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  1. mvp 78
    Hardly the same category? Refsnyder played OF throughout his time in MiLB and prior to coming to BOS. Arroyo hadn't played a single professional inning in the OF before Opening Day in '23. Ref played 20-35 games every year. Fine. Arroyo playing 17 games was crazy.
  2. mvp 78
    Huh? They tried converting him to a RFer in '22! He played it on Opening Day! He was out there 17 times before the ASB.
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  4. mvp 78
    Yeah, they look at the young arms in AAA and just believe they'll get better innings out of them for less money than what is left in FA right now. I think they'd like Wilson back, but he wants a larger deal to come back and is leaning towards retirement.
  5. mvp 78
    7 times at Fenway.
  6. mvp 78
    If only.
  7. mvp 78
    He's now doing a "I'm really a nice guy" PR campaign.
  8. mvp 78
    Fenway's unique RF issues never stopped Cora from throwing Refsnyder out there.
  9. mvp 78
    Here's what you missed: Bad trade conversations. Luxury Tax Payroll vs Cash Payroll Supremacy Did Breslow botch the Bregman deal? A TalkSox Investigation
  10. mvp 78
    But adding Hicks gets John Henry salary relief.
  11. mvp 78
    I don't remember Sonny Gray being someone everyone was clambering for on here.
  12. 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.
  13. mvp 78
    No.
  14. mvp 78
    Settle down. I think we need to move on and chill out with the dumb personal attacks. Thanks.
  15. 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.
  16. mvp 78
    It was that sneak Bloom and his cowardly scouts who refuse to stand up and be counted.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. mvp 78
    As TalkSox's POTY 18 years running, I'm incapable of holding any meaningful conversation. 😎
  22. 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.
  23. mvp 78
    No.
  24. mvp 78
    Duran at 2b is like Plan Z. So many things have to go weirdly wrong for that to happen.
  25. mvp 78
    Internally, they didn't believe there was a real offer from the Cubs.
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