Hosmer to Red Sox

[mvp 78]

The Met's crew is the best I have seen.

 

Who's on it? Ron Darling? I don't really like that guy.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Who's on it? Ron Darling? I don't really like that guy.

 

 

I agree with that. Too much 'whine' in his announcing, similar to Michael Kay.

[dgalehouse]

Who's on it? Ron Darling? I don't really like that guy.

 

Gary Cohen , Dar!ing and Keith Hernandez.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Ewww...

 

I should have started that post with 'supposedly.'

[illinoisredsox]

Good luck with the Brewers when they'll eventually have to replace Uecker. Similar to the SOX trying to replace Remy. So far, that hasn't happened and it probably never will.

 

I think Eucker is only doing home games for the Brewers now, so that transition has already started.

 

I’m going to guess Remy didn’t just show up the guy he became in the booth.

 

And in either case, it could be tougher; how would you like to be the guy who replaced Vin Scully.

[Kimmi]

All NESN will say regarding not renewing Orsillo's contract is "we want to go in a new direction." Whatever the hell that means.

 

Made no sense to me. I wonder if they are regretting letting him go.

[Kimmi]

I grant you OB is no Orsillo, but with my Extra Innings package I've been exposed to many game announcers when the SOX are on the road. Seriously, be happy the SOX have OB, because there's a whole lot worse out there.

 

Agreed. I really don't have any issues with OB other than he is not Orsillo. It could be a lot worse.

[Elktonnick]

Made no sense to me. I wonder if they are regretting letting him go.

They eventually fired the guy who made the decision to let him go.

[jacksonianmarch]

He'll definitely get paid more than 3/39 in FA though!

 

He will be Boston's problem until Boston lets him go

[vjcsmoke]

Hosmer is a salary dump. He has an opt out. Reportedly Padres eat at least half of Hosmer's salary as well. Ok.

 

This was a no brainer since Dalbec has been a net negative on the field, he has REGRESSED every single season since his first. Am I supposed to be impressed?

[notin]

Hosmer is a salary dump. He has an opt out. Reportedly Padres eat at least half of Hosmer's salary as well. Ok.

 

This was a no brainer since Dalbec has been a net negative on the field, he has REGRESSED every single season since his first. Am I supposed to be impressed?

 

 

Hosmer wasn’t much of a salary dump. Per MLBTR, the Padres are paying all but a league-minimum-sized portion of his salary. He’s with the Sox for three years or until they DFA him, whichever comes first.

 

(SPOILER ALERT: The DFA will come first.)

[vjcsmoke]

Hosmer wasn’t much of a salary dump. Per MLBTR, the Padres are paying all but a league-minimum-sized portion of his salary. He’s with the Sox for three years or until they DFA him, whichever comes first.

 

(SPOILER ALERT: The DFA will come first.)

 

Typical Red Sox goto move of recent years. Let's just waste money. Why am I not surprised. Well we have no choice but to wait and see. At least Hosmer can't hit worse than our current cast of inept outcasts, right?

 

It would be just our luck if Hosmer chooses to regress the instant he dons a Red Sox uniform. A .720 OPS is not impressive for a 1st baseman, but compared to Bobby 'where's the ball' Dalbec, it would be serviceable in comparison.

[Bellhorn04]

Typical Red Sox goto move of recent years. Let's just waste money. Why am I not surprised. Well we have no choice but to wait and see. At least Hosmer can't hit worse than our current cast of inept outcasts, right? It would be just our luck if Hosmer chooses to regress the instant he dons a Red Sox uniform.

 

It's a waste of money even though we're only paying him MLB minimum wage?

[moonslav59]

It's a waste of money even though we're only paying him MLB minimum wage?

 

Many of the anti-Bloom people have serious comprehension issues.

 

If he's taking the place of the lowest paid player on the 26, we break even on the money.

 

If he takes the place of anyone else, we save money.

 

If Groome turns into something useful, we might regret it, but according to these guys, prospects are useless.

[dgalehouse]

Serious comprehension issues ? Not at all insulting. Perfectly okay.

[moonslav59]

Serious comprehension issues ? Not at all insulting. Perfectly okay.

 

It's not name-calling, and it's 100% truth.

 

The guy was told over an over we are paying Hosmer the min salary, yet he persists.

 

If it's not comprehension issues, what is it?

 

PS: This isn't the first time.

 

Hate the deal all you want, but it's not a "waste of money."

[notin]

It's a waste of money even though we're only paying him MLB minimum wage?

 

Frankly I don’t get why San Diego moved him. He’s probably better around the bag than Bell and could have pushed him to a DH role. They’re hardly saving any money. And they will need a 1b after this season anyway…

[moonslav59]

Frankly I don’t get why San Diego moved him. He’s probably better around the bag than Bell and could have pushed him to a DH role. They’re hardly saving any money. And they will need a 1b after this season anyway…

 

I don't get why they did either. The paying of the full contract was insane.

 

Maybe they think Tatis will play DH for a while, when he returns.

 

Maybe they like Groome.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Many of the anti-Bloom people have serious comprehension issues.

 

If he's taking the place of the lowest paid player on the 26, we break even on the money.

 

If he takes the place of anyone else, we save money.

 

If Groome turns into something useful, we might regret it, but according to these guys, prospects are useless.

 

Prospects are like flowers. Some bloom early, some bloom later, and some never bloom at all. But the fact of the matter is that nearly every MLB player was at one time a flower, er, I mean prospect.

Edited August 4, 2022 by SPLENDIDSPLINTER

[JDavis76]

I don't get why they did either. The paying of the full contract was insane.

