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  1. Bellhorn04
    Vlad is a great hitter but he falls well short of Soto. Career OPS+ Soto 160 Vlad 137
  2. Bellhorn04
    Really? Even with all the sub-90 win teams in the WS the last few years? It seems like you're talking about the way you think things should be, not the way they actually are now. One of the reasons I say 2020 was totally legit was that the Dodgers and Rays were teams that had a lot of regular season success before and after that year. They were arguably one of the most legit WS matchups of the last 10-20 years. They didn't get in there by fluke. Another point here is that 2020 was NOT the first short season...
  3. Bellhorn04
    No one is signing Burnes AND Fried.
  4. Bellhorn04
    It would be kind of nice if they could figure out why our offense had an OPS of .654 in September.
  5. Bellhorn04
    OTOH if the Sox are really going balls to the wall here, it suggests a pretty sudden and large shift in organizational philosophy. Which is what Dan Secatore is hinting at in the article I linked in the Zack Scott thread. Maybe JH finally said "Well, this ain't workin', guys. Time to change course from Tampa North to Dodgerland East!" Might be some wishful thinking on my part, too...
  6. Bellhorn04
    I think everybody is still interested in everybody at this point.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Reportedly the Jays latest offer works out to 1 billion Canadian dollars. I wish that was purely a joke. 🙃
  8. Bellhorn04
    I agree.
  9. Bellhorn04
    C'mon man, we're in a hypothetical wonderland here, you can't get stuck on what actually happened.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Get it done Papi!
  11. Bellhorn04
    Here's what I say: if a Red Sox fan can HONESTLY say that if the Sox won it in 2020, they would not count it or would devalue it on some sort of scale like you, then sure, the same would apply to the Dodgers. But I'm highly skeptical any Sox fan wouldn't be fighting tooth and nail for that being a totally legit ring.
  12. Bellhorn04
    I'm certainly not arguing the Astros haven't also been successful. But the Dodgers have been roughly just as successful, and they seem well set up to keep it going a while.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Ego is definitely a big factor. Another may be that players have other people telling them to go for the max-their agents, the players' union, family and friends.
  14. Bellhorn04
    And moon, if you're going to play the 'tainted' card, what about 2017?
  15. Bellhorn04
    Not counting 2020 is BS, IMHO. The Dodgers beat the best in the playoffs that year. Everyone knew what the deal was and agreed to it. MLB made the best of it in a pandemic. If anyone thinks it would have been better to cancel the year completely, they're entitled to that opinion, of course. And the Dodgers have been killing it in the regular season - 12 straight years in the playoffs. 4 pennants in the last 8 years. How much success do you want?
  16. Bellhorn04
    I believe Andrew Friedman is on record that when they traded for Betts they fully intended to make a big effort to extend him. If COVID didn't enter the picture maybe they just would have had to pay 10% more or something. There are a lot of possibilities. But it seems clear now the Red Sox had made their best offer at $290 or whatever, and they were out of the Mookie Betts business after that.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Hard to say. It seems odd that Betts's agent would counter $290 mill with $400 mill to begin with. But if he did it may just have been a message that $290 was simply not getting it done and they had to move the line.
  18. Bellhorn04
    Maybe Merloni can ask Scott about that rumored counter.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Based on what Scott is saying, if the Sox had offered something like 11 and 330 mill, I think Mookie is still patrolling RF for us.
  20. Bellhorn04
    I understand the Sox reasoning totally. It's absurd to just keep increasing your offer if Cohen has promised to beat them all by $50 mill. Unless you think it would be fun to make Cohen pay $800 million, I guess... At some point someone has to force the issue like this.
  21. Bellhorn04
    We'll never know about the COVID impact. I tend to think the fact that the Dodgers were a very attractive destination had something to do with it too.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Mookie forgot to get an opt-out!
  23. Bellhorn04
    Right. This is why I'm saying the details all make sense and seem totally credible. As Dan Secatore puts it, Mookie was not adamant about testing free agency, but he was adamant about not giving a discount. He wanted market value.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Another interesting item is about Devers. Many in the org wanted to extend him early but it was nixed because of lux tax concerns at the time. As Scott says, an example of a short term decision having adverse long term effects.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, Secatore says he figures Scott is piping up now because he knows that.
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