Bellhorn04
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Who knows. Larry was an integral part of the front office from 2002 until his departure and he probably made more good moves than bad. He brought Theo Epstein aboard. He helped engineer the Dodgers trade. Bottom line is, Sox fans should be happy the way everything has played out since 2002. There's been some weird stuff and blunders and all that, but the overall record has been fantastic.
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I would expect Larry was the driving force behind Pablo. But if he was the driving force behind both, Ben was in such a weak position that honestly he should have quit.
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I think that would vary from player to player. My sense was that Jon Lester did not appreciate being traded. But he seemed to give the Sox a legitimate chance to re-sign him. Theo 'overpaid' by 20 million to sign him.
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I've seen a lot of those baseball documentaries. The one about the 1941 season is a classic. DiMaggio's 56 game streak and Ted Williams's .406 season. The clips of Williams when he was The Kid are amazing.
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Personally I think it says a lot that Ben has not taken another job as GM. It's been over 3 years now. My belief is that he prefers a lower profile position. He strikes me as a pretty low key guy.
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For comparison's sake, Theo Epstein is the president of the Cubs and Jed Hoyer is the GM. Ben didn't want to play the Jed Hoyer role.
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I'd prefer that Betts goes nowhere.
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He wasn't fired, but he was effectively demoted. It's not surprising that he quit.
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I think Ben should get most of the credit for 2013, and I think Dombrowski should get a lot of the credit for 2018. I know you feel differently. That's fine of course, we're all entitled to our opinions.
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And 2013 was more Theo's than Ben's?
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And where'd you get the $5mill per WAR?
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Well, I think it's just about the 10th anniversary of their Teixeira swoop.
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Where did you get the $28mill number from?
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Price's postseason heroics should add something to any evaluation of his 2018 season. These are real games we're talking about. As for Mookie, yes, his postseason hitting numbers should detract, but of course his fielding and baserunning would also have to be figured in.
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I think you're wrong about the loss of IFA funds. You only lose IFA funds if you sign a free agent who received a qualifying offer. You lose $500,000 if you were under the luxury tax cap and $1 million if you were over the cap.
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The calculation doesn't really measure what the players are worth. All it really tells you is how much the average free agent is getting paid per WAR. Like I say it is inflated because there have been so many free agent busts.
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It also seems that these things are just much more slow-developing now.
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The fangraphs values are based on actual dollars per WAR for actual free agents. The reason the dollars seem inflated is because all the busts like Pablo are included.
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But you can't even put a dollar value on Price's magnificent contributions to the Red Sox 2018 World Series championship.
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Not sure how that could be done beyond the WAR that's already measured.
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Alright Nick. I like the fire in this post!
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Full marks for trying, but no GM in their right mind would have paid a nickel for the version of Pomeranz that was on display in 2018.
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Neither FanGraphs nor any of the other stat systems, as far as I know, have made any attempt whatsoever to build postseason performances into their numbers.
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Shame on you, man.
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Yes. Sometimes it falls a little flat, as with 'King Kong of Slug', but it doesn't discourage him.
