mvp 78
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I don't think Theo will be cooking, but letting Theo being the sounding board for Crag. Maybe Crag gets more of a chance to run with stuff and can work directly with Theo rather than having to worry about going to Henry? IDK. It's hard to know what the inner workings will be. I doubt Theo will be doing any day to day stuff aside from Executive Mgmt.
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I think the budget is supposed to be 215M, or that is what was suggested. Cots has them at 190M as of today.
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And then Henry passing the buck if it fails after the fact. "It was them, not me."
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@tylermilliken_ . @keithlaw with some serious praise for Yoeilin Cespedes in his Red Sox farm system rankings: “Cespedes might be their next superstar hitting prospect if what we saw in the DSL carries over to the US.” Some view him as the best bat since Devers to come through the DSL.
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I think Abreu at 5 is high, but he showed a lot in his big league debut. Who knows? Maybe he continues to impress? Hamilton is probably about right because of his success at AAA and his overall running game. He probably could settle in as a bench spot somewhere in MLB. He seems to have a high floor because of that one tool.
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The biggest fault we saw last year was that nearly every pitcher sucked once they got to AAA. The AAA catchers were all awful (Scott, Afaro, Hamilton, Hernandez). This year, they are going with some defensive first guys that can actually work with the pitchers and help them develop (Perez, Heineman, Kolozsvary). They also have new pitching and bullpen coaches for AAA in '24. For reference, there were no changes for the pitching coaches at Portland or Greenville.
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They had a really great thing going under Theo, but trashed the whole enterprise after one bad season. It was the dumbest decision Henry ever made. He should have overpaid to keep Theo around and kept Tito as well. Ben single handedly set the org back 5 years with his bad drafting and IFA shenanigans. After a season and a half of bad baseball, Henry decided Ben's build from within approach didn't work (even though we saw additions of Xander, Mookie, JBJ, etc.). DD came in and used all the leftover assets to make a push to compete at the MLB level and ignore the farm. This blew up everything that Theo had originally built. Expecting Bloom to come in and fix the farm while competing was kind of foolish. The farm depth has gotten better, but the pitching is still a mess. I'm hopeful that Crag can push the pitching development forward and that the org is back to what it was in the Theo days. You're right, it's like Henry is bipolar or whatever. He just needs to stay out of it IMO. There are too many voices in the FO. Maybe that settles down now that it's Theo and Crag?
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I agree, it's just why some evaluators may have him higher than the prospects we like. It just seems like an impossible task for someone to have to rank every 40 FV prospect from every team. Even if that's your full time job, that's a herculean task. Some of the quibbles with Kiley: Castro is LOW I'd have Garcia higher Arias at 15??? Brannon at 16 ahead of Garcia???
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Probably 75% this season and 25% the future of the ballclub, as in how most fans apportion their feelings towards what they care about.
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They have sold us on sustainability since the Theo days. We're still waiting on that pipeline to be built. We're past the point of "a couple of bad seasons" when it's 4 of 5 seasons below .500 potentially. Sox haven't been this bad since before 1967!!! The dark days that everyone talked about pre-Impossible Dream are back. They knew a tear down was coming. It should have happened completely and suddenly, not over the course of 4-5 seasons. Just rip the band-aid off. The roster doesn't "suck" but it's not good enough to be a playoff team. It's good enough to be around .500. That's fine for the Marlins, not for the Red Sox.
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Matt Dermody?
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The thing with Blaze is that he'll be 21 this year. He's very young as he was drafted as a 17 year old. He still has time to develop the monster power people anticipated. Best fit for him going forward may be LF though. He had an 899 OPS vs LHP in AA. I'm not super high on him, but he still has a ceiling he can get to.
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Trade Duran for prospects maybe? I’d consider it.
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I agree that SD has no SP. They aren’t trading MLB SP for Duran.
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The control overinflated his value.
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Gets hit hard. 33rd percentile xERA. 8th Hard Hit%. 27th xSLG. His Statcast is as blue as papa smurf.
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Jacques has the better GB rate. Would be unbelievable to DFA him for Montgomery or Snell!
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Woweee!
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That trade sucks. You're trading at top 10 prospect, plus your two best starting pitching prospects to get a guy with #2 ceiling?
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Can't give up on Jacques. Excellent Barrel %!
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BTV accepts: Jansen for Castellanos Strahm 40M
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@ArcainiLuke David Vassegh said the Phillies are in “active talks” with the Red Sox regarding Kenley Jansen, via his podcast. Kenley Jansen makes $16M per year. The Phillies should consider trading Taijuan Walker to the Red Sox and then go sign one of Blake Snell/Jordan Montgomery.
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He's that RHB OFer we've been waiting for!
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Nitido.
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@MacCerullo The Red Sox have announced their complete broadcast schedule for spring training, which won't include as many televised games as last year. https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/02/09/red-sox-announce-spring-training-broadcast-schedule/
