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The Lackey trade may end up being a historically bad trade. Fortunately, this means we will see more Mookie.
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If Ben could have gotten Skags for Middlebrooks, he would have done it. Trumbo is more valuable because he's stuck in the major leagues, stayed healthy, and actually put up the 35 HR numbers in a given year. WMB has shown flashes but it seems like the longer he sticks, the more quickly he gets exposed. His splits are much deeper as well.
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At best, you're getting back a mid-level prospect for Middlebrooks. Maybe a relief pitcher or mediocre regular. If they platoon him for lefties, he will actually have value for the team, and if he ever figures it out against righties the Red Sox are golden.
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In all fairness, Bard's career was short, but he did dominate major leaguers for most of it.
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WMB's numbers intrigue me. Look at this 2014 line against lefties : .320/.370/.440/.810. That's in a year where he was terrible at the plate. Maybe he's just a platoon option, but those numbers are very good. Worst case scenario, he replaces Gomes's platoon ABs off the bench, which was worth 6 million a year, and highly productive.
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Well, the Phillies's big problem is that they overpaid on Ryan Howard.
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There are players that deserve those contracts though. The 2004 and 2007 championships needed Manny's bat among many others. Pedroia got a long term contract at low AAV, and most believe he is worth it. Pedroia was worth it, and I believe Lester is too. Ellsbury wasn't. Papelbon wasn't. But how often do you find pitchers like Lester? We've been lucky with Roger and Pedro, but who knows the next time we'll see someone like those guys again.
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As in, 2016, not 2015? If the Red Sox made deep playoff runs every other year, and were last place the following year I think I would be okay with that. In theory, that was the plan here, overstock on offense, rebuild the pitching through the offseason, and make a strong run for 2015. We actually might see this scenario in 2015/2016. If they pick up one of those 2016 mlb pitching free agents, they build a team that probably won't be around the following year. 1 starter, Koji (if he decides to play one more year), Ortiz, Cespedes, Victorino, Napoli could all be gone in 2016.
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I hate to say it, but Buchholz is Beckett 2.0. They used to be golf and chicken buddies, they had lockers next to each other, and they're the same player. One day they're getting hammered, the next day they're completely dominant. Buchholz doesn't do the even-odd year phenomenon as well as Beckett did, but he does something similar, with more injuries. I'd give him exactly one start in 2015 to see if he's back to form, and then cut him immediately if necessary.
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I'm a big fan of Lester/Cueto, personally, but Lester/Hamels also works for me. Shields is getting up there in age, and I doubt the Red Sox want him for 4-5 years at that cost.
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Doesn't it seem obvious now that the Red Sox were trying to hide Webster? He dominated the last two years in AAA, but somehow Workman and RDLR got priority over him this year. I'm wondering if maybe his development has been intentionlly slow.
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Yesterday's starter went 2.2 innings, and the bullpen was in tough shape. The earlier you bring in the bullpen, the sooner we have to see Steven Wright. This game was on Buch, not Farrell.
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Fred, you spent all offseason telling everyone that building depth at SS and the outfield was a mistake, and that the Red Sox should go all in with Xander and Bradley. At some point in Spring Training, you started backpedaling on that. You were wrong then, and you recanted your story. That doesn't make you right. Please stop claiming you were right, because you were not. If you want to talk about lessons, here is an important one. Learn to admit when you were wrong, because in baseball it will happen a lot, even for the professionals. Watch this: I was very wrong about David Ortiz being done in 2009. Not the end of the world.
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The real shame is that Buchholz can't get the loss in this game.
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Kinda weird, now that this team is completely out of the playoff hunt, the team is more fun to watch. Well, minus the pitching.
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Ortiz with a big #26
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Of the prospects we've seen up this year, Vazquez is the one who has done what we've expected him to do. It would be great to see him stick around that .700 OPS mark.
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The ESPN crew has been giving Fenway Park a lot of love and focused on the game tonight. Very glad to get a rest from the Jeter swooning.
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Interesting could have meant many things. David Price didn't return generational talent this trade deadline, so that convinces me that there probably wasn't anything available. It sounded like the Orioles balked at offering Gausman or Bundy, and the Dodgers weren't desperate enough to give up one of their guys. The best name I have heard was Josh Bell, who is a top 40 prospect who profiles as an above average RF, but obviously there aren't many details here.
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I was looking at his numbers for his career -- He's averaged around 3.70 pitches per plate appearance over his MLB career, which is a bit below average.
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It seems like every year there is an idiot GM who doesn't understand how the waiver wire works and claims the wrong guy. Remember Vernon Wells? Maybe this year its Buchholz.
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I really like this David Phelps guy. I hope he has a long future with the Yankees.
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Glad to see the nickname Clay "Batting Practice" Buchholz stuck. Hopefully he has a good start and someone claims him on waivers.
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Cueto is in the same class as Lester, maybe Zimmerman too. The rest of the guys are #2/3s. If Lester/Scherzer are on the team next year, getting any of those guys to replace Lackey actually improves the rotation. The question will be whether the team is too cheap to get premium talent or not. Based on what they've said, I can't see them throw out the same rotation we're seeing right now to get creamed.
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I keep posting the list all over the place, but there are a ton of quality pitchers hitting free agency in 2016, and most of them are on teams that can't afford them. Cueto, Latos, Leake, Zimmerman, Samardzija, Gallardo, Medlen, Fister to name a few. It might be one of the best years in a while to trade for pitching. That being said, they need to go out and get one of them and then one of Lester/Scherzer/Shields.
