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  1. mvp 78
    It's a stupid risk because at the end of the day they only save money if KC becomes a super star. They needed to be sure about that. Internally, they wanted to break down his swing within a few months. Why?
  2. mvp 78
    It would have solved itself quickly with Casas getting injured.
  3. mvp 78
    28th in OAA and FRV. They can't blame the Monster for an OAA variance either. The OBP point is a pretty good one though. It worked for a long time. Not sure why MLB dropped it for launch angle. They used to score more runs back when OBP was cool too. HR's may have gone up per game, but the runs didn't increase. Weird! 😎
  4. mvp 78
    I don't think so.
  5. mvp 78
    I doubt they let Whitlock out of the contract until the last club option is done in '28. Contreras probably stays for '28 too.
  6. mvp 78
    Tolle has a very high ceiling, but is still a potential relief profile due to the secondaries. Early has been solid, but the underlying metrics could lead us to believe that there will be some regression over the course of this season (4.68 xERA, 13th percentile barrel rate). When one pitch could end a career, I could see why Breslow could be hesitant to extend these two. I'm not sure the bad Bello extension affects it either.
  7. mvp 78
    If they truly are a pitching pipeline, you don't worry about extending young pitchers who can be prone to career ending injuries. Breslow has also been willing to spend FA dollars on starting pitching. Unless a guy is a front end starter, there probably isn't a demand to extend.
  8. mvp 78
    The AAV is 7.5M for a guy sitting in AAA. The issue is that you're guaranteeing him 2/30 contract after he's done with his arbitration years. Doesn't seem like this is a guy that would be on track for getting there at the moment.
  9. mvp 78
    I'm just saying it as there were posters on here suggesting that the Sox were failing for not extending them.
  10. mvp 78
    Lawlar was moved to the OF back in October in the Dominican Winter League. They weren't happy with his defense and had benched him in the regular season for it. It was clear to me back then that he was being moved to CF and that they didn't want Duran.
  11. mvp 78
    I haven't heard that reported anywhere. I think AZ wants to go with a youth movement and save cash. Duran and Bello don't help with that. With their value in the tank, they'd want to to that trade even less now.
  12. mvp 78
    Breslow has a 5 year contract. I think he's here through 2027 no matter what.
  13. mvp 78
    Story is top talent? And if top talent actually did that, I think this board would have a meltdown.
  14. mvp 78
    Maybe Joe thinks Story would get benched and Romy is the fulltime 2B?
  15. mvp 78
    The trade request was too much for an aging player with a big contract. They aren't getting Mayer plus Tolle or Early for him. If there's a team out there that will do that, they are much closer to a WS window than this team is.
  16. mvp 78
    They don't teach situational hitting anymore. They just teach exit velo and lifting the ball. That's all they know. Kyle Boddy said that it makes for bad baseball, but it's what the analytics guys want so it's what they teach.
  17. mvp 78
    They didn't extend Houck or Crawford!
  18. mvp 78
    Romy is still there. He's hanging out with Roman in the North End every night.
  19. mvp 78
    Marte has a better wRC+ than every Sox IFer except for Contreras. His 234 BABIP is 70 points below his career norm. If you look at his Statcast page, he's really just been unlucky.
  20. mvp 78
    I don't think any numbers have been reported. It probably wouldn't have been very high. He was clearly betting on himself, stupidly.
  21. mvp 78
    Not too many people were upset with it at the time. It was considered an under market deal. The problem is that not every prospect works out, you need to give extensions to the guys you're really certain about. This was a guy who had such a broken swing that they had to revamp it a few months later. I don't think they needed to do Rafaela or Bello's extension either.
  22. mvp 78
    Those 3 are among the 10 worst hitters in MLB right now. To have them all in the same lineup is a large part of why this team has been unsuccessful.
  23. mvp 78
    Speak softly and carry a big 10 key.
  24. mvp 78
    He would have tried to and the ball would have ended up in the camera well.
  25. mvp 78
    Yup, Duran '25: 11 DRS, -4 OAA in LF The range will get you every time.
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