Bellhorn04
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And I'm sure that when Henry hired DD in 2015, his plan wasn't to can him in 2019 and replace him with a guy like Bloom. But if that HAD been the plan, it wouldn't have been a bad one. We're lucky it worked out this way IMHO
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Oh darn, I thought it would. Well, I tried.
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But it's pretty hard to deny that when Henry brought DD aboard, he knew he was going to get the “win now and f*** tomorrow” approach.
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I fail to see how Desperate Dave "pales against" Coffee Boy LOL I think it's a wash, personally. Ben gets bashed for the last place finishes, DD gets bashed for decimating the farm. Neither gets better or worse treatment.
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It could, but hopefully it doesn't, because Houck is in the rotation.
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This feels a lot like a political debate, and it's hard to be unbiased in such things. IMHO Larry's verbal disparagement of DD is worse, because he never calls him anything but Desperate Dave. 700hitter did say some complimentary things about Ben. He said he was a stand-up guy in his dealings with the press. And the 'coffee boy' stuff, I think, got started when others suggested it was Lucchino who was responsible for some of the bad signings.
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Now see, this is juvenile, folks. Larry has cleared it up for us.
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You can't really say for sure he would make no difference.
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That kind of falls into the coin flip category. But the Hindsight Jury will make a final ruling after the 2021 or 2022 season. (It's possible that 2021 will decide it one way or the other.)
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I see no mention of the recent lawsuit for sexual battery against him.
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Next thread name: What'sa Mata?
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My guess on that hypothetical is that he would have signed with the Dodgers.
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You're in a fan club with one member.
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If you look at those 'COVID-19 benefits' in isolation, they look good for the team. But if you look at the overall impact, not so good.
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Tomase seems to think like a fan. The idea of trading for one year of Bryant and sticking him in left field is beyond silly.
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No doubt. Of course that was an unforeseeable factor. Although...the trade took place on February 10, when COVID-19 was just beginning to rear its head, but we had no idea how bad it would be.
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I haven't seen many juvenile comments directed toward either of late.
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From what we know, all the Red Sox had to do to keep Mookie was agree to his proposal of $420 million, or maybe a slightly lower amount.
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Just because he ordered a re-set doesn't mean it had anything to do with their ability or intentions to sign Mookie after 2020 or not. It's entirely possible they gave up completely on keeping Mookie but wanted the re-set anyway.
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moon, we're not on teams here. 700hitter is the only one who has used the "coffee boy" line.
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And who says we know that?
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This is the one thing we'll never know, unless Mookie fesses up about it one day, but I think there's a very good chance this is true. And I think he settled for a chunk less than he was hoping to get in free agency.
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I enjoy the back-and-forth jibber-jabber here, myself. A lot of it is just pointless, and a lot of it is redundant as heck. It's just banter, really.
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So we could have kept Mookie and re-set the tax. But that still wouldn't have guaranteed signing him as a free agent, so what would be the point of not trading him and getting something for him?
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Cot's has our non-prorated 2020 payroll for tax purposes at about 198.5, or 9.5 below the threshold. If you reverse the Dodgers trade Add back Mookie 27 Add back Price 15 Total 42 That would put us over by 32.5 Subtract JBJ 11 Subtract Perez 6 Total 17 Still over by 15.5
