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  1. mvp 78
    Kevin Plawecki to SEA for Sam Travis Per BTV, they have the same value and are equally good.
  2. mvp 78
    DFA Plawecki
  3. mvp 78
    I think what happened was the tank job of 2011 broke people's brains. They came back the following with year with an Old School coach pleasing the octogenarian crowd, but wound up in last place. In a span of 12 months, they went from presumed best team in the league to the bottom of the division. Following that up with a WS win just made it a very manic experience to be a Sox fan. If the Sox are either dead last or winning the division, I can see how fans wouldn't be ok with being told they won't win the division. Likely, that means they'd be in last damn place.
  4. mvp 78
    Not sure he's allowed to have fun.
  5. mvp 78
    Sox only had 5 All Stars this season. Why not 10?
  6. mvp 78
    Yes, that's why I put "or traded" in there.
  7. mvp 78
    We'll see.
  8. mvp 78
    Since the playoffs are a crapshoot, it's hard to sign onto any of those options.
  9. mvp 78
    2004 broke the seal. 2007 was the vindication that it wasn't a fluke. 2013 was the unexpected surprise. 2018 was the juggernaut I had never been able to route for.
  10. mvp 78
    Most Sox fans would have been delighted with winning a ring every 20 years.
  11. mvp 78
    Well, we better get a ring in the next two years then!
  12. mvp 78
    And when Leon started playing near Plawecki-errr Replacement Level, they got rid of him. $1.6M isn't the steal you think it is.
  13. mvp 78
    For a guy WORSE than Vaz in framing and 75th in pop time. Manny Pina at $1.65M is 13th in framing and 10th in pop time. That's better value for the amount they are spending.
  14. mvp 78
    I'm sure they can find someone better behind the plate than Plawecki.
  15. mvp 78
    He's worse on a per game basis by fWAR than Vaz.
  16. mvp 78
    Winckowski is ahead of Bello IMO. Bello didn't light the world on fire in AA this year. He has a ways to go. Wong OPS by month: May 572 June 666 July 727 Aug 1037 Sept 841 Maybe he was a guy who started off slow because of missing 2020. If he can OPS > 800 in AAA, they'll keep him around. I wouldn't be shocked if they brought in a glove first backup who was a placeholder for Wong or Hernandez.
  17. mvp 78
    If the Sox can sweep the Yanks, it should really end their season.
  18. mvp 78
    Sea Dogs season is over, not surprising these guys are being given a little more run. Casas will be up next season at some point. Depending on what they do with C depth, Hernandez could be #3 which would give him the leg up on reaching BOS first.
  19. mvp 78
    The Monster
  20. mvp 78
    A month later: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/09/red-sox-garrett-richards-bullpen-reliever-club-option.html Since moving into a short-relief role, Richards has dominated. He’s tossed 20 2/3 innings of relief, pitching to a 0.87 ERA with a 29.4 percent strikeout rate, a 9.4 percent walk rate and a 48.1 percent ground-ball rate. Richards’ fastball averaged 94.2 mph out of the rotation, and that’s jumped to 95.0 mph in the ’pen — 95.3 mph since Sept. 1. Richards has also seen gains in swinging-strike rate (from 9.4 percent to 10.8 percent), opponents’ chase rate (27.9 percent to 34.5 percent), opponents’ average exit velocity (91.6 mph to 89.4 mph) and an overwhelming drop in his opponents’ barrel rate — from 9.3 percent all the way down to 1.9 percent. Since moving to a relief role, he’s allowed just one “barreled” ball, as measured by Statcast, and he has yet to surrender a home run.
  21. mvp 78
    Yankees players are supposed to either get better or maintain an elite level, otherwise it's underperforming!
  22. mvp 78
    "Supposed to." LOL
  23. mvp 78
    Sale has a 120 OPS against LHB this year.
  24. mvp 78
    They are going to try to lean heavily on Sale and Eovaldi down the stretch rather than give them extra games off. That's what I've heard anyway.
  25. mvp 78
    Yes, I think a great bullpen has the "closer" and the "fireman." You need a guy that can just go out there and close out games (Urbina, Kimbrel, Paplebon), but you also need that relief ace that can come in and just shut down a dangerous situation at any point in the game.
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