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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 31, 2018 12:15:31 GMT -5
To belabor a point, having Swihart get regular ABs and beginning to show why he was a first rounder is a lot like trading to upgrade catcher with the added bonus of his positional flexibility. WHile he is still in SSS limbo we know him well enough to think this is more like the real palyer and not a flash in the pan. Good non-trade.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 28, 2018 7:43:32 GMT -5
Yesterday's critical hits 1. JBJ 2 run HR 2. Devers 9th inning game tying HR 3. Betts walk off HR
I guess JDM isn't pulling his weight now?
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 25, 2018 16:33:37 GMT -5
Fenway Fanatic said "Welcome to Boston."
LOL, grew up a mile and a half from Fenway, I know and appreciate the angst. But sometimes ya just gotta laff
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 25, 2018 16:30:45 GMT -5
So if Beeks is like a top 40 prospect in most systems that makes him about the 1000th best prospect in baseball. Put that way it hardly seems earth shattering, and makes as much sense as raising the name of Arrieta let alone Rivera, even in a dismissive way.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 25, 2018 16:02:44 GMT -5
You have to love this board. Yesterday it was "Gotta replace Pomeranz!", "Pom can't throw another inning for the Sox except maybe out of the pen!" etc.
Boom they replace Pomeranz with an off the radar pick up who, no matter what, should be a big improvement on what he showed all season and what do we get? "They'll be terrible in 3 years!" "The farm system is decimated!" (ok that's an exaggeration, but not by much).
Newsflash - the Sox are 71 and 32, not 32 and 71. Beeks wsa not penciled in as the #3 starter next season (maaaaaaaybe #5 if he ever translated his stuff from AAA). I've been a Sox fan since I was 5 and my grandpa took me to Fenway for the first time, that was over 65 years ago, and I'm amazed at the pessimism that persists. I admit to having been a victim of it after '67, '75 and especially '86 - but we've won *THREE* World Series since then and we are currently the badasses of baseball in 2018. Not going to worry about how we might suck in 2020 or 2021.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 24, 2018 16:06:23 GMT -5
CAn we call him a Mazzh*l+ then?
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 24, 2018 15:48:53 GMT -5
I like the idea of being better able to retain homegrown talent as it rewards teams that invest in amateur scouting and player development, something that should be affordable for any MLB franchise. So how about a tax based on Free Agent signings and trades only and base it on the amount over the median pay by position for the player. E.g. if the median for a SS is $5mm/yr, there is no tax to sign a F.A. shortstop for an AAV of $4mm but a $1mm/yr tax to sign him at $6mm.
Of course I'm not sure how the F.A.s would react (actually I'm pretty sure I know since it would suppress their markets). But the point is to figure out how to let a team keep its talent. Probably need to have a smaller tax on homegrowns as well to put more money in the till for distribution but it should be less than that for "outsiders".
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 24, 2018 15:23:13 GMT -5
It ain't the market value until there's a trade. Until then it's just the offer and we haven't heard the bid side yet.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 15, 2018 8:32:22 GMT -5
I remember balls sometimes bouncing off the wall, hitting the back of the pole, bouncing back to the other side of the triangle wall the onto the field 90 degrees from where the fielders were headed. I also remember Jimmy Piersall who I think was the best Sox defensive CF until JBJ, periodically sitting behind the flag poll and throwing pebbles against the wall while the Sox made pitching changes.
Thank you. Very fond memories of Jimmy Piersall the awesome CF (my hero, my position) and him doing many interesting activities. He was great with kids, at least with me and my pals, and fun to watch. In my earliest trips to Fenway I thought Dom DiMaggio was really special too, but was too young to really appreciate how good he was.
We actually had the Piersall family over for an off-season Sunday? afternoon and dinner. They had a ton of children and lived in Framingham. I was maybe 7 or 8 at the time so I don't remember much. My mother was a huge baseball fan and bumped into him at a mall, lol, she wasn't at all shy. I was a Jackie Jensen/Ted Williams fan at the time.
Al Hirshberg and his family lived around the corner from us and were my folks best friends. Met Piersall a number of times and he was also my idol, when I was in the 5th or 6th grade Iused to go to the nearby ballfield where the older kids (8th graders) were taking BP. They would tell me I could get a turn at bat if I shagged balls for them..and about half the time they kept their word. I never told them that I'd rather catch fly balls than hit, honed my skills copying Jimmy.
