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  1. Bellhorn04
    Looks like this was "rounded off" if Betts and Scott are telling the truth.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Understood. My position is that there's no evidence that Mookie wanted out or asked to be traded. That's all speculation. As far as I know no one in the organization has ever said this was the case. The simple fact is that the Red Sox traded him.
  3. Bellhorn04
    It's kind of a quality vs. quantity argument.
  4. Bellhorn04
    A reliever that averages 2.0 WAR per season is Mariano Rivera. A first baseman that averages 2.0 WAR I'll guess gives you about 20 HR and 70 RBI.
  5. Bellhorn04
    I'm turning into Bill Freaking Parcells...all that seems important to me anymore is the team's W-L record.
  6. Bellhorn04
    Well, a lot of this stuff is pretty subjective. But would you rather have a reliever that averages 1.8 WAR per 60 innings or a first baseman that averages 1.9 WAR per full season? One guy is among the elite at his position and the other is mediocre.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Relievers only pitch about one-third as many innings. So Rivera played at the equivalent of a 6 WAR player for 19 seasons. That's how I look at it anyway.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Please post about Mookie in the other thread! 😄
  9. Bellhorn04
    Correct, and Scott also backs this up, saying it was close but not all the way there.
  10. Bellhorn04
    But the 2021 team made it to the ALCS.
  11. Bellhorn04
    But: 1) Mookie insists he wanted to stay in Boston but didn't receive what he thought was a market value offer; and 2) Zack Scott backs this up. Scott said "He should be beloved. Mookie would have signed with us for maybe even a little less. We didn't get there." So why do you think they're lying?
  12. Bellhorn04
    Well, maybe a higher AAV would have done it, too. But the main point is that it wasn't because he didn't want to stay in Boston.
  13. Bellhorn04
    The bottom line is that the Bloom-Breslow years have largely been very disappointing and often very boring. Both of them made some good moves but far too many bad ones.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Cheering against the team is not a new tactic for Fred at all. He has done it in many seasons when the team was going bad.
  15. Bellhorn04
    You should post this in the Zack Scott thread I just bumped.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Baseball Trade Values calculates a player's net value based strictly on their contracts and their projected WARs. It can be useful, but you're right about Chapman, he would fetch a pretty good return. BTV doesn't take into account things like how much a team trying to win it all would give up for an elite closer.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Zack Scott said quite the opposite, Joe. I just bumped the thread I started about what Scott said about Betts.
  18. Bellhorn04
    Bumping so I can argue with Joe B. about why Betts was traded. 🙂
  19. Bellhorn04
    I have been a pot smoker for over 50 years. 😎
  20. Bellhorn04
    When you see so many guys struggling, including the kids, you really have to wonder if they are getting a lot of bad advice.
  21. Bellhorn04
    It feels like the only question is whether we lose 3-1 or 3-2. We've scored 10 runs in 6 games. And the worst thing is none of us really feel like it's going to get much better. There is not one positive sign LOL.
  22. Bellhorn04
    These things are impossible to prove one way or the other, of course. When your team can't hit you start grasping for straws. It would be interesting to hear Breslow's explanation for why he decided to fire the hitting coaches.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Notice the contrast between what the Red Sox did after firing their manager and what the Phillies did. The Red Sox apparently have an interim manager for the rest of the season. Dombrowski offered the job to first Cora and then Mattingly. The Phillies have turned it around, 13-4 since the change.
  24. Bellhorn04
    It all comes back to Henry's Hubris in 2019, firing Dombrowski and ordering Betts to be traded. Turning the Red Sox into an experiment with newbie CBOs and a helter-skelter approach. Throwing stuff at the wall.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Well, sbf said he had a whole room full of Red Sox stuff. Maybe he has other rooms with interesting stuff too.
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