Bellhorn04
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Kind of a tenuous correlation. We're talking about a potential 10 year, 350 million investment to win a bidding war for him. That will be a large and difficult decision either way, and not one that I think will be influenced much by our currently weak farm.
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True, but OTOH he had a quarter billion to spend on Pablo, Hanley and Rusney.
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The point is, when we consider Ben's success at building the farm, I think Moncada belongs in a separate category. He was a $63 million outlay that not many teams would have been able to make.
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There were several others too. The posting system for international players was another thing that favored the big money teams like us, and it's gone now.
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Except there aren't a lot that cost $63 million to acquire.
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You could even make a pretty good case that Moncada was more like a free agent signing, similar to Castillo, except a hit instead of a miss.
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It's OK for us armchair GM's to be wrong on stuff, Slash. It's a different story for the real ones.
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Ben did a great job signing Moncada, but let's not forget that was a bidding system and the Red Sox paid 63 million for him. I don't think that system exists anymore.
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You left out Castillo.
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Stanton looks like an albatross in the making. The guy can't stay healthy.
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2019 ALCS: Houston Astros vs New York Yankees
Bellhorn04 replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Other Baseball
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2019 ALCS: Houston Astros vs New York Yankees
Bellhorn04 replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Other Baseball
Boone and Ottavino are taking their lumps from the Yankee faithful on their forum. The negativity there is actually mind-boggling. -
The opt out/in date for JD is 5 days after the WS ends.
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Yes, he turned down 8 years and 200 million. But that is likely only 60-65% of what he eventually gets.
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I understand the sentiment 100%. Adding to it is the fact that Harper turned down a totally legit offer from the Nats.
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You may have noticed that some posters on this forum find the fact that our rankings sank to the bottom meaningful too. Maybe you've seen the word 'decimated' a time or too?
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Baseball America moved us to #22 on their end of season rankings.
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No fair voting 3 day old posts as Post of the Day.
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Two of the guys JBJ often gets compared to are Kiermaier and Pillar. 2019 OPS JBJ .738 Pillar .735 Kiermaier .676
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I agree, because starting pitching with any MLB pedigree at all is still a precious commodity. If you sign a guy like Eovaldi for a low cost you might catch lightning in a bottle. If not, 5 mill won't kill you.
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And I don't even necessarily disagree with that.
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I doubt that.
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JBJ will be a starter somewhere next year. He's not a 4th outfielder. Maybe in a few years he will be.
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I wouldn't think either JDM or JBJ would bring back much in trade, unless we're eating money.
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All that would be great for the farm ranking, sure.
