mvp 78
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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.
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He would not be a smart man then. Is that why they went all in with the panda hats?
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Wonder why he's still unsigned!
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15 AAV for 5 years is pretty reasonable for what he can do. Sox would have extended him for cheaper.
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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.
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Why? He pitched almost as many innings last year as the beloved Rich Hills, Eovaldis, and Wachas of the world.
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I agree with some of the ideas espoused by the article, but I think it just comes down to Henry not wanting to pay players. I'm not sure he really cares about the next title since he's already got a few of them on the mantle at home. I think the $$$ is the driving factor for him.
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It was a "mistake" because he's no longer wearing the team's laundry. It's also a mistake if you aren't locking up good players early. I hope Bloom's action with Whitlock portends extensions for Bello, Casas and others going forward.
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How lagging are the ticket sales these days? You got numbers? Their attendance last year was pretty strong for what it was. 4th in the AL is about where they've been lately ('22, '21, '18, '17, '16). If the overall attendance is down, it's down because it's also down across baseball. They averaged 800 less fans than the Astros, who were coming off a WS loss and heading to a WS win. Seems like a pretty strong attendance record then? They haven't averaged 37,000 fans per game since 2012. Is that Bloom's fault too? Oversaturation by the Red Sox from 04-11?
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Agreed. I hope that Rafaela can be an everyday CFer. I want to watch GG defense out there. Even if his bat isn't amazing (the 20+ HR Law projects or whatever), I'll be happy to watch him. On the recent SoxProspects podcast, they mentioned a good outcome for him would be a 15/15 guy who has an OBP that is enough to stick in MLB. We'd all take that. He's probably the bottom third of the order. Fine. There is the rare chance that his bat turns into something better, but I don't think we can really expect it right now. I am glad that they didn't dump him on the Marlins in a Pablo Lopez deal.
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It has to be Henry. He's the link between all these lowball offers we've seen over the years and the weird dealings. He undervalues the guys that are in house, ends up looking foolish and then has to overpay in some other manner.
