Rotoworld cites a BoSox staff member who says the Bard as starter experiment is over, and that he will go back to the pen. Color me not surprised.
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Bard back to the pen, according to report.
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Originally posted by eldiablo505Stupid move on Boston's part. 12 IP or whatever is not sufficient to reach a conclusion about the Bard-as-starter experiment. Their 4 and 5 starters are going to be garbage. Who are they going to throw out there now? A struggling Vicente Padilla? A crappy Aaron Cook?
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Their 4 and 5 starters are going to be garbage. Who are they going to throw out there now? A struggling Vicente Padilla? A crappy Aaron Cook?Originally posted by Skrappy1 View PostI think I read Aceves and Felix Doubront.
One significant injury to Beckett, Lester or Buchholz and they will fall to 4th.Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!
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Should have let Bard be the closer all along and kept Reddick in the OF. Sometimes the best moves are the ones you don't make.Some people say winning isn't everything. I say those people never won anything.
Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win AND never quit are idiots.
The last thing I want to do is hurt you...but it's still on the list.
Some people are like Slinkies, they are not really good for anything but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
"...relentless inevitability of Yankee glory." - The Onion
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Bard was an awful starter in the minors, and presumably Cherington and Valentine were informed about that, so it could be the Sawx weren't as committed to this as we thought. You can probably get a fairly accurate SCOUTING read on a player in 12 innings, and if your scouts tell you it's hopeless then you have to listen, even if it's not a valid sample for statistical purposes.
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Originally posted by eldiablo505If you're going to give a guy an audition, especially one with Bard's rare skills, it should be more than 12 IP. Stupid.
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Originally posted by Pauly View PostAceves has been very good this spring, which may or may not amount to a hill of beans.
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Bobby V presiding over a fiasco? No, I don't believe it."There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed. I say this in order to impress upon you, if you are not already so impressed, that no small matter should divert us from our great purpose. "
Abraham Lincoln, from his Address to the Ohio One Hundred Sixty Fourth Volunteer Infantry
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Actually, I think that this is a good decision...with Meloncon in the 7th, Bard back in the set-up role, and Bailey as closer, that's a hell of a nice 'pen. $th and 5th starters are not hard to come by come July, and the Sox will make a move, if need be. The starters can let it all hang out for six innings and go take a shower with a pretty good degree of certainty that they'll get the win if they leave with the lead."Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Your shitty future continues to offend me."
-Warren Ellis
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He can't start with only throwing a fastball and a slider. Valentine wants him to throw his change more as a starter. Someone told me in his outing yesterday, he threw one changeup. Cant see the pitch/fx data so I'm not sure on that but I guess I'm not surprised.Find that level above your head and help you reach it.
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