Bellhorn04
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Well, we can go on and on about it, but the bottom line is the Sox don't appear to have made an aggressive effort, and they tossed in the towel and traded him, giving up that last year in which they could have negotiated. I'll always believe ownership could have gotten this done pretty easily, but they decided to draw one of their lines in the sand and move on.
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Max, you have to read the whole series of posts. This all started with the idea of signing Matt Chapman for 3B.
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No, I don't think so, because a player in Betts's situation is looking at it as the final contract of their career, so what they're focused on is the total dollar value, not the AAV. Betts was expecting something north of $350 mill, and that's what he got.
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No. The Scrooge story had a Hollywood ending. And who doesn't love Uncle Scrooge?
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Signing Chapman would be bold. The thing is they'd have to make other bold moves to accommodate it.
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All efforts at humor are appreciated. But we all have a long way to go to match 5Gloves for obliqueness, punning and general savagery.
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The $300 mill, if it was actually offered, was below market at the time by at least $50 mill, I'd say. Heck, not too long after that your guy Soto turned down $440 mill.
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Sounds like the Talksox consensus is no Matt Chapman.
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And where does he go from here, spending-wise? By firing Bloom it's almost like he painted himself into a corner.
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And as I keep saying, there is ample evidence of Lowball Johnny making offers to star players that he must know they're not going to accept, with Lester and Bogaerts.
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On its face it looks perfect. I think Devers would be okay with it. The potential problem I see is that Casas may not want to be a DH. The team can overrule him on that, but it might affect him. Players can get pretty sensitive about these things. It's unusual for a young player to be stamped as "DH for life".
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What's interesting, though, is that there's no direct quote from Mookie that the amount he turned down was $300 million. It was all "inferred" from the way the story was written.
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The only way that works would be with Devers moving to 1B and Casas to DH.
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Lately it looks like our pitchers are trying but our hitters our not.
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How did Mookie change the story, exactly? Maybe we need a new thread for this.
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Lots of randomness in the game, that's for sure. Watch for a thread on that.
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Lowball Johnny had other ideas.
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It'll be interesting who they hire. It'll be even more interesting how big of a budget they get from Henry for this offseason.
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The Red Sox have an OPS+ of 102, which is tied for 12th in MLB. I like OPS+ because it adjusts for the ballpark factor. So we're not far from middle of the pack and mediocrity.
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I don't see that in Hugh's posts, though.
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The question, as it pertains to 2023, is whether ownership had the budget clamps on him so tight that he had little choice but to stay cheap.
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And if there was that pressure on Bloom, ownership did set him up to fail.
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Cot's Contracts has us about $11 million below the cap, so Eovaldi or Eflin would have put them over.
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Bloom tried that too.
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Plus guys probably start thinking more about keeping themselves healthy.
