Bellhorn04
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If you want to throw out the champ for a pandemic year, we should probably throw out all the champs for the World War years too. Plenty of guys were not playing baseball those years for good reason too...
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1) 2020 was not the first season with a reduced number of regular season games - not by a long shot. 2) The World Series champion is decided by the playoffs, not by the regular season. 3) We all know we'd be singing a different tune if the Sox won it in 2020.
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Gratuitous literary reference: Reading some of Max's posts is like reading Kafka. The individual sentences seem to make perfect sense, but the narrative as a whole makes less and less sense as you go on.
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Also, any attempts to throw out 2020 are ********. They did the best they could in the face of a pandemic, and the playoffs were totally legit. The Dodgers and Rays were the 2 best teams at the time. Last year's matchup of the Rangers and Diamondbacks was less legit than the 2020 matchup.
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I love ya Max, but that is one incredibly absurd and indefensible statement. Are the 2024 Red Sox better off having Devers at a cost of $30 million per, or Betts at a cost of $30 million per? Were the 2023 Red Sox better off with Story/Yoshida/Kluber, or with Betts plus $20 million? Do the math.
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My most vivid memory of that play is that when Morgan hit it, I thought it was long, long gone, like 10 rows deep. But Fenway is fairly deep there and October weather in Boston probably took some carry off it. It seemed like a miracle when Evans caught it.
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You seem to be equating bad focus with bad defense. I think we have some guys who are just bad defenders no matter how focused they are.
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Or Devers. I'm sure Henry would have paid Mookie $300 million, but Mookie wanted more. It's not that complicated, really.
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Well, it's not quite that simple either. A Chaim Bloom doesn't trade a Mookie Betts unless he's given a mandate to do so. And if it's all about the facts, it's a fact that Dombrowski had several years in which to sign Betts to an extension but didn't. It seems pretty obvious neither one of them had much say in the situation. Henry just didn't want to pay what it took.
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DD couldn't keep Betts if JH didn't want to offer Betts more than $300 mill. DD only signed Sale and Bogaerts to the extensions after the talks with Betts broke down. The stuff about trading guys isn't really relevant. When the talks broke down that was it. Game over.
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Bloom, he said.
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The 2019 season was not any kind of disaster IMHO. They won 84 games, the same number as the defending NL champs Arizona. They had a run differential of +73. They scored more runs than the 2018 team did. Obviously they had a lot of banged-up pitchers and that did them in. But also, 2019 came after a championship and 3 division titles in a row. It's hard to keep a run like that going. No team has won back to back WS's since the year 2000.
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And I blame JH for hiring Bloom. It was all part of his big shift in thinking.
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The question I guess is whether some signings and extensions have red flags all over them. Sale had an injury red flag. Story had somewhat of an injury red flag. Yoshida had a 'nobody else thinks he's worth anywhere near that much' red flag.
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You did say the Pirates are a bad team.
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Yes, and I'm as guilty as anyone. It's not like the Theo days when you could pencil the team in for 95 wins. Now everything seems very unpredictable, with all the roster turnover, the impact of the guys behind the scenes like Bailey and so on.
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It's a stand-alone story for me. It's not about the luxury tax or about the other guys they had to pay or where the team was situated for the future. I think that's all irrelevant to how much JH was willing to pay Mookie.
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Don't put everyone in the same basket. I don't blame Bloom and I don't blame Dombrowski. I blame JH.
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Yes. What else is there to go on?
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Henry balked at paying Mookie market value because it was a big number. To me that's all there really is to that story. Obviously the money they didn't pay him goes somewhere else.
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You are what your record says you are.
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And to be totally nasty about it, Yoshida might have no value whatsoever. When the manager benches the DH for 2 games in April when the team is already decimated by injuries, it's a really bad sign.
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Good analysis until you got to Devers, Yoshida and Jansen. Every team has guys who are underperforming their salaries so far, and a lot of it is just randomness.
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Bello could have a fine outing and the Sox could still lose in one or more of the many ways they have at their disposal.
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We have 7 guys in minus fWAR territory: Hamilton Abreu Yoshida Dalbec Rafaela Valdez Reyes
