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  1. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, 6 for around 155 or 160 sounds right to me. Can't really go any higher than that.
  2. Bellhorn04
    The next contract offer will be the one that matters.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Sounds like some in-game joking or hyperbole to me.
  4. Bellhorn04
    But why would they trade Wacha and not JD? Based on Speier's article, Bloom wasn't trading JD unless somebody got stupid. I assume the same would have applied to Wacha.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Yes. Was Schwarb worth that much of the pile? is the question.
  6. Bellhorn04
    $10 mill.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Schwarb did get a pile of money - 4 years and $79 mill.
  8. Bellhorn04
    The two-year age difference accounts for some of it. It's a valid comp, though.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Trades could have been more of a problem than a cure. The problem is that guys tend to decline toward the latter part of their contracts, while still making the same money. I'm not blaming DD for the situation, it's just the way it worked out.
  10. Bellhorn04
    The reason people were talking about a fire sale before the season was simply all the expiring contracts. They were an elephant in the room. The team decided against a fire sale, and now they're getting criticized by some media and fans for not doing so. Color me shocked!
  11. Bellhorn04
    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.
  12. Bellhorn04
    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.
  13. Bellhorn04
    We badly need a good fielding center fielder. Kike fills that bill. It's pretty simple.
  14. Bellhorn04
    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.
  15. Bellhorn04
    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?
  16. Bellhorn04
    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.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Probably not, but I'll leave all the calculations to Chaim on that one.
  18. Bellhorn04
    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.
  19. Bellhorn04
    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.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Yes, we've noticed.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Yep, anyone who blames the GM/HOBO for everything has to blame DD for failing to retain Betts in two separate reported extension negotiations.
  22. Bellhorn04
    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!
  23. Bellhorn04
    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.
  24. Bellhorn04
    So even when Bloom does bring guys back he gets knocked. Kind of says it all.
  25. Bellhorn04
    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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