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  1. mvp 78
    If you want to try to compare pitchers on the same team over the course of the same season, you could TRY to make an argument. You can't base an argument between two vastly different seasons when the rosters turned over though.
  2. mvp 78
    https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/rusney-castillo Thanks to changes made in the new collective bargaining agreement, the Red Sox would have the average annual value of Castillo’s contract (around $10.4MM) counted on their luxury tax calculations through the end of the outfielder’s deal in 2020, even if they called up Castillo for even just one day or dealt him to another deal and ate part of the salary obligations. Great job with that CBA guys! Tony Clark is a real deals maker!
  3. mvp 78
    I wouldn't give up Beeks for Herrera. They have a bunch of young bullpen profile arms to deal though. They have bullpen depth, not starting pitching depth.
  4. mvp 78
    Even Air Bud had to die. RIP Buddy Fram!
  5. mvp 78
    2015: 910 OPS from August 15th on Passed balls are just one metric and I'm not sure many other catchers had to primarily deal with a knuckler. I think Swihart could be Jason Kendall 2.0. s***, he has a similar toolkit to Craig Biggio. That guy was ok.
  6. mvp 78
    Just reminds me of the commercial from the 80's: "more hair down the drain..." Should have sold high!
  7. mvp 78
    Exactly. And I'd rather Devers than Nunez 9 out of 10 times.
  8. mvp 78
    SoxProspects compared it to 2011 before the Betts draft. I'm sure they still have some guys they could move for Herrera, but you may have to give up Johnson and Hembree.
  9. mvp 78
    He's a UFA this offseason. I don't think he's going to command a king's ransom.
  10. mvp 78
    So now it's just common knowledge that he won't be worth the contract? Great! I guess people must have been on my side all along then about trading Pedroia!
  11. mvp 78
    Herrera would be a good get. In the playoffs, teams go to the pen earlier and earlier. Need to fill it with dominant arms.
  12. mvp 78
    They tried to convert him because his bat was so great that they wanted to keep him in the lineup when he wasn't taking a battering behind the plate. They originally saw Vaz as the #1 and Blake as the backup with versatility to play elsewhere. If they were all in on converting him because he was so terrible, why did 93% of his starts at AAA last year feature him at C?
  13. mvp 78
    I don't live in a fantasy world.
  14. mvp 78
    We've seen him hit. He just needs to adjust like every player before him has had to.
  15. mvp 78
    Then he should stick to sports?
  16. mvp 78
    Team ERA??? Don't bring that s*** in here! *wags finger* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoHXKj36o_E
  17. mvp 78
    Did you know that the pitching staff in 2015 wasn't the same as the pitching staff in 2016? Miley/Porcello/Clay/Kelly/ERod Price/Porcello/Wright/ERod/Clay-Pom If only Swihart could've caught Price and Wright in 2016! ERod's numbers were actually better in 2015 too!
  18. mvp 78
    Fangraphs or GTFO. https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=13176&position=C
  19. mvp 78
    He was a great player. I just don't see him being close to that player going forward. I think Sox fans have deified him over the years. In a recent gamethread, I stated that Altuve is the player Sox fans think Pedroia is or was (he's a destroyah, kid). If playing 100% means diving into 1b for no reason, then Pedroia definitely did that. He always had a dirty uniform whether it needed to be or not. He was a short white guy who looked like he played a full 9 innings 162 games a year (even though that wasn't necessarily the case). Boston ate it up. He was very valuable through 2013 and had a surprising resurgence in 2016. 3 of the last 4 years haven't been worth the money though.
  20. mvp 78
    Baseball America had him much lower than other publications. The SoxProspects podcast mentioned that others had him closer to the 60's (Law, ESPN, MLB, fangraphs).
  21. mvp 78
    Also, the Sox are a fairly young team. They don't need guys up in BOS in the short term.
  22. mvp 78
    Because they've mainly selected college pitchers and hitters the past few years. They needed to stock up on young guys with high upside bats. Their farm system has a severe lack of power and they are trying to correct it.
  23. mvp 78
    I lost respect for Damon after the Red Sox claimed him off waivers in 2010 and he refused to come back.
  24. mvp 78
    I don't know. This seems more like personal perception more than anything else. I don't believe he's a huge charity guy or at least no more than any other player.
  25. mvp 78
    But he was a DIRT DOGTM!
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