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  1. Bellhorn04
    Mookie is a great player and may make us regret losing him for years to come. But $400 million is a lot of dough. How's this for a little perspective. We all shudder when we think of the 142 million contract for Crawford. What Mookie reportedly asked for, 420 million, was 3 CRAWFORD CONTRACTS. And please don't anyone try to explain how there's no comparison between the two players. Crawford had been a damn good player when we signed him.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Do you expect the team to win it all every 3 years now? Henry's won 4 of them. During the same period the Yankees and Dodgers have each won one. But yeah, Henry must not know what he's doing!
  3. Bellhorn04
    You should elaborate on that point.
  4. Bellhorn04
    He's trying to use some common sense. You can't just keep spending like drunken sailors.
  5. Bellhorn04
    "When Henry was spending" Again, our payroll is still one of the 3 highest in baseball. A lot of the guys on that 2018 team became much more expensive since then. It's just the way the MLB system is. And after that 2018 season he forked out 145 mill for Sale, 120 mill for Bogey, and 68 mill for Eovaldi. That's 333 million. And yet people talk like he got cheap.
  6. Bellhorn04
    You're right, budding was not the right adjective. But he seemed to be on upward track, with 2010 being his best season.
  7. Bellhorn04
    On paper Crawford was a budding superstar. His last year with the Rays he hit .307 with 19 HR and 90 RBI, and 47 steals. Gold Glove. 7th in MVP voting. 35.6 WAR in his career with the Rays. And he was only 29.
  8. Bellhorn04
    You're trying to make it a totally black and white, one or the other thing, which it isn't. Signing and retaining excellent players sounds great. But they're super-expensive so you only afford so many of them. We're paying Sale, JDM, Bogaerts and Eovaldi $20 million apiece or so. We still have one of the highest payrolls in the game, in spite of all the bellyaching. Since Henry bought the team he has never failed to spend on it.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Reality check: both Beni and JBJ took a lot of flak from fans for their ups and downs. The only guy that most people care about losing is Betts.
  10. Bellhorn04
    MLBTR predicted 2 yrs $16 mil. So it's 50% more money. I think he did well in this market.
  11. Bellhorn04
    But it was generally agreed here that the $11 million he got for 2020 was several million too high.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Not at all good for JBJ? He got 50% more money than MLBTR predicted.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Way too much. Good for him.
  14. Bellhorn04
    I was arguing vociferously against trading him this offseason. I think you had him in a few of your trade ideas.
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  16. Bellhorn04
    So...a straight salary dump.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Upper Deck Dalbec.
  18. Bellhorn04
    Bobby "Upper Deck" Dalbec.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Ruth, Williams, Gehrig, Bonds. Those are the players with a career OPS of 1.05 or higher. Mike Trout 1.000 Manny Ramirez .996
  20. Bellhorn04
    Think big! Just don't be disappointed if he can't reach those thermonuclear levels.
  21. Bellhorn04
    You're bang on.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Devers had a .916 OPS and led the majors in total bases in 2019. I don't really see him blowing that away. Doing similar things would be enough for me.
  23. Bellhorn04
    This is putting Tito in a rather bad spot now.
  24. Bellhorn04
    141, that is.
  25. Bellhorn04
    This year's pre-season expectations are muddled because of the X factors. I felt much the same way before the 2015 season.
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