Bellhorn04
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Kyle Schwarber sure can pound the crap out of a baseball. He's one of the most enjoyable guys to watch, because he has such a smart approach. More than willing to take a walk.
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You're saying the same thing as notin. I don't get it. Bradley had an fWAR of -0.3. That's not fine, wherever you put it in the batting order.
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True, but the more you have, the better your chances.
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There's no magic formula when the postseason has such a high crapshoot factor. But teams like the Yankees, Astros, Dodgers and Cardinals are making the playoffs just about every year, and teams like the Pirates and Marlins have little chance. Money helps a lot. But it takes money plus smarts to be consistently successful. The Rays are doing it mostly with smarts, admittedly.
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There is a correlation.
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I think they're more the exception than the rule. We've discussed how all 4 of the Red Sox title teams had big FA's.
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Catfish and Reggie pretty much launched the free agent era, didn't they?
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Tito may have been pretty burned out by managing the Red Sox for 8 years. I think leaving probably did his health some good...
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And that $250 mill would be more than double what Bogey got. And yet we think it might be light! Things have gotten so crazy that we're rounding off to the nearest $50 million in our guesses...
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Look what happened with the Rangers. They paid Seager and Semien $500 million, went 68-94 and fired their GM and manager.
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There's no such thing as fair market value in an irrational market like baseball. Seager got 325 mill. Correa got 105 mill. Irrational.
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Devers is much better than Rendon is NOW. But not better than Rendon was when he signed his contract. Rendon had multiple seasons of around 6 WAR. Now Rendon is just another cautionary tale.
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Not keeping Bogey and Devers might cover it...
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A VASTLY cheaper version, in this case.
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Yes, we are definitely in agreement on this one.
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Yes, a strict platoon of Hosmer/Dalbec should be able to post an OPS around .750.
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There were other problems, though - the Bradley trade and the terrible bullpen. What analytics could possible have pointed in the direction of signing Diekman, for example.
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Strictly from a cost-benefit standpoint, starting 2023 with a DH platoon of Hosmer & Dalbec doesn't seem like the worst thing. They can also back up Casas of course. And spend the money elsewhere.
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I think John Henry got huffy, to be perfectly honest about it.
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Pretty low right now. It's quite possible the Sox make a little show of trying to keep Bogey and Devers, and keep neither.
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I wish they were only $100,000 apart. But I do know what you meant. $100,000,000 apart.
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The point is it looks like data analysis did absolutely nothing for the Sox this year. So what exactly are the benefits? It's a serious question. (One possible answer is that every team has data coming out of their ears now, so no one has an advantage any more.)
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(Oh boy, an opening for some real back-and-forth here.) How do you think Bloom's data analysis paid off for the Sox this year?
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Usually when someone hits a curveball, expert analysis concludes that it was a "hanger". And when someone hits a slider it's concluded that it was a "cement mixer".
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Old Red listens to sports radio, so I think maybe he actually relies on the "ear test"...
