Jump to content
Talk Sox
  • Create Account

Bellhorn04

Community Moderator
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    54,666

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    75

 Content Type 

Profiles

Boston Red Sox Videos

2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking

Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker

News

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by Bellhorn04

  1. Bellhorn04
    Decent article on Farrell by Chad Finn: https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/redsox/2017/08/07/john-farrell-makes-some-odd-decisions-but-deserves-credit-for-red-sox-run-late/6HL4yE0Lm88aWQ1W3QvuXN/story.html
  2. Bellhorn04
    RIP Mr. Baylor. I wish his stay with the Red Sox had been longer than it was.
  3. Bellhorn04
    I don't think hitting with RISP is necessarily a 'clutch' stat, but I must say Mookie's RISP/bases empty splits for his career are pretty large. .975 with RISP and .800 with bases empty.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Just for clarification, if Price opts out after 2018, he will be opting out of 4 years and 127 million, or 31.75 million per year on average.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Seems possible.
  6. Bellhorn04
    They're not losing money right now, I agree, but we're talking more about where things are headed.
  7. Bellhorn04
    I would agree that the only offer to Mookie that makes sense for all concerned is a 6 or maybe 7 year offer.
  8. Bellhorn04
    The money to pay for the players comes from us though. We're the revenue. Owners don't like to lose money, and you can't really blame them.
  9. Bellhorn04
    The money for the player salaries ultimately comes from the end users, us, whether it's through tickets, food and drink at the park, merchandise, internet or cable TV charges, products of the advertisers etc. We're not all getting rapidly wealthier, so the baseball gravy train can't keep speeding along forever.
  10. Bellhorn04
    With 9 players there are 362,880 possible batting orders. (9*8*7*6*5*4*3*2*1).
  11. Bellhorn04
    The luxury tax threshold under the new CBA tops out at 210 million in 2021. And that number includes about 20 million for benefits and players not on the 25 man roster. So as far as salaries for the 25 man roster the limit will go no higher than 190 million.
  12. Bellhorn04
    That's about it.
  13. Bellhorn04
    But in 'late and close' appearances his OPS is only .728.
  14. Bellhorn04
    I'm pretty sure he's suggesting it'd be the Yankees or Dodgers paying Harper 500 million. I'm not convinced Harper will get 500 million. That would be a 54% escalation on Stanton's contract. At some point the madness must end. You can see in the rules of the new CBA that the owners are serious about putting the brakes on salaries. As you say paying one guy an AAV of 50 million or 25% of your cap is going to hurt.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Tall order.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Dismal wasn't it?
  17. Bellhorn04
    We must be going for the alltime record for running into outs.
  18. Bellhorn04
    It's easy for us to say.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Really? I've never heard this or seen any evidence of it in how the team is managed.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Don't forget the 'late life' illusion that some fastballs pick up speed or 'explode' as they reach the plate.
  21. Bellhorn04
    I find that I now do most of my partying with myself and my invisible friends like you, cp.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Did you mean to say Quintana over Sale, or Quintana over Gray?
  23. Bellhorn04
    An overachieving homer prone rental - that really has a ring to it. Are you implying that DD didn't know Reed was a rental?
  24. Bellhorn04
    To me, the 'protection' concept makes some sense in theory at least. Look at the extreme case of Barry Bonds in the 2002-2004 seasons. In 420 games he was walked 578 times, including 249 times intentionally. It seems reasonable to assume that he would not have been walked this many times if he had a hitter as good as him batting behind him. Of course there weren't any other hitters as good as him.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Saturday night threads are usually quiet because most of us are party animals.
×
×
  • Create New...