Bellhorn04
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Come on notin, gimme a break. Don't play around with official job titles. Dombrowski was replacing Ben as the decision-maker, that's the point. I expect they knew Ben would quit.
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The offer to Lester may have come from LL, but Ben's only public comments on the matter indicated that he was fully on board with it. He complained about the fact that Lester and his agents didn't respond to the offer. So he has to wear it too.
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You're tacking on an extra decade to that number, aren't you?
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I don't see how knowing he would get Sale the following offseason would change his outlook on us desperately needing a starter last July.
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OK, but let's be consistent. You're soft-selling what happened to Ben by saying he quit. He quit after being replaced as the primary baseball ops decision maker by Dombrowski and being offered to stay only in a reduced capacity.
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And the Red Sox have their own analysts, who, I expect, put much more work more on projections for our team than any of the freelance analysts do.
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Actually, if we're going to be technically accurate, Dombrowski was "released from his contract to pursue other opportunities".
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I am resolutely staying with the position that it's unreasonable to say that any team is well set up for the next 10 years. I think it's a ridiculous statement and it offends me. If someone wants to say something like that and be taken seriously, they should show exactly how a team can do that under our current system. Show me how we're going to pay guys like Betts and Bogey and JBJ and Beni or how we're going to replace the ones we can't pay. And that's just for starters. I don't think anyone has any sort of simulation tools that can do this. You can do it for a few years. But every year the accuracy diminishes considerably.
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What is concerning, though, is that in his last 7 postseason games, 41.2 IP, he has given up 30 earned runs (6.48 ERA) and a .457 SLG. It's a remarkably horrible stretch of games however you look at it.
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Damned if I didn't have to find out why it's called Steamer. The 3 guys that created it went to Saint Ann's High School in NY together and the nickname of the sports teams is the Steamers. Yes I know Spud, it's still a bad name.
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Did any of them give projected rosters for 2021 and beyond, taking into consideration all the provisions of the new CBA? I'm joking, but these guys say a lot of things that turn out to be speculative nonsense.
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They're non-entities whatever method is used.
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I have to vigorously dispute that any analyst would say we were set very well for the next 10 years. Take a look at our roster now and see what it might be in 10 years. All our Killer B's will even be past their primes in 10 years. As far as I know Dombrowski has traded away 3 guys who had blue chip potential: Espinoza, Moncada and Kopech. I don't see how these 3 guys, even if they reach their potential ceilings, would make all the difference in our team over the next 10 years.
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Maybe so. But Price's lack of postseason success is a little perplexing. You would think the law of averages would catch up faster than this.
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If we make it, I'll love the fact we have 3 Cy Young caliber starters going in. And you would think Price and Porcello are due...
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Maybe we should all wait and see what becomes of Buch...we know they had discussions with Florida about a trade...he's probably gone. And if he stays he'll probably have more innings as a starter than as a reliever.
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Scott is still Red Sox property, isn't he?
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That's a pretty negative way to look at it. I think they targeted Sale because a) he's a great pitcher (duh) and he was cheap dollar wise so he didn't hurt their plans to get under the tax threshold or stay close to it.
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Sale's postseason record is pristine.
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Because they're paying him 11 million this year and there's some flickering hope he might hit again? That'd be my guess.
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We play the Cubs at Fenway the end of April.
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I honestly don't care. If we're placing bets I'd go with Porcello. As Spud said, it's pretty much ceremonial.
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Joel Sherman has a column in the NY Post about all the big bats being hung out to dry this offseason and why. (Teams focusing on run prevention, supply exceeding demand etc.)
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What you are pointing out is how the system will be even more geared toward parity in the years ahead. All the more reason, perhaps, to capitalize on our window of opportunity.
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My position, in all seriousness, is this: 'That's why they (DD & baseball ops) get paid the big bucks.' I'm sure they have been spending a lot of time analyzing all this stuff. They get paid for that. We just do it for fun.
