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Stanton sees the bulk of the contract after the opt out. Stanton will see $107 mil by the end of year 6, but he has $218 mil coming in the final 7 seasons. I’m flipping the script and saying the bulk comes before the opt out thus allowing the contract to look better on the books than it actually is

Boone said Andujar should have thrown it sooner. What he didn’t realize was that if he threw it right away, he’d have hit Bradley. Holder didn’t do his job. You run at the runner and make him commit. Bradley deeked to third and never committed. Either way, it took an otherworldly play by JBJ to be safe. In terms of Porcello, the Yanks were crushing balls right at guys in the middle innings and then they just rolled over late. Porcello has the exact approach that gives us fits. No messing around, mixing pitches, locating to corners. Our team is patient, but that patience got them down 0-2 a fair amount vs Porcello

I’ve been saying all along that a young generational talent should sign a contract with a series of opt outs. I wonder if a creative team should do what the Devils did with a subsequently rebuffed contract. Sign the player for way past their prime with all the money coming up front and an opt out built in. Mookie is looking at a 8-10 year deal for $300 mil. Maybe he gets a 15 year deal for $305 mil but the first 10 years are at $30 mil AAV and the final 5 years are at $1 mil AAV with an opt out after year ten. That counts on the books as a $20.3 mil AAV deal even though it’s really a $30 mil per annum deal

Mookie will be watching Harper and Machado intently. Whomever signs the richer contract will be his target to beat

Scour the forum and you’ll find haters, lots of em

Mookie at 2b gets you Pearce and Moreland in the lineup. I wouldn’t be surprised if Cora does this the next two games then never puts him there again.

DD should be called King Midas. Your team is far more talented than the 2013 club was, but his moves this year are just turning into gold at the right time like thing did that season. Let’s get Pearce from the Jays and he’s gonna turn into another JD Martinez at the right time and crush the Yanks. Let’s insert Brian Johnson into the rotation and watch a guy topping out at 88 get just lucky enough every time out to let your offense win the games. It seems every journeyman or over the hill player he acquires has become incredibly clutch. I don’t get it. Either way, anyone who hates on DD right now is an idiot. He’ll re-sign Kimbrel this offseason and refill other spots with guys on the roster already and keep pretty much the same team for one more year. He’s built a juggernaut for two seasons coming off back to back AL East titles.

You’re absolutely delusional if you think his market will be limited. Here are the teams with the funds to sign him. I’ll put ? After teams that make big commitments but do them rarely Mets Phillies Braves? Nationals Cardinals Cubs Brewers? Dodgers Diamondbacks Giants Yankees Red Sox Orioles Blue Jays? White Sox Guardians Tigers Houston Seattle LAA Texas? Expecting to get Mookie cheap because the market is thin is a fools errand. Mookie is the reincarnation of Willie Mays. He’s a generational talent who’s on pace for the HOF. His first season of his next contract will be played at the young age of 28. Barring injury or underperformance the next two seasons, Mookie is gonna get paid. Generational talents can turn a whole franchise around. Look at Trout in Anaheim. Before Showtime Ohtani came to LAA it was Trout and the rotting corpse of Pujols, yet Trout always made things exciting. Betts will have that effect.

Porcello has everything working. He’s untouchable tonight

Sabathia did not look right. Sevy looks terrible. Not a good start to the series

This is not a bad idea

The Sox scored 15 last night. They’re not sleeping at all

Sevy still cannot command anything

He executed the perfect knockdown pitch. He hasn’t executed anything since, but that’s exactly where you throw a knockdown pitch. The problem is you go one foot further in and it’s a tragedy.

Sevy threw the perfect knockdown pitch. In front of the head is the way to go. It was his best thrown pitch of the inning! You don’t throw behind the head as guys instinctively go back.

Threw at the wrong guy.

If the Sox end up going on to win a title, I sincerely hope the Yankees will decide to either play their prospect talent or use their financial advantage to load up for next season. We held back this year. We didn’t go out and get Machado. We didn’t go get DeGrom. It wasn’t due to lack of resources. It was due to lack of willingness to utilize those resources. We have a hot shot kid in the minors just tearing it up and we don’t promote him for 40 man and control reasons. While I understand the reasoning behind our non moves, I’m not sure the timing of them is appropriate. We aren’t some up and coming club that is surprising people. We’ve got the second best record in baseball a year after being one game away from the World Series. While I do like the upgrades we made, I think there was more that could have been done. Dombrowski may have left scorched earth in the farm, but he created quite possibly the best Red Sox team of all time, one that has enough staying power to stay largely intact through next season (assuming the Sox resign Kimbrel). Maybe Cash is waiting for 2020 to do that? Maybe he’s hoping for sustainability? Maybe the Sox rotation ends up being their Achilles heel? Who knows, but more can be done and I’m expecting it come 2019

Not much in farm depth. We dealt off lower level guys. What f***ing baffles the s*** out of me is why Sheff is still in the minors. The guy is left handed, which the Sox don’t do well against, he’s been entirely dominant and is gaining nothing from the minors. Chance has been inconsistent at best in AAA this year, yet he’s coming off his best start (7.1IP 0ER). I don’t think it’s a good matchup for a kid who’s developed command issues

It was one abysmal game. The umps killed our offense early, but it didn’t matter clearly with how the Sox offense just exploded. Need Sevy to step up today

Well, work early in am. Goodnight all.

That homer from Didi is a granny if the ump didn’t f*** Stanton. Just sayin...

Not asking for a head strike.

Weak! Just get him in the back or leg. Don’t hurt him, just start something here

Drill Pearce here

We’re bringing in our game 4 starter? My guess is you’re seeing Sheff