mvp 78
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I think the trade for Bleier makes the addition of Chafin highly unlikely.
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Put all the names in a hat, close your eyes and pull the name out.
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And I guess that's how little they thought of Thaddeus Ward. Still one of the weirdest decisions they have made. At least trade the guy...
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He is DFA material if they are replacing him with OF depth. Greg Allen? Tapia? Not for a pitcher IMO. I think Dalbec has a bench role possibly, but also could be traded. I wouldn't lose sleep over it. Yes, Ort and Brasier get a lot of hate as they seemingly should have been the first out of the door. I would have DFA'd Ort a long time ago. I just don't think moving on from German is a big deal. With Brasier, I at least understand why they believe his low bb% and late season uptick could show future value for this season. I don't really believe it, but I understand their reasoning. Other pitchers I could see DFA'd or traded for minimal return: Murphy Mills
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Why are you using Houck's 2021 AAA numbers? They seem irrelevant. He had a 3.24 ERA in 2019 in AAA. The issue there was that it was mostly out of the pen. Do you remember why he had previous struggles and why he "suddenly" improved in MLB? When he first got into the organization, they messed with his delivery multiple times instead of just letting him throw the way he always had. Through 2019, he still struggled get LHB out. As an RP, it's not a big deal, but they still hoped he could at least be a spot starter. Thanks to COVID, they left Houck at the Alternate Training Site and intentionally stacked LHB lineups against him to get him to work through it and learn to be a better pitcher. Because of that, he had to learn a splitter. Without that experience, he may not be the MLB pitcher he is today.
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Dalbec and Duran are on the other side of the ball. You need to fill the entire 40 man roster, not just the pitching side of it. A pitch is a pitch. The Sox can see if a pitch has movement or not. Should we trust their judgement on the progress of German off the field in practice? 1. German has trade value. Ort does not. 2. German's stuff probably isn't advanced enough to sit on the 40 man for another year unless he can be called upon if they really want to compete.
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Winckowski as a reliever in 2022 SSS alert: 2.11 FIP 13.3% k-bb 545 BABIP 63.6% GB I don't think he's a late inning arm, but he could end up being a decent middle reliever or bulk innings guy.
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I don't think many people overrated Winckowski. He's a backend starter at best, but probably a bullpen arm. If he went from being a 5 pitch pitcher to a 3 pitch pitcher in short outings, he'd probably be more successful. Seabold was a really good prospect, but his best pitch died on the vine after his injury. The pitch just never came back. He's a AAAA guy unless that changeup comes back. I said for a while that his numbers looked good in AAA, but he had no business pitching for BOS.
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No, his below average secondary pitches can also work against MiLB hitters. TalkSox has also said a lot recently that the jump from AAA to MLB is wider than it's ever been since 2020. For whatever reason, the gap in talent is just huge now. What works in AAA, doesn't always play in MLB. As an example, we've seen that in our system with Jarren Duran. He hits in WOO and then looks like a deer in headlights in BOS.
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It has the potential to get there and isn't there right now. We saw what happened when he appeared in BOS at the end of the season.
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@BOSSportsGordo Andrew Chafin has not been a Red Sox target to this point, per @ChrisCotillo Asking price is reportedly steep.
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When TalkSox says your pitch is a "potential average offering," but then goes on to say it has a long way to go to get hitters out that means it's a well below average pitch currently. Like I said, the movement shown on Statcast and the whiff %'s are not good for the time he spent in MLB. Maybe he can be better going forward? I think he was a little overrated on here.
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Is this an indecent proposal towards the King? Gross.
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Let me highlight the important part that hasn't remotely happened so far.
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It usually is at this point in the offseason. Maybe they can sign somebody to drive the truck on Friday?
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His secondary pitches aren't even MiLB level. His only pitch is his heater. That's good enough at lower levels. It won't make the MLB jump. The whiff rate on German's vaunted velo was just 16%. The whiff rate on his slider was a measley 9%. He just couldn't miss any bats. It's not that he simply couldn't put away a guy. He wasn't getting close. Maybe just a small sample size, but I'm not so sure. There's just no movement to his slider. That's what statcast says anyway. Could he still develop it? Maybe. Is there a better return in a trade for German than just DFA'ing Ort? Probably. That's probably the consideration. However, I think there's a good chance that German just isn't as good as some of you projected.
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Kevin Romine?
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Preposterous!
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What is German's second pitch? It's not 1987. Lots of guys through hard now. You need other pitches to get quality hitters out too.
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Pretty soon he'll be the new King of TalkSox per post count thanks to it.
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They aren't slipping German through waivers. Not at this point in the offseason anyway.
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I think having a quality setup guy for a year they got to the ALCS was good enough.
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Disagree. He doesn't have the secondary pitch to get advanced hitters out.
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One pitch pitcher. Probably trade bait though. However, it gives the Sox little leverage if he's already been DFA'd.
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Bloom would have to DFA Rafaela to make it work. He's next on the list.
