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Joel Hanrahan saved 40 games on a 72 win team 2 years ago
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And?  Do you not know what "trend" means?  There are certainly statistical outliers...but for everyone one exception you bring up, I'll find 5 that trend toward winning teams.

That year, 6 NL closers had 40+ saves.

The other 5 pitched for (wins)

Atlanta (89), Washington (80), SD (71), Milwaukee (96), Arizona (94)  


AL, only 2 had 40+....Yanks and Tigers...97 and 95 wins....

the 40 save winners team won on average 87 games....and 75% of them were on teams that won 80 or more games....


And the top 5 in MLB all played on 89+ win teams...


Don't do it Dirt...it holds true just about every year, there are of course outliers...but as a rule of thumb, saves trend towards team wins....


 

At least Hanrahan has a decent command of the english language.   Unlike one peech. 

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totally agree.  my wife has no idea what one is.  she's also a liar.  its brutal.  all joooos...if you get married, your wife will conveniently forget a few things that she used to love to do with her mouth.  thank br-dy, one of them is over-eating.  but the other?  awful.  

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hanrahan will suck on the Red Sox


Get your excuses ready, thats all im saying
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Translation:  I just spewed a bunch of complete horsecrap, got caught...and am ending this before I embarass myself further.... 

Its ok to say that the Sox winning a title would rank around 6, from 1-10,  on the "Awesome" scale, if they did NOT go through the Yankees


But it became a 15 once they went through the Yankees

To say it was a 6 if the Red Sox did not go through the Yankees is a complete lie.

When the Red Sox won the WS one of the first things that came to my mind was I wish my grandfather and grandmother were here to see this. Unfortunately they lived their entire lives without witnessing the Red Sox as World Champs. Thats how it was for so many Sox fans. It had been an actual lifetime for so many of these fans to go without seeing our favorite team win it all. We were the lucky ones, we got to see it happen in our lives.

Thats what Yankees fans just can't seem to understand. Its from being "spoiled" with all those rings along the way. Personally, I know that winning in 2007 wasn't nearly as exciting, but it wasn't because the Yankees weren't there in the ALCS. It was because I had already experienced seeing my team win it all a few short years ago.

The fact that winning the WS was accomplished by going through the Yankees and how that series played out only added to it.

Ask any Red Sox fan in 2004 which would they choose:

Win the WS by playing the Indians in the ALCS

-or-

Lose the WS by humiliate the Yankees in the ALCS

I know what I am choosing, and it doesn't involve the Yankees at all.

Hanrahan had 4 blown saves last year.   Thats A LOT!!



and his sept was terrible last year.  this after closing against the likes of the Astros and Cubs.  

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And for the record Dirt...you might be right here..I think of Marte coming from Pitt with great numbers to Ny and pitching batting practice....and there's an alarming trend with Pitt pitchers moving to the AL....


But I think he'll be a quarter run within an ERA of 3, one way or the other...convert about 80% of his saves, and save approx 35 if healthy all year.


if that's sucking?  Then fine...run with it... 

hanrahan will suck on the Red Sox


Get your excuses ready, thats all im saying

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I'm with you on this one Dirtski.   Sox have not had good luck trading or acquiring free agent relievers after Keith Foulke.  (and aside from 2004 his tenure was pretty weak). 

No, I ignore your stat blabbing BS, because its done nothing but fail you OVER AND OVER again every single season
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Dirt...the stats were only to debunk your myth that saves trend towards middle of the pack or bad teams...it's 100% flat out fiction... 


But, keep applying my responses to other conversations.... much better idea than admitting you're wrong.

I just looked at that again.  He wasn't just terrible in sept.  he was disgusting.  

what do we think is brought up more?



the Yankees collapse to the Sox in 2004


OR



the Red Osx victory over the Cardinals in 2004




thanks in advance

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"it's all because of the Yankees" 

Nobody in pittsburgh...nobody...is lamenting the loss of Joel Hanrahan.  

the Yankees collapse to the Sox in 2004


OR



the Red Osx victory over the Cardinals in 2004
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"86 years"


That's what's mentioned more around here than anything (here meaning new england, not interwebz)....that's what was most important at the time...that's what's most important now.


Sorry you're ego feels bruised to hear it....you hear more of the ALCS in here why?  Hmmmm 200 yanks fans, 1 Cards fan....wonder if that has anything to do with it? 

I'm with you on this one Dirtski.   Sox have not had good luck trading or acquiring free agent relievers after Keith Foulke.  (and aside from 2004 his tenure was pretty weak).

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im with down on this one.


his prediction is almost spot on with what i predicted 10 minutes prior


30+ saves, flirting with 40 would not surprise me at all, and a low 3's era

that is pretty good by most standards, not great, but upper tier of closers             

if you get married, your wife will conveniently forget a few things that she used to love to do.....

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It is Wedding Cake"