Hey, Tek struck out last night with 1 out, game tied, and men on base. That's a positive you overlooked. He didn't line out to a base for a DP, allowing Ells to score. You gotta factor in those personal sacrifices by Tek.
Bye. Gone. Tek. ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Ouellette [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 04:55 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Tek must go Whatever minuscule advantage a team gains from a catcher's superior pitch-framing and game-managing ability -- which has never been shown to be statistically significant -- is more than lost by the gaping hole of suck in the batting lineup. If a catcher can't catch the ball and call a pitch, he's not in the majors. The biggest tangible things that a good catcher can do to help his team is 1) produce on offense and 2) control the running game. Neither of which Varitek can do. Fans in every city -- for all of recorded time -- think that their own no-hit catcher has such special game-managing skills that it forgives his lack of hitting. There's even a name for it. "Nichol's Law of Catcher Defense" states that a catcher's defensive reputation moves in inverse proportion to the quality of his hitting. It's the Brad Ausmus rule. The Sox had a bad stretch to start the season, but Jon Lester, Clay Buchholz and Josh Beckett are good pitchers with any catcher. Dice-K is maddeningly inconsistent with anybody. Don't ask me about John Lackey. I agree with Ray. Varitek is cooked. Steve O On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Dan DiBiase <[email protected]> wrote: > At this point, the starting pitching has to continue to come around, so the > catcher's most important job is to assist in that > process. Anything else is secondary - hitting, throwing. Once the staff is > back to 'normal', I'll worry about those things. We > should have enough hitting when everyone is back to career normals from an > offensive perspective. > > I don't think this is the biggest issue the Sox have, at least not until > they are above .500... > > Dan D > Central NJ USA > > > > ________________________________ > From: Ray Salemi <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Fri, April 22, 2011 12:34:05 AM > Subject: Tek must go > > There is No Way that there isn't a competent AAA catcher who could do as > good a job as Tek. > > -- > Author of Robot Haiku : Poems for humans to read until their robots decide > it's kill time. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Red Sox Citizens" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/redsoxcitizens?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Red Sox Citizens" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/redsoxcitizens?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Red Sox Citizens" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/redsoxcitizens?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Red Sox Citizens" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/redsoxcitizens?hl=en.
