mvp 78
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The good ol' eye test.
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I do appreciate the Mariners for giving the Sox Varitek, Lowe and Dave Henderson. Bonus points for stealing Buhner from the Yankees too.
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That's not the "b" in bWAR? -
The analytics back up the idea that he's one of the greats of his generation.
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The approach did backfire because they went to a guy who has been handing out runs lately.
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I agree. And when those players become available, you start getting rid of the bottom of your 40 man.
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Hoping all 26 Red Sox players get a roster spot on next year's AS team.
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Weber's xFIP in relief was 2.82. I think he should probably stay too. I'm probably overrating Mazza because of his high socks. For Valdez, he was really solid aside from 9/3 and 9/5 against the Jays.
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In good news, it was nice that Brasier had a bounce back year. It looked like he was trending towards pitching himself out of the league in 2019.
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I do wonder a little about Taylor though. Was it just COVID that reduced his velo? His FB was much worse than in 2019. Even though DHern's FB dropped in velo too, metrics still valued it as a plus pitch.
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He's not a great piece, but you can do worse than him as the 6th-7th guy in your pen. And now that you can carry an 8th guy, it seems like you can definitely find room for him.
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I agree. It still doesn't make much sense that they dfa'd Lakins. He would have been one of their best arms last year.
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How I rank the pen: Unknown: Aybar (didn't even make it to the alternate site this year, is a former position player with no control, but is the youngest guy on the list) Solid arms to keep: Barns, Hernandez Decent/intriguing arms: Taylor, Brasier, Mazza, Valdez Up and down taxi squad guys: Brewer, Weber, Springs, Stock Low upside guys to dump/outright to AAA: Brice, Covey, Hall, Hart, Walden Dumping the low upside guys plus Puello, Peraza and either Chatham or Arroyo gives them enough room to protect 6-7 guys and pick a rule V guy.
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It's not jaw dropping, but would be very curious as Springs at least had a vague idea of how to get MLB hitters out. Hall just flat out sucked and proved to be an org arm at best since his stuff is so fringy. 88mph out of the pen isn't getting it done when you have no control (10.38 BB/9). Hall's game log is just embarrassing. Not one good outing. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/matt-hall/18076/game-log?position=P&season=
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I agree it would be no big loss, but they need bodies. It's much hard to replace every guy and expect them all to perform better than Brewer/Springs/Weber. You keep those guys around until you are certain that all the guys below them on the depth chart are as good as Brewer/Springs/Weber are. Maybe there's a rule V guy you think has better upside than those 3? Maybe there's a guy another team tries to pass through waivers? That's when you dump those guys. Right now, they got to get rid of the moldy bread before they throw out the stale bread.
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Still a higher winning % than the all time Seattle Mariners mark of .470 (3246-3655). AND the Sox record includes one of the most dreadful of all time seasons in a small sample of 1.37 years. In order for the Mariners to get above .500, they'd have to have a winning percentage of .600 (97 wins per year) for over 12 straight years.
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Brewer's xFIP as a reliever was 3.51. He should have never been put in the position to start.
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As a reliever in regards to the other guys thrown out there, yes. You can't really just dump everyone and expect all your reclamations to work out. You should keep guys like Weber, Mazza, Valdez and Brewer around because their replacements would most likely be worse (as we saw from Triggs, Covey, et al). Springs will probably stick around too. He pitched well until the last week or so.
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At the very least, going to Anderson was a dumb idea as he's not been very effective recently.
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Brewer and Weber were successful (in Sox terms) out of the bullpen. I think they stick around for next year. However, Bloom could dump 20 guys off the 40 man and it wouldn't affect this team's chances all that much.
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Snell is their best pitcher. He was dominating. They deserved to lose after pulling him after only 73 pitches.
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Just flat out ignoring the 5'3" 2b in the room....... Sheesh.
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He could transition to 2b easily.
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DD loves this one.
