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    March/April: Red Sox discussion, observations and trend tracking...AKA It's not all about the Benjamins

    Blaming Weissert for that home run last night isn't fair. He made a good pitch down and in. That was just great hitting by Santander, and 332 feet to right field is an out in many parks.
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    Everybody hurts sometimes: The latest injuries

    Then put him on the IL. With the 10-day IL now available, there's no reason to "give a guy a few days" and shorten the roster in the process. Tonight was Exhibit A of what happens. It's April. Let him heal.
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    MLB Mount Rushmore

    Ruth Mays Cobb Bonds
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    4.6 - Angels in the Outfield

    Seriously? They're 8th in runs scored in the AL despite playing entirely on the west coast and 44% of their games against arguably the best pitching staff in the AL. How about we ease up on the small sample size overreaction?
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    The Fenway Park Experience

    As Kate McKinnon said "I stray from the pack", but I absolutely detest the MBTA and avoid it all costs. It's partly that I don't enjoy being packed like a sardine into a small trolley that wasn't designed to handle that mass of humanity. It's also partly from a time where both the MBTA...
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    3/30 - The Road Trip: Game 3

    Martin may be "Mr. 8th inning", but when the 7th and 9th inning guys are unavailable, there needs to be flexibility. You save him for the best opppsong hitters. Wasting him on the 8-9 hitters in a tie game in the 8th inning on the road is an egregious misuse of resources.
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    3/30 - The Road Trip: Game 3

    They're on the west coast facing perhaps the best pitching staff in the league and without Devers the last two games. I'm not sure how many other teams would have a different result.
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    3/30 - The Road Trip: Game 3

    14 rocking chair pitches in his first inning. There's absolutely no reason he can't face the bottom of the order guys.
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    3/30 - The Road Trip: Game 3

    Re-read the last line of my comment.
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    3/30 - The Road Trip: Game 3

    You're leaving out two important factors. A) Campbell rolled through the 7th on 14 pitches B) The 8-9 hitters were due up in the 8th "Margin of error" be damned. With Jansen and Wink unavailable, every reliever is likely going to have to stretch a bit. Every out is important. Therefore you...
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    3/30 - The Road Trip: Game 3

    It's not a "withholding". It's proper usage of your resources. Under what circumstances is it optimal for your closer's only inning to be against the 8-9-1 hitters in a tie game on the road in the 8th? No. You let the guy who only needed 14 pitches to get through the 7th at least face the...
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    3/30 - The Road Trip: Game 3

    Manage to win the fucking game. If Jansen is unavailable, you adjust accordingly. Martin becomes your de facto closer, and instead of burning him in a tie game on the road in the 8th inning against the bottom of the order, you let Campbell pitch another inning after mowing down the side on 14...
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    March/April: Red Sox discussion, observations and trend tracking...AKA It's not all about the Benjamins

    Meh, he made a bad pitch to a pinch hitter. He got the next three hitters with two strikeouts.
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    2024 Rotation and Bullpen

    You don't think this is something Breslow and company are looking at?
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    Let's Lay Off That Throttle

    Yeah, it's kind of odd a) how much my posts trigger you b) you simply can't comprehend why Boston likely isn't high on a lot of free agents' choices for a slew of reasons.
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