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  1. Bellhorn04
    Of course it is. But if you're not willing to give out any risky contracts, your team is probably going to suck. And the teams are still making piles of money in spite of the bad contracts, so no one should feel sorry for them.
  2. Bellhorn04
    You really think that's why they traded for Kimbrel?
  3. Bellhorn04
    Let me answer it this way: I think John Henry knows what he's doing. If he thinks it's OK to invest XXX dollars in payroll in 2019 or any particular year, I think he's probably right and that he's basing it on fairly sound baseball and business reasons.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Hembree saw more postseason use than the other 2 so obviously Cora agrees.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Ha, forget it. Too much work and no pay.
  6. Bellhorn04
    It would take some analysis, but I believe there is correlation between the team's on-field results, revenues and increase in franchise market value.
  7. Bellhorn04
    He didn't say anything about affording. He just said it would be a plus.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Both.
  9. Bellhorn04
    No argument that the players are the main beneficiaries. However, I think you could certainly argue that the current system has been pretty damn good for the Red Sox franchise.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Shouldn't such an assessment wait until this offseason is done?
  11. Bellhorn04
    I don't think a GM of a big market team like Epstein, Cashman or DD would call it dumb. I think they would call it a necessary evil that has to be used judiciously, but that you will get burned on sometimes regardless. If I'm not mistaken Theo Epstein actually said something pretty close to that when he was here. And he's obviously decided to keep utilizing it for the Cubs.
  12. Bellhorn04
    If the Red Sox come in last place this year, some of it will fall on Dombrowski, yes. The only exception to this, in my opinion, is if the downfall is clearly attributable to multiple injuries to key players such as what happened to us in 2006.
  13. Bellhorn04
    To be fair and complete you need to put up the 2013 projections to see how the results compared.
  14. Bellhorn04
    I like it. DD is doing some diligent dumpster diving this offseason LOL
  15. Bellhorn04
    I disagree, and others do as well, obviously. The results of 2014 and 2015 cost Ben his job.
  16. Bellhorn04
    I don't think $400 mill is in the picture. But we have to see what Machado and Harper get.
  17. Bellhorn04
    You may have a point about Machado. Harper is the guy I'm most skeptical about. His defensive numbers make him look like a future DH.
  18. Bellhorn04
    Sometimes the general manager has to wear it. Ben gets great credit for 2013, as he should, but there were some amazing overperformance by a number of players on that team. In 2014 everything turned around in the other direction. Shane Victorino might be the poster boy for what happened. If Ben gets great credit for 2013 he also has to wear the results of 2014 and 2015. That's how I see it, anyway. When you look at the history of the team since 2002, generally speaking the only years where the team fell vastly short of pre-season expectations were the Cherington years.
  19. Bellhorn04
    But will they be worth their contracts?
  20. Bellhorn04
    It's not really about a player being bigger than the team. It's about truly elite players who bring you success on and off the field. Players like Yaz and Pedro and Manny and Ortiz.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Let's see what Machado and Harper get. That's going to set the bar.
  22. Bellhorn04
    No, it's never completely open. We're not in on Machado or Harper. There are limits. All we're really arguing about, I think, is whether there's another 10 million or so for this year's bullpen.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Not really. Before 2017 they actually reduced payroll a bit and got under the first tax threshold.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Nobody knows. But to me it certainly doesn't point to efforts to 'reign things in'.
  25. Bellhorn04
    The checkbook was open enough to sign Eovaldi for a 17 million AAV and put us 35 million over the threshold.
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