December 21, 201114 yr How would you rank the following? Bullpen Power Hitters Contact Hitters/Great OBP Speed Starting Pitching Defense My rankings would be Starting Pitching Defense Bullpen Speed Contact Hitters Power Hitters
December 21, 201114 yr 1 Starting Pitching 2 Starting Pitching 3 OBP 4 Bullpen 5 Power 6 Starting Pitching 7 Defense 8 Speed
December 21, 201114 yr QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Dec 21, 2011 -> 12:53 PM) 1 Starting Pitching 2 Starting Pitching 3 OBP 4 Bullpen 5 Power 6 Starting Pitching 7 Defense 8 Speed I'd have ranked pitching higher...
December 21, 201114 yr QUOTE (SOXOBAMA @ Dec 21, 2011 -> 01:15 PM) How would you rank the following? Starting Pitching Contact Hitters Speed Bullpen Defense Power Hitters
December 22, 201114 yr International Scouting College/HS Scouting Advance Scouting of other team's journeymen Cy Young-ish starters against us, or soft tossers under 90 MPH, or lefties for many years Minor League Scouting (Paddy seems to have quickly become a key piece already with Stewart and Molina coming over)
December 22, 201114 yr QUOTE (klaus kinski @ Dec 21, 2011 -> 02:24 PM) 1. General manager Then: Starting pitching Positional players in general with a preference for a. Power b. Defense c. OBP d. Speed .... Bullpen Seriously bullpens are so easy to remake. Why would anyone make this a priority.
December 22, 201114 yr QUOTE (daggins @ Dec 21, 2011 -> 11:18 PM) Seriously bullpens are so easy to remake. Why would anyone make this a priority. Because there's a real strong correlation between a strong bullpen and making the playoffs. It covers up for a ton of other deficiencies.
December 23, 201114 yr Because there's a real strong correlation between a strong bullpen and making the playoffs. It covers up for a ton of other deficiencies. Not really an area of weakness for the Sox though (except the covering up part). Numbers wise, they've been successfully patching together bullpens with retreads, fix-ums, converts, and trades for awhile now. Edited December 23, 201114 yr by Andrew
December 23, 201114 yr QUOTE (Andrew @ Dec 23, 2011 -> 12:45 AM) Not really an area of weakness for the Sox though (except the covering up part). Numbers wise, they've been successfully patching together bullpens with retreads, fix-ums, converts, and trades for awhile now. 2007 was the last disaster in that area. Which led to the signings of Linebrink and Dotel, both overpays in reaction to KW's gambles (assuming Politte/Cotts would last and that Sisco/Aardsma/Masset and random journeymen like Nelson or Mike Myers could cover up holes) with the 2006-07 pens.
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