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Carlos Zambrano could easily out hit Dunn and he's a free agent.
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In the 13 months of regular season play while Dunn has been with the Sox- he's had 2 months where he hit .230+ (April/May- 2012), 2 where he hit between .200 and .211, and 9 months <.200, and he is currently hitting less than the aggregation of NL pitchers. The last time Dunn hit >.235 in a month was July, 2010. IT IS NOT A FUNK- ITS A MULTI-YEAR TREND. He is an epic disaster of a signing- and there is zero evidence that he can will come out of this.
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With all due respect to RKM, this is like signing the Alomar brothers, Ken Griffey Jr. and Manny Ramirez all over again. The suggestion of signing Vlad just reminds me how stuck in the mud this franchise is right now. They just don't have a hell of a lot of options out there.
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Of course Robin has the "power" to bench Dunn, or do pretty much anything else he wants with the lineup. He is the manager, no one else is. What it comes down to is Robin's (or his yes-men) resistance/ignorance towards sabermetrics and how badly he wants to avoid conflict with his Boss's, and possibly getting canned.
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That's funny, I thought the only defense of Dunn was sabermetric. It was certainly the sabermetric types who defended him when people were arguing signing Dunn was a bad move.
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I'm not going to defend Dunn, but Ramirez had a total of 17 more ABs in the majors after leaving the Sox. He did nothing much for them, no matter what his OBP was.
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What's that have to do with what he did with the Sox? I'm no sabermetric guy, but I don't see how you can claim a guy who got on base 42% of the time didn't contribute.
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OK I'll try, although it really is a minor matter. RKM suggested that we give Vlad Guerrero a shot to work his way back to the team. I stated that to me it was like revisiting the signings of the Alomars, Griffey Jr. and Manny Ramirez. All productive players past their prime and not worth it IMO. There is nothing Manny did in his short time with the Sox to impress me and he was gone from MLB the next year. If you think a .420 OBP in 88 PA was worth it I don't. Not worth having a fight over.
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Maybe a couple of the starting pitchers could hit better than Dunn. I am damn sure Robin could be made playing manager and he could hit at least .200. Harold Baines could still hit .200
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This made me laugh. I remember the cold streaks Vlad would go on even in his prime...very Dunn like. He was also an awesome talent to watch when he had it going but at this point those days are probably long gone. Has Jim Thome officially retired yet? |
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