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re: Red Sox peaking too soon ?
Posted on 7/25/11 at 10:27 am to Srbtiger06
Posted on 7/25/11 at 10:27 am to Srbtiger06
quote:Probably, but it's no guarantee. While the recent success has spoiled us, I'm old enough to remember when nothing went as expected for the Sox.
They're making it.
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Posted on 7/25/11 at 10:37 am to NHTIGER
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Sox fan for 55 years now
Dang man, how old are you?
Posted on 7/25/11 at 10:45 am to ssgtiger
quote:His average will obviously regress. He's always had decent power so he should be a 15-20 HR a year type.
Why? What has he shown that would back you think he can't be a very good player? I am really impressed with the guy and think he helps answer the Sox problem in RF.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 11:15 am to TheDiesel
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I really like Reddick, the kid plays his arse off every single game. Any chance he can hold onto the starting RF spot long term? It's not like drew is putting up much of a fight anyway.
Well, its between him and Kalish unless the Red Sox trade for someone. Westmoreland coulda been useful there, but you know.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 11:17 am to Vicks Kennel Club
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He is bound to regress. If the Red Sox are smart, then they should go for Beltran or someone else of the sort.
Well of course he is; however, he is showing patience. That was literally the only hole in his game coming through the minors.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 11:18 am to Louie T
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His average will obviously regress. He's always had decent power so he should be a 15-20 HR a year type.
He's a good doubles hitter though, and pretty good defensively (Fenway's RF is hard to play, we've been spoiled by JD's defense).
Posted on 7/25/11 at 11:53 am to Jcorye1
quote:I think he has more than made up for it at the plate (and the bank).
we've been spoiled by JD's defense
This post was edited on 7/25/11 at 11:54 am
Posted on 7/25/11 at 12:17 pm to NHTIGER
I'm going to be in Manchester in September and we've got tickets to the Toronto game on the 13th? The seats are in Grandstand 19. Ever sat there?
Posted on 7/25/11 at 1:00 pm to k wilk
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62 - started listening to Sox games on the radio in 1955 or 1956 and as a kid I actually kept a shoe-box with each game's box score in it for reference purposes. Saw Ted Williams play and watched many a horrible Sox team but back then New Englanders took it all in stride and just enjoyed baseball for what it was.
Also enjoyed the NHL as a 6-team league (when you knew all the players' names on the other 5 teams as well the Bruins!), the Cousy-Russell-Heinsohn - "Jones Boys" years with 8 straight championships, and saw the Babe Parilli-Jimmy Colclough-Gino Cappelletti Patriots play football at Fenway Park and Braves Field in their early years while personally owning three $1 shares of stock in the team at about age 12. One of the ironies of all that was later attending Boston University and living in a Commonwealth Ave. dormitory that directly overlooked Braves Field, then named Nickerson Field, where B.U. played its football games.
New England was a great place to grow up being being a sports fan many decades before Red Sox Nation or the Bill Belichick Era.
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Sox fan for 55 years now
Dang man, how old are you?
62 - started listening to Sox games on the radio in 1955 or 1956 and as a kid I actually kept a shoe-box with each game's box score in it for reference purposes. Saw Ted Williams play and watched many a horrible Sox team but back then New Englanders took it all in stride and just enjoyed baseball for what it was.
Also enjoyed the NHL as a 6-team league (when you knew all the players' names on the other 5 teams as well the Bruins!), the Cousy-Russell-Heinsohn - "Jones Boys" years with 8 straight championships, and saw the Babe Parilli-Jimmy Colclough-Gino Cappelletti Patriots play football at Fenway Park and Braves Field in their early years while personally owning three $1 shares of stock in the team at about age 12. One of the ironies of all that was later attending Boston University and living in a Commonwealth Ave. dormitory that directly overlooked Braves Field, then named Nickerson Field, where B.U. played its football games.
New England was a great place to grow up being being a sports fan many decades before Red Sox Nation or the Bill Belichick Era.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 1:18 pm to NHTIGER
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Saw Ted Williams play
Posted on 7/25/11 at 2:41 pm to ssgtiger
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He is bound to regress.
Why? What has he shown that would back you think he can't be a very good player?
Difference between a good player #s and Albert Pujols #s (which is what Reddick has put up in limited time)
Posted on 7/25/11 at 3:51 pm to ssgtiger
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Why? What has he shown that would back you think he can't be a very good player? I am really impressed with the guy and think he helps answer the Sox problem in RF.
Because his numbers are practically MVP caliber, and he will not keep it up at his current torrid pace. However, he still could be a very good player, but if Reddick has a .350 batting average at the end, then I will be absolutely shocked.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 3:59 pm to Vicks Kennel Club
Even if they started to slow down, Boston will still win the Wild Card with ease and there's no such thing as momentum in the postseason. Just ask the '00 Yankees and '06 Tigers about that. I have to say that Red Sox vs. Phillies has the potential to be the best Worst Series in terms of the overall quality of the two teams since the 1995 World Series with the Indians and Braves.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 4:04 pm to Bench McElroy
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1995 World Series with the Indians and Braves
No way, Braves and Yankees was even better a year later. The Dbacks and Yankees was also a lot better than 95.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 4:12 pm to NHTIGER
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Sox fan for 55 years now - yet something just does not feel right here. Can't put my finger on it.
Anyone want to weigh in ?
Having a '78 flashback? I remember listening to the Bucky Dent HR game that year while I was playing in a Fall JC game before I ended up at LSU. Being a Rhode Island native I was pulling for the Red Sox. My coach was pulling for the Yankees because Mickey Rivers and Bucky both played at our JC (Miami-Dade). My coach was Demie Mainieri - Paul's father.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 4:16 pm to RedHawk
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No way, Braves and Yankees was even better a year later.
The '96 Yankees only won 92 games. They had a great bullpen but were only 9th in the AL in runs scored and 5th in ERA. It wasn't a great team by any stretch of the imagination. The '01 Diamondbacks also won only 92 games and were basically carried by three players that year: Johnson, Schilling and Gonzalez. The Red Sox and Phillies are both on pace to win over 100 games. Two 100 win teams hasn't played each other in the World Series since 1970. However, the Braves were on pace to win over 100 games in 1995 and the Indians won 100 games even with the schedule shortened by 18 games.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 4:19 pm to Bench McElroy
Even as a Red Sox fan, I don't think they will get to 100 wins.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 4:25 pm to RedHawk
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Even as a Red Sox fan, I don't think they will get to 100 wins.
Maybe but it's remarkable that they're on pace to do so considering how slow they started the season.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 4:29 pm to RedHawk
I found this interesting. The Red Sox are playing at a .690 clip excluding their 2-10 start. If they played the last 150 games of the season at that pace, then they could go 104-46 over that span, even though it is techinically 103.5, I rounded up.
Posted on 7/25/11 at 4:55 pm to LSU82BILL
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Having a '78 flashback? I remember listening to the Bucky Dent HR game that year
Funny you should mention that.
During spring training in 1980, my wife and I hosted Mike Torrez and his wife for dinner in our Winter Haven home.
The same Mike Torrez who served up the home run ball to Dent.
I told my wife before they arrived that I was going to "diplomatically" ask Torrez if playing for the Yankees in 1977 played any role in his pitch selection.
And that's when the fight started ...
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