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  1. Bellhorn04
    I think they valued him. But as with many other free agents in recent offseasons, they just weren't willing to pay what it took to sign the player. What's been especially frustrating is that many of these free agents signed very reasonable deals. We're not talking about the big splash signings. We're talking about tight, tight budgets for the third wealthiest team in the game.
  2. Bellhorn04
    "As we saw with Jacoby Ellsbury, speed is the first thing to go for baseball players." Ellsbury seems to be the automatic comp for Duran. I get it - Ellsbury played for us not long ago, he was an outfielder, he was really fast. But is it really true that speed goes early as a general scientific principle? Rickey Henderson led the majors in stolen bases at age 39. Lou Brock led the majors in stolen bases at age 35. Both these two continued to be speed demons until way past the "wrong side of 30." So I'm disputing the accuracy of that statement.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Why do you take everything so literally and seriously when you're a joker yourself?
  4. Bellhorn04
    It was dumb. Sale's innings were clearly trending back upward. You can see that on a graph. 😄
  5. Bellhorn04
    I firmly believe a day will come when you actually grow tired of recapitulating Sale's innings pitched from recent years, but I sense that day may be a ways off yet. 😁
  6. Bellhorn04
    Having teams to root against isn't always the worst thing. What last year's WS between Texas and Arizona provoked was mostly indifference.
  7. Bellhorn04
    OK, but maybe there is a touch of irony in the Sox dispatching Sale due to injury/age concerns and then signing Hendriks...
  8. Bellhorn04
    I'll take the Mets over the Dodgers, mainly because their rotation is in better shape. And yes they do have some mojo going.
  9. Bellhorn04
    I can't personally confirm how bad Wong is because I don't watch enough game action, but there is definitely a growing consensus that his defense is a huge problem.
  10. Bellhorn04
    MLB's crapshoot playoff system kind of dictates that all you can do is build a team that's good enough to make the playoffs. No matter how strong of a team you build, you're not immune from getting crapshot in October.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Maybe now Dave will get a chance to show if he can dig his way out of it, which he didn't get with the Sox.
  12. Bellhorn04
    notin is off and running this morning!
  13. Bellhorn04
    Close, Sherlock, it does in fact mean the hitting isn't as good as the raw numbers, and the pitching is better than the raw numbers. 😜
  14. Bellhorn04
    The Sox were 9th in runs scored this year, but they also play half their games in one of the best hitters' parks, so that has to be downgraded a bit. We were clearly just marginally above average in run production. The OPS+ numbers look nice, but somehow the whole was less than the sum of the parts. Was that because of the hitting with RISP? I'm sure that was part of it, but I think it also had to do with being #3 in baseball in Ks.
  15. Bellhorn04
    As I posted earlier in this thread: 2024 Offensive Runs Above Replacement: Duran 32.8 Devers 22.5 (on IL at end of year) O'Neill 16.0 (free agent) Refsnyder 9.4 Abreu 8.4 Wong 5.5 Yoshida 4.6 Hamilton 3.4 Casas 3.0 Story 0.1 Duran, Devers and O'Neill accounted for a huge share of the offense. And the 2 hitters we're talking about removing are Duran (trading him for a pitcher) and O'Neill (free agent). Plus there are health concerns with Devers and Yoshida. Maybe I'm being overly pessimistic, but I think our offense is actually pretty thin before allowing for Anthony and Campbell. Grissom's career OPS+ is 81, BTW.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Is this a confirmed story? I thought the Yankees matched the Giants offer and that was what it took.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Is it better to know squat or to not know squat, BTW?
  18. Bellhorn04
    Taking on the Yankees is one thing, taking them and Crazy Steve on is simply a non-starter. I don't really blame Henry for sitting that one out!
  19. Bellhorn04
    Right, and they when they found out Teixeira preferred the Yankees, instead of upping the ante they tossed in the towel and got pissy about it. Damon was another case, although the rumor there was that Boras screwed them by not giving them a chance to up their bid.
  20. Bellhorn04
    So let's trade Duran, as some have suggested. O'Neill is a free agent, no idea if he'll be back or not. Devers had serious shoulder problems this year. Wouldn't be surprised if he needs surgery. Yoshida needs surgery. Anthony and Campbell better come in raking, huh?
  21. Bellhorn04
    Money is a weapon, basically. It's only useful if you hit the target with it. And if you don't know what you're doing, you can maim or kill yourself.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Just didn't know him as well as you do. Or thought he was capable of some adjustment. I certainly never thought we'd have a guy with a K/BB ratio twice as bad as Middlebrooks or Dalbec and believe he's capable of staying in the big leagues.
  23. Bellhorn04
    The idea that the Red Sox are going to outbid the Yankees and Mets for Soto is just not realistic. Even in the years when the Sox were big spenders they would never take on the Yankees in a bidding war.
  24. Bellhorn04
    "Consequences downstream" - delicately put, Nick. Like Price and Sale and smoke coming out of Henry's ears and we're gonna blow this up and go in a whole new direction type consequences...
  25. Bellhorn04
    Absolutely true. The idea that the Sox have a surplus of hitting is a misguided one.
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