WestEddy

I think Grichuk is baked in. He's been there all year, and Hays hasn't. Hays can't seem to stay healthy. Pereira looks a bit fragile, also. I was hoping Pereira would break out, Carlos Quentin-like. T'was not to be.

But Getz convinced JR to not care about money, so that's a masterful upwards managing job by our GM.

I think just that. He tried to trade both and found no takers. Calling that roster mismanagement is ridiculous. They had a pretty visible roster crunch coming. The fact they were able to pick the guys they wanted and DFA the others is good. As you accept RayRay's description of trades, the Rockies gave us Doyle for free.

Except for all the free agents who worked out spectacularly, every single free agent signing was a failure.

Walk it off. Win one against these MFers. Just one. Then two.

Well, there's that.

The Red Sox taking these 9th inning outs seems pretty desperate to me. They know this is it for them. This is their world series.

Know-nothing fan me, it seems they feel he needs regular playing time to develop, not to sit on the bench behind Joey Bart.

How does some advertising agency think "liberty biberty" is uproariously funny? It was stupid the first time.

I think I'd rather see Schweitzer work though this nonsense than Fedde.

The Bart, The

Start out with Duran. Maybe he can yell at Contreras for getting hit, then the Sox just stand back and let them fight it out.

Help?

Ha-ha, f*** you, Red Sox!! You can 't score any more runs this inning!! f*** off and cry, motherfuckers!!!

This is not true. Will can pick his spots to get Patches looks at middling lefties.

Okay, The BART scared Boston into a pitching change.

Thank you. I've said a bunch of times that he has this up and down quality to his voice like he's reading a children's story aloud. We're all adults, talk like an adult, get excited when warranted because the fake hype-voice is condescending.

Gimme Eddie Murphy doing Dolemite in the booth, and I'll kill for the man.

Alright, can finish cutting back day lilies in the parkway tonight.

Vargas OPS's .778 against righties. That's why he's out there. Ant-man OPS's .511 against lefties.

It's not essentially the same player. Nobody ever mistook Hill for a starting CF. That's Doyle's ceiling, gold glove starting CF with some pop. And it's weird. When we trade Hill for 2 minor leaguers, we "gave him away for free". So in that same vein, we got Doyle for free, as well as Bart and Brazoban.

Oh, so then you're calling Ray Ray a liar?

Quero seems to need work on all parts of his game, whereas it could be assumed that Doyle's defense will play. I don't know how catching defense affects fWAR, but I've always found that fWAR and bWAR were pretty useless when including catching defense. Does Baseball Prospectus still have the best catcher ranking system?

It is. There was a 40-man crunch before spring training, coinciding with the Hicks/Sandlin trade. Romo and Iriarte were cut to make room.

About a week ago, Romo made a challenge later in the game that looked ridiculous. But the way he made it looked exactly like he was just trying to buy Davis Martin a breather, and I think it's possible he's the most on the same page with his pitchers out of the bunch.