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  1. Bellhorn04
    Extreme does not necessarily equate to nutty.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Michael Wacha (you probably don't mean a price that small) Chris Sale (original contract they took on from CWS) Rick Porcello?
  3. Bellhorn04
    I derive actual pain from the Yankees winning and pleasure from them losing. It's as simple as that.
  4. Bellhorn04
    That's the point, really. To average Joe Shmoes like me and you, a ballplayer making $600 million is beyond nutty. There are no words strong enough. But we just don't live in that world so we can't really comprehend it.
  5. Bellhorn04
    No, it's up to you to explain why it is nutty. Anyone can just recite those numbers. You totally left out the structure of Ohtani's contract, the fact that he's only paid $2 million a year from 2024-2033. So the $700 million number is pretty useless on its own.
  6. Bellhorn04
    There's talk that Soto might get as much as $600 million. Great player, but that seems nutty even to me. But we're talking about a world that none of us can really comprehend, frankly.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, I get that this seems nutty in our little world, but it doesn't address the actual question-can Ohtani be beneficial to the Dodgers financially in spite of the massive cost and risk? You and I don't have the answer to that. Personally I think the Dodgers must have calculated that the answer is yes.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Actually 5 Gloves, the reasons the Dodgers have been able to survive the insane injuries to their rotation is because they also have plenty of expensive and/or well-bred talent in their bullpen and of course their offense. Just look at the Game 6 clincher vs. the Mets. Give up 5 runs? Not a problem when you score 10!
  9. Bellhorn04
    OK, let's pick the Dodgers. Can you explain exactly what makes their spending nutty? Do you have information that it's causing them financial problems? If so we'd all love to have it. If you want to keep calling it nutty you kind of have to back it up.
  10. Bellhorn04
    We've talked plenty of times about whether signing free agents is for PR or baseball purposes. I guess my position is that it can easily be both. From Manny Ramirez to Koji Uehara to J D Martinez, the Red Sox have had free agent signings that have been instrumental to championships. The elephant in the room issue is that Henry has clearly made a decision to keep payroll down the last few years, and not a single one of us knows if that's because he's being smart and waiting until the time is right, or because his focus is no longer on field success but strictly profit and capital growth.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Thanks for this, Maddie. I agree of course. I don't have to be a Dodgers fan to root for them hard here!
  12. Bellhorn04
    I take issue with calling the spending of the teams that have passed us as "nutty" without adding any context of increases in revenues and franchise values. Maybe it's the Red Sox who are actually being "nutty".
  13. Bellhorn04
    But you NEVER take into account the growths in baseball revenues and franchise values, which are much more pertinent than the inflation rate in the economy as a whole. In March 2019 Forbes valued the Red Sox franchise at 3.2 billion. In March 2024 Forbes valued the Red Sox franchise at 4.5 billion. A tidy little 40% increase in 5 years. You keep attributing our fall in the payroll rankings to other teams going "nutty". Any chance increases in revenue have a lot to do with the "nutty"? No offense moon, but when it comes to these payroll analyses, you produce a lot of numbers but you only give one side of the picture. And you seem to be trying to paint Henry and his "restraint" in a more favorable light than is deserved.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Hey, I'm not saying Henry and Kennedy won't do their best to kill our optimism over the next 5 months. But in October we can still have optimism.
  15. Bellhorn04
    After all the facts we've gone through, I think the only rational position is that some teams would take Yoshida at a cost of about $5 million a year, max.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Tyler O'Neill might actually be a good fit as our 2025 DH.
  17. Bellhorn04
    The idea of trading Yoshida had some credibility until we learned he needs shoulder surgery. The fact we're still talking about it is just because we need something to talk about.
  18. Bellhorn04
    That's fair. I think Red Sox fans are entitled to be pessimistic at the moment after watching their team play 12 games under .500 over the last 3 seasons, and witnessing 3 straight offseasons of fiscal restraint coupled with costly blunders on every bigger move. All that said, I do actually have hopes for Breslow. I think if they stay with him he could turn things around.
  19. Bellhorn04
    It's in our nature as fans to be optimistic. For example, Devers's shoulder issues made him a shell of himself down the stretch, but most of us are probably living in the hope he'll be back to 100% next year.
  20. Bellhorn04
    You just refuse to try to get the simple point. I never said platooned. I said Cora clearly gave him some extra days off against lefties. Because he was horrific against lefties in 2024.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Nah, Masa just seems like low-lying fruit on the 'how do we get better' tree. But he's not, unfortunately.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Nobody knows what any of the Fab Four can contribute in 2025. I'm pessimistic about 2025 for a few reasons: 1) We played .420 ball after the ASB, and it can't be chalked up to an abnormal number of injuries. 2) Health status of Devers and Yoshida. 3) From an 81-81 team, we lose O'Neill, Pivetta, Jansen and Martin. 4) I think there's a good chance the brain trust surveys all this and decides 2025 is another punt year. There are better times ahead, but I don't think they start in 2025, based on all the negative factors and uncertainty, and the "patient" approach we have seen.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Math check: 108/421 = 25.6% Case closed!
  24. Bellhorn04
    No it isn't. It's not complicated. I said Cora sat him against some lefties. It was disproportionate to the number of righties he sat against. mvp found those 4 LH sits and 2 RH sits numbers. Cora has done the same with other hitters who are struggling against lefties. Like Duran in the first part of 2023. You don't sit them all the time against lefties if there's hope for improvement. Abreu was the guy pretty much in a straight platoon this year.
  25. Bellhorn04
    "Adequate" covers a lot of ground. Per FanGraphs his value for 2023-2024 was 11.3 million while his AAV was 36 million. What doesn't show in his OPS and OPS+ is the negative impact of his baserunning. We're stuck with him, basically.
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