Bellhorn04
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3.62 FIP and .666 OPSa in those 10 starts, so not really a terrible finish.
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No boners here, but Wacha has had 2 decent seasons in a row, totalling 5.7 bWAR or 4.1 fWAR. Wacha's price tag did take a hefty leap this year, though.
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The dreaded splitsville splits.
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The criticism with Bogaerts is that they didn't make a legit effort to retain him so we'll never know if they could have retained him for a price not much higher than Story's. And Bogaerts has been much more valuable than Story the last 2 seasons. The contract Bogaerts got from the Padres was absolutely absurd.
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Yes, definitely maybe.
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And our rotation was mainly made up of projects already.
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Giolito might turn out to be a nice value signing. Or he might turn out to be the next Corey Kluber at twice the price.
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If we look at the other teams in the AL East: -Orioles and Rays finished 23 and 21 games ahead of us, respectively, so they probably didn't need to do much to stay better than us. -Yankees added Soto and Verdugo.
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I was patient and optimistic for many years of the Henry regime. I don't feel the need to be so any more, not after the Betts trade and the accumulating pile of sub-.500 teams that have been foisted on us.
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To me this signing indicates one of two things: a) Craig is working through an intelligent and methodical plan to upgrade the team while remaining fiscally prudent. or Henry has become a cheap bastard and signings like this are as good as we can expect.
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BTV us, man...
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I shall not vomit, but it's definitely a reclamation project.
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And yet they're all better than the flotsam and jetsam we have.
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In my world, 4 of the top 6 free agent pitchers have been signed.
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Yes, I have advanced that theory, and I shudder to think it might be true.
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Mainly being the third richest franchise, having a lot of payroll room and having finished under .500 the last two years.
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Better positioned as in being a rich team with a lot of payroll room and a freshly re-set tax level.
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I don't think so, not credibly anyway.
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My counterargument would be that if all it took was a nudge, Bloom should have nudged sooner, no?
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Point was mainly about Red calling Kike Cora's boy. Seems to me you could also make a case he was Bloom's boy. And Bloom is the one who opened the door to Kike playing SS by not getting a legit fill-in.
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It's all speculation.
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The counterargument is that there might not be any team who needed an active offseason more than the Red Sox and who seemed better positioned to do so.
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But Bloom is the guy who signed him - twice.
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Should have been clearer - the Dodgers played him there some after trading for him in 2023. Why would you do that if he's a butcher at the position? Isn't it more likely he was suffering from a case of the yips which could be short-term or not?
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CBOs and managers can fall prey to this thing called "hope" just like fans do.
