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  1. Bellhorn04
    Are we really trying to make Garrett Richards out to be a big signing?
  2. Bellhorn04
    Yes, I've seen Canha mentioned elsewhere.
  3. Bellhorn04
    It's a lot of money in the real world. For an MLB starting pitcher, it doesn't get you much.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Yes, Justin Turner would be a realistic trade with the Jays.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Can't decipher.
  6. Bellhorn04
    I guess you could call Kluber/Richard types bargain bin or thrift store purchases.
  7. Bellhorn04
    None of us really know what the eff we're talking about.
  8. Bellhorn04
    I would vehemently dispute that as midlevel, especially when it's only one year. I mean the top level now is $325 million. Midlevel would be more like a Kevin Gausman deal IMHO.
  9. Bellhorn04
    I think "after Betts" would be more accurate.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Of course not. Like I said, there's no room for Vlad with the Sox.
  11. Bellhorn04
    He's got 8 guys with AAV's of $18 million or more. He didn't sign all of them. But he's had some pretty nice budgets to work with.
  12. Bellhorn04
    It's certainly not black and white. I think the main point with the Sox is that $10 million was the MOST they signed a starting pitcher for in the years 2020-2023.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Some people think Devers is fat too, though. These are guys with big bodies no matter what they do. You made me look up Vlad's season log, and he's not really doing much different than he did the last 2 years. 2021 is looking like a big outlier.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, I'm not really disagreeing. I'm just guessing that if he hooked up with a good hitting coach he might do better. There's no room for him with the Sox.
  15. Bellhorn04
    By today's standards, a guarantee of $10 million or less seems close enough to a dumpster dive.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Attendance has been picking up recently if I'm not mistaken. Have to remember that a lot of those tickets are purchased a long time in advance, which is one reason the team's play doesn't always line up with ticket sales.
  17. Bellhorn04
    DD's approach is pretty simple: go for the prime cuts and pay them whatever you have to. I would argue it's been a pretty successful approach over the years. Starting pitchers just get less and less reliable and durable all the time. Also let's not forget that DD left us Bello, Crawford and Houck.
  18. Bellhorn04
    That's my line too. And the same principle applies to trading Sale and signing Giolito.
  19. Bellhorn04
    We've been dumpster diving for starting pitchers since Bloom replaced DD.
  20. Bellhorn04
    2024 OPS+ 130 Career OPS+ 131 He might benefit from a change of scenery. It's not gonna be in Boston, though.
  21. Bellhorn04
    As to the talk about trading Duran, there are no two words more beloved by armchair baseball wheeler dealers than "sell high".
  22. Bellhorn04
    Gotta like them drafting Papi's kid even if it was just for funsies...
  23. Bellhorn04
    It's good to see a guy like Will have a life after a baseball career that flamed out much earlier than expected.
  24. Bellhorn04
    It's one of the things that makes baseball unique. In other sports development seems a lot faster and more linear. Being able to pitch or hit a baseball successfully at the MLB level are extremely advanced and variable skills.
  25. Bellhorn04
    But you have to wonder if they will remain risk averse, maybe forever, on signing pitchers who have reached the age of 30 to big contracts. Hell, even big deals for 25 year old pitchers can be risky, as Yamamoto's injury would indicate.
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