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  1. jacksonianmarch
    I’m sure some teams do this. And I’m sure there’s a bit of gamesmanship on the Sox behalf. Matt Barnes is an arb 1 this year coming off a great final year of prearb and he’s making $1.6 mil. Keeping him from 40 saves likely saves the Sox $1-$2 mil next year. That money can be put towards JDM. Listen, I’m not saying Cora is going to do this to the detriment of the squad, but if he gets good production out of all of his back end guys, it behooves the Sox of 2020 to have Barnes, Brasier and Workman split the saves.
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    German now 9-1. He’s going from being minor league depth to the leader right now to start the ASG
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    I wonder if some of the pen usage is financial. Nothing spikes a relievers cost more than saves. If Cora doesn’t think it hurts the club, then spreading saves out between Brasier (non arb eligible in 2020), Workman (arb eligible but horrible 2018 will drop his arb price) and Barnes (top notch 2018, a big 2019 save tally would drive his cost way up) would drop the total outlay to the pen in 2020 salary and may give DD some more cash to play with
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    I entirely agree. Chavis is an abysmal 2b defensively. He’s biding his time faking it as a MIF before he takes over 1b for the next six years. The Sox will have to go cheap to get a 2b, so sticking with internal options or signing a veteran for peanuts is probably the way they’ll go. The Sox still have to address the JDM situation and with all the money they’ve got tied up, they’re gonna be lean elsewhere
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    The O’s are on pace to obliterate the HR allowed record. Considering they’re likely to deal Cashner and probably Cobb if they could, they may accelerate their HR allowed prowess. I thought Hyde would bring them some fundamentals. If anything, if you’re coaching a bad team, having them be fundamentally sound is a must. The O’s are bad and no amount of coaching will help them win, but their brand of baseball is so terrible that it’s unwatchable
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    Stanton hit a bomb in his debut in A ball Judge ran the bases and threw yesterday. Didi played 5 innings in extended yesterday Our 3-4-5 from last season is almost back!
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    Huge error from Chavis
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    We actually have a starting pitcher throwing 2 games in a row, so that's a plus.
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    Didi headed to ExST and will start at SS. Stanton to go on rehab assignment Monday. Paxton will throw another BP today, and if that goes well, could be activated next week. By early June, we might have all 3 back. The next big domino is Judge who has already missed a month now. He says he won’t be fully healthy upon return. That’s somewhat ominous in some ways and realistic in others. These obliques can still grab for months. My guess is he’s gonna give it a go and will need to be babied for awhile after his return
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    You’re playing the hottest team in baseball and you threw an opener at them. This was a pretty predictable performance
  11. jacksonianmarch
    Boone may not be the best tactician, but the job he is doing this year is sensational. He was a scapegoat coming into the year, but he’s probably the leader at the quarter pole for MOY
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    Journeyman infielder with a great glove and a minor league history of good contact. I went through his peripherals in a thread on the Yankee side. His peripherals right now are akin to his best minor league season where he OPS’d over .800 and hit 13HRs. If he can do that over a full season, we’d be ecstatic.
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    They ran a piece on Chavis today and his zone splits. He is awful against velocity up. He is incredible against junk down. This is backwards of what is usually expected of a kid. You usually expect they kill the high fastballs and miss the breaking balls that are kept down in the zone. The Astros sent hard thrower after hard thrower at Chavis and almost all of the strikes were up. The Astros starter today throws smoke, so they will likely try the same
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    I’d be wary of signing Porcello long term. Yes, he’s young, but he’s got a ton of miles on his arm. He’s got almost 400 more innings on his arm in the bigs than Sale. The guys who get big workloads early break down earlier too. See Felix, King Put this initially in another thread, sorry
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    You are correct. I was responding to the other thread, lol
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    I’d be wary of signing Porcello long term. Yes, he’s young, but he’s got a ton of miles on his arm. He’s got almost 400 more innings on his arm in the bigs than Sale. The guys who get big workloads early break down earlier too. See Felix, King
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    The Yanks pull one out after being down 3-1 in the 9th. Why would you pitch to Urshela with the game on the line? Clutch city baby! First place Yankees!
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    Urshela has been good and we have built in cavalry when Didi comes back. Sucks for him, but he looked terrible on his return. Surgery now will ensure he’s healthy come spring next year
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    If Beni saw an exit velo drop akin to what Sale's velo drop was, then I'd believe it
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    You guys are brutal. Beni has been solid if not unspectacular this far. You’re looking to find something that isn’t there
  21. jacksonianmarch
    Kendrys Morales is now a Yankee. Couldn’t hit in Oakland, but now he’s here. Cashman’s been turning straw into gold lately, let’s see how this works
  22. jacksonianmarch
    Your team had won 5 in a row and handed a lead to your pen in the 8th of what would have been your sixth win in a row. Why are you guys talking change at the top when Beni isn’t the problem. Heck, if your pen wasn’t a leaking bucket last night, the point wouldn’t have even been brought up
  23. jacksonianmarch
    Exactly. Those calling for Sale to start the 8th would be the same ones to skewer Cora if Sale got hurt throwing the extra inning Trophies aren’t won in May. If he returned and struck out 20 in May, who really cares
  24. jacksonianmarch
    Let me get this straight. Sale finished last year diminished with a shoulder injury. He starts out this season with no velocity and when he finally builds it back up, you want him to start an inning at 108 pitches in freezing cold weather? Consider Sale to be on the Pedro pitch count going forward.
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    What I’m saying is it cannot work. It goes against the CBA. You cannot convert a player from a salaried player to a salaried coach and wipe the money off the lux tax. It will not and cannot happen
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