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  1. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, that's a pretty nice combo package.
  2. Bellhorn04
    It's a feature. It's not something you can just dismiss. The Dodgers were in perfect position to lock Mookie up, and I do believe that had a lot to do with why they made the trade and gave up a guy like Verdugo. Now if you assume that the Red Sox were saying goodbye with the trade, and had no thoughts whatsoever of bidding on Mookie in free agency, all of that meant nothing to them.
  3. Bellhorn04
    So true. I'm very much a “call me when they’re in Boston” guy. But having the #4 pick is a big deal for sure.
  4. Bellhorn04
    You draftniks are amazing. Every time I think of myself as an obsessive baseball nerd, I come to this thread and realize I'm the equivalent of a bench player compared to some others.
  5. Bellhorn04
    But the $8.4 million secures the player's rights for X number of seasons, doesn't it?
  6. Bellhorn04
    I haven't seen one of these for a while, but we used to see trades where the acquiring team was given a 48 hour window or something like that to sign an extension with the player. In this case the Dodgers got a much longer window, you might say. It seems pretty obvious that a big part of why they made the trade was that they figured they could keep him.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, I think I might e-mail Cot's Contracts about the AAV thing. Spotrac shows it as 25.55.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Just look at our 2018 deadline deals: Beeks for Eovaldi Buttrey for Kinsler Espinal for Pearce
  9. Bellhorn04
    Think about it. The Red Sox offer of 10/300 (AAV of 30) has been characterized as a starting bid, some even call it a lowball offer. The Dodgers got him for 6.5 million more than that in present dollars, and an AAV that's 4.45 million lower than that.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Big moment for Ben Cherington?
  11. Bellhorn04
    As always, you have to look at what the selling teams would be interested in. Which selling teams have a good late inning reliever whose contract is expiring at the end of the year, for starters.
  12. Bellhorn04
    I think you have to give Friedman and the Dodgers some credit for prescience. They judged that the pandemic would not have lasting financial repercussions. Mookie's deal looks vastly better than what Lindor got.
  13. Bellhorn04
    No matter how much of a crapshoot the playoffs are, bolstering your pitching can't hurt your chances. Anyway, I'm sure whatever Bloom does will be smart.
  14. Bellhorn04
    The Yankees offense looked like it had come to life against Seattle. They won the series opener 12-1, and scored 5 more in the first 2 innings of the second game. And then went scoreless the final 16 innings of the series. They got one hit today.
  15. Bellhorn04
    The dream is over, just like that.
  16. Bellhorn04
    I get your point and don't necessarily disagree. The only catch here, and it can't really be factored in by any mathematical method, is that Betts signed an extension with the Dodgers. He did not get to free agency. That's the catch. And it was a relatively team-friendly deal, when you factor in the deferrals. So this was a big extra benefit to the Dodgers. And if the Red Sox had any aspirations of bidding on Mookie in free agency, which no one really knows about, such aspirations were obviously snuffed out by this.
  17. Bellhorn04
    I would say that a strong majority of ours, going back to 2004, have worked out quite well.
  18. Bellhorn04
    Yep, there have been plenty of good ones.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Do the names Eovaldi and Pearce ring a bell?
  20. Bellhorn04
    It depends on the cost, of course. Our deadline acquisitions in 2004, 2013 and 2018 were pretty helpful.
  21. Bellhorn04
    1981 was an amazing mess. They split the season into two half-seasons, with the division winners of each half-season playing off in a preliminary round. Teams only played about 110 games that year. The Cincinnati Reds had the best total record in the National League, and did not make the playoffs!
  22. Bellhorn04
    I know, but what business do we have playing with hypotheticals? The season was shortened by a pandemic. Oddly enough, the last time the season really got screwed up, but was completed, was the strike year of 1981, and the Dodgers also won that year.
  23. Bellhorn04
    My belief is that sometimes you have to let the season unfold before you know how good or bad a job was done in the offseason. With the Red Sox, you have a case of a better job being done by Bloom than many realized.
  24. Bellhorn04
    I think notin's point is a sound one - the Red Sox going out of their way to avoid crossing the threshold this year, and thereby passing up a deal that could really bolster the 2021 chances, would not necessarily be smart. And going over by a few million doesn't necessarily have any significant future repercussions.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Hey, we were having a perfectly good luxury tax argument in the other thread. Might as well move it here, I guess.
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