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What Does the Acquisition of Rusney Castillo mean for Bradley?
Dojji replied to a700hitter's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I wouldn't say 'never." but I will take a second to say a quick toljaso to those who were convinced he was the latest and greatest, sight unseen. And I'd say the emergence of Betts puts a bigger damper on JBJ's future with Boston than the signing of Castillo does. Castillo is almost completely unproven -- may be great, but you'd better have some plan in mind for what to do if he for some reason isn't. Betts on the other hand is showing that maybe he does have the stuff to get it done, pending what he does this year of course but what he's already done should buy him a good chance to prove he can repeat it. -
Just bumping this due to the significance of the signings of two third basemen, one of them the unathletic Sandoval. I'm fixating right now probably a bit too much on the idea that this means the plan may be to move Naps at the deadline or even in the offseason, and shift Sandoval to first, Hanley to third. I see this as a potential set of moves the team is lining up in case the market for Cespedes isn't as strong as they thought it was. A power hitting 1B in the last year of his contract can usually find a buyer who's willing to part with something.
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In a year Panda will be our starting first baseman. All of his weakest assets are diluted in significance if he plays first base. Napoli's coming off the books next year if not earlier (I still think he's one of our best trading chips now or at the deadline). Hanley's on the roster and more comfortable at third base than anywhere else he can presently play. All signs point to Napoli is not brought back, or is even moved before the contract expires, and Hanley is on hand to play 3B over most of his contract while Sandoval moves to 1B and we enter the market for a LF.
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I can't see why they wouldn't. With offense around the league as bad as it is, a good lefthanded bat off the bench that can play three positions and get on base at a good clip isn't a bad asset. It comes down to whether they can trade Cespedes. If they can, I fully expect Nava to be on the bench next year. If not, you've got your 5 outfielders in Cespedes, Betts, Castillo, Victorino, and Hanley and there's no room for Nava except as your putative backup 1B. There is another option though -- we could trade Mike Napoli. He's a good righthanded power hitter and I'd hate to lose him, but if trading him allows us to put Sandoval at 1B where his limited range hurts us less and his great hands help us more, and Hanley at third, then spaces open up in the outfield for both Cespedes and Nava.
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Two very good aditions to any team's bench, will now be on the bench where they can put up their best contributions.
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I admitted I was wrong on beltre awhile ago. I've never been afraid to admit I was wrong and I was dead wrong about Beltre. He won me over over the course of that season and the numbers since make it clear he should have been kept around, the Adgon debacle just makes the hindsight even clearer.
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THanks, I was actually convinced he'd done worse than that. The decline in offense leaguewide is throwing my judgment of the base numbers off. Although let me take a second to lament the fact that a corner outfielder can put up a .706 OPS and a 100 OPS+ in the same season. Pitching is firmly in the lead in the proverbial arms race these days.
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Shoulda never moved him to third full time. He has several extremely productive years as one of the best first basemen in the league, moves to third and immediately falls apart. I don't believe in coincidences. Youk could spot at third but had never played a full season at third before the Adgon trade and they were asking him to do it for the first time in his life on the back half of a player's big league lifespan? The guy already had injury issues, the extra athleticism required to defend third rather than first can't have helped. Shoulda kept Beltre around and kept Youkilis at a position we knew he could get through a full season at. Getting "creative" to bring in a name player just smacks of the kind of vapid short sightedness we've seen so much of since then.
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Agreed. Nava is very dangerous unless pitchers get too many looks at him. He's a big leaguer, but we've seen that he can be one of either really solid bench COF/1B, or a rather crappy starter. He's a good injury insurance policy and I'd expect him to thrive if he's deployed mostly against RHP's, which can't happen if he's the duty starter.
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The Red Sox have no right to put Lester in a room or anywhere else. He's a free agent. He has no obligation to this team at all.
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I agree. Shades of the Crawford signing. The man is talented, but he's not consistent enough to put up good counting stats, and that's telling. You pay beaucoup bucks for consistency, not potential. Sandoval would be the wrong move at the wrong time for the wrong team. Headley's not much better, but given the choice of the two of them go for the one that is not ludicrously overhyped rather than the one that is.
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You want to trade for a guy who's likely to be overpriced, far worse than Vazquez defensively, and hit for a .650 OPS last year?
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That's not even close to a realistic price for Ryan Zimmermann
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Depends on how we structure the trade. If we're dealing in MLB ready talent, they can sell the trade as an intermediate move rather than a full rebuild.
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There's a thought. They're really weak in the outfield too. I wonder a package of Barnes, Cespedes, Nava and Cecchini would get it done. Strengthen two weak positions with quality veterans and add young replacements at the positions where they're losing talent? And I can't call any of those guys irreplaceable.
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Wonder what it would take to get Todd Frazier from the Reds and just avoid the whole mess of high priced FA's. Too much, probably
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Not sure why thread.
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Prado never spent a single second in centerfield.
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You've got a 21 year old kid who you just admitted had demostrated 15 HR ability at second base or centerfield. Second base. Or centerfield. And you're picking nits because the team is still deciding which of those two high leverage up the middle defensive positions he should be played at more often? If he was a Yankee, you wouldn't call that "tweener" you'd call that "versatility" and you'd be right.
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No kidding. Worst case scenario defensively is Betts in right field, and if his offensive level is anywhere NEAR what it's shown to be, to say nothing of his potential to improve, he's a star level right fielder. That's a very weak position leaguewide right now, similar with third base -- a position people are used to having a power hitter in but the actual power hitters playing it aren't easy to find anymore. And that's the worst case scenario. if he can hack it at center, even better, and if he can hit at his level and survive at second base, he's a pure stud.
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The only reason anyone isn't sure about Betts in center is because they might want to use him on the infield. If they commit to him in centerfield he has more than enough range and stick to make it as a CF. But if Pedroia continues to decline, the problem might be solved for us and in that case, I expect Betts to be a sufficient 2B which is his natural position. He has more than enough power potential to put up double digit homer figures in the middle of his career with a bit of luck Over a full season his debut performance would have been worth 15 HR's over 600 AB's. In either of his two positions that's plenty of offense. If we do put him at second due to decline or injury from Pedroia, that level of offense would make Betts an All-Star even if he isn't a gold glover.
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Well I don't think we can sign any of those guys to catch for us this year.
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Not that many LHH catchers. I'm sure there are others but the only one I can think of off the top of my head is George Kottaras.
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One of these days, the Cuban regime is going to grow the heck up and stop thumbing its nose at the US out of pure spite. When that happens I fully expect Cubans to no longer need to defect to play the game in the major leagues, and Cuba's big league presence will both expand and be a major source of Cuban national pride.
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http://environmentalgeography.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/lggn0309chill-out-relaxing-polar-bear-poster2.jpeg And we were doing such a good job at keeping the antagonism to a minimum...
