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  1. Bellhorn04
    It's not really all that silly when you look at a guy like Boone. Whatever the Yankees are paying him is a tiny fraction of their expenditures. Why would Cashman hire a guy with no experience? It seems to me a reasonable explanation is that he wanted a guy who would do what he was told to do by Cashman and the analytics people. Which is not to say that Boone doesn't have a lot of input and doesn't do things on his own. I'm sure he does, within the parameters that are set out for him. I don't find this far-fetched at all.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Yankee fans have been saying the same thing about Boone - that it's Cashman and the analytics people making calls before the games start - as with Game 2 vs. the Rays.
  3. Bellhorn04
    I think when you look at how that trade went down, both Bloom and Friedman showed that they are really good at their jobs.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Of course I agree that they shouldn't. But if we're using $180 million as a threshold, the Yankees have exceeded that every year for a long time. And they can easily afford it, because of their revenues. If they're spending less than $180 million, that means a lot of money is being pocketed by Hal and the other shareholders.
  5. Bellhorn04
    I think they should have avoided trading him to the Dodgers if they had strong hopes of re-signing him. That's all I'm saying.
  6. Bellhorn04
    BTW, there is a narrative out there that Cash didn't even make this decision - that is made for him before the game by his higher-ups and analytics people.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Your concerns about his attitude and conditioning may be valid ones, it's hard to say. Some think this is another reason to re-hire Cora, that he was great with Devers.
  8. Bellhorn04
    One thing is for sure - if the actual plan is to trade him and re-sign him, you don't trade him to the freakin' Dodgers, of all teams. That was my first thought when I heard about the trade negotiations. When we traded Lester, we traded him to the A's, who had no chance of keeping him. And I'm not blaming Bloom for trading him to the Dodgers. I'm pretty sure he was told to trade him for the best offer, period.
  9. Bellhorn04
    I would agree with that. But the next question is, if you're the Red Sox, Yankees, Dodgers, Cubs, and you can afford to spend more than $180 million, shouldn't you do so?
  10. Bellhorn04
    So your point is that he had one successful season where he only spent $170 million?
  11. Bellhorn04
    Which doesn't prove why it happened. Mookie was offered $300 million and turned it down. Then he signed for $307 million (present value because of deferred money.) Those who say he didn't want to stay in Boston may be the ones who are right.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Right, but the 2016 edition of the Cubs was a one-off where everything aligned perfectly. When Theo joined the Cubs he was basically given the green light to tank and rebuild. After 2016 is when things got tougher and more expensive.
  13. Bellhorn04
    It depends on which franchise you're talking about and the situation you're in. -Epstein is a great GM but has spent piles of money. -Friedman is a great GM but has spent piles of money since he joined the Dodgers.
  14. Bellhorn04
    It's all Ben's fault, actually. 1) Horrendous free agent signings. 2) Left the team with no top of the line pitching. (I'm half-kidding.)
  15. Bellhorn04
    I don't disagree with that. But when you are one of the richest franchises in the game, and it's about one of the greatest players in franchise history - that call is 100% on the owners.
  16. Bellhorn04
    We'll never know that, I guess. But we do know DD is a big believer in paying top players top dollar.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, Cashman had a stretch there where he was really doing damage.
  18. Bellhorn04
    Not sure if this has been posted here already, but the MLB Players Union has calculated the present value of Mookie's contract at $307 million, because of the deferred money of $115 million. For whatever reason, this doesn't seem to have affected the AAV of the contract the way it did with Chris Sale's. But what's painful about this is that in real dollars, the deal Mookie signed is actually only $7 million more than the Red Sox reported offer of $300 million, and it's for 2 more years. What we'll never know is how much effect the pandemic had on Mookie's decision to take the deal.
  19. Bellhorn04
    100%
  20. Bellhorn04
    True that!
  21. Bellhorn04
    DD wouldn't have failed to sign Mookie if the ownership was willing to pay whatever it took. You know that.
  22. Bellhorn04
    It's possible to be pissed off at the Red Sox ownership for not going all out to keep him, and at the same time give credit to Bloom for doing a good job with the trade.
  23. Bellhorn04
    But if he was going strictly on most recent games, why on earth would he put in a guy who has had 6 bad games in a row?
  24. Bellhorn04
    Sure, I realize the probability is calculated after the fact. But it does show that the Dodgers went quickly from a 42% chance to a 73% chance, and how crucial those at-bats were to the outcome of the game.
  25. Bellhorn04
    This little cliff is no match for Bloom.
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