You can score and still have it be a bad call. You can lose and still have made all the right calls. I think you'd know that just because baseball is LOL random.
That's not how any of this works... I'm sorry. You can't say "he was worth $12M" if no team on Earth would pay that. He was worth $12M to Fangraphs, but definitely not $12M to the Sox.
I think so too. I think people are being very biased when they say the ONLY reason Pom is in the rotation is due to his contract. Were these people not watching the Sox last year or just have short memories? That dude is valuable as hell when he's on his game.
The last time Pedroia had a higher season WAR than Kinsler was 2013. How about that undermarket contract! Maybe we could trade Pedroia for a few random minor league arms too.
Johnson doesn't have Pom's upside and has never had a season like Pom had just last year.
It's funny. If Johnson goes 4 2/3's and gives up 2 runs, it's a nice start. If Pom goes 5 2/3's and gives up 2 runs, it's a poor start and he should be out of the rotation.
Not shown squat for years? Vaz didn't have a 700+ OPS season until he was 27. Blake had one at 23 when most people thought he should still be in the minors getting seasoning. Blake had a 5.9 dWAR in 2015 which is better than half of Vaz's seasons.
I don't put a lot of stock in recent small samples, but Vaz's entire 2018 is concerning. He's been kinda bad. If you can't admit that, I don't know what to say.