jacksonianmarch

Guys are built differently now than they were decades ago. They're far more muscular, which lends them to have more power and strength. But those large muscles need rest and recovery time. Pushing guys leads to injuries.

The additions of Allen and Dubon were certainly suspicious, but DD has always been an overpay kind of guy. He sees the guy he wants, he gives them the price they want.

The Guardians wouldn't do that. They have Lindor for two more seasons and he is the face of that franchise. Two more seasons also correlates with their window as a small market team.

notin, you are absolutely correct. The sox needed to jettison big, bloated contracts but did so by sending a prime 1b in Gonzalez coming off a really good year. The Dodgers decided to take on Beckett and Crawford in order to get AdGon. He had a slow start to his season in which he was moved to LAD, but he was coming off a .957OPS season where he hit .330. He ended up being more an .800OPS player than a .900+ guy in LA and the sox got the salary relief needed to add to their roster in smaller pieces. Their staff was loaded. Their farm was loaded. Bogey came up during the title run and everything Cherries touched turned to gold. The sox farm going into 2012 was ranked 10th in the game and jumped to 9th in 2013 with Xander ready for prime time and JBJ in the upper levels. Right now, the sox have the worst farm in baseball by far. If the sox use an in prime player to jettison bad contracts, they wont have the reinforcements in the minors to step in. You need to deal off your assets to get farm talent and eat the bad contracts that are on the books.

Yeah, that was a dud. He will be a starter coming into the spring in 2020. No reason for him not to be. Try to build his value

Acevedo is a walking Disabled List and hasn’t kept his velocity this year.

I think they counted in Castillo

You missed JDM. So by your estimation, you're keeping your entire team and shedding just the detritus

And drafting guys with limited tool sets hurt as well. Yes, drafting late isn't great, but it isn't a zero sum game. His 16 draft netted him some prospects (Chatham and Dalbec), although nobody top notch outside of Groome who got hurt. 2017 hurts with Houck now a reliever and essentially the entire draft being a whiff. When you're drafting late and you don't have access to the top talents you have to at least net prospects somewhere. If Houck gets hurt before making the majors, the sox entire 2017 draft will be without a major league player. That is a rarity. 2018 was better with Casas as a true top 100 prospect and Duran being the one to move the fastest. 2019 is a big ?? right now. But when your 2016 is supposed to have a guy leading a rotation who didn't pitch for 2 seasons and the only other guys there are bit prospects with huge holes in their game, you lose some success. When you then whiff on the following year's draft, it leaves a bubble in your farm system with no upper level talent to speak of.

Exactly. DD is the win now guy. If the answer to the current situation right now is a rebuild, he isn't your guy. I do think the timing was on DD, and I think some semblance of what Gammons said is true. DD went to Henry and asked what his status was heading into a lame duck year. He likely didn't get the response he wanted and they decided to part ways. DD saw the writing on the wall and likely didn't want to waste his time

While a humongous contract is not something that is always good, I do think we can absorb Cole's contract without a big problem to the underlying budget. You see, Cash built this club with a $22 mil AAV contract essentially sitting there useless in Ellsbury. First year arb isn't cheap, but it is nowhere near FA levels. Judge and Sanchez enter arb for 2020, but beyond 2020, Tanaka and Ellsbury come off the books, freeing up $44 mil AAV by the time Judge and Sanchez enter their 2nd arb year which is usually more pricy. Adding a Cole contract, though, would certainly accelerate a problem if we don't have talent coming behind him. Paxton is a FA after next year, so we would have to decide whether to pay him. Thankfully, Montgomery is healthy again and Sevy and Domingo are around for awhile. But the most important thing for keeping windows open is being able to replenish internally. Cole and Sevy atop a rotation with our pitching depth filling in behind wouldn't be a terrible thing for us

Not desperate at all. We beat the ever living s*** out of your squad this year. If you’re gonna keep coming back with the same sorry club and spend more then great! I hope whomever you hire tries their best to win it all next year. I hope you don’t trade off Mookie and ERod. Heck, I hope you sign Mookie for a decade! I want the Sox to deepen the cliff. I think reason suggests Henry wants value back for expiring assets and will want to rebuild. It’s probably better he does that for the long term health of your club. But, if you want to keep the band together and try again next year, then go for it!

It’s about climate as well. You’re in a division with the Yanks and Rays, two teams with considerable depth and with NYY, far more financial flexibility while also being way inferior to them talent/production wise. You just came off three straight division titles and a WS title, so you didn’t get cheated. Create a realistic goal season based on the down phase of your rivals. I’d say 3 years, 2020, 2021, 2022. So by 2023, you’d expect to be a top dog while the Yanks are dealing with less depth and far more financial restraints. Anyone set to hit the market within that window should be moved. The earlier you move them, the better the return. Anyone under control for 4 years or more can be your core. Devers and Bogey fit that to a T

Stanton has a return date of Sept 17. I think he has a chance to play. Otherwise it’s Frazier and Maybin

How about ASS DAN from SNL game. Names not Dan, but that would be pretty funny. Here’s a link to one of those skits

Btw, if the Yanks close this out, the Sox will be eliminated from the ALE race. Nobody thought the Sox would be mathematically eliminated from the division before September had double digits

Stork, a new GM is going to come into Boston and essentially wipe clean the entire baseball ops department.

Go for it.

My life is pretty damn good, so if my heads up my ass, I hope it stays there

I am not asking you to be sensitive. Far from it. But yeah, this season must really be hurting you

I agree with you on this. Also, if this is leaked now, the likelihood is this was leaked from someone in the FO. This isn't a speculation piece

Man you have become sensitive lately

Tanaka has a great history in the postseason. I am optimistic on Paxton. Sevy should be back throwing up to 5 innings come PO time. German has held his own. Happ has also improved of late. But facing great teams, we gotta take what we can get. Our rotation wont be a strength against any team we face

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/report-red-sox-unlikely-to-retain-mookie-betts-and-or-jd-martinez/ar-AAH2xZt?ocid=ientp Well, this broke today.

I did enjoy 3 in 4 years during my prime years, so I cannot complain