Bellhorn04
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You know what, though? I'll bet Bloom would have gotten hammered no matter what he did. Fire sale? Oh yeah, sure, let's treat the fans to the end of 2012 all over again. Go for it big time? What a fool, throwing away good prospects on a slim chance at a playoff run. Don't do much either way? Indecisive bum!
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I don't know, cp, most of the posters here now seem to agree that the Sale extension was a massive blunder. And I've been one of the few who has tried to defend DD on that one.
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Zobrist was so good at it that he ended up getting a 4 year/56 million payday from Theo's Cubs. And he played on back-to-back World Series winners, the 2015 Royals and the 2016 Cubs.
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Ben Zobrist, right?
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8/5 SOX @ Royals 8:10PM ET
Bellhorn04 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
It looks like s*** now, absolutely. The reasons it may have been done: 1) Upgrade our defense which was a big weakness last year. 2) Renfroe seemed liked a good candidate to regress. 3) JBJ seemed like a candidate to bounce back with the stick (whoops). 4) We got 2 prospects in the deal. -
What people seem to be overlooking is that Bloom has been trying to put the 2021 and 2022 teams together on a limited budget. That's why the first base situation happened. Plan A was for minimum wager Bobby Dalbec to fit the bill. And there were some indications he could do it. There was also the hope that Casas might be ready this year. The limited budget is why Bloom went for some of these temporary stopgap measures and in the process he may have gotten a little too creative or clever, with things like Cordero at 1B and Arroyo in RF. They backfired and there's no way around that.
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8/5 SOX @ Royals 8:10PM ET
Bellhorn04 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
JBJ's contract with the Brewers was like this: 2021 salary 6.5 mill 2022 salary 9.5 mill 2023 team option 12 mill with buyout of 8 mill The total guaranteed was 2 years and 24 mill, which resulted in an AAV of 12 mill. The Brewers only paid the 2021 salary of 6.5 mill. The Sox pay 9.5 mill plus the 8 mill buyout for a total of 17.5 mill. -
Most overrated member of the 500 HR club?
Bellhorn04 replied to Northern Star's topic in Other Baseball
Northern Star said "Mr October my ass", so I was primarily responding to that. -
Some might say Bloom jumped on a good opportunity. I guess it all depends on how you frame it.
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Not really worrying about it. Just trying to explain the reasoning.
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I'm looking forward to seeing it myself.
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Maybe so, but who was available, and what would we have to give up? Using Cordero at first was just a total fail, I'm not trying to defend Bloom or Cora on that one.
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What I said was, that was part of the plan for 2021 and 2022.
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Dalbec showed promise last year with 25 HR and 78 RBI and a .792 OPS. And they weren't expecting Casas to get injured. s*** happens.
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It's a little early to be sure.
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I think he does have a plan, but maybe we just don't like it. I think the plan for 2021 and 2022 was to win enough games to make the playoffs without adding too much to the payroll, and to keep adding to the farm. The first part worked last year, this year it looks like it won't.
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I have a suspicion they WANTED to go over this year, for PR purposes. If they kept Renfroe the net reduction to the payroll tax purposes would have been about 4.5 mill.
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The negotiations with Mookie took place between the 2018 and 2019 seasons. The same offseason they gave the extensions to Bogaerts and Sale.
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Pedro is media now too. And he was a bit of an agitator when he was a player. He's one of the guys on the 2004 team who was unhappy because of his contract situation, and he complained about it publicly early in the season, which pissed me off a lot at the time.
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So how does that explain not paying Mookie?
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Of course. Shaughnessy actually had a column some months back where he expressed gratitude to Henry for not canning him the way Manfred canned Rosenthal. I like a lot of Shaughnessy's stuff. I own a couple of his books. But I also find him to be an insufferable curmudgeon a lot of the time.
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I don't have time to take it all in. And a lot of it is, and always has been, speculation/hearsay/gossip that is designed to stir people up and generate revenue. It's an age-old game. I'm not saying they're all full of it, either. But if it isn't an actual quote, I see no reason to buy it as fact.
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Yes, but you can't blame Henry for getting a little soured by the likes of Crawford, Hanley, Pablo, Castillo, Price and Sale.
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Of course they could have. The money is there, that's not in question. The question is whether any $350 million guaranteed contract to a baseball player is a wise investment.
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Yeah right. You should know it's a waste of time trying to tell people how to spend their time. Excuse me if I don't look upon sports media and open mouth shows as a source of wisdom. I read the Globe sports guys-Shaughnessy, Abraham etc. That's enough for me.
