templeUsox wrote:Did you say something?
Laroche used to be a fastball-only hitter, but in his maturation he has been able to his breaking pitches much better.
And he's a spokesman for people with ADD.
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Adam Laroche traded to the Sox for Strickland and Diaz
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Final line for Bard: 3IP, 3H, 6ER, 3/1 K/BB, 1HRA, 3HB, 4WP, 5SBA, 1 groin - amfox1 |
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Posts: 702 07/22/09 2:18 PM Veteran Member |
The Pirates are starting to shape into Red Sox Farm System, Pittsburgh Chapter.
Brandon Moss Craig Hansen Freddy Sanchez Hunter Stickland Argenis Diaz |
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Posts: 14914 07/22/09 2:19 PM Jonathan Singer |
rangoon82 wrote: Freddy might not be there much longer that is if they can find a trading partner for him. |
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Posts: 929 07/22/09 2:23 PM Veteran Member |
With LaRoche in the lineup LH and RH batters can be alternated through the first seven spots with two switchhitters, Varitek and Lowrie at 8th and 9th. It will
be interesting to see if Francona does that.
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Posts: 904 07/22/09 2:27 PM |
I don't see how LaRoche's first and second half splits can be dismissed when he has hit much better in the second half every year except 2005 - in
which his stats still improved every month except for an awful august. That's 5 years of data, and it's not like hitting is a statistically simple as
flipping a coin. It's not pure probability, with lots of other factors contributing that may lead him to be a consistently more effective hitter in the
second half. Maybe it takes him a while to get a feel for hitting again each year. I don't know, but there's obviously something to this that
shouldn't be so readily dismissed.
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Posts: 70 07/22/09 2:38 PM |
Even while writing about the LaRoche deal, Tony Massarotti of the Globe took a shot at Drew"...sudden and worrisome ineffectiveness - he's batting
.236 now..." See, I'm not the only one. He does a good job in right, I'll give him that, but he's way overdue for his annual back spasams.
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Posts: 3284 07/22/09 2:39 PM Veteran Member |
JimRiceRocks wrote: I smell eyewitness reports and scouting in the air. 
"According to Elias, Wang's ERA of 21.60 as a starter is the
worst ERA for the first 5 starts in the history of baseball." ... YES Network 6/11/2009
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Posts: 121 07/22/09 2:40 PM Contributing Photographer |
jsinger121 wrote: Corsaletti too... Adam's dad Dave, was the pitching coach in NH from 05 to 08... He was
Pinkerton Baseball |
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Second straight deal with Pitt and Boston involving a Laroche brother.
This was also interesting, from Gammons: This deal has been on the table for three weeks, and after Boston lost its fourth straight Tuesday and declined to trade Clay Buchholz for Victor Martinez, the Red Sox took Adam LaRoche. |
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Have fun watching Adam LaRoche with his unique standing as bat stance. It's either love him or hate him with the way he's hitting.
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Posts: 3597 07/22/09 2:48 PM Veteran Member |
At first, I read the thread title really quickly and thought the Red Sox traded for Andy LaRoche. Damn.
costpet wrote: Take your ridiculous Drew-bashing to an appropriate thread, clown.
On the other hand if your tools suck and your skills are excellent you're either not highly regarded or you're Pedroia.
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Posts: 930 07/22/09 2:51 PM Veteran Member |
The ads on this site are getting more distracting all the time....but what a distraction!
From Massarotti's piece on the trade today: "The other player sent to Pittsburgh is a Class-A pitcher by the name of Hunter Strickland, on whom the above evaluator had little knowledge." Is M clueless? |
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Posts: 122 07/22/09 2:53 PM |
AMarshal2 wrote:Not to be technical, or off topic, but what does you deleting a post have to do with Temple meaning what he says? 
Shouldn't you had let Temple have the pleasure?
Iminate, Dompact
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Here is a link to WEEI's text of the Red Sox news release:
http://fullcount.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/2009/07/22/the-laroche-press-release/ |
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Your 2010 Pittsburgh Pirates position players:
1B: Garrett Jones (0.4 AAV) (28) 2B: Ramon Vazquez (2.0 AAV) (33) SS: Argenis Diaz (0.4 AAV) (23) 3B: Andy Laroche (0.5 AAV) (26) C: Ryan Doumit (3.8 AAV) (28) LF: Lastings Milledge (0.5 AAV) (24) CF: Andrew McCutchen (0.5 AAV) (23) RF: Delwyn Young (0.5 AAV) (27) B/OF: Brandon Moss (0.5 AAV) (26) B/OF: Nyjer Morgan (0.5 AAV) (29) B/IF: Steven Pearce (0.4 AAV) (26) B/IF: [FREE AGENT] B/C: Jason Jaramillo (0.4 AAV) (27) Knocking on the door by the all-star break: Pedro Alvarez (1.6 AAV) (1B/3B/23) Jose Tabata (OF/21) Chase d'Arnaud (SS/23) Tony Sanchez (C/21) |
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Posts: 3285 07/22/09 3:27 PM Veteran Member |
DCRi wrote: The being clueless part I understand, I'd give him a mulligan since his specialty isn't the Sox minors. The part that blows me away is that he'd actually take the time to type that instead of doing 5 minutes worth of homework. This trade goes a long way towards fixing what's been our season long 'ball and chain' (for those of you that are married, the term has other meanings), left side defence. We've had major issues with SS, 3B & LF. Lowrie's back and now for the majority of the innings (more RHP), we'll have Youk instead of Lowell at 3B. Youk clearly has much more range than 2009 Lowell, a definite upgrade. LF is now upgraded as well because Bay won't be seeing as many fielding opportunities as he's had, particularly the one's that exploit his lack of range and arm.
"According to Elias, Wang's ERA of 21.60 as a starter is the
worst ERA for the first 5 starts in the history of baseball." ... YES Network 6/11/2009
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Seriously... call another evaluator. There's this thing called the internet, see...
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Don't forget Miguel Sano, the $3.2 million 16, or 18, or 20 year old kid they're saving money to buy out of the Dominican.
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Posts: 43 07/22/09 3:38 PM |
As far as I can remember, the "cash" for the Laroche deal could be part of the "cash considerations" in the Corsaletti deal. I dont
remember hearing anything in return for sending Corsaletti to the Pirates.
I was always a Corsaletti fan.
"Hot Rods announcer just reported that the mascot, a mackerel, just ate the batboy and that now the batboy's clothes are flying out the fishes mouth.
Shouldn't that be investigated ?" LCBF
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Bates1343 wrote: There's no cash in the LaRoche deal. The tweet about there being cash coming back was definitely shot down. |
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