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04-27-2009, 01:17 PM | #91 |
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Are you kidding me?
Jeter is really looking old? I don't think you've watched any of the yankees games this year. He's having one of his best April's in years at the plate, hitting 300 with 4hrs and 3 sbs already. Not to mention he's been extremely clutch too, same as usual. You can't say the Red Sox would be the same team offensively right now if someone like Youkilis was hurt so your A-rod comment is pretty stupid. Papi looks just as done at the plate as Matsui. You really can't sit there and tell me that the Red Sox would be as good as they are right now if they had even close to the same injury problems we are having right now. |
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04-27-2009, 01:22 PM | #92 |
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Jeter should be a first basemen or something, but yea his hitting hasnt fallen off.
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04-27-2009, 01:42 PM | #93 | |
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ARod makes them a far better team, but my point is the lack of depth. You have Cashman build a $200m team and end up with guys who can't throw the ball across the infield on a line. Giardi makes me happy though by playing Berroa instead of Pena, a far superior player. Papi is very much done, yes. |
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04-27-2009, 01:42 PM | #94 |
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Everyone is going nuts over this sweep and making such a big deal out of it like the Red Sox are the best team in baseball because they have this winning streak going.
Where were you guys a week and a half ago when they were 2-6? There is still way too much baseball to be played, we're getting A-rod back soon so Swisher won't be hitting 4th. Wang will straighten himself out. Sabathia will straighten himself out. Nady is supposed to be back in a couple of months. Hughes will be our 5th starter and Joba will be moved to the pen as our 8th inning guy. With Joba in our pen we have the best 1-2 punch IN ALL of baseball. I'm not going crazy over this right now because it's way too early, this is still a very very good team when people are healthy, (we went into the Boston series with a HUGE win) and things are still very fixable. |
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04-27-2009, 01:57 PM | #95 |
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Have I mentioned anywhere in here how the Red Sox are the greatest team in baseball? My posts have all been about a badly built Yankee team. I am fully aware Boston has offensive issues.
But, I question Wang's longterm health. I question Hughes changeup being good enough to pitch in MLB at this time. Sabathia will put up good numbers, but he won't get to work as deep in games as some anticipated probably. You make my point re: Joba. Cashman spent a bazillion dollars and resigned Marte for THREE YEARS without doing anything to reconstruct a bullpen worth a damn. They had Brueny all alone as an eighth inning guy with no backup plan? That's why I say it's a badly built team. They have this young guy with tremendous stuff and in two years have really no idea what to do with him. Boston's just deeper, especially in terms of pitching. I mean, fuck, New York's bullpen ERA is in the high 6's! |
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04-27-2009, 02:13 PM | #96 |
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Everyone is making such a big deal about the Red Sox depth, when the only guy that's injured right now is Matsuzaka.
big whoop. This isn't a badly built team, it's a team RIDDLED with injuries to key players. Any team that lost their cleanup hitter, #2 starter, set up man, as well as a starting outfielder that was expected to play everyday, hit 300, and 20 hrs WOULD be struggling right now. AND YET we're still a 500 team, and that AMAZING Red Sox team that everybody is s-ing their d's right now is only 3 games ahead of us. Wakefield and Penny are pitching over their heads and I'm not exactly ready to give Masterson a Cy Young after 100 big league innings. There is no guarantee that Smoltz is going to be the same pitcher he was after shoulder surgery. Last edited by Gossamer : 04-27-2009 at 02:18 PM. |
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04-27-2009, 02:20 PM | #97 |
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I'm not arguing with you that the Yankees spend their money poorly, I'm arguing with you because youre already discounting them after 18 games when they're missing 4 KEY players to injury.
No team has the depth to replace A-rod, Wang, Bruney, and Nady. End of story. |
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04-27-2009, 02:25 PM | #98 |
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I'm not discounting them at all - I think they still finish with at least 92 wins.
