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  1. mvp 78
    Well, do you believe in his first month of production and that he dropped off due to in season injury? How do you feel about his winter ball results? What about him putting on a lot of good weight this offseason? I can't convince myself yet either.
  2. mvp 78
    Found the real delulu.
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    With how JH is currently spending, I don't see it either. Kind of a shame. I think they may have to splurge at some point and push the envelope.
  4. mvp 78
    Even if they trade an OFer, I doubt he's on the Opening Day roster. I could see them calling him up for a part time roll in the second half.
  5. mvp 78
    Never OPS'd above 800 at AAA before. He's just an org guy TBH. Bench bat for WOO if Eaton is there.
  6. mvp 78
    Maybe?
  7. mvp 78
    I've written all of them off.
  8. mvp 78
    The problem with Azocar was that he was going oppo too much and Salem was just eating him alive (terrible park). If he can just pull the ball more, he'll do fine. Not very worried about the slight increase in k% for now.
  9. mvp 78
    I was worried that I was going to have to do a wellness check at one point.
  10. mvp 78
    It's Eaton & Hamilton both on the roster with one of them getting demoted once Campbell gets a midseason callup.
  11. mvp 78
    I believe the drop in spots affects the overall draft capital to spend on picks which is a bigger issue.
  12. mvp 78
    Moran had one good season in '22. Hard to rely on that really. They do have Harrison (for now), Mullins, Sameniego and Drohan to move through the bullpen too. Unsigned LHP relievers: Justin Wilson Danny Coulombe Andrew Chafin Jalen Beeks Brent Suter Joey Lucchesi and a lot of also rans The best unsigned reliever left may be RHP Seranthony Dominguez. May be out of the Sox price range.
  13. mvp 78
    Wilson signed for 2M last season. Not sure he'd break the bank this year.
  14. mvp 78
    He had 2/80 in hand and opted out for only an additional 3/45?
  15. mvp 78
    It is arbitrary as in the Sox could spend above the 2nd threshold if they wanted to. Other teams spend above that threshold and continue to be competitive. It's not a death knell to an organization. The only retained salary affecting CBT is 2M for Devers. There is nothing for Sale that affects CBT currently. CBT is A measure.
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    But you can't truly say the Sox spent the 7th most in MLB. A lot of it is made up of contracts that have yet to mature (Bello, Anthony) and the Sox have shown that they may just trade those players rather than ultimately pay them. They have signed them to contracts, but they have not paid them in full.
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    And we don't really know how relevant each are to JH. Maybe the cash spend is hugely important and maybe not. Maybe the CBT is ultimately the most important nut the Sox are trying to crack right now. My only real point was that the CBT wasn't true "spending." The true "spending" was the cash coming out. The CBT calculation is just made up nonsense MLB negotiated with the union. It's ultimately meaningless and can be changed next season. It's not real. It's just there to presumably for competitive balance, but the Dodgers are in the playoffs year in and a year out no matter what.
  20. mvp 78
    And it wouldn't look pretty either.
  21. mvp 78
    With how he remade the pitching dev here, a few of the smaller orgs would dump their CBO's/GM's to sign him to a POBO/CBO position for their org.
  22. mvp 78
    We are ONLY looking at CBT because it's a CBT threshold that is where an arbitrary budget line in the sand has been made.
  23. mvp 78
    That's not true either. The CBT isn't about spending, it's about AAV. Spending IS cash. AAV has little to do with actual spending. For example: Bregman: paid 20M in '25, 31.6M tax hit Bello: paid 2.5M in '25, 9.2M tax hit Rafaela: paid 1M, 6.2M tax hit Pedroia: paid 2.5M, 0 tax hit Manny: paid 2M, 0 tax hit
  24. mvp 78
    What's the benefit of paying him 18M to have a 100 wRC+ ceiling and only be able to DH? Sox would be better off DFA'ing him.
  25. mvp 78
    For his '23-'24 DH split, his OPS ranks 17th, behind McCutchen, Turner, JD and too close to Daniel Vogelbach for my liking. Not too many guys below him are legitimate players going forward. If you add in '25, he falls to 34th. It's just not a good DH bat.
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