Bellhorn04
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That's Fellowship of the Miserable stuff, though LOL
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I don't know, but on the flip side, do you really think fans want to pay full prices to watch replacement players?
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I can see that pretty soon I'm going to have to put up my baseball philosophy thread, probably making quite a fool of myself in the process...
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I'm passing because I know I'm not going to do any better than has already been done. The best choices get used up quick.
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1994 was a slasher movie, and everyone got killed.
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It's all water under the Tobin. This organization has made its share of mistakes, but 4 rings really takes the sting out of it...
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And now you've got all weekend to think about it.
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Castillo's situation was a little more confusing than most.
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I bet you're right.
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"Closer by committee" has the same kind of unfortunate ring as "bridge season". Very contagious.
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Yes, the question is what "part of it" the Red Sox would have had to pay. If another team paid half, the other half of about 6 mill would be on the Red Sox books for tax purposes.
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Probably looks worse on TV than it does when you're inside it.
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What the...
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Just as Dombrowski reportedly assessed him.
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What do you think, the Red Sox were keeping him in AAA to punish him or something? It seems pretty obvious they calculated that promoting him was too much of a risk because of the tax hit. And they couldn't get any other teams interested in trading for him.
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Right. If he was playing at a level that projected to a 2-3 WAR major leaguer, another team would have been willing to take on his $12 mill AAV.
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And if he played awesome in the minors I believe they would have called him up, tax hit or not. So he did have a chance.
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Yes, he got rich in the minors but was unfortunate career-wise.
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There's absolutely no doubt about that.
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Well, as some of us keep pointing out, Bloom was a protege of Andrew Friedman, who is now the biggest spender in baseball.
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They could, but I question whether anyone wants to make things any more complicated, especially with time such a factor. It'll be interesting to see what happens, but I have a feeling it'll be pretty much same old, same old.
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It's very possible that they remain in somewhat of a holding pattern this year, with so much money (and talent) coming off the backs after 2022. I tend to agree that if they do make a splash it will be Suzuki.
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Shaughnessy always makes me think of Ted Williams's classic description of Boston media as "Knights of the Keyboard".
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I don't know that there's much expectation of the tax threshold going up significantly. It was 210 million, and the owners wanted to reduce it to 180. My guess is they settle for a small increase from 210 million.
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To add to that, the Rangers acted like things are better than ever financially, didn't they, investing an insane $500 million in Seager and Semien.
