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  1. Bellhorn04
    I think I'd rather some other team stitch together a deal for him.
  2. Bellhorn04
    I don't want to underplay the significance of a divorce on a player's performance, but Giolito is not exactly the first guy to have personal issues going on during a season, methinks. Now he seems to be the purported poster boy for such issues turning you from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde.
  3. Bellhorn04
    True, but credit the player, he had a superb season and boosted his value.
  4. Bellhorn04
    I'm pretty simple-minded when it comes to this stuff. Sign Fried. Sign Kirby Yates or Tanner Scott. Get another reliever, a short-term catcher like Jansen and a good RH bat by best means possible. Trade Abreu, not Duran.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Of course. But if the Dodgers want him back, the Sox probably don't have much chance. They had a good chance to sign him last year but they passed it up.
  6. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, it does seem like they're making room for him. A 3 way slugfest among the Yanks, Mets and Dodgers would be quite a spectacle. And somehow I don't think Soto would say "OK, that's enough, fellas, bidding's closed" the way Yamamoto did. 😛
  7. Bellhorn04
    $700 million. Hmmm, that's 3.2 times as much as the David Price contract that destroyed John Henry's mind and set us back at least 5 years. 🙃
  8. Bellhorn04
    Here are the top 7 free agent relievers as they are ranked on Keith Law's list of top 50 free agents. This excludes Nick Martinez who was a starter at the end of 2024. With 2024 bWAR/fWAR 1 Jeff Hoffman 2.0/2.0 2 Kirby Yates 3.3/1.9 3 Clay Holmes 0.7/1.2 (no idea why Law ranked him above the ones below) 4 Tanner Scott 4.0/1.6 5 Carlos Estevez 2.1/1.2 6 Blake Treinen 1.4/1.0 7 David Robertson 1.7/1.9 Tanner Scott has been mentioned here frequently as a Red Sox target. I wouldn't mind seeing them sign any of these guys, but I'm really partial to Yates, who had a phenomenal 2024. As with a few other of these guys, he's not a youngster.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Last year Moto, this year Soto. Chances are equally good!
  10. Bellhorn04
    If you think the Red Sox are going to seriously pursue Soto, it must really take a lot to knock the Polly out of you.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, it's gonna be a shame when they fail to line up with anyone again.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Certainly no one can argue with "might."
  13. Bellhorn04
    2024 fWAR: Houck 3.9 Pivetta 2.0 Bello 2.0 Crawford 1.9 We really did have a #2 and 3 #3's. As to your question, if you delete Pivetta you certainly could be worse off, if you don't replace with another #3.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Right, and I do kind of hope that's what this is about. Pivetta is a lot like Porcello was. Nobody gets excited about them (except Porcello in 2016 and Pivetta on one of his really hot spells) but they do come in handy quite often.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Not strutting for sure, but I'd rather have those other 5 titles on the franchise's books than not have them there.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Tyler O'Neill is a guy who's great to have around at 6 million, but not so much at 3.5 times that.
  17. Bellhorn04
    I think Randy has been duly corrected by now. 🙂
  18. Bellhorn04
    So this move could either be a very good sign or a very bad sign.
  19. Bellhorn04
    6-6.7 is actually light. Pivetta had a 2.0 fWAR in 2024, and this was converted to 16.2 million, so 8.1. It's important to note that this is just a calculation of the average COST of a free agent player per WAR. It has nothing to do with what we perceive as actual value. It factors in all the busts.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, a team stupid enough to trade Betts (and get very little in return) is stupid enough to do just about anything, I have to agree.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Well, I like him about as much as I like Giolito. This is what you get for 20-ish nowadays. 😛 It's probably all part of another Salute to Mediocrity season. Pivetta is kind of a master of mediocrity in his own right.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Coin flips really work out sometimes.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Now that's a fiery start to the offseason! 🙂
  24. Bellhorn04
    I think the chances Pivetta accepts the offer are pretty strong.
  25. Bellhorn04
    So a bunch of things in reply to those last two posts, mvp. 1) Thanks for starting an argument, this should boost the post count for the thread by half a dozen at least. 🙂 2) What do you have against history, man? All life becomes history, so if you don't appreciate history, you don't appreciate life. 🙂 3) Williams's .406 season is held up as his signature achievement, but us Talksox intelligentsia know that batting average is not one of the better measures of performance. 4) I believe Williams was very candid that he benefited from the advantages of baseball not having all the best players for a long time, and also from not having to face tough relief pitchers etc. He had a big ego but he was also very realistic. 5) Williams continued to produce at roughly the same level long after the color barrier was broken. In 1957 at age 38, he posted a 1.257 OPS and 233 OPS+, compared to 1941's 1.287 and 235.
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