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  1. Bellhorn04
    Mookie making an out there was a massive relief. A grand slam OTOH would have been nightmarish.
  2. Bellhorn04
    We'll never know what happened in negotiations. I just don't think Mookie had anything to do with the trade to the Dodgers. The Red Sox traded him there because there weren't many teams who would do a trade for a guy under contract for one year at $27 mill. The Dodgers were the perfect match. And you can't blame Mookie for taking $365 million from one of the richest teams in the game and a team set up for success. But it was the Red Sox who sent him there.
  3. Bellhorn04
    It was a rumor. What did he have to gain from refuting it? I guess now that he was being directly asked about what happened with the failed negotiations by the Boston media he decided to give them something. But then he said he didn't really want to talk any more about it. To me he hasn't said or done a thing wrong, he has only said good things about his experience with the Red Sox, but still some folks want to find something to nail him for.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Sure, let's blame Mookie for not feeling it was his responsibility to air dirty laundry to the press. What a miserable guy!
  5. Bellhorn04
    Yep. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
  6. Bellhorn04
    No, Sears started for the A's and he's a lefty. Jeez, you guys are really keeping me busy correcting all the misstatements today.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Looking at the box score, Verdugo and Duran sat and Refsnyder and Kike started. But we were going against a lefty so that would the platoon thing rather than a rest thing. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS202307090.shtml
  8. Bellhorn04
    But it's interesting the Betts trade talk didn't start until so late. Usually to get maximum value you start early in the offseason.
  9. Bellhorn04
    And now Bloom has 3 paydays under his belt totalling about $550 million...
  10. Bellhorn04
    No wonder you've been so skeptical of the signing all this time.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Who are you talking about?
  12. Bellhorn04
    I give DD a pass for the same reason I give Bloom a pass: they can only offer what they're authorized to offer. They don't sign the cheques.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Totally wrong. 2014 bWAR 4.4 2015 bWAR 6.3 You forgot to add the WAR's of the two teams he played for in each year.
  14. Bellhorn04
    The Lester Lowball was well documented.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Actually he didn't.
  16. Bellhorn04
    This is the same team that gave absurdly lowball offers to Jon Lester and Xander Bogaerts. Is it too much to believe they also tried to lowball Mookie? He has denied the rumored $300 mill offer ever happened.
  17. Bellhorn04
    How does watch what they do explain it? Did Mookie ask to be traded to the Dodgers? This isn't the NBA.
  18. Bellhorn04
    Look at his baseball card. He's always been a guy who averages less than an inning per outing. He's on pace for a little over 50 innings which is about exactly what you'd expect. He threw 29 pitches on August 23. And he's 37. If Cora was riding him hard and he got injured that would pretty much finish our season.
  19. Bellhorn04
    So what exactly is the evidence that he DIDN'T want to stay in Boston?
  20. Bellhorn04
    Well, the team isn't quitting, you can say that much.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Mookie's remarks certainly lean heavily toward the idea that he wanted to stay in Boston and thought it would happen.
  22. Bellhorn04
    The fact that Mookie is denying a 10 year/$300 million offer was ever made is kind of interesting...we've been hanging our hats on that for years now! And Mookie also basically said if you want more info on the contract negotiations, you know who to ask. And he did mention Bloom's name along with Henry's. Maybe they made him an offer in the 2019-2020 offseason before trading him. That would help explain why the trade wasn't made until February.
  23. Bellhorn04
    It's not for certain, no. But where he is essentially an overaged rookie, he doesn't have a track record of success in MLB that we can look to for reassurance that he can hit MLB pitching over a full season.
  24. Bellhorn04
    So in his own words, Henry said they decided to trade Mookie because they didn't want to lose him to free agency and get nothing back except a draft pick of questionable value.
  25. Bellhorn04
    The Red Sox had a window of opportunity in front of them thanks to players like Betts and Bogaerts, but they had zero top of the line pitching. To me signing Price was a logical move. Like many Sox fans, I didn't even like Price much, but his track record was solid. I'm not sure where DD was supposed to get top of the line starters without a big free agent signing like Price or a big trade like Sale.
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