Bellhorn04
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Who would have thunk we'd be behind the Jays, Giants and White Sox in payroll?
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If Sale can stay healthy, I have little doubt he can still post eye-popping numbers.
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Vaz got 3 @ $10 from the Twins.
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One more thing. In 2020 players only received about 40% of their salary, so that knocks another $15 or so off Sale's cost. The total is actually about $113.
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The only way we have Sale for 3 more seasons instead of 2 is if the vesting option is triggered.
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I get what you're saying, but in modern baseball thinking they also look at the fact the pitcher heats up and then cools down on the bench between innings, so even if the pitch count is low they may not want to extend the guy in innings. It's all part of the babying thing, I realize.
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Don't forget the present value thingy because of the deferred money. The total value of Sale's contract was discounted from $145 to $128.
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Who knows indeed? It's all part of the mysteries of the game.
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The real point was that Rodon's year by year innings log tells us he can't be considered a bastion of health...
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McGuire has been swinging the bat better than his career numbers suggest. Can he keep it up as a #1 catcher? And we'll be keeping an eye on that CERA!
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See now, some of you Old School guys are getting sneaky with numbers like BA. You cherry-pick. Kyle Schwarber hit .218 last year, but many regretted losing him.
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I've given up on trying to evaluate catchers defensively. Have to trust in Bloom and Cora.
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Nothing wrong with a little fun!
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Today was an excellent day for the Sox, because although they lost, Sale looked great. That's spring training. Interesting that Jansen, Rodriguez and Schreiber all pitched more than an inning.
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I think the ideal spring training is: 1) Win a few more than you lose. 2) No significant injuries.
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-The Story signing is a big contract. There's room for a few of them in the Sox budget. -Trading Vaz yielded a couple of prospects and his replacement, McGuire, is cheaper.
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Now we're going to need a definition of "lottery tickets".
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And as we very recently discussed, pitchers get injured too damn much.
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Yeah, it's pretty simple. 1) Build up the farm. 2) Avoid having an excess number of potential albatross mega-contracts. 3) Bridge it to the youth movement with short term deals for "reasonably priced" veterans.
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In some real Song news, he's been shut down with back tightness and will be re-evaluated next week. So he may not get in any spring games at all.
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They released him, didn't they? Call it what you want, but someone in authority decided to let him pursue his baseball career.
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But there was no way of knowing next year was the year. This year was more likely. The Navy knew Song was getting to the now or never stage as far as a baseball career.
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What Henry and Bloom are trying to do is pretty obvious by now. Hopefully 2023 vindicates the approach.
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But there was a reasonable chance of him being released this year. The Navy would realize that the more time goes by the less his chances of playing in the big leagues.
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Well, it's the Lester thing all over, because they did offer him the $160 but it was too little too late. But maybe on purpose. To me it looks like they decided to choose Devers over Bogaerts as the guy to build around. It's no slight on Bogaerts. He was a great Red Sox player. But the contract he got from the Padres is one of the craziest overpays yet. I think most of us figured he'd get $200 tops.
