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Originally Posted by kutulu
I think you guys will like Bay. His career OPS+ is 131.
As for Manny, I had not heard about the incident with their secretary. That's fucked up. It was great to see him GIDP in the 9th. The crowd went silent. He also misplayed a single into a triple. He did run his ground balls out though.
The combination of Manny and Jones in LF and CF is wretched defensively. If Torre would just sit Pierre and Jones for the rest of the year and go with Kemp and Ethier in CF and RF they could probably mitigate most of Manny's defensive shortcomings.
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Bay is a good looking player and I think having good hitters around him will be positive influence on him, not just because he'll get more hittable pitches, bu also because he'll possibly learn to be even more selective at the plate. The BoSox are all about OBP and with at least a good top 6 or 7 hitters, someone should be able to knock him in.
Manny is a pretty terrible fielder away from Fenway (where he's sort of average). You're welcome LA. Derek Lowe should be thankful he's a ground ball pitcher with those guys.
The incident with Jack McCormick (the traveling secretary, a 64-year-old man, and allegedly very nice guy) was totally inexcusable and really soured a lot of people on Manny being Manny.