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  1. Bellhorn04
    Oh yeah, I've heard people bitch when the closer is used with a 4 run lead in the 9th. (And anyone who points out that it's a "non-save" situation as a reason should be tied to the stake and flagellated.) Par for the course for sure.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Phillies are heating up. Just swept 3 from the Rays in the Dome, outscoring them 14-6.
  3. Bellhorn04
    I'm a Cora fanboy. I'm fully confident that he has a reason for everything he does. Some of those reasons are open to question, sure. But I highly doubt any other manager could do much better than he does.
  4. Bellhorn04
    JD Martinez. 2018 deadline trades for Eovaldi and Pearce were golden. Kinsler was actually a good move too, but of course everyone remembers the error in Game 3 of the WS. Pomeranz wasn't great but he wasn't awful. The trades for Thornburg and Smith went bust but were not bad ideas. Dave was actually responsible for the great Ryan Brasier too.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Wouldn't you say there's farm help in Bloom's Year 4?
  6. Bellhorn04
    That's kind of incredible.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, it's kind of playing with house money, considering no matter what his lifetime earnings from baseball will be well over $100 mill.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Probably, although a couple of years after that couple of years, it might not. (I have no problem with that signing at all, was very happy they got it done.)
  9. Bellhorn04
    Yes, I believe you're right.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Whatever ideas we come up with will be different from Bloom's ideas. It comes as a shock when he does something obvious, like the Jansen signing...
  11. Bellhorn04
    Of course. He could throw the last pitch of his career any time. But that seems to apply to most pitchers now.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Most Qualifying Offers get turned down, so that doesn't really count. Do we know exactly how much higher the Red Sox offer was than the Rangers' offer? Is it that well documented?
  13. Bellhorn04
    Texas made a great signing with Nate and an apparently horrific signing with deGrom. Pitchers seem to be the ultimate crapshoot.
  14. Bellhorn04
    And now add another Yankee pitcher, Cordero, to the list of domestic abusers.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Yes, a win-win trade that still makes me sad.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, I think we're talking about 2 separate things. From the Dodgers perspective, I think they were looking at it as getting 60 games plus the chance to keep him. That's what I'm getting at. That's what made it a potentially great trade for them.
  17. Bellhorn04
    I don't agree with this and never have. We didn't just trade 60 games, we gave up the chance of signing him to an extension, and we gave it up to the team that was in the best position to do it. It's quite possible the Dodgers wouldn't have made the trade if they didn't have designs on that. This doesn't have any bearing on what Bloom got back, though. Time has shown that he did well.
  18. Bellhorn04
    Based on this, going into the past offseason, which you said was a big one for Bloom, were you expecting him to put together a .500 team, or something better? And why?
  19. Bellhorn04
    The real argument, though, is that the Sox could have signed him for something a lot more reasonable if they were proactive about it.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Well, not by your standards, I suppose.
  21. Bellhorn04
    4. I was merely engaging in pointless idle speculation about what-if scenarios that don't matter anyway with regard to Bogaerts, and I don't disagree with anything you said but am mildly surprised at how forcefully you jumped on that pointless speculation.
  22. Bellhorn04
    And Bogaerts has been super durable. If anything he seems to want to play even when he's hurt. Just a model baseball citizen and nice guy. Even more so than with Mookie, I like to see Xander do well even if it's in another uniform.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Sure, while moon focuses on petty minutiae, you're into important things like arguing passionately about the difference between "merely high priority" and "top priority".
  24. Bellhorn04
    No sooner do you say that than Xander goes off. Last 2 games, 5 hits, 2 walks, 2 homers and 6 RBI. It was a ridiculous contract he got from the Padres, but I wish we could have signed him to something reasonable. And not signed Story. Not sure where Xander would have played when Mayer was ready, though.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Bloom could have made better moves. We could easily compile a list of moves that would have been better than signing Story, trading for JBJ and going over the tax line as a result, signing Kluber etc. Some of it would be hindsight and cherry-picking, of course. But it's not like he had no options. I think everyone gets that he inherited a very weak farm. It's the moves involving spending on major league players that can be questioned.
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