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  1. Bellhorn04
    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...
  2. Bellhorn04
    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.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Think you may have missed the other posts about Richards, including the one right above yours.
  4. Bellhorn04
    When you talked about trading Barnes even if we're in the hunt, now that was bordering on nonsensical.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Career-ending injuries are a bitch.
  6. Bellhorn04
    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.
  7. Bellhorn04
    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.
  8. Bellhorn04
    He did it.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Not much consolation, but all of a sudden Verdugo's OPS is only 110 points higher than Kike's (.796 to .686).
  10. Bellhorn04
    Not feeling as confident myself. But I never feel very confident, just because it's baseball.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Our highest OPS is .932, so that's a little doubtful.
  12. Bellhorn04
    No question. But Kimmi was talking about the opposing pitcher getting a boost from an easy first out.
  13. Bellhorn04
    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.
  14. Bellhorn04
    The Red Sox do have an .818 OPS in the first inning, however.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Good question. Somebody there liked him, I guess.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Mild overpay sums it up.
  17. Bellhorn04
    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.
  18. Bellhorn04
    They did, but it wasn't a throw in the towel trade, it was the exact opposite.
  19. Bellhorn04
    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.
  20. Bellhorn04
    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.
  21. Bellhorn04
    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.
  22. Bellhorn04
    It kind of feels like the Rays could bring in 14 random guys off the street and turn them into a good pitching staff.
  23. Bellhorn04
    When we were talking about this before, I think we figured out that the only time in history a team in contention at the deadline traded a significant player was when the Rays traded Kazmir.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Man, I can't wait to see the reaction of Red Sox Nation and media if he trades Barnes at the deadline. It's true that it would kind of suck to let him go for nothing. But not as much as throwing in the towel on a season. Unless we flounder bigly between now and then (which is certainly possible), it would be a stunning decision.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Anyway we're not missing much with Beni. fWAR 0.5 bWAR 1.0 currently on IL
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