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  1. Bellhorn04
    Seems like geography plays into it on both coasts. New York was apparently the ideal location for Juan and his family. And I suppose Steve Cohen being worth $20 billion didn't hurt...
  2. Bellhorn04
    I didn't think the deferred money was a big deal until Ohtani. Ohtani's deal took it nuclear.
  3. Bellhorn04
    And frankly this gives a lot of teams an excuse to not spend much to get better, because what's the point?
  4. Bellhorn04
    And Kike will probably come back on a cheap deal.
  5. Bellhorn04
    There's no way this is good for baseball. Get ready for a lot of stories on changes that have to be made. The luxury tax system has been exposed as toothless.
  6. Bellhorn04
    Man, this feels like a pre-emptive strike before anything can be done about it in the next CBA.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Have to say it applies much more to the Mariners. Here's your west coast team out of the spotlight. What, you're not interested? They can investigate all they want, it's not going to convince too many people that the fix wasn't in.
  8. Bellhorn04
    It was so gracious of the Sox to gift Mookie to the Dodgers to kickstart their period of extreme dominance. Now we can see they did it for the good of the game. They didn't really feel like spending and competing for a while so they sent him to a team that wanted to.
  9. 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
  10. 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.
  11. 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.)
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Bellhorn04
    To them Freeman was practically a bargain basement guy.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Correct. 14 saves/22 holds/5 blown sales = an actual conversion record of 36/41 which is very good.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Bellhorn04
    No repeat winners since 2000 certainly bears that out.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. Bellhorn04
    73.7%. That's not good at all.
  25. Bellhorn04
    "Maybe they're just cheap." Sorry but I am gonna default to that sometimes. Recency Effect is pretty big with relievers, no doubt.
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