mvp 78

Tapia career innings: LF 2,587 CF 439 RF 460

99% of Duvall's remaining CF innings came in 2021. It's not like it's ancient history we are looking back on.

Now we just need younger posters.

1. Jose Iglesias as backup SS/2B. 2. RP? I'm not sure who the Sox would target as the guys left over have higher BB rates. 3. Probably going to add to the grab bag of MiLB deals before ST opens on 2/16.

@PeteAbe #RedSox filling in AAA gaps with a minor league deal for OF Raimel Tapia and his career 83 OPS+.

Duvall is +4 in 600 innings.

He's also mainly a LFer and I don't think very good at CF or RF. Probably an MiLB deal.

On an MiLB deal. Sox could still try to find an MLB guy.

Yes, BA ranked Abreu 29th prior to the 2014 season. It's just a quirk of the system.

Missed him as he's not listed on the FanGraphs Free Agent Tracker for some reason.

Available FA's that could backup at CF/RF: Pillar Herrera Jankowski (MiLB deal) JBJ Davis (MiLB)

You say that now...

Waiting out the market to get him at a deep discount!

Refsnyder in RF: 163 INN, -4 DRS, -2 OAA, -13.3 UZR/150

Verdugo was bad there in '22. Overall, he was ok in '20 and '21. Maybe him being more trimmed down will help him field the position better? We'll see. I'll keep my mind open about it, but I'm not optimistic.

It's moving Kiké to a position he's never played fulltime and moving Duvall to a position he's never played fulltime. Where could it go wrong?

Yoshida is LF. Did they sign Turner and Yoshida to platoon DH?

Harrison is a UTIL guy to mix and match with Arroyo. Andrus is a SS only guy. Seems Bloom already found his SS and is valuing versatility?

There is a great little article on Jorge Alfaro at FanGraphs today. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/reflections-on-the-bear/ At his peak, Alfaro is faster than Cristian Pache and Cedric Mullins. His hardest-hit ball of 2022 came in (or, more accurately, went out) at 115.2 mph, harder than anything hit by Mike Trout, Kyle Schwarber, or Joey Gallo in 2022. And he can play the hardest defensive position in the sport. How is this guy not a starter, let alone a star? The more useful way to ask that question is: How does the hitter with the worst contact numbers and plate discipline in baseball turn out to be an above-replacement-level player? Now, “worst contact numbers and plate discipline in baseball” is a superlative, which usually indicates some kind of exaggeration. But if I’m exaggerating, it’s not by much. BB% 4, 334th K% 35.8, 8th OSwing% 49.2, 2nd Swing% 62.7, 1st OContact% 52.2, 322nd Contact% 65.2, 346th Alfaro was the only player to hit 200 or more times in 2022 and post a walk rate of 4% or lower and a strikeout rate of 35% or higher. Baseball Savant registers 531 hitters who saw at least 50 pitches in the chase zone in 2022; of those, Alfaro ranks 529th in run production and is one of just 11 not to break even. He lives outside the heuristic most of us have for “bad plate discipline.” No matter how many borderline pitches he sees, he will continue to swing and miss every time.

Not a chance.

He should have been good, but his development plateaued and his defense never became adequate. Sad considering the tools he has. I think he spends more time working on his physique than working on being a better ballplayer.

The first home game would be 6/6 vs Akron. Book tickets now! Pre-order your Mayer Sea Dogs shirseys! The weather probabaly isn't good enough to attend a game before then anyway.

I have a strong conviction that Mayer will be the next "franchise shortstop" and that once he makes it here, we won't have to worry about that position for a while.

He's a guy that I don't even think about because I don't believe he'll be in BOS this year unless in the visitor's dugout.

"Which play at first base from last year showed to you that Duran would get more hits this year due to the new bases?"