Career OPS+
Manny Ramirez 154
David Ortiz 141
JD Martinez 131
Rafael Devers 128
Devers is a very good power hitter, but not nearly in the same class as Manny or Papi, much more in the class of JDM.
Which makes him clearly overpaid as a DH.
Campbell, Garcia, Masa and Ref are not good OF depth for 2025. Campbell and Garcia are unproven as MLB players. And Masa and Ref are bad defensive players.
TYPM's argument about errors is a sort of novel one. He bases everything on the premise that once an error has been officially scored (or not), then it becomes an irrefutable fact.
Personally I think it's one of those situations where players might prefer to not say anything about it, because it's a no-win situation anyway.
Good thing Casas wasn't still around, I guess. I'll bet he would have said something.
Well, here's where you're simply dead wrong. Of course it's a guess. Two different scorers can call the same play differently. Sometimes they go back and review the play and change the call.
The fact that it goes into the books as an error doesn't change the fact that it was only one person's opinion.
It makes it easier for you to rely on errors and fielding % and ignore other metrics, but that doesn't make it right.
Sure, it's a recorded fact that the official scorer called it an error. But that call is what you are referring to as a guess. By the same token there are recorded facts that metrics people determined it was a routine play, difficult play or whatever.
There is absolutely no difference between the two types of determinations.