Bellhorn04
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One year, $10 million contracts do not get you a star player these days. Remember that after 2018 Dombrowski signed Steve Pearce to a one year, $6.25 million contract. Pearce was a non-full time player, decent hitter with a career OPS of .772 who was slightly minus on defense. That's sort of a starting point for what you get. I'd say Kike was worth $3.75 million more than that, when you throw in a little adjustment for inflation. No matter what, it's not a blatant overpay.
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Some of us would argue that we actually upgraded over Vaz with McGuire. It's very unlikely that any trade of JD to dump his salary would have resulted in an upgrade this year.
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We badly need a good fielding center fielder. Kike fills that bill. It's pretty simple.
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Kike's defense never sucks. His offensive numbers are substandard, but he does have 40 RBI in 79 games, and we all know he can get hot any time. Not sure why you have it in for this guy.
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It is interesting to consider what the Red Sox media and fans would be saying right now if the Sox did the fire sale and were an additional 5-10 games under .500 right now. Would they still be screaming to Fire Bloom? Or would that depend on what we got back in the fire sale?
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If we didn't have Sale and other guys expected back after the deadline I'd agree with the fire sale thing. Sale could have been a nice difference-maker. We'll never know.
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9/20 SOX @ Reds 6:40PM ET
Bellhorn04 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Probably not, but I'll leave all the calculations to Chaim on that one. -
What you're leaving out is that every team that signs a QO'd FA loses one pick. The incremental penalty for going over the CBT is a fifth-round pick.
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9/20 SOX @ Reds 6:40PM ET
Bellhorn04 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Seriously. You'd think JD had devolved into a complete bum based on some of the comments about him. He has a .775 OPS (Schwarber's is .800) and has been heating up again recently. I would not write him off just yet. -
Yes, we've noticed.
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Yep, anyone who blames the GM/HOBO for everything has to blame DD for failing to retain Betts in two separate reported extension negotiations.
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No, it's not my intention to start a new argument about the Kike signing. But I will say that just because the deal was done before the season ended sure as heck doesn't mean it was the #1 priority. It probably just means it came together quickly and easily. Come on man!
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I think $10M was about right for Kike. Yes it's a raise, but it's also only a one-year deal. I just think it's funny that Bloom gets knocked on one hand for letting guys go and on the other for re-signing one of them.
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So even when Bloom does bring guys back he gets knocked. Kind of says it all.
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I think it's another case of "you can't win", because if guys come back earlier than expected and don't look 100% or re-aggravate the injury, you know how well that goes over. Baseball players just seem to be more injury-prone than we think they should be. All kinds of weird injuries that do seem to take forever to get better.
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I think it's all irrelevant speculation except for media and fans who are campaigning to get Bloom fired.
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Yes, complaints about the medical staff are another long-standing beef of Red Sox fans...
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And Kike obviously likes him, to come back without testing free agency!
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How do you actually know he's not well-liked by the players or the fans? What is the evidence of this?
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Well, it's pretty easy to connect the dots in this case. Henry dispatches the free-spending Dombrowski and hires a guy from Tampa Bay. The first thing the guy from Tampa Bay does is trade Mookie. Most people would deduce it was Henry's idea more than the new guy's idea. Add to that the fact it was obvious they had great difficulty signing Mookie to an extension. And that was on DD's watch.
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Mookie Betts and David Price have been traded to Dodgers
Bellhorn04 replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Look what this prescient guy said right after the trade! -
No, but on average, it cost $45M in 2021 to get that much value out of free agent acquisitions. It's a cost-based measurement.
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Yes, but Brady is money, there's no way around it. He gives his teams a huge chance to win. The personnel around him keeps changing, the wins keep coming.
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FanGraphs says: Actual value provided by Eovaldi: $56 million. Total AAV of contract: $57.3 million (after pro-rating 2020). The catch is that about 80% of the value came in 2021. My verdict: average/mediocre.
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Not sure about that. I think they tried to extend Mookie first and it went nowhere. The Sale and Eovaldi moves came after that.
