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Nah, the rumour according to Morisi, is they're trying to move Andrus. Yet, in this circumstance Profar or Odor make sense.

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Buchholz to DL with a "hyperextended knee". Really? More like hyperextended crappy pitching.. either Webster or De La Rosa will replace him in the rotation. Not a great situation for Boston.
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Excellent read on the dissent from Astros current and former players on the front office's sabermetric and de-humanizing approach.

 

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/astros/article/Radical-ways-paint-Astros-as-outcast-5501982.php?cmpid=twitter-premium&t=307e02ca9ccba496f0&cmpid=twitter-premium&t=307e02ca9cd87bd7f9

 

Their GM came from the St. Louis franchise, who despite having mostly inbred retards as fans, run a very good organization from top to bottom, so it's not surprising to see Luhnow getting respect. He's built a hell of a farm system in the past few years

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Well, I called this, and it's the best thing that could have happened to the Sox. Unless the BoSox have a day off coming up in the next 5 days, Ranaudo is the likely replacement, unless they hold De La Rosa back (stop just regurgitating rotoworld's speculation). All 3 of Ranaudo, De La Rosa and Webster (along with Barnes) are very talented, and Webster has the best stuff, but he's too wild right now. Ranaudo is on the edge, but could click with Farrell and Co. De La Rosa is most likely to give you quality innings right out of the gate. Barnes still needs some work.

 

Whoever it is will likely be an upgrade on Buchholz.

 

Plus, think of all the money they'll save on bacon grease without Buchholz dipping his head in a big vat of the stuff between innings...

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Henderson Alvarez leaves start tonight with right elbow stiffness

 

I saw that too. On his way to another shutout probably too, was only at 62 pitches through 5 innings. Had 12 groundouts

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Wow, I thought Jacoby Ellsbury got off to a hot start. He must've had a terrible May. 0.4 total WAR through his first ~50 games of that 7/$153 contract... . . . .. . .

 

Tex has wrist inflammation. Old man Beltran got hurt. Jeter bombing his victory lap year. CC declined fast like a fatty should, Soriano playing to his age..

 

Yankees gonna Yank.

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Wow, I thought Jacoby Ellsbury got off to a hot start. He must've had a terrible May. 0.4 total WAR through his first ~50 games of that 7/$153 contract... . . . .. . .

 

Tex has wrist inflammation. Old man Beltran got hurt. Jeter bombing his victory lap year. CC declined fast like a fatty should, Soriano playing to his age..

 

Yankees gonna Yank.

 

That's a pace of $85m in negative surplus value lol.

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Yes and no regarding others being an upgrade:

 

Webster was lit up heavily in Boston last year, and has a 1.36 WHIP in Pawtucket, with continued control issues.

 

De La Rosa is a bit difficult to call at the moment, since he has barely pitched in the bigs since his time with the Dodgers before his Tommy John surgery. But he might be the best chance to replace Buchholz at the moment.

 

Barnes has been terrible in AAA, with 5.35 ERA and a 1.47 WHIP and command issues.

 

Keep in mind these three are prospects.. until they pitch at the big league level, we can't guarantee what they'll do.

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Anyone here listen to the Fan 590 and hear that new(ish) commercial that features Kawasaki? Anyone else feel like that doesn't sound like him and rather sounds like some guy with a f***ing napkin in his mouth trying to sound like Muni?

 

Very odd.

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Short-term mess, at least, in Boston. Carp, with a foot issue, sitting out and possibly not available. Napoli already on the DL. Ortiz sitting out again with his calf issue. Recent call-up and acting 1B Lavarnway leaves game tonight with an injury. Pierzynski is already DHing. They're running out of players.

 

Ortiz is now on deck to enter the game, presumably at 1st.

 

Braves look like a little league team, with 3 really stupid blunders in the 8th to allow the Sox to tie it.

 

Red Sox looking like a little league team now, too. After being gifted 2 runs to tie the game, and with 1st and 3rd with no one out, Gomes and Sizemore K. Ortiz pinch hits and they intentionally walk him, and bring Kimbrel in to face Ross. With no bench, and a hurting player, they actually bring the hurting player in to be IBB after failing to make contact on two gimme RBI situations.

 

They still have infielder Johnathon Herrera on the bench.

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Boston is so making the playoffs.

 

Nope. Still 7 out and 4.5 back of the Yankees, and facing the Rays AGAIN tomorrow. Rays got Zobrist back BTW.

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