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  1. Bellhorn04
    Here's a little nugget from the MLBTR report on the Sasaki investigation. As described in The Athletic’s report, clubs around the game felt uncertain about Sasaki’s goals throughout his posting process as teams like the Mariners and Red Sox failed to land a meeting with the 23-year-old while large market teams like the Cubs, Yankees, and Mets did in spite of suggestions that he may prefer to avoid the spotlight. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/01/mlb-conducted-investigation-prior-to-roki-sasakis-posting.html
  2. Bellhorn04
    As far as the Dodgers 2020 title is concerned, it really irks me from a fairness perspective when people try to discount it. They won fair and square under the terms everyone agreed to in an emergency situation. I don't think any Sox fan can say with a straight face that if we won that year it would have an asterisk. I also don't believe there were many who wanted to cancel the season instead of having a shortened one.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Yes, 1967 was fun. But Hugh is telling us all those years of sucking the Yankees fumes were a party too. Because we "had a villain". (Hugh: I'm laying it on a little thick here to make things interesting.)
  4. Bellhorn04
    I know, but this is much different from the international free agent system. This is clearly a bad setup. It should be a draft or bid system of some sort. You can't have mega-rich teams getting a relatively proven elite talent for next to nothing.
  5. Bellhorn04
    I haven't complained about the Dodgers getting Ohtani or Yamamoto, but this Sasaki deal is ridiculous. It's not that they're getting him but they're getting him for peanuts. It's like a handout to them. Someone should have seen this problem coming.
  6. Bellhorn04
    Not sure I buy this at all. If this was true, being a Sox fan would have been wicked good fun during that 16 year stretch from 1949 to 1964 when the Yanks won 14 pennants and 9 rings. But I believe the actual story is that the Sox franchise was really floundering during a lot of that time and it took 1967 to revive interest in the team.
  7. Bellhorn04
    They need to do something to prevent signings like Sasaki from happening again. It's just not right that the Dodgers are getting him for such chicken feed.
  8. Bellhorn04
    To them Freeman was practically a bargain basement guy.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Correct. 14 saves/22 holds/5 blown sales = an actual conversion record of 36/41 which is very good.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Pitching-wise the issue with Chapman is that he loses the plate. He's been averaging 5-6 walks per 9 innings the last 4 seasons. Sox fans will be running for the Rolaids.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Every team does some shopping in the bargain basement. It just seems like the Red Sox do an inordinate amount of it. The bottom line, really, is that when you've been failing for an extended period like the Sox, your methodology is going to come into question.
  12. Bellhorn04
    No repeat winners since 2000 certainly bears that out.
  13. Bellhorn04
    4 WS appearances and 2 titles in the last 8 years seems pretty good to me. But I'm sure they want to do better. It certainly seems like they're trying.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Jansen was 56/64 in save opportunities for us. That's 87.5%. I'd say the gold standard is 90%, but that's pretty hard to do. Rivera's career % was 91.3.
  15. Bellhorn04
    You're right, he's a poor defender. But he's never had an fWAR lower than 2.0 for a full season. His average is 3-4 fWAR. If we're looking at him as a Dodger weakness, we must be pretty desperate.
  16. Bellhorn04
    73.7%. That's not good at all.
  17. Bellhorn04
    "Maybe they're just cheap." Sorry but I am gonna default to that sometimes. Recency Effect is pretty big with relievers, no doubt.
  18. Bellhorn04
    The Dodgers have been in the playoffs 12 years in a row and in 4 of the last 8 World Series. What they're doing is working. And they're set up for plenty more years.
  19. Bellhorn04
    FanGraphs shows Muncy with a 2024 dRAR of +1.3. Their worst defensive guys by far were Teoscar (-14.8) and Freeman (-9.0).
  20. Bellhorn04
    Big additions: Chapman, Hendricks, Whitlock Big subtractions: Jansen, Martin Still not comfortable with the back end options. Hendricks has health/layoff/age questions. They need to sign Scott or Yates or Estevez. They have the money. There's no excuse for not doing it.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Further to that longer leash thing, there are 2 ways to look at it: -The cynic says the money guy gets it because the team doesn't want to admit they wasted the money... -The idealist says the money guy gets it because the team wouldn't have paid him all that money if they didn't think highly of him...
  22. Bellhorn04
    It's never exactly like that, I don't think, but the guy you're paying a lot of money is usually going to get a longer leash...
  23. Bellhorn04
    Hopefully we can get some controversy out of this at least. 😛
  24. Bellhorn04
    Sox owners must be thrilled that the balance of power is shifting so much to the NL.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Getting non tendered by the Giants must have been surprising indeed. Turns out it was a clerical error, they had him mixed up with Pablo. 😉 Actually I had to look it up myself to confirm that Patrick's entire career has been with the Angels.
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