jacksonianmarch

Breslow needs to deal off Verdugo, add another OFer of consequence and shore up the rotation. Sox have a chance to be very good with some SP upgrades

You mean how he always seemed to get hurt down the stretch? Never talked trash about his postseason resume, just that the guy was good for a couple months on the IL. He proved that again this year

Don't call it a comeback

Yanks in on Soto. With the prospects they’d have to deal and the cost of the extension, why not just sign Ohtani? Save the prospects and when Ohtani’s arm is right, he can be a TOTR starter

This is the time you bring in an experienced GM to bring the team to the next level

I wonder where you can get guys like Aroldis Chapman…

So all we needed to do was pitch Jordan Montgomery vs the Astros, interesting

You can’t bring in a new GM and then stick him with the current manager. Anytime a GM is brought in from the outside and the manager stays, there is the high likelihood of friction. If the new GM is from without, Cora should probably go unless the GM is intent on keeping him around and says so in advance of his hiring

Your guess is as good as mine. Does he have dirt on Hal? George? Cash did VERY well rebuilding the team from the Jeter days. 2017 was the kickoff of a nice run of success while being just one player away multiple years in a row. But he started adding in a questionable fashion. We got Stanton instead of waiting for Harper. We dealt Montgomery then got Rodon. Dealt for Montas, who was injured at the time, instead of going after Castillo. Benintendi trade sucked. Effross trade sucked. This past offseason he added an oft injured ace and did nothing to address the offense. He had a chance to sell off some parts this deadline and stood pat. He seems very scattershot after years of seemingly laser like focus. This is when you dump a president or GM. When they're acting out of desperation or crippled with inaction, their time is up

I was talking about Jordan Montgomery who keeps spinning 0's in the playoffs for Texas. The guy who should have been pitching in NY this year

Man, I wish the Yanks could home grow good postseason pitchers.....

Yanks and Sox in disarray. Yanks say they’re making changes and made none. Sox are about to head into the hot stove without a president of baseball ops for possibly their most important hot stove in 5 years

Hal says major changes are on the horizon after their end of year meetings….that he didn’t attend…..and no changes were made

Soto is going to be very well sought out. You aren't getting him for 1 yr of Verdugo.

Load up in the rotation, tinker in the pen, add some defense on the field. The sox have the deepest but not the highest number of holes to fill

Cora was not happy when the sox stood pat two years in a row and then did nothing in the offseason to address their issues. I bet Cora was behind Bloom's downfall. "Either him or me" situation

Yanks also have an unquestioned ace which the sox don't have. They also have two All Star level performers from just a year ago who missed time due to injury but are "supposedly" healthy right now. The back end is German and Schmidt who are solid back end guys. On paper, the Yanks have a solid top 5 in the rotation right now. The question is, does the paper translate into production and health. The sox do not have this

It is less a bounceback and more a "if healthy" situation. For the Yanks, they didn't have Kahnle for half the year and Effross for the entire year, so we can play that game too

Rodon and Cortes should, if they can stay healthy. The others need to be selectively deployed and cannot be relied upon as regulars to show any sort of improvement, thus limiting their effectiveness

I think the sox make a hard push for Aaron Nola and Jordan Montgomery. Nola would take on the ace role. Bello would push to #2. Sale would slot into #4 with Montgomery in the #3 role. Crawford and Pivetta can battle it out for the 5 slot allowing the other to be much needed depth for when Sale goes down. That rotation would immediately take the pressure off the pen and allow it to shine with Winck, Whitlock, Houck, Bernardino and Jansen handling the most high leverage innings. Then I would have a close eye on Tim Anderson, who very well may have his option declined. Try him in a friendly park in a better lineup and see if a pillow contract would be good.

Right, but the fielding independent factor should negate the defensive contributions, or lack thereof, correct?

Which do you go by, the WAR or the FIP,xFIP? Yanks were 8th in baseball with a 3.93FIP and 9th in xFIP with a 4.11. Sox were 0.28 and 0.29 off the pace respectively sitting 19th and 21st. Yanks had the better K rate, a worse walk rate, the second best HR rate in all of baseball, and the best GB rate in all of baseball. How the WAR is higher makes almost no sense to me

Here is why I think the Yanks have the better foundation "right now". They have the best hitter and pitcher of the two teams. Judge is better than anything the sox have. Cole is better than anything the sox have. Yanks also have the better pen. Looking at the rotation, Rodon and Cortes have a far bigger upside than any pitcher on the sox not named Bello. We also have proven big league starting depth in German and Schmidt. The question is, will anyone stay healthy? Yanks get a big edge on the mound. On the offense, sox have the deeper team and I give the offensive edge to them. If Dominguez was healthy and knowing Volpe was going into year 2 plus Torres breaking out and Judge healthy, I would say it was close. But with Dominguez down for most of next year, there is no major upside beyond Volpe to think of beyond a last gasp return to prominence for a dying veteran. In terms of the farm, you have top 100 prospects Wells, Pereira, Peraza, and Dominguez all MLB ready and having made their debuts. This injection of youth OR trade chips should help make this team more watchable. That being said, the difference isn't enormous. The sox have the more glaring issue. They've got a rotation that is shallow and talentless. If the sox add a few top level arms, they will surpass the Yanks

Hartman turtled when facing a good D. He was riding high facing Tennessee St but doesn't stand in when rushed and makes poor decisions. ND would have been better off grooming a QB of the future. Hartman is Jack Coan-lite

Maybe, or maybe Hal decides to be the best of the AL again. When you have the best pitcher and best hitter in the game plus a lights out pen and a pretty solid MLB ready farm, you should do something with it. If you are ever gonna push the chips in, you do it when you have the MVP favorite and the CY favorite in their primes.