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    Trading Jon Lester (news and speculation thread)

    Tampa has also played at a 112 win pace for what equates to roughly 25% of the season.   They are very much within striking distance of the second wild card and the division.
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    Trading Jon Lester (news and speculation thread)

    Very true.  I guess them winning in 2013 and recovering from depths of 2012 makes me feel that they can overcome any negative perception here too. I want them to display the discipline to have an approach and stick to it, even if it at times it means losing a player I don't want them to like...
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    Trading Jon Lester (news and speculation thread)

     It's a disaster if they make any decisions based on any kind of "disgusted" emails Peter Abraham is receiving.  Lester has never been better, and the team is in last place because of other glaring holes that Lester being at what is his absolute peak value can help them to address.  I admire...
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    Red Sox - Yankee Trades

    Small point of contention, but I don't believe most of Clemens' injury issues from '93-'95 were arm related, but rather leg related (frequent groin injuries for one).  I think this is what led to many people feeling he was out of shape for that timeframe (it was not hindsight, it was mentioned...
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    Cano Gets the Starbucks Endorsement!

    I still question McCann's worth.  It's a given he's an upgrade over what the Yanks had this past season, but in almost 900 plate appearances the past two seasons he's at .316/.426/.742.  For comparison, Salty was at .314/.460/.774 over almost the same amount of plate appearances in that...
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    Mike'd Up: The Mike Francesa Show

    Mike goes back five years in comparing Cano/Pedroia stats, and conveniently leaves out 2008.
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    Cano Gets the Starbucks Endorsement!

     Maybe next year, but that happening was in play with or without Cano (given Lester and Price and maybe Scherzer hitting the market).  Just baffling to sign Ellsbury and let this happen.
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    Cano Gets the Starbucks Endorsement!

    It is a silly contract, but this is an odd time to show fiscal restraint in light of what they just shelled out for Ellsbury (a good player, but one who in four of seven seasons in MLB has put up an OPS+ below 100).  They swapped out the significant competetive advantage of having their best...
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    Let's Talk about the manager -- The John Farrell Thread

        I think Victorino trying to score from second on the WP in NY was probably the most egregious base running error to date. I think looking at what happens anecdotally is very dangerous with things like base running. Quantifying it with number of attempts that are considered "aggressive" is...
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    Kirk and Callahan: Done

    Alluding to an earlier post...I can't fathom idea that anyone sees any value in Merloni. All of his damn opinions are damn awful.
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    Felger and Mazz - Creating False Naratives one day at a time

    What bothers me in general when they analyze the team's flaws is not so much the analysis itself, it's more the fact they seem to make this analysis in a vacuum and forget/ignore the fact that every team in the league has flaws. Every bad thing that happens is the start of a trend (poor tackling...
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    Mike'd Up: The Mike Francesa Show

    A little off topic here... While I do think the Yanks will win the division, it is not out of the realm of possibility they will go on another short losing streak that the Red Sox might be able to take advantage of. This division race has had fairly large swings in the standings all year. The...
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