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  1. Idabomb333

    Are you worried about the Red Sox?

    Voted 3 because I meant 2 and I love the number 3. The talk about the Yankees also being very good in a year when the Sox are this good got me wondering whether I would prefer this over the Yankees ending in 3rd or 4th place in the East while the Sox are this good. I'm not sure. I don't like...
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    JBJ: Elite Defender With Some Pop

    The recent discussion about playing JBJ vs. platooning or benching him is missing something, I think. For that decision, it's relevant not only how good he is at defense and offense, but how good his substitute is on offense, how that changes the lineup, maybe even how that affects pinch hitting...
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    Two over .700 teams meet in early May

    If the Yankees lose tonight, they'll be considered 0.5 games in back of the Sox by normal win/loss counts. Because both teams are above 2/3 in their winning percentages, the fact that the Yankees have played 3 fewer games will mean they still have a better win percentage. So who's considered to...
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    Difference Making Games of 2018

    I like the concept here, but I don't understand your conclusions at all. 29% is less than a third of wins pre-won by the home team before the end of the 3rd inning. That's not most of the home team's wins.... Innings 3-7 have higher rates than the beginning or end innings. I'd look at that and...
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    Pine tar & Pitches or Pitchforks & torches: The John Farrell Poll

    A random point to make here - I wonder how many of the people who want to fire Farrell have conflicting reasons with each other, or would pick wildly different types of replacements. Wish there were an easy way to add that into the poll, e.g. if the potential replacement pool were small and...
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    Pine tar & Pitches or Pitchforks & torches: The John Farrell Poll

    I voted other. I don't particularly care, unlike with the last 2 managers when they left. I couldn't believe the stupidity of firing Tito, and couldn't wait for them to fire Valentine (duh). Farrell seems fine to me, but if they find a solid replacement, meh.
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    Farrell Watch

    This is the correct answer that could easily just end the thread.
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    Stretch Run 2017: is the glass half full or that other thing?

    Did anyone see any stories about the fact that literally every playoff position/matchup was determined by Saturday? That seems like it shouldn't be common...
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    JD 2.0

    I don't know enough about Martinez to feel strongly about most any points in this thread, and I think you have some decent points in this post, but there's a glaring hole here. Has anyone ever gone into a season with the plan that the normal 4-man bench includes no one who plays the outfield...
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    The 2017 Lineup

    ...or a team with excellent pitching and poor offense, so games tend to have low scores and thus are more likely to have a 1-run difference in the score, or a team in an extreme pitcher's park, where the scores are again low and thus close, but the home team has home field advantage, etc.
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    Spygate 2: Red Sox Stealing Signs and Relaying Electronically

    You're making a fundamental assumption here that the catcher sends the signal. That's only currently true because everyone uses visual signs while the batter is looking toward the pitcher. If the pitcher and catcher can use audio, the pitcher could just put his glove up to cover his mouth from...
  12. Idabomb333

    Who's on Third? I don't know

    Adding on to this, I think it's a little odd that I haven't seen anyone make the following point here yet. I think Ben is the one who said that when a player reaches AAA, he's basically ready. Players there are practicing against the best available competition until there's an open spot on the...
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    Ask Us Anything

    How often does the 3 inning part of the rule for saves apply? Abad getting a save after entering the game at 15-1 ought to be extremely unusual, right? I know it isn't the record for the largest score difference with a save, but I'm kind of surprised that freak occurrence doesn't seem to warrant...
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    Bullpen 2017

    Just to nitpick here, that's betting all 13 of the potential MLB pitchers named are healthy through Spring training. How often does that happen? Of course trading those guys might be a good plan even with an injury to someone, but I don't accept your premise.
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    Hire Farrell? (12/5: 2018 Option Exercised)

    FiveThirtyEight just put up an interesting article about the best and worst bullpen managers since 2000 and how valuable it is. Their measure is how well the manager does at using his best relievers for the highest leverage situations, which of course isn't everything. Still, it's an...
  16. Idabomb333

    Rick Porcello is the Ace We Deserve

    Of course they're 2 different moves, but it's silly to consider them separately when evaluating Ben. If your point was simply that the trade only guaranteed a year that turned out poorly, fine. But you were saying this as a way of making the trade a bad decision by Ben, and it wasn't. You either...
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    MLB investigating Padres Over Pomeranz Trade

    I know this is hyperbole (or at least I hope it is) but it still seems exceedingly odd and silly to me. Suppose the also ridiculous happened and MLB said, "Hey Sox, you want Espinoza back? You can keep Pomeranz either way." You think there's any chance the Sox say, "nah, we want the Padres to be...
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    The thread where Broda discusses his displeasure with the moves Cherington made.

    In a bit of an attempt to pull the discussion back into a Porcello focus, this point annoys me. As someone pointed out later in the thread, he was basically the same guy. More importantly, he certainly could have had these results last year as far as Ben knew at the time of the trade. Ben both...
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    How Good Are The Sox Now?

    I don't think I'm qualified to evaluate Farrell as an in-game manager, but I've been mulling over a post about how his approach to base running is underestimated. The Sox have been very aggressive and that has generally worked out very well for them. That contributes to runs scored, of course...
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    Ask Us Anything

    Why did Navarro get to take 1st base on Tulowitski's interference play in the 6th? I get why Tulo was out, but not why the catch gets nullified. If the slower runner by far had been on 1st instead of batting, would it have been advantageous for him to interfere there?
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