Bellhorn04
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And he's still doing it with the Phils. There are pluses and minuses to his approach, but his career resume is pretty freakin' good.
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When I say 'to fruition' I mean the time until the pitchers are posting 3-4 WAR seasons in MLB.
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Becoming better at drafting and developing pitching is an admirable goal, but one that could take a decade to come to fruition, if it comes to fruition at all. It's not about 82 wins, it's about making the playoffs. We just saw a season where a 90 win team beat an 84 win team in the World Series, so the argument that there's no point going for it unless you're a 95 win team should be dead and buried forever.
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Hal has definitely loosened up the purse strings.
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We don't. The stories that we have to free up more payroll are ridiculous.
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I agree with most of your post but I disagree about 2021. It's never a bad thing when you come close to the World Series. They could have had the big fire sale in 2022 if they wanted. Like you have said in the past, the worst thing to be is mediocre. The Sox proved that in '22 and '23. Bloom got completely boggled by what to do at the deadline both years.
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He was great in September, no? .571 OPSa
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Tough question, of course. I guess I'd be in on either one of them up to about 175 mill. If Snell or Monty are outrageously overpriced, the trade has to materialize. What dampens the trade prospects is that they have reportedly put the top 3 off limits. If they don't pull the trigger on any of the above, then we come back to why the hell weren't we in on Gray or E-Rod, or what the hell was the strategy coming into the offseason? If they don't pull the trigger they are going to look like lying/incompetent bozos. Just my take, but I have a lot of company based on my travels around Soxdom on the internet.
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-Can't find anything about Cora/E-Rod fallout. Is it supposed to be about the Houston game where Cora got upset with E-Rod for showing up Correa? That was just Cora doing his job and I don't see anything about E-Rod having a problem with it. -I started a thread questioning what's going on with all the unsigned free agents. It's definitely concerning for various reasons. -If the Sox sign Snell or Monty or make a trade for a legit starter the complaining goes away. If they don't, it's a brutal and inexplicable failure. They have the need and they have the money.
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He means Hitch. To each their own, of course.
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Cot's has us at 190.5.
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Sounds good to me.
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Pitchers are risky investments, period. We're no good at drafting and developing them, so we have to sign them or trade for them.
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Based on what?
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The Espinoza trade was basically a deadline trade. Buchholz had gone down. The Sox were in position to make the playoffs but needed a starter desperately. Pomeranz was available.
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Gray E-Rod Imanaga seemed interesting at the price There's been a lot of Goldilocks/sour grapes going on. At the start of FA season it seemed like there were plenty of worthwhile targets. If we thought we were in on Snell or Montgomery we'd feel differently. You're saying you're fine with them not being on the Sox, but they're much better than anything we have. When people say things like that I just don't get it.
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Well, if they don't add a legit starting pitcher by Opening Day, this offseason has to be deemed a colossal failure by someone.
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But they apparently aren't letting Breslow spend much this offseason or letting him trade one of the top 3 prospects. So he's very limited in what he can do. It's ownership that's the problem. Changing CBO's won't change that.
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I know. But most of the top starting FA pitchers have signed, and we're getting a steady stream of stories that the Red Sox don't plan to go after Snell or Montgomery and don't plan to make a trade that involves Mayer, Anthony or Teel. So I'm depressed.
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Meanwhile, the 2024 Red Sox shape up as being thoroughly mediocre and boring.
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We all know the only pitchers fans pay to see are the Aces.
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Debatable. His last 2 contracts have added up to 120 mill for 7 years, which isn't chump change. He's arguably a guy with star-level talent, whose only downside is the obvious one.
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Don't forget the other Nate.
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Sure. Of course a lot of the fans at any particular game are season ticket holders, non-STH hardcore types who attend a lot of games, and tourists who buy their tickets based on when they're in town. One question that spins out of this is whether teams that win the title tend to have big stars or not. My guess is they usually do. Red Sox champs of this century certainly did.
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Like I said, we want both. We want a winning team with some stars on it. We're a little greedy, I guess. A faceless team that wins is preferable to a team of stars that loses - if that's your main point, I agree.
