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    Jayson Tatum Needs His Own Thread

    Can he spend a couple weeks with Pierce in a camp on drawing fouls? Everybody gives a ton of Pierce comps on him already and Pierce was in the top 10 drawing fouls from his third year in the league and it always seemed like selling the contact was his effective strategy. I don't think it's a...
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    Red Sox Prospect Daniel Flores Dies of Cancer

    This is really depressing but it did say he was being treated in Boston so that's at least taking it very seriously and hopefully less likely to have a hospital acquired infection while immunocompromised. That description could very easily have applied to me at a couple of points in my treatment...
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    Sox get Kimbrel

    Well at least the Padres will also feel bad about this when Margot and Guerra don't actually have enough power to play in Petco. Best case scenario saber analysts argue one or both would be average or better hitters in a different environment and maybe one has a second chance at another...
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    Tests reveal Red Sox skipper Farrell in remission

    If it's that aggressive then stopping the treatment here is actually the good news at remission rather than remission itself being the good news. Lymphoma they shoot for permanent cure and generally it comes back so fast that it's better to overshoot with too much treatment to make sure that...
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    John Farrell has Lymphoma.

    Good luck John, I was diagnosed with NHL last September and R-CHOP is easy. The anti-nausea drugs are way stronger than that amount of chemo and there's only a few days per cycle where the fatigue is hard. So lucky they caught it early because they grow so fast it could be stage 3 or 4 and...
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    The Bill Simmons Thread

    John Oliver's show is a dramatically different animal than a sketch show or late night show because the quality of the whole show is uniformly so high. With any of the others they are so hit or miss that only getting clips is getting most of what's funny on the show, with his show the long...
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    2015 Draft Watch

    Kylie McDaniel on the podcast a few weeks ago was saying the problem with Daz is that he was the best sophomore in the country and hasn't developed since then. That doesn't strike me as a really hopeful profile. I'd rather they take one of the college players since they've had more success there. 
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    Malcom Brown, DT

    I was looking to see about personnel groupings the Pats had used on D and how that might change with Brown. It looked like last year there was a lot of Wilfork and Chris Jones inside together with Nink and Chandler Jones (Ayers when he was out) outside for more of a traditional 4-3. That look...
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    Should the Sox extend Mookie?

    Yes and presumably to get a Boras client to sign an extension would either take committing to FA length and money now or else very little discount and no extension of team control. Betts is represented by Stephen Veltman so presumably would take a reasonable discount for the security of an...
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    Red Sox Spring training thread

    McCoveychonicals already has the way to judge Panda's weight with http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2013/2/25/4007986/pablo-sandoval-fat-shape-oh-god-so-sick-of-this . We might have to add a couple more levels just to take anticipate anything CHB could come up with. We're at a 6 now, hopefully...
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    Are Minor-Leaguers Exploited? BleacherReport argues so.

    Where players have the ability to negotiate better deals, some teams give them to them. For instance http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-yankees-found-another-way-to-outspend-every-other-team/. 99% of minor leaguers never get that chance to successfully get through their indentured servitude to...
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    Eric Berry may have Lymphoma

    Welcome to the club Eric Berry, it sounds the same as mine, I hope they caught it early and the treatment goes smoothly because it's curable the vast majority of the time. 
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    Should Farrell's Seat Start To Be Getting A Little Warm?

    Overall the team is .02 below average in DER and their error rate is exactly league average so the team as a whole hasn't been. UZR actually thinks they are third best, that's mostly because of JBJ and Pedroia. There are some real strengths and weaknesses on the team but I'm not sure you can put...
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    Caleb Hannan and the question of ethical journalism

    It seemed to me like this was much more of an editorial issue than a reporting issue. The subject is someone running a company, trying to break through in the golf world through a combination of the authority of faked credentials and legitimate celebrity/pro connections. Hannan should have been...
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    Can anyone explain MLB's minor league affiliates disparity?

    Pretty sure the Sox shut down their VSL team after 2005 because they didn't trust the political/league situation long term and had just built the Dominican complex where they started sending all of their players from Latin America. It seems like the Sox have been investing a lot more in LA in...
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    Grantland

    He actually didn't say that, he thought Carlton ought to have finished as the runner up to Bench. I got the sense that he was requiring at least a 7-8 WAR player on a playoff team to be considered kick-ass. Jonah Keri and Damesheck went over a bunch of the same kind of questions on Jonah's...
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    Dan Shaughnessy: Taking a dump in your mouth one column at a time

    And he follows it up with a column that deserves very little credit I think the terribleness is best summed up here Dan Drezner at Foreign Policy also reminds all of us that CHB is the yardstick by which everyone in Boston can measure hack writers by.
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    Ryan Westmoreland

    Westmoreland was interviewed by David Laurila for BP Radio He has played 3 of the 4 Spinners games so far, all at DH, going 2-11 with 3 SO, 2 BB and 1 3b. Any word on when he's going back to the OF?