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  1. mvp 78
    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.
  2. mvp 78
    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.
  3. mvp 78
    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.
  4. mvp 78
    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.
  5. mvp 78
    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.
  6. mvp 78
    @BOSSportsGordo Andrew Chafin has not been a Red Sox target to this point, per @ChrisCotillo Asking price is reportedly steep.
  7. mvp 78
    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.
  8. mvp 78
    Is this an indecent proposal towards the King? Gross.
  9. mvp 78
    Let me highlight the important part that hasn't remotely happened so far.
  10. mvp 78
    It usually is at this point in the offseason. Maybe they can sign somebody to drive the truck on Friday?
  11. mvp 78
    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.
  12. mvp 78
    Kevin Romine?
  13. mvp 78
    Preposterous!
  14. mvp 78
    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.
  15. mvp 78
    Pretty soon he'll be the new King of TalkSox per post count thanks to it.
  16. mvp 78
    They aren't slipping German through waivers. Not at this point in the offseason anyway.
  17. mvp 78
    I think having a quality setup guy for a year they got to the ALCS was good enough.
  18. mvp 78
    Disagree. He doesn't have the secondary pitch to get advanced hitters out.
  19. mvp 78
    One pitch pitcher. Probably trade bait though. However, it gives the Sox little leverage if he's already been DFA'd.
  20. mvp 78
    Bloom would have to DFA Rafaela to make it work. He's next on the list.
  21. mvp 78
    He would not be a smart man then. Is that why they went all in with the panda hats?
  22. mvp 78
    Wonder why he's still unsigned!
  23. mvp 78
    15 AAV for 5 years is pretty reasonable for what he can do. Sox would have extended him for cheaper.
  24. mvp 78
    Are they locking him up before everyone knew he was made up of glass or after? If you extend him prior to 2010, you probably sign him for 6-7 years to buy out the ARB years and it was prior to the monster 2011 year that boosted his FA value. That contract would have been fine. If they are trying to extend him prior to 2013? Dumb.
  25. mvp 78
    Why? He pitched almost as many innings last year as the beloved Rich Hills, Eovaldis, and Wachas of the world.
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