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@Yankees The New York Yankees announced today that they have re-signed Manager Aaron Boone to a three-year contract through the 2024 season with a club option for 2025. Good move IMO!

He deserves it IMO.

Why trade Dalbec? I don't think he has a high trade value. He's cheap, so I'd rather keep him as a bench option and see if he can fill in at a few positions.

I'm not sure the Sox should be collecting 38 year old starters.

Still seems like 1 "off" year.

Even years: 2014: 3.4 fWAR 2016: 3.3 fWAR 2018: 1.4 fWAR (worst season for sure) 2020: COVID 14 and 16 seem ok to me.

Best WS Subplots: Dodgers VS Red Sox (Betts return to BOS, Kiké and Verdugo return to LAD) Dodgers VS Astros (Dodgers face off against WS rival that cheated them) Braves VS Red Sox (Interleague Rivalry, digging up some old fans who remember seeing the Braves in Boston) Braves VS Astros (2005 NLDS revenge??? IDK)

Settled? I think it makes sense to take the first QO and then go to FA the following offseason. 1. He sat out 2020 so there was question about how well he'd perform. 2. If you have a QO attached to you, less teams are likely to bid on you. 3. He was given 18.9M for one year which almost doubled his career earnings. 4. Now he can go into FA after pitching a full season and not having a QO attached to him. Seems like a good idea to me!

I'd go 5. I wouldn't go 7.

Jansen 547 OPS vs LHB. Graterol 967 OPS vs LHB.

One day later, Garcia's knee was perfectly fine during practice. Interesting. We'll see how his knee holds up the next outing. Probably won't act up if his team is leading.

Get Werner out of that room ASAP.

Whiff % and k rate are two completely different things. You can get a whiff on a 3-0 count. You brought up K rate.

I'm not worried about next year right now. I'm sure he'll work his ass off this offseason to fix whatever's going wrong. I know he's really a workout warrior and he's not just going to cash a paycheck. He may have to reinvent himself at some point though. I was looking through his statcast and it shows him throwing a sinker more often when he was younger. Was it really a sinker or was he just getting more movement on his 4 seamer then? Is it a pitch he needs to bring back?

They won their division, so they were a presumptive favorite.

His last 3 starts: 6 innings, 37%K rate, 3.00 WHIP. Anything pop out to you?

His final start of the regular season, he had a 27 k/9. Does that mean it was a good start? It ignores his 3.00 WHIP. He's striking out guys, but it's ugly. It's the definition of smoke and mirrors.

What does this have to do with me saying "smoke and mirrors"? Obviously I'm saying that his results were clearly going to come back to earth. In his last 3 outings, he went a combined 6 innings. Do you think that's good? I've watched all of his starts and there's been a white knuckle feel to a lot of them, especially lately. He might get a few k's, but it's ugly. It's not vintage Sale.

Even if we win it all, shouldn't we try to extend the window we have with the Devers/JD/Xander/Eovaldi/Sale core group by going over?

The game really changed in the 90's with all the iso ********. Teams stopped running up and down the court. The action really slowed down. Getting through the last two minutes of a game can be excruciating with all of the fouls. Basketball is most fun when there is lots of ball movement and teams are working the whole length of the floor. For a game that has the ability to be so fast paced, it can crawl like a turtle for lengthy stretches. It's the difference between wide open hockey and those 90's NJ Devils teams. Yuck. I watched a ton of basketball up until about 10 years ago. At some point, the downsides of excessive ticky tack foul calls and everyone trying to be like Mike just wore on me as a fan. Jordan was the greatest basketball player of all time. Guys like Kobe were just dollar store versions. I've tried to get into the younger C's team, but the game just isn't for me. At one point, I would have ranked it Sox > C's > Pats > Bruins, but now I'm a Sox > Bruins > Pats > C's. Maybe the C's and Bruins just flip flopped positions because they play over the same stretch of time and are basically competing for viewership.

You counted wrong. 23 TBF in the playoffs, 57 TBF in last 3 regular season starts. His k% was 36.8%.

No, I expected him not to be an ace off the bat. That doesn't contradict me saying that his regular season #'s were smoke and mirrors. His last 3 outings have been very concerning though.

It seems that way more so in the NL. NL WC teams: 97 Marlins (won WS) 00 Mets (lost WS) 02 Giants (lost WS) 03 Marlins (won WS) 05 Astros (lost WS) 07 Rockies (lost WS) 11 Cardinals (won WS) 14 Giants (won WS) 19 Nats (won WS) Only 4 AL WC teams made the WS, 2 of which won (02 Angels and 04 Sox).

How much do you think Baez will be? Why do you think ownership will try to stay under the cap?