Bellhorn04
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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.
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Yeah, no thanks, I'm pretty happy right where I am.
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It doesn't look like such a weak class to me. https://sportsnaut.com/top-mlb-free-agents/
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In retrospect of course, the Sale extension which was also enabled by not keeping Mookie, was a big mistake.
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The rub is the 3 year opt-out in Bogey's extension, one that was likely to be exercised. If it wasn't for that I'd agree. Many fans, of course, think we could easily have afforded to keep both Betts and Bogaerts.
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A lot of that sounds like good old media speculation to me. Are there any actual quotes?
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Most overrated member of the 500 HR club?
Bellhorn04 replied to Northern Star's topic in Other Baseball
Yes, it's sad that he turned to the juice and tainted his great career like that. -
A few of us think the reason they traded Vaz (besides his expiring contract) was the CERA thing, and the new guy McGuire has good CERA numbers. I'm not surprised that the deadline moves looked weird. I'm guessing the front office didn't want to throw away the slim chance of making the playoffs for the sake of fan interest, but they didn't want to invest much in it, either.
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It's a pretty mild reason in the overall scheme of things. Plus one could make a case that the 2022 team was trying to compete, they just got derailed by injuries and some questionable moves like the Renfroe-Bradley trade.
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And the 2004 team is of course a great example of one that went through a lot of turmoil and had guys who were unhappy for various reasons and things ended up pretty well...
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LeMahieu was generally needed at second base, with Torres playing shortstop. Cashman did a good job rectifying that situation.
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No, I'll hate it.
