LOL
I think baseball players would fare OK in IQ tests vs. football or basketball players. The average scores for any of these groups wouldn't be super high I don't think.
Disagree, just because Sale didn't lead the team to a championship his first season doesn't mean it hasn't worked.
What would the team look like without Sale last year or this?
Well, if you look at Red Sox history I think it works. The basic principle is that there are some guys you just don't trade, like Betts and Bogaerts of recent vintage.
Let's face it, most people judge all these deals in hindsight.
Even Kimbrel's subpar 2016 season gets factored into assessments of that trade.
Shaw is a somewhat unusual case because we saw him for a whole season in 2016 and his production took a very unexpected leap forward at the major league level.
I'm in the middle when it comes to the new stats. I think there's always a tendency for these things to be taken too far.
For example that 450 foot home run. You don't really need to give me the exit velocity. I already had a pretty good hunch the ball was well hit.