Dipre
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Craig Breslow hired as Head Of Baseball Operations
Dipre replied to Tedballgame's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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I was talking about the 300 mill offer from the Sox.
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10/300 is a higher AAV and a chance at one final large AAV contract. Well s***
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We'll have more info on the bids soon.
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I think that was debunked, but I'll bet dollars to doughnuts at least one team offered 350 regardless of length.
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12/325. At that price, he likely wanted to be a Dodger, shutting out my "money first" mantra. There's no way at least the Mets weren't up to 325.
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Especially if they are pitchers, but that usually doesn't happen.
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Absolutely.
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Seems like a plan to me.
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Ok, that was funny
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Yeah no. They might be telling teams "unless you blow my socks off, I am waiting until after Yamamoto"
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I've said before, and I'll say it again: If they're not certain they'll sign Yama-San, they should pivot and get other desirable SP before the market shifts to them. Imanaga and Montgomery or Burnes/FA would create a cascade effect for this team's pitching that should yield massively better results than last year.
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I like "clickbait" better than a raging *******. Also, some of the teams are based on whether teams were sniffing around on the guy and had the financial flexibility.
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Aces.
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https://www.mlb.com/news/jacob-degrom-free-agency-top-suitors According to Mark Feinsand, the Rangers weren't even in the top 7. (Then again, neither were the Yankees, but I digress).
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I get it, but cursory interest isn't the same as the interest held as the Yankees and Mets. Unless memory fails me, either NY team was the favorite to sign DeGrom from the get-go, with the Mets being clear-cut favorites.
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Player A throws 65% of his pitches in the strike zone, but about half of those end up in the wheelhouse area of the zone. That player has good control, but not good command. Player B throws 65% of his pitches in the strike zone, but about 15% of those end up in the wheelhouse area of the zone. That player has good command and control. Player C throws 48% of his pitches in the strike zone, but about 15% of those end up in the wheelhouse area of the zone. That player has good command but not good control. This oversimplifies things, as a lot of pitches are thrown out of the zone on purpose, but you get the gist of it.
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Can't quantify it on a single pitch.
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But it does happen. Some guys are super wild, and barely throw strikes, but when they do, it's picture perfect. Go watch a couple of the few good starts Victor Zambrano had in 2004, and you'll see exactly what I mean. Dude's all over the place in the same AB, but the strikes he does throw are usually in the corners, and low in the strike zone, as if he was painting. Pure insanity.
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You're taking my post out of context. What I meant was Breslow is likely to sign Yamamoto if Henry gives him the green light to pay the guy the amount he wants.
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They shouldn't have been on the radar because they dumped half a billion for Seager and Semien, then got terrible results.
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Let me put it this way. If the Sox really want to sign Yamamoto, they can. Just like the Rangers really wanted DeGrom, or the Angels really wanted Ohtani, or the Mariners really wanted Cano. The Red Sox are not the Royals. It's just a matter of how far Henry is willing to extend Breslow's leash.
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You know what the point was. It wasn't a bidding war, but he had plenty of suitors, and Texas wasn't even on the radar.
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But it's one that's been used for decades, and also one that makes sense. Control: Ability to throw strikes. Command: Ability for those strikes to hit the area of the strike zone the pitcher and catcher want them to hit. There have been a lot of examples of pitchers with good command but no control (The Zambranos, especially Victor, with what the broadcasters referred to as effectively wild), and control but no command (See: Kyle Farnsworth, Joel Zumaya, or most of the early aught flamethrowers).
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Probably paper scraps inside syringes.
