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  1. Bellhorn04
    That thought has occurred to me too.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Technically speaking, I'm not sure Dombrowski was fired either. Officially, he was 'released from his contract to pursue other opportunities'.
  3. Bellhorn04
    I guess I'm in the camp that thinks of Boggs as a major ******* who happened to play for the Sox. But I have to say that if the Sox hadn't blown it in 1986 I would think more highly of him. In the infamous Game 6 he had 3 hits and a walk. I'll say this, the current Sox ownership has been fantastic with the legacy stuff. Maybe it's all with a view to the bottom line, but that's OK.
  4. Bellhorn04
    You are correct.
  5. Bellhorn04
    The bullpen also all sucked, outside of Koji and Tazawa. Well, Ross was mediocre.
  6. Bellhorn04
    We do have cost controlled players, I certainly appreciate that. But we can't overlook that we have a monster payroll in spite of that.
  7. Bellhorn04
    It has some, Kimmi. But we would not have been able to acquire Price if John Henry wasn't willing to go over the tax threshold by $15 million. We did not have a lot of payroll room coming into 2016.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Kapstein was a Lucchino guy. It kind of makes you wonder if there was a serious falling-out between JH and LL.
  9. Bellhorn04
    I suspect when they looked at his 2014 numbers they made some allowance for his terrible start. From May to September his OPS was .774. In October his OPS was .888. So from May to October he was in line with his career averages.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Personally I'm willing to give Ben a pass for a lot of things. I don't think finishing last in 2012 was his fault. I hated finishing last in 2014, but after winning a championship the year before, I gave him a pass for that too. 2015 was his disaster, especially the pitching staff.
  11. Bellhorn04
    That is true, but Ben jettisoning Lester and Lackey in favor of Porcello and Kelly did not help matters, in 2015 at least.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Most of the players who had good seasons for us in 2015 were guys left from Epstein's tenure.
  13. Bellhorn04
    I like this.
  14. Bellhorn04
    A Marlins official was quoted on what they wanted from us. It was so ridiculous that it seemed more like a joke. http://nesn.com/2015/12/marlins-official-reveals-huge-red-sox-package-wanted-for-jose-fernandez/ “We thought we might be able to piece something together with the Red Sox,” a Marlins official told Peter Gammons. “With E-Rod (Eduardo Rodriguez), Mookie Betts, Christian Vazquez, Yoan Moncada and another pitcher I thought we had something that might work.”
  15. Bellhorn04
    No one has ever suggested Porcello gave a discount in his salary. The idea was that 4 years was 2 years less than he could have gotten as a free agent. Cueto's price got knocked down considerably by injury concerns.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Right. I think most people can understand why he didn't want to stay.
  17. Bellhorn04
    He was force-fed a reassignment that was unacceptable to him.
  18. Bellhorn04
    It's a fact, but I'm not sure how important it is. His position in the organization was going to be significantly changed, so much so that he resigned immediately.
  19. Bellhorn04
    True. And I think the reason is that Hal Steinbrenner is very different from his father and has bought into the idea of having some patience and developing some players from within again.
  20. Bellhorn04
    I don't think it's fair to pin Ben's demise on the impatience of Sox fans. I think any GM who leads one of the highest payroll teams in the sport to consecutive last place finishes is on very shaky ground. I think Cashman would be gone under those circumstances too. Maybe the real source of impatience here was the ownership. They are the ones who authorize all those big cheques. They don't like it when they spend that much on the payroll and they see the team out of contention early and the fans losing interest. No matter how good of a fan you are, there has been a lot of Sox baseball over the last two years that was not worth watching. And Sox fans pay the highest ticket prices in the game.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, that one works for me too.
  22. Bellhorn04
    It would be so cool if Vazquez could hit a little.
  23. Bellhorn04
    They will be a lot of pundits' preseason pick to win it all next year.
  24. Bellhorn04
    The only issue with Wright is that he's out of options so he can't be stashed.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Arizona is taking quite a beating over how much they gave up for Miller. Keith Law called the cost 'comically high'. A guy at FanGraphs said it was the worst trade in history. I guess it shows the astronomical price of pitching.
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