Bellhorn04
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I have a feeling the Sox are very interested in Herrera for the pen. Strictly a hunch.
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And maybe Eovaldi will be a star.
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Less likely, in the short term, IMO. A player of his caliber in prime years is worth more than the 35 million he'll likely be paid. In later years it'll be an overpay.
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Assuming they do sign Eovaldi, I think they will probably make a bid to keep one of Sale or Porcello.
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OK, that's enough of the off into the sunset stuff. Dombrowski is 6 months younger than me, he's a lifetime baseball man and he's got a phenomenally good job. My guess is he'll be willing to stick around as long as John Henry does. The future of ownership is the real wild card for this franchise. JH turns 70 in 2019 and has a much younger wife and 3 children.
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Kimmi, no one knows better than you the randomness of one game.
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??? 99 wins this year would have put us in the Wild Card game.
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I'm just explaining why it doesn't make sense to me.
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What's wrong with Benny Boy? It's not an insulting nickname, like Desperate Dave. I was trying to give Ben some credit here.
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Very plausible numbers. The Corbin signing bumped his price about 2 mill a year, I think. LOL
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But the farm is bare right now and that's a fact. And there are a number of well-documented reasons why it's bare.
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Eovaldi + 2 relievers. Not saying it can't happen, but the team is ALREADY over the first tax threshold. Cervelli's salary of 10.33 million would also entail tax of 30% or 3 million, plus there are all the other penalties that kick in. It would be an expensive transaction. You also give up a prospect.
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I agree. They're a very affordable tandem, and they seem to get the job done. You don't need premium talent at every position.
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I heard the first part, but not the second part.
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Any idea where you read it? I can't find a thing. Doesn't sound legit.
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It just doesn't make much sense in terms of filling needs. We lost pitchers. We need pitchers. Pretty simple.
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I would expect the Sox to match Houston's offer unless it's totally nuts, and it'll come down to where Eovaldi wants to play.
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Wow, you're crabby today. Anyway it was Kimmi who brought up the trade Mookie idea. I assume it's just a case of offseason boredom and being willing to talk about anything.
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It's a fair comparison in that neither thing was ever happening.
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Mookie isn't getting traded, we all know that. Pedroia was never getting traded either, but some guy here used to talk about it all the time, even put it in his sig line I think.
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Can't discount the possibility that the Yanks will be in heavy on Eovaldi now that Corbin is out of the picture.
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One of the Sox scribes said Dombrowski and Cora both seem to feel signing Eovaldi is the top priority.
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a) DD must like Vaz somewhat or he wouldn't have signed him to that extension. $7 mill is not insignificant given the fact we're already over the first tax threshold. c) Cervelli is a free agent after 2019 so then you have to replace him. Yuck, IMO.
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I don't get it. Cervelli's contract has an AAV of 10.33 million. That would put a major dent in the pitching budget. And we seemed to do OK with Vaz and Leon.
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Agreed. And there are major risk and luck factors. A prime example being the big ticket free agents, like Price. That signing was looking very bad for a while. It looks a lot better now.
