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  1. mvp 78
    He's a strong side platoon guy with a great glove on a cheap contract. There's no reason to dump him unless you are getting something really great back (i.e. as part of a TOTR starter trade). People are pining for a RHB to platoon against LHP, but Wilyer would get 2/3's of the starts and give you an 825 OPS with GG defense.
  2. mvp 78
    693 OPS vs RHP and a bad glove = overpaid weak side platoon guy
  3. mvp 78
    This Sox team may be more suited to be a beer leaguer.
  4. mvp 78
    Even going back to before last season, it was clear they were waiting on the big 3 and had all of their eggs in that basket. Again, it's a lot of pressure to put on young players and it's a lot of patience you are forcing upon a beleaguered fanbase.
  5. mvp 78
    If JH isn't the majority owner anymore, why should his opinion determine the direction of the franchise?
  6. mvp 78
    Also, they mentioned on a recent podcast that Musset jumped less due to attrition and more due to what they've heard about him in the offseason and his time spent in Ft Myers. Even with the losses, the 6 additions would've most likely kept fringe guys out of the top 60. Kirwin is a little on the upswing due to what they've heard and his performance at AFL too.
  7. mvp 78
    I believe Musett was in the top 60 at various points during last season.
  8. mvp 78
    If O'Neill was a consistent 2 WAR guy, they would have retained him. His career is just a rollercoaster and he had back to back 2 WAR seasons due to all of his injury issues. As he gets older, those injuries will only get worse IMO. I wouldn't be surprised if '24 was his last decent season. His fielding fell off and he had the second highest amount of games played in his career. If he's being replaced by anyone it's Roman Anthony.
  9. mvp 78
    Agree 100%. They are waiting on some young guys to make a jump and don't want to get stuck in a long term deal on a guy that is blocking a better player (see Masataka Yoshida). They are still stuck in the Boston Red Sox Market Value system of FA rather than what players are actually getting on the FA market. They've been behind for several years now because they are still trying to play Moneyball when they should be playing Dodgerball or something close to it.
  10. mvp 78
    Yankees also had much better depth at Catcher than the Sox. I think clearing up his 40 man roster spot so they could bring in some higher priced players was more important to them than working on a guy whose ceiling is MLB backup Catcher.
  11. mvp 78
    Per FanGraphs, he was worth about 8M in his first stint with the Sox. Clearly, he was overpaid, but we've had much worse contracts.
  12. mvp 78
    Who is we? Abreu is cheap. Moving him was part of a deal to bring back a frontline starter. They made a deal that didn't include Abreu. No reason to move him now. Right now, he's locked in as the everyday RFer. I may be one of the few people not overly concerned about the lefthandedness of the lineup.
  13. mvp 78
    And he only hit 23 the previous two seasons combined. Of his 7 years in MLB, only 3 have had a wRC+ above 100. Sox lucked into a good season with him. Time to move on.
  14. mvp 78
    Agreed. A lot of people just find a reason to complain either way. The Sox are in a bit of a mess of their own making, but simply loading up on one particular FA class won't fix the situation. To me, FA success rate is about 50% so there's a good chance most deals you sign just won't work out.
  15. mvp 78
    Teoscar would've signed for multiple seasons and is a guy who can play 140 games every damn season. It's not an equivalent move.
  16. mvp 78
    Dumping Abreu without adding another OFer aside from Anthony is even wilder than giving O'Neill the QO.
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  18. mvp 78
    He's the most deserving Red Sox to be excluded (aside from Clemens). The Veterans Committee stuff is always very obscure and never pans out the way it should. Makes no sense that it has the ability to enshrine Harold Baines and not more deserving players like Whitaker, Grich and Evans.
  19. mvp 78
    The only one calling him the steal of the winter is you, bub. Others just think he can stick as a backup catcher which isn't exactly high praise if you look at the state of catching across the game.
  20. mvp 78
    Moving Abreu because you signed O'Neill to a one year deal is WILD.
  21. mvp 78
    As a player gets into his 30's, I believe they are more likely to go with long term security over a short term payday like a 30M 1 year proposal. Bregman/Boras is waiting out the market and hoping that another team comes into to beat the Astros offer. It'll be brutal if the Astros pull their offer and he has to take less.
  22. mvp 78
    I'm not sure, but his blocking and framing were bad in both years, but worse in '24. He excelled in CS (92nd percentile) in '23, but fell in '24 (58th percentile). His defensive game fell off in all aspects in '24.
  23. mvp 78
    Man, if we only had an ownership group that cared.... MLB's 2024 revenues: $12.1 billion According to Forbes, Major League Baseball's 2024 revenues were a record $12.1 billion. That's up from $11.6 billion in 2023. Revenues for just the 30 clubs, not including league revenues, were $11.34 billion, or $378 million per club. That number does not include ancillary revenues from things such as real estate/mixed-use development around ballparks such as The Battery in Atlanta, Ballpark Village in St. Louis, and other similar enterprises. Those things are considered non-baseball revenue, even if those developments would not be feasible without baseball games being played in the middle of 'em. Nor does it include revenue from team-owned sports networks like the Yankees' YES Network or the Cubs' Marquee Sports Network.
  24. mvp 78
    That's your worry? I think you're going to need to extrapolate on this as to why "it's not a good sign."
  25. mvp 78
    '24 was his 3rd year in Salem. He's a guy with an unimpressive fastball and nothing jumps off the page at you except for his high BB rate.
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