Cafardo is never not worthy of being mocked. That should be tattooed on the inside of your eyelids so it's the last thing you see before you fall asleep.
I thin he's just fucking with us at this point.It did make sense to go after someone like Valentine, but that didn’t work out because nobody was ever on the same page and Valentine never had a chance with the numerous injuries and brush fires.
Its really a completely unnecessary and irrelevant paragraph, considering the majority of the article discusses the guys the RedSox are currently interviewing, then he throws in this in and it seems completely unrelated.The Red Sox seem to be at a different place than they were at this time last season, when Dale Sveum or Torey Lovullo didn’t make sense for a team that had just collapsed but still had veteran presence. It did make sense to go after someone like Valentine,....
One could say it was apropos of nothing. Pretty much like the last half of his writing career.ts really a completely unnecessary and irrelevant paragraph, considering the majority of the article discusses the guys the RedSox are currently interviewing, then he throws in this in and it seems completely unrelated.
Thinking about it more, there's a bigger chance that he's just a lazy moron.Things Nick tells us today:
- The Sox should hire Brad Ausmus,
- He should be allowed to pick his own coaches
- except that the Sox should hire Rick Peterson to be pitching coach
- and the Sox should interview Martinez, Pena, Wallach, Hale, Mills, Wotus, Martinez, Maddux, and Righetti
- and then still hire Ausmus
And then he says this:
I thin he's just fucking with us at this point.
Soon to be the 28th amendment.Cafardo is never not worthy of being mocked. That should be tattooed on the inside of your eyelids so it's the last thing you see before you fall asleep.
If he was pointing out that Bay could handle the pressure in Boston, sure that makes sense. But considering Bay has fallen off a cliff with the Mets, I think its fair to say that Theo got that one right and in hindsight Bay should have left.There are players who should never have left Boston. Fred Lynn, Carlton Fisk, Nick Esasky, Bruce Hurst, Victor Martinez, Jason Bay, to name a few.
He says this over, and over, and over. It's almost creepy.Did anyone catch this in Cafardo's article yesterday? In the article Nick slightly criticizes Theo for signing Crawford, but starts off his article by saying:
If he was pointing out that Bay could handle the pressure in Boston, sure that makes sense. But considering Bay has fallen off a cliff with the Mets, I think its fair to say that Theo got that one right and in hindsight Bay should have left.
Much of Bay's falling off a cliff with the Mets is due to injury. You can't assume that the same things would have happened to him had he stayed in Boston.If he was pointing out that Bay could handle the pressure in Boston, sure that makes sense. But considering Bay has fallen off a cliff with the Mets, I think its fair to say that Theo got that one right and in hindsight Bay should have left.
It's the Mo Vaughn argument 2.0. We can talk all day about what Bay's career arc would have been if he stayed in Boston. What you can't do is point at Bay as an example of someone who it hurt the Sox to let go because we just simply don't know. This is what Cafardo does and it's treating a fairly plausible theory as fact. The weird part is that he almost never acknowledges that Bay fell off a cliff and that he's making a "what-if" argument. When he writes about it, nine times out of ten he makes it sound like Bay is a perennial All-Star.Much of Bay's falling off a cliff with the Mets is due to injury. You can't assume that the same things would have happened to him had he stayed in Boston.
1. As the Red Sox give the godfather of sabermetrics, Bill James, more authority on baseball decisions, one veteran scribe pointed out, and it’s true, “You have two teams in the World Series who are the least sabermetrics-oriented teams in baseball.”
Detroit was 2nd in the AL in OBP, and San Fran ranked 4th in the NL. Each were 5th in their leagues in IBB allowed. Detroit was 2nd in the AL in K/9 and K/BB.We may as well forget about that whacky sabermetric stuff. Who can even keep track of it all?!?
From today's Globe Notes column:
OBP no longer tells us the teams are pro-saber or anti-saber. We're past 2000 now, when those were the measuring sticks. A half decade ago it became trying to quantify wholistic value by incorporating defense and speed rather than just focusing on traditional hitting skills. I'd say playing Cabrera at 3B, Fielder at 1B, Sandoval at 3B (and remember playing the fat Juan Uribe at SS?) pretty much is anti the fangraphs "Carl Crawford's speed and defense make him a $25 million per year WAR player."Detroit was 2nd in the AL in OBP, and San Fran ranked 4th in the NL. Each were 5th in their leagues in IBB allowed. Detroit was 2nd in the AL in K/9 and K/BB.
