Bellhorn04

Unfortunately JBJ will have to take a cut to play anywhere next year. He's fading into irrelevancy.

Betts may have been deemed unaffordable no matter what. When they offered him 310 million, maybe they had a ceiling price of 330-340 million in mind. When he came back with 420 million they knew it was adios. John Henry actually said at one point they expected to be able to keep 2 of Betts, Bogaerts & Sale but not all 3. That turned out to be the case.

I really think we can do it.

Mazza vs. Happ It's Mazza's first major league start. Now to the chasing history part, and the reason I was excited to start this thread. The Red Sox have allowed 8 runs or more in 6 straight games. According to Alex Speier, that is a new franchise record. But the really amazing fact from Speier: if the Sox allow 8 runs or more tonight, with a streak of 7 games they will tie the All. Time. Major. League. Record.

In a situation like this, it's virtually impossible to tell if Roenicke is good, bad or indifferent.

Method 3 is a balance of these two, and is actually the one that has been most successful, I believe.

I think we already had it.

Now here is a lock that is not reversible.

Holy crap! These two guys are both built like Marvel super-heroes, but they are fragile as heck. Good call BTW.

It isn't.

It's not that simple. Cheating of various sorts has been part of baseball forever.

I'm not sure that's the way it worked. I think the writing was on the wall when they offered Mookie 310 million and he countered with 420 million.

Truthfully, I watch some Dodgers games simply because a lot of them are broadcast on our sports channels and it's something to watch late at night. Vin was a god, of course.

Don't go out on a limb, man.

Yeah, you know, I thought I might like watching Dodgers games with Mookie, but it's pretty painful, actually.

This roster is in such bad shape I think you just hang onto the actual good players who have time left on their contracts. Trade relievers W/B/H at the deadline. We'll have money to spend in the offseason on pitching. As for this year's team, it's unwatchable for me. Good time for Fenway to be empty, that's for sure.

I'll toast the marshmallows.

They're not going to trade Devers. That would be the ultimate freak-out move.

Very nice.

Quelle surprise!

From Joel Sherman: Giancarlo Stanton going down over the weekend with yet another leg injury merely corroborated the already verified — the Yankees are going to be spending most of this decade working around Stanton. With their roster structurally, and their payroll financially. This is three years in three as a Yankee in which Stanton has incurred lower-half maladies. And these are prime years, ages 28-30. He is signed through 2027 and age 37. In 2020, he could not stay healthy in a shortened season in which he was exclusively a designated hitter and further reconfigured his body to avoid such breakdowns. This is the lamp breaking despite being in bubble wrap, swathed in blankets and handled with care. This time it was a left hamstring strain. In 2018, Stanton played through a hamstring injury, persevering as others went down around him. He could not manage that last season amid the Yankee record spree of IL stints, landing on that list in April 2019 with a biceps strain and in June with a right knee sprain. He played through a calf injury in last year’s postseason that was still problematic enough that he almost certainly would have begun this year on the IL had the season opened as scheduled in March. It began, instead, in late July, and by the second week of August, Stanton — first year in his 30s — is hurt again. He has seven seasons at $218 million left beyond 2020, which by itself would be the 16th-largest contract ever behind — among others — the 13-year, $325 million pact Stanton originally signed with the Marlins.

Looks like the Rays are their real nemesis.

There was never much chance of that.

Stanton to the IL with hammy. Tough time staying healthy.

Exactly. Plus how would burning out a few stiffs harm us next season? It's a mystery on multiple levels.