ALso Piersall was very competitive and my Mom, who was a superior athlete and he would get into really heated ping-pong matches at the Hirshberg's place on the cape. No quarter given and trash talking was part of the game...young ears burning lol.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jun 14, 2018 10:35:12 GMT -5
Just so we're all clear, we all realize this is two very short videos looped into a longer one, right? Still hilarious, but just making sure nobody thinks he does that 72 times before he hits or something. I was honestly hoping no one pointed this out. I was hoping it was a normal thing to drive people nuts with. I get a kick out of seeing small stuff that drives people up a wall. I don't think anyone thought this was anything more than it was, a loop of a quirky routine. The reason it reminds me of Nomar is the short, choppy, angular movements and then when they're looped it gets that NOMAH vibe to it.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jun 13, 2018 18:29:20 GMT -5
I think that the Sox end of the deal here is: This guy may have some MLB value as a hitter and should be tested ow, the Sox get first dibs to find out, but they have to pay him or give him a 40 man spot to keep him next year.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jun 12, 2018 18:57:56 GMT -5
Molto Bene
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jun 12, 2018 18:20:58 GMT -5
NOMAH!!!
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jun 6, 2018 16:02:14 GMT -5
baseball is so different from the other sports when it comes to the draft. It seems like if you play D1 baseball and you DON'T get drafted, you must have really sucked, cuz EVERYBODY gets drafted. Anyone have any theories on why baseball seems to be even more of a crap-shoot when it comes to the draft than the other major sports? To me it is just proof that baseball is harder than the other sports. It is rare that even good college players can have immediate success inMLB (think Benny) and rarer still for High School graduates to come in without a lot of minor league experience (even Devers, while quite young, spent a few years in the minors). In Basketball every year there a number of One-and-Done types that play significant minutes in the NBA. While it's less common in the NHL they still have a greater percentage of 19-21 yearolds playing there than in MLB. Football is different in that you can't play until you've had 3 years of college and that is just due to the physical maturity issue, not the skill issue (except QB)
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jun 6, 2018 12:07:25 GMT -5
Pedro is 5'11"
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jun 5, 2018 17:45:40 GMT -5
It seems like the Sox brain trust may have decided that they don't know how to remedy their inability to develop pitchers and are going to buy proven ones (Sale Price, Porcello) or trade for them (ERod)so instead they are going for bats. There was no Benintende available and who on Draft Day knew Mookie would turn into MOOKIE, maybe we have one. So they took Power. Gonna be fun to see how this works out.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on May 23, 2018 20:24:33 GMT -5
Is this the Cleveland Browns board? ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) It's where they go for a more optimistic take. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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Post by maxwellsdemon on May 18, 2018 10:34:11 GMT -5
Also, this Kyrie Irving discussion is going to look entirely different when whoever wins the West comes in and beats the ever-loving hell out of whoever wins the East. So the Celtics were 1-1 against each team with all 4 games being close. They have, of course, lost Irving but they have also had the further emergence/development of Brown, Tatum and Rozier plus they get "Playoff Al" and Big Play Marcus Smart. Not saying they will win the series if they make it (pumpkins at midnight still possible unless they take one of the games in Cleveland), but to write them off as having no chance seems......premature.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Apr 15, 2018 8:21:32 GMT -5
Baseball is my favorite sport, but the Stanley Cup playoffs can be the most exciting and intense show in sports bar none.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Apr 13, 2018 21:02:14 GMT -5
Just watched the Mookie replay and Jones dogged it not once but twice, going to first then sped up then slowed down again. But also noticed that Mookie has a thickish gold chain around his neck, Devers a thin one and Lin has some sort of beaded job. Status identifiers? And why are necklaces so common in MLB. I play in a senior softball league with over 220 members and most can afford that type of jewelry but virtually no one wears it while playing. Seniors save room for their life alerts... ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png) Our guys are all hardcore, have DNRs and want to be buried on the field. ![:))](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cheesy.png)
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Apr 13, 2018 20:19:26 GMT -5
Just watched the Mookie replay and Jones dogged it not once but twice, going to first then sped up then slowed down again. But also noticed that Mookie has a thickish gold chain around his neck, Devers a thin one and Lin has some sort of beaded job. Status identifiers? And why are necklaces so common in MLB. I play in a senior softball league with over 220 members and most can afford that type of jewelry but virtually no one wears it while playing.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Apr 10, 2018 21:31:10 GMT -5
Sooooo......... not a good game?
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Apr 10, 2018 10:57:01 GMT -5
There have been 2 players in the last 150 years of baseball that has done both sides of baseball (pitching and hitting) to a all-star level. Two. That's even if Ohtani can actually keep hitting. The probability of it happening more often is like hitting the powerball. I don't know why teams would all of a sudden change their approach in terms of drafting because of Ohtani reaching and excelling in MLB. Madison Bumgarner feels disrepected
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Nov 9, 2017 7:23:22 GMT -5
Without Horford and Irving on the court, they're just short on consistent shot creation. And Tatum... And Hayward - just ponder that for a moment.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Oct 11, 2017 20:20:39 GMT -5
I don't understand why anyone bothers to spend their time reading tomase.
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