They're going to have to be retooled to get there. And probably a new manager. In the wings, Boston has Smoltz, Bucholz, Bowden and Masterson (currently pitching in place of The Asian Who Once Could Pitch). That's four backup starters who are no worse than No. 4 guys. And they call nearly all go in the pen if any one of their three closers goes down (Paps, Saito and Oki to an extent). That's my point there - but that argument can go on and on and both of us would say the same thing we've all said for four years now. |
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04-27-2009, 03:51 PM | #99 | |
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You do not want to groom a possible stud SP to be a setup man. It's just stupid. People need to stop suggesting this. Why no suggestions to move AJ Burnett to the pen? |
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04-27-2009, 04:23 PM | #101 |
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Why did I write slider for Wang? Argh, should have proofread (ditto for Buchholz, I also do that shit with him). I'm sure his hip issue came about from his initial foot injury - overcompensating placing more pressure on his hip without realizing it. That injury is bad, dude. Baseball Prospectus at the time it happened had a detailed story of how devastating it could be (his was diagnosed as not being as severe).
Riviera's pitched well but I've seen him pitch three times and his stuff appeared flatter than normal. Especially Friday when he gave up probably the hardest hits I've ever seen him surrender. I love Rivera though and will miss him when he retires. It amazes me a guy in NY can play as long as he has and been as great as him yet no one really knows anything about it off the field. That's incredibly. Re: Giardi - I just think he's a pretty bad manager. Case in point is not playing Pena and not calling time when Elsbury was halfway down the line. |
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04-27-2009, 04:24 PM | #102 | |
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04-27-2009, 04:27 PM | #103 |
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But, hey, how about those Washington Nationals?
Would it be too early to move them to Vegas? |
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04-27-2009, 04:31 PM | #104 |
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They need an AL team in Vegas. The west is too packed with NL teams.
Oh! Move the brewers to the AL Central and move the Nats/Marlins to Vegas! |
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04-27-2009, 04:38 PM | #105 |
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04-27-2009, 04:53 PM | #106 |
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Move the Marlins to Portland and the Rays to Vegas.
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04-27-2009, 05:01 PM | #107 |
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Could Portland sustain a MLB team? I don't know much about the market there.
San Antonio I think could - it's what the 6th biggest city in the U.S. now or some shit. |
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04-27-2009, 05:03 PM | #108 |
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yeah but i don't think we care
there was a thing about the marlins or the padres moving here and there was a huge collective so what we also have a bottom 50 market |
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04-27-2009, 05:04 PM | #109 |
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all san antonio wants is an NFL team
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04-27-2009, 05:04 PM | #110 |
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I think Portland could. It's a fast growing city.
San Antonio? No, there are already two teams in Texas and it would dillute the fan base too much. Let's put a NL team in Boston first. |
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04-27-2009, 05:05 PM | #111 |
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texas is not exactly baseball crazy. houston, yes. but the rangers...
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04-27-2009, 05:09 PM | #112 |
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Not in Boston exactly, but put them in Portland, Maine (or even Nashua). New England can very easily handle a second team, especially if it's NL.
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04-27-2009, 05:10 PM | #113 |
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04-27-2009, 05:16 PM | #114 |
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good, fuck them.
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04-27-2009, 05:16 PM | #115 |
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04-27-2009, 08:46 PM | #116 |
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Hey Yankee fans, what the hell's up with CC? Aside from him getting hit hard in Detroit right now I mean.
His K/BB ratio is truly terrible and he's not getting many swinging strikes. He had 12 k in 27 IP coming into tonight, so something is up with him. Is he hiding some injury problem? Even if rusty to start the season his stuff has been so overpowering he'd be striking out more guys you'd think. |
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04-27-2009, 09:13 PM | #117 |
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Dude look at his stats from last April. He's never been a good early season pitcher. I know, I've had him on my fantasy team for a few years
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04-27-2009, 09:14 PM | #118 |
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He honestly didn't pitch a bad game tonight.
He had one bad inning basically. I'm not concerned about him yet... |
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04-27-2009, 09:17 PM | #119 |
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Including the bad inning, he's about to pitch a complete game 6 hitter with 7K so far.
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04-27-2009, 09:19 PM | #120 | |
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It's nuts Verlander is shutting down that lineup. I hate that douche. Re: Early troubles - even then though he was striking out guys at a much higher rate it seems (looking at past stats on bp). He hasn't pitched poorly, just not getting the K's which is very unlike him and his stuff. |
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