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Dennis Bonvie said:
Great take!

Roster has nothing to do with it, it's the managers fault. Easy solution for that.

Alex Cora, major league player (13 seasons) and manager for over 1,000 games, the guy can't coach. No baseball recognition (?) going on in his head.

Brilliant!
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Great take!

Fine, I'd like you to opine on his continual boneheaded coaching moves with our most recent example...let's start with letting Duran hit last night in an obvious COACHING situation. Let me lay it out so there's no confusion, Duran is up in the 10th inning, having already struck out 3 times previously, and you choose to not PH Refsnyder (hitting over .300 against lefties) only to see Duran strike out for a 4th time for the evening.

Blame the roster all you want. He had an easy BASEBALL decision to make, use your RH bat who consistently hits left handed pitchers or choose to keep Duran in the game. He had a chance to use his ROSTER and he decided not to.

Let's be clear, this disaster of a start to this season is not entirely due to Cora's ineptitude but to continue to ignore the fact that he has less than ideal results when he is expected to manage in situational baseball scenarios is disingenuous.

Brilliant!
 
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quietbruinfan said:
You are trading because he is a 250. ish hitting mediocrity who should be easily replaced should have already been traded.
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This is a poor take. There’s more to a player than his batting average.

Not every player is going to be a superstar. He’s still one the younger side at 25/26. Hes just entering the prime of his career and is under control until 2030. He's got some nice pop. At 12 HR’s this year, 3 off his career high. He’s on pace to hit 30-35 bombs with 80-85 RBIs. Strikes outs at about 20% of the time. Walks about 11% — League average for both is 24% and 8%.

He’s a gold glove outfielder who plays RF at Fenway well. He plays the game hard. He’s likable.

He’s not a guy I’m subtracting from this lineup. You could use a few more of him, not less.
 
IveGotToBeMe said:
Great take!

Fine, I'd like you to opine on his continual boneheaded coaching moves with our most recent example...let's start with letting Duran hit last night in an obvious COACHING situation. Let me lay it out so there's no confusion, Duran is up in the 10th inning, having already struck out 3 times previously, and you choose to not PH Refsnyder (hitting over .300 against lefties) only to see Duran strike out for a 4th time for the evening.

Blame the roster all you want. He had an easy BASEBALL decision to make, use your RH bat who consistently hits left handed pitchers or choose to keep Duran in the game. He had a chance to use his ROSTER and he decided not to.

Let's be clear, this disaster of a start to this season is not entirely due to Cora's ineptitude but to continue to ignore the fact that he has less than ideal results when he is expected to manage in situational baseball scenarios is disingenuous.

Brilliant!
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Record in 1 run games is a direct reflection of the manager imo
 
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Samsonov said:
This is a poor take. There’s more to a player than his batting average.

Not every player is going to be a superstar. He’s still one the younger side at 25/26. Hes just entering the prime of his career and is under control until 2030. He's got some nice pop. At 12 HR’s this year, 3 off his career high. He’s on pace to hit 30-35 bombs with 80-85 RBIs. Strikes outs at about 20% of the time. Walks about 11% — League average for both is 24% and 8%.

He’s a gold glove outfielder who plays RF at Fenway well. He plays the game hard. He’s likable.

He’s not a guy I’m subtracting from this lineup. You could use a few more of him, not less.
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Disagree, He has poor plate coverage, so i am being charitable saying 250. I could care less about the league average for Strikeouts in this era that de-emphasizes them to a ridiculous extent. He strikes out too much in a lineup that strikes out too much. He has power but because of lack of plate coverage, and mediocre patience and thought process he will never hit well enough for more than 25 homers and that will be his outlier. If 15-20 hr's at 250 is good enough for you, knock yourself out.
 
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quietbruinfan said:
Disagree, He has poor plate coverage, so i am being charitable saying 250. I could care less about the league average for Strikeouts in this era that de-emphasizes them to a ridiculous extent. He has power but because of lack of plate coverage, and mediocre patience and thought process he will never hit well enough for more than 25 homers and that will be his outlier. If 15-20 hr's at 250 is good enough for you, knock yourself out.
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He’s a career .261 hitter and hitting .256 this season currently. Once again, more to the game than just his BA.
 
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quietbruinfan said:
His defense is good not great and he does seem to be likeable or at least not a cement-head but that is not enough for me, especially with Anthony in the wings. There are rumors about moving Duran instead and that is not good.
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Why are we moving either Abreu/Duran? Slide Duran to center, Anthony takes LF and Rafaela becomes the super utility piece.
 
CDJ said:
Not his fault Cora is managing every game like game 7 of the ALCS (and losing these games, which says a lot)

5 walks + hits combined thru 4.2. 77 pitches. That’s a good start. Completely unacceptable from Cora, especially given that the staff is running on fumes
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Agreed, checked the stat line, should have pitched at least another inning.
 
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CDJ said:
Not his fault Cora is managing every game like game 7 of the ALCS (and losing these games, which says a lot)

5 walks + hits combined thru 4.2. 77 pitches. That’s a good start. Completely unacceptable from Cora, especially given that the staff is running on fumes
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I don't think I've seen such mismanagement by Cora in...a long time.
 
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quietbruinfan said:
Disagree, He has poor plate coverage, so i am being charitable saying 250. I could care less about the league average for Strikeouts in this era that de-emphasizes them to a ridiculous extent. He strikes out too much in a lineup that strikes out too much. He has power but because of lack of plate coverage, and mediocre patience and thought process he will never hit well enough for more than 25 homers and that will be his outlier. If 15-20 hr's at 250 is good enough for you, knock yourself out.
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You are underestimating his value as an overall player.
His gold glove in RF and powerful arm is way above league average.
His OPS is .833 and SLG is .495. These are the two most important stats for a hitter.
The AL average in OPS this year is .702!
SLG average is .391.

He is an above average RF.
 
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