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I agree with this too.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/baseballs-rainmaker-forced-out-after-alleged-misconduct-1513882805?mod=e2tw Major League Baseball forced out the architect of its multibillion-dollar digital-media business last month, after years of troubling workplace behavior that former baseball executives were said to be made aware of at least a decade ago. Other forces were at work, people familiar with the situation say. Bowman verbally abused a coworker in October, prompting Manfred to push him out, these people say. That was preceded by a July incident in which Bowman allegedly shoved an executive with the group that owns the Boston Red Sox. People familiar with Bowman say he engaged in a pattern of behavior that included propositioning female colleagues, allegedly conducting consensual relationships with subordinate coworkers and cultivating a culture of partying and heavy drinking with employees outside the office. At least 10 years ago, former MLB president and chief operating officer Bob DuPuy was told of concerns about Bowman’s behavior by BAM employees and raised them with former MLB commissioner Bud Selig, according to people familiar with the situation. DuPuy would not comment and referred questions to MLB. “What he gave in heartburn was always overshadowed by what he gave in money,” said a former high-ranking baseball official. This person said DuPuy raised longstanding concerns about Bowman but, “Bud had no interest in dealing with it.” During the week of the All-Star Game in July 2016 in San Diego, MLB Advanced Media hosted a party at which women were allegedly hired to entertain attendees, according to two people who attended. These people said the women, who arrived at the party by bus, were widely believed by attendees to be escorts. Some of them were heard encouraging attendees to leave to have sex quickly so that they could return to solicit another attendee before the party was over, according to one person who was there. Manfred said he had no knowledge of the alleged escorts. But he felt MLB Advanced Media’s parties were inappropriate and, after the one in 2016, he said, he adopted a policy that MLB Advanced Media would not host any parties independent of the league office. In the early 2000s, Bowman was standing with two female subordinates in BAM’s offices, a person familiar with Bowman said. To the women’s faces and within earshot of other BAM employees, Bowman referred to the women as “c___s.” Under Bowman’s leadership, MLB Advanced Media grew into one of baseball’s biggest success stories. The company operates MLB’s website and popular mobile app as well the league’s online streaming service, MLB.tv. In early 2010 Bowman considered running for governor of Michigan. In mid-February of that year he said he’d decided against it, saying, “for many reasons I am just not able to commit to run at this time,” according to the Associated Press.

Batted 4th and 5th all year??? http://www.fangraphs.com/statsd.aspx?playerid=8001&position=SS Seems like he definitely played himself into a 7 spot in the order towards the end of the season when he was either 6th or later 10 times after August 28.

There's no log jam. If they sign JD, Hanley is being waived.

Boggs hated it.

Stanton didn't want to come here so it doesn't matter.

Yes, when the Sox got more home run hitters more home runs were hit at Fenway. Good analysis.

When I've looked into it, almost everyone on TS hated or didn't understand the Pablo signing.

Huh? If his elbow is that bad, he's not opting out tho?

Bogey was injured most of the season. He should be more like 2016 going forward when healthy. Hanley is a big question mark due to his ongoing shoulder injury. JBJ is just a guy who is has one very hot 30 day period each year and then hits worse the rest of the year.

Nobody thought Pablo or Hanley would be big draws except for the Sox FO. Maybe they though they'd sell enough panda hats?

Where have you seen that they definitely do not? I couldn't find anything conclusive.

The Boston Red Sox did not take out an insurance policy on Pablo Sandoval's contract, Tom Werner told WEEI's Ordway, Merloni & Fauria this week. "No, we do not," said the chairman when asked if the team had insurance on Sandoval's shoulder. "I've been listening on the radio, and the fact is that it's a case by case basis. We have insurance on some players, not all players. Collecting on insurance is not the easiest thing. You have the debate about how much insurance, and when do you collect? So we do it on a case by case basis, and we did not do it with Pablo." And If David Price’s elbow goes, it’s possible the Red Sox could recoup some of their investment via an insurance policy — if they indeed took one. They don’t usually like to, as Red Sox president Sam Kennedy explained on the CSNNE Baseball Show podcast. “The cost-benefit usually isn’t there. It’s incredibly expensive,” Kennedy said of insurance policies. “And there’s certain things that have to trigger the payment vis a vis the player when they get hurt. So, it typically doesn’t make sense. “On some occasions it does, but it’s usually too costly and clubs don’t often insure big contracts because it’s hard to recoup based upon how many days the guys are on the DL so on and so forth. There’s a reason why the insurance business is a very profitable industry.” Kennedy likened the insurance policies to gambling. “It’s like walking into a casino, and saying, well, how did they build this place?” Kennedy said. “Well, they didn’t build it with your winnings. It’s something that we don’t have a policy either against it or for it, but we’ve looked at it in just about every case or occasion and most times we walk away and we’ve not done it.” I'm not sure if the Sox have confirmed if they paid for insurance on Price or not.

I think it would be better for them to cap the top salary at something like $40M and adjust all WAR $ values from there. If the best player was 8 WAR, you'd give 5M for 1 WAR. That way, you wouldn't have Judge showing a value of $66M. I just don't think the market could bear a $60M salary right now. When your output is that screwy, fix your equation.

https://www.fangraphs.com/depthcharts.aspx?position=Standings Interesting that the Tribune has the Sox offense seeing positive regression in 2018 with the Yankees showing negative regression...

Speak it brother Moon!

Thanks Giancarlo! Since he didn't want to come here in the first place.

You can't separate the good moves from the bad moves. Ben and Theo should have put their foot down if they were against the bad moves. Neither have come out after the fact and said "I didn't want to do that." Theo just said he felt had to feed the monster and gave in to it.

Sounds like a weasel word to me.

All praise to the Fangraphs Tribune! Praise! Praise! Shout Hosanna!

Your arbitrary starting and ending dates are completely silly tho. That's probably the worst way to look at anything ever.

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Pretend money. Stanton was "worth" $55.5M last year. Talk about a franchise crippling deal!

But then you are thinning out your prospect pool?

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