I still think he should have just left Ortiz in. But man, this is one topic that really needs to go away.
I still think he should have just left Ortiz in. But man, this is one topic that really needs to go away.
It's just a silly way to trash Farrell. Wright wanted to pinchrun and using pitchers as pinch runners is a very common tactic in the NL.
But all this "ruined Wright's career" is so overboard. Wright was like 32 years old at the time and in the middle of his only good season. He wasn't some blossoming prospect where the sky was the limit...
He had thrown a complete game shutout the night before and was putting up All Star numbers and he hadn’t run the bases since high school. He didn’t ask to pinch run. Talking about how he hadn’t run the bases since High School (more than 10 years prior) indicates that he was pretty surprised by Farrell’s decision. It was an idiotic decision as Wright was going to go base to base just like Ortiz, who at least knows how to slide etc. Farrell didn’t intentionally ruin Wright’s career, but he put a guy out there to do a job in which he had no experience or skill. The decision was fraught with downside.Originally Posted by notin
The King of TalkSox has Spoken.
Common sense.
"Hating the Yankees like it's a religion since 94'" RIP Mike.
"It's also a simple and indisputable fact that WAR isn't the be-all end-all in valuations, especially in real life. Wanna know why? Because an ace in run-prevention for 120 innings means more often than not, a sub-standard pitcher covering for the rest of the IP that pitcher fails to provide. You can't see value in a vacuum when a player does not provide full-time production."
Like I said, Pomeranz was the better choice from an experience standpoint. I'd be surprised if Wright was chosen solely because he pitched the night before and therefore would be unavailable to pitch anyway...
Common sense.
Too bad Johnny Neuron Farrell had none.
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Dombrowski people are mistaken saying there window to win, there is a window to win with the current group, and that is the same for every team. Thinks the Sox foundation is good.
What foundation?
The flimsy one.
Certainly the hopes and projections of the prospects DD inhertited were better than those we have now.
Our best hopes are...
Sam Travis seemlessly takes over for HRam at 1B next year, adn we can let Moreland go via trade or after his 2-year deal runs out.
Devers becomes a major force, so we will not feel so badly about losing Bogey or JBJ.
Beni becomes a major force, so we no longer have to worry about losing Bogey or JBJ. (If both Devers & Beni become great, we may even be able to stay good without Betts.
ERod becomes the pitcher we all have hoped he'd become, so maybe we can get by without paying Pom to stay.
Johnson or Wright step up to be fine 5th starters that are reliable.
Groome fills in when we lose Porcello.
Maybe Brannen or Scherff rise to the top. Mata is too far away to hope for any help from him in the next 3 years.
Certainly, a few of these hopes can become reality, but we'll probably need more to come true than is reasonable to expect.
Schreff and groome have the stuff to become top of the rotation starters. Can they develop the control and secondary pitches necessary to achieve that lofty status?
The Rays develop starting pitchers so why can't we. Groome is the obvious possibility and lets see if he can make the jump within the next two years.
Did you put this under your pillow and wish upon a star? Cmon man, come back to reality!
Hal sucks
He said we have a flimsy foundation and admitted that having all these good things happen is unrealistic. Not really reading, are you?
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