Bellhorn04
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Yeah, I have to think Bailey and Breslow also have a lot of say in these moves.
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It's as simple as that. And it's becoming habitual.
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And that is by now a rather familiar refrain.
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So...moronic works, doesn't it?
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In this case "they" was supposed to refer to the PBT (Pitching Brain Trust) - Bailey, Cora, Breslow, whoever else is involved in these decisions. Henry is never just an innocent bystander, though.
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Seems like they decided they desperately needed a reliever that could pitch 3 inning stints, and Criswell is that guy.
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Yeah, as a poster on Sons of Sam Horn put it when someone else argued the 2024 team was in a much different position from the 2023 team at this same point: The 2023 Red Sox were relying on a 34-year-old Canadian left-hander that had shown warning signs for weeks before completely collapsing over the final two months. The 2024 Red Sox are relying on a 35-year-old Canadian left-hander that has shown warning signs for months— totally different.
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I don't disagree, but at this point it sounds a little like moving to a different deck chair on the Titanic. We don't know if Houck or Crawford are going to benefit from extra days off or not. They're in uncharted territory either way. As Criswell keeps putting up zeroes, though, it does seem weird not to give him some more starts.
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Right, so that would support the 'moronic' theory.
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Well, there's also the terms "underwater contract" or "underwater asset", which just means the current value is below the invested cost or existing liability. Partially is a real thing because we're just talking about money...
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It's impossible for this team to have any momentum now, because Weaver was right (as he generally was) when he said momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
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The offseason chickens (not doing enough about the rotation) are coming home to roost.
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I'm not saying the trade made no sense. It makes sense that Sale was still a significant injury risk and it makes sense that Grissom was a prospect with significant potential. What still doesn't make sense is the team's overall approach to the rotation - thinking that removing Sale and adding Giolito was going to be enough. That did not make sense at all, in fact some might call it ridiculous, moronic etc. And since I actually think Breslow is a very smart and capable executive, my tendency is to believe it's the payroll budget that led to this moronic approach. And I believe the fact that they did nothing to replace their big addition when he quickly went down for the season strongly supports the cheap/moronic theory.
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In a stunning development, Tanner Houck and Kutter Crawford really look tired...
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I probably should have explained this better before. With Sale, and also with Yoshida, you have a partially sunk cost or a sunk cost portion. The money is not strictly dead, because the player still has some value or potential value, but no one is going to pay their full salary for you in a trade. So your decisions are based on the amount you can recover vs. that potential value.
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And his season got off to such an ominous start with the series of injuries.
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AKA Wingenterprayer...
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This is pretty amazing stuff.
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Well then, they should have traded Teel for the best rental pitcher they could get for him.
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Don't be ridiculous. They should have traded Teel for Scott.
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Not exactly. Their good run started in mid-June by taking 4 of 6 from the Phils and Yanks. And they took 2 of 3 from the Yanks the next time they played them. They took 2 of 3 from the Royals directly before the break. This team has been wildly inconsistent in just about every way, which is often the way it goes when you're a little better than a .500 team.
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Yes, it’s already been costly. But if the team makes the playoffs they'll be able to say they did enough good things to overcome it. If they miss the playoffs by 1-3 games, they will not be able to say that.
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And if the team misses the playoffs by a couple of games, the Sale for Giolito swap is really gonna look costly... (Sorry, I often can't resist the urge to start the day by being a s*** disturber.)
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The 2024 team is still in a pretty strange place. FanGraphs gives us a 37.4% chance of making the playoffs. If they're right, there's a 62.6% chance we miss the playoffs for the third straight year. But we know that even if that happens, the team's mouthpieces are going to be selling 2024 as a success because we had some exciting player developments and we were semi-in-the-hunt for a while. And best of all, we did nothing stupid that would harm the golden future.
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Agreed.