I'd kill a man for the Sox to be as anti-saber as that. I'd imagine that Nick's "veteran scribe" pretty much entirely thinks that Sabermetrics is about not liking to bunt.
Well, to be honest, Jason probably feels like he should never have left, seeing how his career has evolved since then. From the Sox point of view, in the words of the famed B. Bunny, it was "Bon Voyagee!"This is not a different look.
The Mets parted ways with Bay Wednesday with still a year remaining on his contract. He was due to earn $16 million and a $3 million buyout of his contract for an option year in 2014.
So his OBP was .000?“In 2012, Troy Tulowitzki had 8 doubles and 8 homers, 19 walks and 19 whiffs, 2 steals and 2 times caught stealing, and a .486 slugging percentage and a .486 OPS.”
Well, if his OBP was .000, then his SLG must have been .000, too. However, he was using data from Bill Chuck, so we do not know for certain who made the typo.So his OBP was .000?
Actually Baseball reference shows OBP .360 and OPS .846 which adds up. It must have been a typo where he wanted to show a sort of palindromic relation between SLG and OPS.
Do you suppose Nick watches David Brooks or Joe Scarborough and thinks "you guys really showed him!"This is probably the worst month in the last decade to take pot shots at PECOTA.
Intangibles. Gotta be the intangibles.But the beat goes on. Why the Globe has this knucklehead writing every day and Chad Finn writing once or twice a week is beyond me.
https://mobile.twitter.com/nickcafardo/status/275439552766803968#!/nickcafardo/status/275439552766803968Is Josh Hamilton in nashville?
It sounds ridiculous to justify a move with 'make a splash' logic. But its as if he didnt realize that the Crawford contract wasnt a mistake because it was 7 years, but because he was never going to be worth what they were paying him yearly, and that was a problem in the first few years not the 5th and 6th.You saw what the Angels did. It’s probably what the Red Sox should have done. They should have made a splash and signed Josh Hamilton, one of the best players on Earth, warts and all.
But five years for Hamilton is a great deal. It was an affordable deal for the Red Sox and not the seven- or eight-year commitments they were trying to stay away from.
But they chose to stick to their plan of good value players at lower cost and years and we’ll see how that turns out.
To me that says the Globe should consider hiring headline writers who can pass 6th grade English.Headline says it all:
www.boston.co...ox-should-have-went-strong-after-josh-hamilton/a8FaIC7AFqvGGaA8m9saxN/story.html
Or a proofreader!To me that says the Globe should consider hiring headline writers who can pass 6th grade English.
Where is this from? I have today's Globe and neither the Hanrahan or Ross are in his Notes column. [The Swisher is.]The timely reporting of Nick Cafardo:
Updates on nine
1. Nick Swisher, OF/1B, free agent — The Red Sox are trying to avoid losing a draft pick, which is why they haven’t gone real deep with Swisher yet. However, the longer this Mike Napoli contract dispute goes on (over concerns about his hip) and the longer Swisher is out there, could there be a match? The timing may not be right, as Swisher seems to be closing in on where he might play. The Indians are making a compelling case, but it’s hard for a player to project Cleveland as a winning situation given their financial restraints.
2. Joel Hanrahan, RHP, Pirates — The Red Sox and Dodgers are competing for him, but which team has the starting pitcher to meet Pittsburgh’s demands? The Dodgers have Chris Capuano and Aaron Harang, and the Red Sox haveFranklin Morales and Alfredo Aceves. Not sure any of those four will get it done, as the Pirates may be thinking more along the lines of Felix Doubront. Even with Francisco Liriano signed to a two-year deal, the Pirates are looking for one more starter.
6. Cody Ross, OF, free agent — The Rangers remain interested, and it appears they will have to dive into the Ross/Michael Bourn market in an effort to replace Josh Hamilton and Michael Young. Ross was surprised that the Red Sox didn’t make him a top priority, but now the Phillies also have some interest.
In all fairness to Nick, yeah, he probably files the Sunday column on Thursday night or Friday morning. Sunday papers have rolling early deadlines.
Adding a link would have taken lessThis was the online Notes column. Adding an update probably would have taken all of five minutes.
No sign up page for me on that link. Though, again, you failed to link to ANYTHINGWhy would I bother linking to something that, as far as I know, is going to send most people to a Globe sign-up page? I followed the MLB Trade Rumors like which seems to work, or is a loophole, because they pay for the Globe.