The Red Sox dumped first baseman Hanley Ramirez Friday.I think this is a case of Shank being contrarian just to be contrarian, but he does make a few good points.
The move is being applauded by analytics geeks, luxury-tax toadies, and swing-path savants who permeate and pollute the game of baseball in 2018.
Swell.
I hate it. This move makes the Red Sox worse and less interesting. And it takes away the only proven clutch postseason hitter on a team that needs to prove itself in October. It sucks the color and cockiness out of the clubhouse. It takes away a big threat against lefthanded pitching. It subtracts a goofy, often-full-of-beans talent from a clubhouse peppered with millennial softies who routinely dance on the heads of the no-talent Orioles and Rays in May but have been zeros in October.
Sunday, May 27, 2018
The Departed
Shank doesn't like the imminent release of Hanley Ramirez:
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Choking dogs? Excuse me, I guess your boy coach Terry blowing the 2011 season or the 3-1 lead in the world series vs the cubs or last year blowing 2-0 vs the yankees isn't an example choking but when you write a book with Francona facts don't get in the way of an agenda. Just saying you fraud
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