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  1. mvp 78
    With Masa still on the squad, it wasn't a perfect fit for the next few years. JD was still valuable enough that you could have spun him in a trade prior to '22 and fit Schwarber just fine. Or just faked Schwarber for a year at 1B before letting him DH for 23-25. Once he signed with DD in PHI, I don't think he was ever going to come back to BOS. It would have been cool, but not an option I took seriously.
  2. mvp 78
    No.
  3. mvp 78
    Settle down. I think we need to move on and chill out with the dumb personal attacks. Thanks.
  4. mvp 78
    I would trade Masa and Sandlin just to clear up the roster nonsense. Duran, prospect and Hicks for Donovan is a big time loser of a trade.
  5. mvp 78
    It was that sneak Bloom and his cowardly scouts who refuse to stand up and be counted.
  6. mvp 78
    They just keep these dumb revolving doors because they refuse to sign the right guys in FA. SS - Dansby Swanson 2023 (would have solved the MIF situation for a long time) DH - Kyle Schwarber 2022 (everyone knows this) SP - Kevin Gausman 2022 (instead of a lot of garbage they put through the rotation 22-25) These are three guys we were all calling for on here.
  7. mvp 78
    Not Bloom's fault though. He needed to do it! How could he have known that Duran, Abreu, Rafaela, Verdugo, Refsnyder and Duvall would have all been available to him at the end of the year? More important to since an obscene contract for a Japanese LHB DH to play LF in Fenway. He must have been on a Whistle Pig bender that week.
  8. mvp 78
    If they were even considering moving Duran, we would have heard about it by now. The Sox have had so much turmoil in the MIF since 2022, but not a peep about trying Duran there. It's just not going to happen.
  9. mvp 78
    Where the WS teams ranked in Regular Season OBP/HR 2025: LAD 2/5, TOR 1/13 2024: LAD 2/3, NYY 3/1 2023: TEX 3/4, ARZ 14/22 2022: HOU 7/4, PHI 11/6 2021: ATL 12/3, HOU 3/9 2020: LAD 5/1, TBR 11/14 2019: WSH 2/13, HOU 1/3 2018: BOS 1/9, LAD 5/2 2017: HOU 1/2, LAD 6/11 2016: CHC 2/13, 8/18 13 of 20 teams were better OBP teams than HR teams (though some are arguably too close to call different). 7 of 10 WS winners were better OBP teams than HR teams. 8 were significantly better OBP teams than HR teams (5+ spots). 2 were significantly better HR teams than OBP teams. I think looking at regular season stats makes more sense as it gets rid of SSS noise (i.e. one team has a game where they go bonkers and win in a unique way). What we do see is that only two teams weren't top 10 in either category. 13 teams were top 5 in at least one category. Average OBP ranking was 5. Average HR ranking was 8.
  10. mvp 78
    As TalkSox's POTY 18 years running, I'm incapable of holding any meaningful conversation. 😎
  11. mvp 78
    He has options, but we don't know if his contract allows him to be sent to AAA for anything aside from an IL stint TBH.
  12. mvp 78
    No.
  13. mvp 78
    Duran at 2b is like Plan Z. So many things have to go weirdly wrong for that to happen.
  14. mvp 78
    Internally, they didn't believe there was a real offer from the Cubs.
  15. mvp 78
    I think it depends on what the pricetag is TBH. We're getting near the end of FA and he's still available. Is he now a 15M guy? 3/45? Two years at 3b and DH the final year?
  16. mvp 78
    I think if the Sox got Bregman on the Cubs deal, we would have been fine with it. At least we'd know where the lineup kinda stands.
  17. mvp 78
    Honestly, I don't believe the Betts story has changed all that much. The only thing that we ever heard later on was "we offered him 300M" and "no they did not."
  18. mvp 78
    July 31 would have been fine.
  19. mvp 78
    Pass. He got his translator put in jail. I'm not taking the fall for him.
  20. mvp 78
    What are the Betts changes exactly?
  21. mvp 78
    That's where he plays now and their taxes are pretty high, so his contract ultimately is impacted by CA law.
  22. mvp 78
    Agreed. I also agree that we can't just blame "Breslow." If you're mad, just blame the FO as a whole. It's too hard to parse out who made what decision with all the cooks in the kitchen.
  23. mvp 78
    With CA, I believe he's getting taxed the 2M now, but will move out of state once the big payments kick in. At that point, he won't be taxed at the higher CA tax rate unless the law is changed. (It failed the last time a SF Giants fan tried to push it through https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240sjr14 ) He's getting enough endorsement $$$ so he's not exactly hurting for cash in the meatime.
  24. mvp 78
    Bloom got grief not for bidding against himself on Masa, but picking the wrong player. Nobody else in the league was even in the conversation on the guy. All the unnamed scouts at the time laughed at the deal. We were hopeful they were wrong. They weren't.
  25. mvp 78
    I wonder if the Sox and Cubs offered the same amount, if he still went to the Cubs because of the no trade stipulation. Would he take a certain amount less AND a no trade clause? IDK. It was reported that he wanted this to be his last contract and that it was important that he didn't have to disrupt his family again.
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