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6/25 vs Yankees (Pedroia's Retirement Party)
Bellhorn04 replied to mvp 78's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Yes, I think that in general Cora has done a fine job with the pitching changes all year. It's one of his strengths as a manager. -
Anyone who is really paying attention sees that Bloom spent just enough to put us about $5 mill under the first tax threshold, presumably leaving that for the deadline. And by doing so, in spite of all our issues, payroll and otherwise, he managed to assemble a contending team. The rest is just noise, really.
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Who gets sent down from the rotation once Sale is back?
Bellhorn04 replied to TylerD's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Rocker must be the king of catching 'em looking! -
Except he's not batting 1st any more.
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It was a mild overpay at most. Kike has averaged about 2.5 bWAR per 150 games over his career. He's at 0.9 bWAR right now this year. People are really starting to expect a lot for 7 mill a year, I guess...
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Somehow I doubt that Chaim Bloom went to Alex Cora asking him who to sign. Kike was virtually full time for the Dodgers his last 3 seasons with them. Let's not distort the truth for the sake of making a point.
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Think you may have missed the other posts about Richards, including the one right above yours.
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When you talked about trading Barnes even if we're in the hunt, now that was bordering on nonsensical.
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Career-ending injuries are a bitch.
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I know that notin. My only point all along has been that Kimbrel's contract was a relative bargain. It was not a 'double whammy'. As mvp says, it was a mild overpay.
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As I keep asking, what would Kimbrel have gotten if he WAS a free agent that offseason. Based on what we know, it would have been around 70 million. The previous big contract for a closer was Paps at 50 million after 2011. My estimate is a totally fair one.
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6/25 vs Yankees (Pedroia's Retirement Party)
Bellhorn04 replied to mvp 78's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
He did it. -
Not much consolation, but all of a sudden Verdugo's OPS is only 110 points higher than Kike's (.796 to .686).
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Not feeling as confident myself. But I never feel very confident, just because it's baseball.
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Our highest OPS is .932, so that's a little doubtful.
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No question. But Kimmi was talking about the opposing pitcher getting a boost from an easy first out.
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If you're the Rays you can LOL With the Red Sox, whenever we tried the 'throw stuff against the wall' approach for a bullpen, it didn't work very well. See our 2015 bullpen. With Kimbrel we got one of the best relievers ever, for only 2 years and 24 million guaranteed, plus a team option year. If we had got him as a free agent for that deal, I think most people would have said it was a bargain.
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The Red Sox do have an .818 OPS in the first inning, however.
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Good question. Somebody there liked him, I guess.
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Mild overpay sums it up.
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It's unlikely you're going to trade Barnes to a contender and get back a useful arm for this year. Why would a contender trade one of their useful arms? It has to be a trade scenario that makes sense on both sides.
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They did, but it wasn't a throw in the towel trade, it was the exact opposite.
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6 games back at the end of August (not July) when the team was ravaged by injuries. Like I say, there was some grumbling, but I don't think it was a huge deal.
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GMs are always thinking about trying to extract value from impending free agents, I expect. The question is whether any who are in contention would actually do it. It's like kicking your fans in the stomach. And baseball fans are already an endangered species.
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Wells, huh? Let's see. They traded him on August 31, 2006, when we were 6 games out of a Wild Card spot and half the team was on the DL. He had pitched only 47 innings with a 4.98 ERA, and brought back George Kottaras. I do recall that some Red Sox fans grumbled about it at the time, but I think it was a pretty faint grumbling.
