mvp 78
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I don't think you'll find many people than would disagree with you.
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They can DFA Franchy in the offseason. Teams keep passing on him over and over again. I'm fine with him playing in WOO. Dalbec has options and more value.
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The problem is that trading him now would be at his lowest value. May as well hold onto him now.
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I think he means the 7th or 8th guy in the pen, not the 7th or 8th inning guy. Basically, German would be one of the last options available.
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People are still watching these games?
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The young players at the time were: Vaughn Quantril Ken Ryan Cooper Plantier Naehring Valentin Wedge Flaherty Zupcic The pitching in the upper minors was absolute garbage for the Sox around then. Of those guys, the only legitimate future "star" was Mo. Valentin, Cooper and Plantier were kinda bunched together further below him and none of them were really seen as guaranteed MLB starters. As it turned out, the most unheralded guy, Valentin, had the best career out of the three.
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He didn't have to do that to the Cannons though. Spending 6 paragraphs on the Revolution was a little excessive too.
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The problem with Dalbec this year wasn't his strikeouts, but that his slugging basically fell off the table. Barrel % 2020 22 2021 20.2 2022 11.6 He can strike out and be productive, but he has to square up the ball. This year, he was just not making great contact. His Whiff % was down on 4 seamers (he was swinging through less fastballs) but he just was making poor contact. Was he just shortening his swing? Was he making bad adjustments? I think he can still be a good player, just not a full time one.
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As someone who had season tickets in Pawtucket, I don't know what they were expecting with Cooper. He was an ok prospect, but certainly not an upgrade over Boggs. Mo Vaughn was the only real prospect at the time.
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Joe Carter was 30 years ago. Jays don't have much to hang their hats on, but that's fine.
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That's the media's job: trash the players, the coaches, the owners and sometimes blame the fans for being troglodytes or too snobby depending on the argument.
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Beni had a bad year in 2020, but I don't think many people were paying attention and those that were just thought he was injured. Really don't remember anyone trashing him at all.
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Jays keep adding to their staff, but they keep losing those guys as well. Toronto often wins the offseason or the trading deadline and doesn't have anything to show for it yet.
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Clemens was trashed by the media. I don't remember fans really hating on him all that much. Boggs hard the Margo chants thing and was never really an endearing player. Boggs had a bad season in '92 before he left (Scott Cooper had a higher wRC+), but that team was pretty bad too only winning 73 games. Greenwell sucked that year. Jack Clark sucked that year. That team was worse than the 2022 Red Sox.
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I think you can get to 2022 JD Martinez' production for a much better $$$ and use that savings on pitching. Overall, you would have a much stronger team.
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Ben did win a WS though. Most GM's can't say that.
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Pitching is not usually a bad idea. Just try to not buy the ones that get injured.
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AL East is pretty competitive. If the Sox are on the outside looking in, but still get to 88 wins he's probably not getting fired unless the team tanks at the end. It's hard to really just put a number on the year and say how many wins keeps him from getting fired because not all 88 win teams are the same. If Henry goes balls out and spends way over the cap, but only gets to 88 wins, then he probably is fired. If it's a young and exciting team that is showing lots of fight and promise at 88 wins, Bloom probably keeps his job.
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The worst 3 teams are the A's, Nats and Pirates. I don't think all 3 pass on Dalbec. I would be surprised if even two of them passed on him if he was DFA'd.
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They should have just put him on the IL.
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The Sox were just in the ALCS last season and are a team that can bump up payroll whenever they want. They have a history of going from worst to first and winning it all from out of nowhere. The idea of "window" for an organization like the Sox is silly.
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It wasn't "which option is most likely."
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If he DFA'd Dalbec, how many teams would he pass through before being claimed?
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It's so simple. I don't know why dumbass Chaim didn't think of it.
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I thought that was what TikTok was for?
