or should be allowed to sign this him. Also I'm very sure "The best interest of baseball" clause is in the minds of our new leadership.
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Post by Gwell55 on Jan 7, 2015 21:10:13 GMT -5
Who's to say he didn't? These kind of assumptions drive me crazy. We don't know who used, period. When they remove every pre-integration player from the HOF, maybe I'll care about PED users being in there. This is the very definition of false equivalency. While I would agree that it wasn't right for negro league baseball players to not be able to play in the major leagues that is quite different than players and owners cheating to chase the almighty dollar. The former was a cultural abomination.....the latter was totally ego driven. Most of what you say here seems true but there should be a caveat then as to the totally because many users seem to be peer pressure driven and that is alluded to in Pettite's statements about pressure to get back to game ready faster and stay the course...
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Post by Gwell55 on Jan 7, 2015 20:15:28 GMT -5
The point (among other points made) that some have been trying to make, however, is that there have been players throughout history that have cheated, prevented others from competing against them, and taken substances to help them and ultimately pad their stats to the detriment of others. So why are these PED users any different? What makes their form of 'cheating' special and deserving of exclusion from the HOF? One of the problems with that is the clean ones, even on this board, those like my cousin who played for the Sox 10 full years and had very good careers but not great got bashed and named as inferior and even today they get no recognition against those who were also good but may have become great with their PED use so why should fans care at all. It feels apparently the board majority still bashes all the PED users but the clean players on the fringe of being very good still are belated here. I don't see the writers caring either by the way so it goes on and on.
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Post by Gwell55 on Dec 20, 2014 11:17:07 GMT -5
James Wagner ?@jameswagnerwp 4h4 hours ago Trea Turner's agent is unhappy the prospect will be in limbo until June after Nats’ trade; considering a grievance. wapo.st/1HdhFak Agent has a point and this could get interesting. There is precedent for a PTBNL to be 'loaned' to the team ahead but that wasn't a minor league player. In truth, this violates the principle of the one year rule. MLB and/or the team didn't name him as Rizzo's quote in the article showed but they are picking from a list. Maybe he should be suing the media who claimed it was him from a rumor. Probably got a case there. Not to be morbid ... but if he got killed in say May would the trade be canceled? Or would they be getting another player from a rumored list or not?
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Post by Gwell55 on Dec 19, 2014 10:56:59 GMT -5
I don't know what the Padres are doing. All of a sudden they want to play with big boys. In one way at least there making moves and if I was a fan I would be happy with the active front office. But questionable talent coming in Kemp,Upton,Myers. They traded there starting 3B last year. I wonder what happened in those front office meetings to change direction. Maybe they got fed up with trying to build farm system. It's funny how Grandal stock has fallen to me. I guess getting offense is hard to find. Makes me think the Sox should get something decent for Craig especially if he looks good in spring training if they wait that long. His steroid use and then not being so great at the MLB level after that most likely started the stock falling so fast. His stats aren't that impressive if you take out the steroids year. .224 .332 .389 .721
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Post by Gwell55 on Dec 17, 2014 23:10:43 GMT -5
Where did this flood of over reactionary clowns come from? They're starting to make me look like a rational poster. Know your place, losers. Is that Theo getting ready to leave the cubbies?
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