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  1. Bellhorn04
    I thought this year's show was the Really Big Tries on Soto and Fried.
  2. Bellhorn04
    They actually look pretty close to me.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Sam didn't actually make any promises about the payroll. He just said it was possible they'd exceed the tax threshold. I don't think they're totally done yet, not that I'm expecting anything especially arousing.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Maybe the MLBTR list of top 50 projected contracts as a starting point, with some tweaks for inflation etc. Like I say, it'd be a dive.
  5. Bellhorn04
    I wonder if we will start seeing more injuries like this. Pitchers are throwing harder, it seems to follow that hitters have to swing harder.
  6. Bellhorn04
    And I think it's unfair to say he "built an expensive mediocre team". The 2019 team was expensive because it included expensive guys who just won 108 games and a World Series. It included hefty arb raises and dead money that DD had nothing to do with. They tried to run it back, as the saying goes, but the pitching fell apart due to injuries, tired arms from 2018 or whatever. The 2019 offense actually scored more runs than the 2018 team. and had a run differential of +73. A lot of the remnants of the 2019 team were on the 2021 team that made it to ALCS Game 6. I think you're a little biased against DD. We all have biases of course.
  7. Bellhorn04
    All you can really do is compare it to other years, but I'm not sure anyone's up for that kind of dive. I've heard a few comments that next year's FA class isn't great, with Vlad Jr. being the top position player.
  8. Bellhorn04
    I think DD is an old school guy who expects to be given mucho control as CBO. Now it seems like the Sox are sort of run by an operations team that prominently includes Sam Kennedy.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Yeah but it was JH who drew a line in the sand with Mookie, so this seems kind of circular.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Are you really up for litigating this all over again? The "payroll mess" IMHO was fully authorized/mandated by John Henry. There were rumors that DD was not being a team player and that seems plausible. But I'd say the clearest reason they fired DD was because they wanted to go in a whole new direction. Subsequent events bear this out.
  11. Bellhorn04
    I don't think so.
  12. Bellhorn04
    You can't really compare the two because they did have very different budgets and mandates. DD got 3 division titles and a ring, for a lot of people that counts big. Hey, they both got fired after the same amount of time, so JH apparently agrees that they were much the same in performance...
  13. Bellhorn04
    They need a lottery system that prevents this kind of thing, because you really can't expect all the teams to be playing to win games that mean nothing like this one.
  14. Bellhorn04
    The Dodgers are kind of writing a new playbook these days. Stockpiling beyond their needs is right.
  15. Bellhorn04
    They need a bunch of stuff to go right. Sound familiar?
  16. Bellhorn04
    This "Casas refused an extension so he might be gone" theory puzzles me a bit. It would be a pretty heavy-handed way to deal with a young player (and of course we don't know much they offered). And Casas's comments about it seemed fine, acknowledging that he had to get better to deserve a better offer. They did already offer him up in trade, of course.
  17. Bellhorn04
    When push comes to shove, I can default to the "too much money for the Sox to pay" argument and feel quite comfortable with it.
  18. Bellhorn04
    My comment was meant to ooze sarcasm aimed at our front office.
  19. Bellhorn04
    The fact is we have Devers, Story, Mayer, Campbell, Grissom and Casas for 4 infield spots, not even counting Hamilton or Romy. Forking out for Bregman is extemely unlikely, IMHO.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Alex is clearly not such a hot commodity. He might be this year's Bellinger/Chapman, another Boras client coming in expecting too much and ending up hung out to dry.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Really dig the name Nazzan, I must say. Nice palindrome!
  22. Bellhorn04
    I don't know, I obviously have very little faith left in the Sox will to expend that kind of money.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Makes some sense baseball-wise, but is it enough to justify a $25 million AAV addition to the payroll for the next 6 years? Especially when the player's fit and value are both just a bit iffy.
  24. Bellhorn04
    That's a lot of N's and Z's to give up!
  25. Bellhorn04
    Yes, it must include defense.
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