Bellhorn04
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How big of an impact on the finances and the quality of the team are the questions.
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That was all about the temporary loophole in the luxury tax rules and subsequent closure of the loophole. If Castillo had been good enough to justify the tax cost, they would have promoted him.
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DD gave up an incredible number of bodies, no question. It still remains to have a final accounting of the actual future baseball value he gave up.
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So you're saying that if you own the Red Sox you're obliged to keep doing ridiculous contracts?
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All true.
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As I said in an earlier post, I think the Red Sox anticipated that Mookie would get something like $400 million. That is virtually double what Price got. But you would need some sort of actuary to measure the relative risk of the two deals.
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In hindsight, sure, those were great picks. But what about projected values at the time? Most big contracts for pitchers are failures, we all know that. Price seemed like one of the surer bets. And he was rather important in the 2018 postseason.
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As I posted earlier, the options to Price were: Greinke Cueto J Zimmerman I'm sure DD would have been showered in praise if he did one of those deals instead!
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My point is this: DD had no choice but to trade prospects for pitching or sign a free agent like Price. And yet he gets bashed for both things by some people.
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That's fair, but the fact is that Dombrowski had no choice but to trade prospects for pitching, yet he gets bashed for it. And he also gets bashed for going the other route and forking out the big dollars for Price. In a sense, he was put into a no-win situation, just like Bloom was this year.
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That may be a proper rule, but sometimes you have to make exceptions. Bloom walked into a hilariously bad state of affairs. No manager, no Sale, no E-Rod, no farm, told to cut payroll, not add it. Forced to trade the team's best player for whatever he could get. Sometimes circumstances have to be looked at.
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That's pretty unfair IMHO. Too much credit to Ben. He left the team with little pitching and some horrible contracts. He was no Theo.
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Spaceman was traded because of a personal vendetta of Don Zimmer's. The team was winning at the time and Bill was coming off a decent season. It was just one of the team's epically stupid moves of the 70's.
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Must be a bullpen game though.
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Best game thread ever!
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Brasier is pitching pretty well lately.
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Chances are less than zero.
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There's no chance we're going to shift to a Rays-level payroll. Zero. It surprises me that anyone thinks Henry would actually go in that direction. He has spent on the team from Day One. He knows who his customers are.
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Probably not, but it depends on the alternatives, too.
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And I think that would have been a disastrously short-sighted approach. And trading him to the Dodgers with thoughts of re-signing him would have been especially foolish.
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I doubt the Dodgers would have much interest in Chavis.
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I totally get that. To me it's all about his health. If I knew he was 100% healthy I'd say it's a reasonable signing. All a moot point anyway, of course.
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It's not a real season. It's 60 games, tops. Some teams won't even play 60. Players have opted out or are missing time because of the pandemic. That's not a real season. If it was a real season, the Red Sox might be more motivated to not suck as much.
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From their inception in 1998 to 2007, it was 10 years of pure unadulterated suck. But from 2008 to 2020, 13 seasons, they will have 6 playoff appearances, assuming they hold on this year. Plus 2 other seasons where they won 90 games but missed the playoffs. I think that's pretty impressive considering their payroll and the fact they're in the same division with the Yankees and Red Sox.
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It's not just wishful thinking. The Rays have been very successful these last few years on a tiny budget. That's a fact.
