mvp 78

Not yet!

Sox are reportedly interested in Soler too. I would rather Teoscar. Soler has had some really horrible seasons recently and he's probably a DH only guy IMO.

Luis Robert needs to be rescued from that Purgatory.

Probably lateral move. He's not playing CF.

Crag is not attached to these prospects and has made a few trades already. I'd be more concerned about the $$$ constraints.

I don't see them bringing in 2 more pitchers. One? Sure.

They initially made money by spending money. Now they are going to make money by saving money. Fun! "It's a bold strategy Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em."

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/wall-ball-for-all-examining-the-new-righty-red-sox/ This is saying what we’re all thinking: if you hit the ball hard enough, Fenway doesn’t help much. If you hit the ball low, Fenway doesn’t help much. If you hit it fairly hard and fairly high, you’re looking at a parade of doubles and homers instead of lazy outs. O’Neill doesn’t hit as many of those balls as you’d think. In his career, he’s hit 15 more Fenway-friendly batted balls than your average right-handed hitter would have based on his number of balls in play, but after you add in all his non-contact events – he either strikes out or walks fairly often – it’s a negligible amount. Relative to your average right-handed hitter, O’Neill isn’t getting much of a Fenway boost; it’s on the order of four extra batted balls a year hit where the park hands out extra-base hits. On the flip side, he also hits the ball hard and low more often than your average hitter; call that three batted balls a year. And these estimates are for if O’Neill played every game at Fenway. I don’t think he’ll be a huge beneficiary of the park, in other words. That could have been where my analysis left off, except that the Sox turned around and traded for Vaughn Grissom. Now this is the kind of guy who seems like a good fit for Fenway, I told myself. He doesn’t strike out very frequently, which means more balls in play. He has average power, which means fewer screamers that Fenway either does nothing for (no-doubt high homers are still gone) or hurts (a missile off the wall). When he puts the ball in the air, he pulls it fairly often. That’s not to say the Grissom is a perfect fit. He hits more grounders than you’d like for a player who should be taking advantage of a unique stadium. But that’s fixable. Grissom has never played in Fenway before, so it never made much sense for him to develop a swing perfectly tailored for the park. He has tremendous bat control, which suggests to me that he has more ability than your average player to change his batted ball mix. One final aside: while researching O’Neill’s batted ball mix, I decided to figure out which player would be the most Fenway-optimized hitter in baseball. To no one’s surprise, that’d be Isaac Paredes. He makes a living on those lofted pulled fly balls that are decently struck. Per 600-PA season, he hits nearly three times as many balls that Fenway boosts as your average righty.

I didn't say Steamer was a stat GOOBER. I said there was an exception to almost EVERYTHING. Nice to know that you couldn't help yourself with another post though....

I have no control over the Juggernaut. He just wants to run people over.

At least there are less divisional games now!

Tampa also lost Franco. I think NY will add another pitcher. Not sure what TOR will do.

It's a mild upgrade. It helps out the bullpen, but doesn't help out the overall team in a meaningful way. Team still feels like last year if not worse. Need young guys to step up and be difference makers.

2023 CHW: 29th Batting fWAR 29th in DRS 4 of their top 6 SP's are no longer in the org: Giolito, Clevinger, Lynn, Urena. That team is going to be a dumpster fire this year. Maybe even worse than the A's.

Cease: 88 tOPS+ at Fenway! 54 tOPS+ caught by McGuire!!!

I'm getting them out of the way so that I can root them on to go 162-0.

"This is the only place in the world that ever vaguely supported Bloom!" *Points to SOSH, Twitter, SoxProspects, etc.*

I hope the crowd tears him apart. I know he grew up in the area and loves the Sox, but...

Bet.

Signing International Free Agent non pitchers to trade later on.

Watch out for those washing machines. Step sisters and step moms are always getting stuck in them!

Good to know that you'll have reason to complain no matter what.

This is true!

SOME pitchers may look worse under a certain metric or stat, but we were talking specifically about your obsession with Michael Wacha, not the near HOF talent Mark Buehrle. There is an exception to almost everything. For example, Steamer typically does an ok job at projecting stats for the following year, but what does it project Wacha to throw 156 Innings when that bum hasn't thrown over 135 innings since 2017?!?!? He's going to pull 4 additional starts out of his ass when he hasn't done so the previous 6 seasons?!?!?! Wild!

It was the best of posts, it was the worst of posts.