 

Maybe they think Tatis will play DH for a while, when he returns.

 

Maybe they like Groome.

 

Geez, pay attention, drury is their DH now.

[notin]

Geez, pay attention, drury is their DH now.

 

Drury (whom my auto correct likes to call “Furry”; does auto correct know something about Brandon?) can be stuck just about anywhere. In his career he’s never been a catcher nor a center fielder; he’s played everywhere else…

[notin]

Prospects are like flowers. Some bloom early, some bloom later, and some never bloom at all. But the fact of the matter is that nearly every MLB player was at one time a flower, er, I mean prospect.

 

Most of those flowers, err prospects, are unranked and barely regarded as much…

[Old Red]

Serious comprehension issues ? Not at all insulting. Perfectly okay.

 

MoonSlop is right, and everyone who disagrees with him is wrong, or doesn’t get the point, or has comprehension issues. You should know that by now. He’s like the Great Oz. Pull the curtain back, and he’s nowhere’s near what he actually thinks he is.

[JDavis76]

Drury (whom my auto correct likes to call “Furry”; does auto correct know something about Brandon?) can be stuck just about anywhere. In his career he’s never been a catcher nor a center fielder; he’s played everywhere else…

 

Correct, but from everything I have read on Twitter, the plan is for him to be the DH, as he is tonight.

[moonslav59]

Prospects are like flowers. Some bloom early, some bloom later, and some never bloom at all. But the fact of the matter is that nearly every MLB player was at one time a flower, er, I mean prospect.

 

It's kind of hard to rebuild a team that started with 20 holes in the 40 man roster and a bottom 5 farm team without trying to add prospects- quantity and quality.

 

It's also kind of hard to try and make all those added prospects ML ready on day one.

 

The farm Theo and Ben built took a long time. It was deep and strong for most of their years. It was certainly lacking in pitchers over the last decade, but the quality and quantity of the everyday players was astoundingly great, despite many highly touted ones flaming out.

 

DD did a great job trading the flame-outs while their stock was high, but he also created a hole that will take years to fill back up. I'd like to think we are almost there, but this is year 4 after the fantastic, all-in 2018 season. I've often mentioned a 5 year plan, like when Ben took over, but I'm not sure 5 is some magical number.

 

Bloom has acquired many prospects among his trades. Some were sure to flame out and appear to be doing just that, but with quantity, you increase the odds that a few will contribute down the line, and maybe we'll start seeing that real soon with Winckowski and maybe Seabold or others. It's good to see some DD prospects, who were not traded away, I might add, showing signs of help- like Crawford, Bello and graduated prospects like Houck.

 

When the whole talk of the "C" word ran rampant, I mentioned how much harder it is to rebuild a farm, these days, with the new rules on slot money, IFA bonus pools and restrictions placed on higher spending teams and winning teams. I thought it might be extremely difficult to rebuild the farm quickly, and i'm not sure I was wrong. Within the context of the new structure of MLB minor league talent acquisition, I think Bloom has done a good job building up the quality and quantity of the farm. Sure, it looks like he missed some chances to "sell high," but that is not an easy thing to do.

 

I'm not against trading prospects. All anyone has to do is go to BTV and see suggested trades by moonslav to see I'm not about hoarding prospects.

 

 

I think we should trade Casas and maybe Duran and or Yorke.

 

I'm super high on Mayer, Rafaela, Bleis and Bello.

 

I'm also thinking these guys might make it big: Mata, Walter, Hickey, Kavadas and Murphy.

 

We also have some wild cards like Song, Gonzalez, Paulino, Lugo, Jordan, Binelas, Wong and Ward.

 

Many of our prospects in the rookie league are looking very good, too.

[JDavis76]

Drury (whom my auto correct likes to call “Furry”; does auto correct know something about Brandon?) can be stuck just about anywhere. In his career he’s never been a catcher nor a center fielder; he’s played everywhere else…

 

drury just crushed a grand slam

[JDavis76]

MoonSlop is right, and everyone who disagrees with him is wrong, or doesn’t get the point, or has comprehension issues. You should know that by now. He’s like the Great Oz. Pull the curtain back, and he’s nowhere’s near what he actually thinks he is.

 

That's a bingo!

[Old Red]

Many of the anti-Bloom people have serious comprehension issues.

 

If he's taking the place of the lowest paid player on the 26, we break even on the money.

 

If he takes the place of anyone else, we save money.

 

If Groome turns into something useful, we might regret it, but according to these guys, prospects are useless.

As usual you didn’t finish the sentence about prospects being useless, and you’ve done it more than once. Say the whole sentence like it has been said many times. Prospects/suspects are useless until they produce in a Red Sox uniform, or are traded for someone who does. Just saying part of it like you do is not the whole meaning, and that’s what you want, and need to fit your opinions, or maybe you just don’t comprehend the meaning.

[Old Red]

That's a bingo!

 

Game. Set. Match.

[vjcsmoke]

drury just crushed a grand slam

 

If Bloom had made a trade for Drury, there might actually be some optimism for the Red Sox around here. PS All it cost the Padres was Acosta, a SS prospect who isn't even in Baseball Prospectus top 100.

 

Instead his 'best' move is probably obtaining Hosmer, whom San Diego was desperate to get rid of, to marginally improve our pathetic 1B position. But for what little good that move made, Bloom counteracts by dealing away our starting catcher Christian Vazquez for prospects and a bag of chips.

 

Yup 'genius' at work here folks, all the critics of Chaim Bloom just need to be quiet and watch the Red Sox continue to sink in the cellar of the AL East!!

Edited August 4, 2022 by vjcsmoke