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Official MLB 2012 Season Thread
- Thread starter tennisace
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haha, as a Reds fan it's the exact opposite for me. We go on a 10-game winning streak but the damn Nationals have to have an 8-2 stretch.
The teams are indeed very similar. I think the fact that the Nationals have a much better rotation might give them an edge in a playoff series, but we'll have to see.
You guys won't have Strasburg in the playoffs though cause your team's management is full of morons, so I'm less concerned now ;)
We trade Josh Beckett and I'm done for the season. Don't care who we get. I'm done.
This is on record.
This is on record.
lol who would take him? We'd probably end up paying his salary anyway (Red Sox always end up paying players they trade) and get shitty players in return. Also, Beckett is always better in odd numbered years - I'd rather we wait this season out and keep him for his last year of the contract, next year. The other option is to get garbage players this year and then pay him $10 mil to beat us next year.
Rangers, Braves, Dodgers are all rumored to be in on Beckett JimBob. He is still a very dominant pitcher and is a staff ace. Like Kevin Youkilis, he just needs some pressure off of him and he can go back to being the sub 3.00 ERA guy he was in the firsh half of last year. Teams would love to have him, even more so as a 2 or 3 guy.
Edit- Carl Crawford is at least returnning to superstar form. We are going to try and make a run for this...
Edit- Carl Crawford is at least returnning to superstar form. We are going to try and make a run for this...
Okay, so the red sox traded Posednik and Albers and got Craig Breslow from the D-Backs. That sits pretty well with me, Posednik was just another outfielder for us, we have plenty more. Albers was good, he had a low ERA but always lets inherited runners score, and Bobby V never seemed to notice this for some reason - kept putting him in games to try to get us out of the jam, and all the runners would score, but Albers's ERA would still get lower -_-
Breslow has a pretty good looking stat line, does anyone know anything about him? I don't really keep up with the NL very well.
Breslow has a pretty good looking stat line, does anyone know anything about him? I don't really keep up with the NL very well.
Breslow is a nice piece, but not really an upgrade over Albers. Not a fan of this trade at all. Could have done better and a like-for-like move is not what this club needed.
I'm also not a fan of the Lars Anderson trade. I LOVE knuckleballers. I really do. It's the best pitch in baseball. And I even have seen Wright myself when I went to an Aeros game last month. He has a nice, dancing knuckleball. Will have his time in the MLB this year in September to see what he's made of. But for Anderson, I think we could have done better than what we got. We almost swung a MLB 3-4 starter last year for him, and picking up a project isn't what I had in mind for moving him. He's still just 24...
I'm also not a fan of the Lars Anderson trade. I LOVE knuckleballers. I really do. It's the best pitch in baseball. And I even have seen Wright myself when I went to an Aeros game last month. He has a nice, dancing knuckleball. Will have his time in the MLB this year in September to see what he's made of. But for Anderson, I think we could have done better than what we got. We almost swung a MLB 3-4 starter last year for him, and picking up a project isn't what I had in mind for moving him. He's still just 24...
Smashed
You gave up solely because they were losing. No other reason. I would have given up because they would trade away our Ace, the stopper, and the heart of our rotation because of media/fan pressure. Complete difference.
I didn't give up, I said that their attitude sucked which made it almost impossible to root for them. I still haven't given up hope, any team can win that wild card and a lot of this team is getting healthy at the right time
And Josh Beckett hasn't been the Sox' ace for at least 4 seasons
And Josh Beckett hasn't been the Sox' ace for at least 4 seasons
You're right Jrrrrrrr.
Last year's rotation low 2.89 ERA and 1.026 WHIP, rotation high in innings pitched and 3.37 K/BB rate, and second in rotation to Lester in only K/9 and wins made Beckett a complet and utter fuck up of a pitcher. Expecially on top of an All Star appearence and finishing 9th in Cy Young Award voting. No sir, Beckett has not been our ace for a long long time. You sure got me good. Thank god for people like you.
Last year's rotation low 2.89 ERA and 1.026 WHIP, rotation high in innings pitched and 3.37 K/BB rate, and second in rotation to Lester in only K/9 and wins made Beckett a complet and utter fuck up of a pitcher. Expecially on top of an All Star appearence and finishing 9th in Cy Young Award voting. No sir, Beckett has not been our ace for a long long time. You sure got me good. Thank god for people like you.
The Red Sox need to pick up Derek Lowe now.
You realize that the second best pitcher is not the ace, right?
But anyways, this is a stupid argument. Let's go Sox
Nah bro, Rangers the best! I'd actually love us to meet in the WS seeing as the Reds have always been amongst my favourite NL teams!