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Houck still could factor in.
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I'm going to have fun following the development of Casas and Flores. they are just kids but seem to have a great deal of potential. Groome has started to throw again as well. he is too good and too young to be giving up on just yet.
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As I said earlier, you cannot project Eovaldi's year anymore than anyone else. It is all a guess and you know it. Red Sox fans hopefully see what he might do in a very positive light. You say he might have an injury (all of them might), I say he could also wind up being a Cy Young candidate (vey few of them can). You cannot tell.
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Not a prediction but I will be watching Dalbec very closely. He is a young man with great potential.
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What is more laughable to me is that anyone might think that 10 to 20 million dollars isn't enough to accommodate a generational fund. These guys are just whack job rich. Pedroia for sure never has to work another day of his life if he so chooses. He is certainly not alone.
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When it comes to Eovaldi, any amount of data that you have supported your statements about him with is meaningless. there is virtually no one who knows what is going to happen with this young man. If this year we see the arm that we saw during the World Series, he has absolute ace potential - end of story. It is a gamble and you aren't the first person to bring up his past performances. Most of us kind of like the gamble.
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I see the same 3 issues for sure - I do think that another relief pitcher will be added. I think that the catching tandem is likely to get one more year. I don't think that they are quite ready to give up on Vazquez's ability to hit just yet. Leon is the better catcher but they both are adequate. I don't see second base as an issue - we have Holt and Nunez.
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So I am learning I guess that it is just not possible to be a consistent winner year after year even though we have been in recent years? I think that much of this debate centers around what you like or don't like about team building. If you don't like the way that DD has put us in a position to be consistent winners, then obviously you see future roadblocks. If you like what he has done, then you likely have confidence that he ain't bad and we will be able to compete in future years. I'm quite pleased with what has been accomplished and I am looking forward to the success that we will have in the future.
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I'm telling you (again) Kimbrel is coming back home.
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I understand what you are saying but I still think that that type of wasted money aught to at least be considered. They were failed experiments and both signings probably represented what notin has said on occasion - money spent to excite a fan base. It won't matter at all to me either what all of the data shows about Hanley Ramirez, imo those were two of the worst signings that this current ownership has made. I'm also not shamed to say that I cheered hard for both of them. That is what my type of fan does.
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If you took the money wasted on Ramirez and Sandoval last year out of the mix, how do things look? I realize fully that you can't do this but it is what people do here everyday - hindsight analysis.
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We share a lot of the same views I think. Following this team with all its ebbs and flows is what I have done now since 1955(I was 4). I've been a fan of every team as well as every GM that we have had since that time. There were a couple of times when my patience was certainly tested but I am loyal. I might question moves that are made but I realize that I am in no position to claim that I am an expert in what needs to be done. Over the years this current ownership team has been incredible and I expect that they will continue to be so.
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I cannot for the life of me imagine how that place sells out game after game after game.
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I don't think that you are much different than the normal Sox fan. We all don't want nor do we need to play GM. I'm pretty sure that there are plenty of us who look forward to this upcoming season with the same hopes and expectations that we will have in let's say 2025 if we are still here. I do think think that there is a pretty good chance that Kimbrel comes back. Certainly not for the number of years that he is looking for though. As for his impending decline that some here say is inevitable to begin if it already hasn't simply because he is 30, I'm not sure that I buy it with respect to this guy. I didn't like what I saw from him over the second half of last year but I don't think that he is done anytime soon. His health is good and looks to me as though his velocity is still right where it needs to be. Someone will take a shot with him and he is going to strengthen anybody's bullpen.
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Here comes Craig!
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I think that it is nice that we do see from time to time some players choosing to take a little less contract wise to stay put so to speak. I like seeing it but I still stop short of putting the proverbial halo around their heads. They all are being given "big money". If you sign a contract that guarantees you anything north of 10 million dollars and you don't think that this is enough to sustain you and yours for generations to come, there really is something wrong with you. Of course we as well as they want as much as we can get, but at what point is enough actually enough? I surely don't know how it all plays out but it sure looks to me that the people in the best positions to profit during these times are the owners. Current restrictive spending rules as well as a greater use of statistical data discouraging the signing of players over the age of 30 to anything resembling long term, seems to me to play right into the hands of the people who sign the big checks.
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I hope that no one denies this point notin. But it then becomes very important to have an excellent bullpen. If we just call all of these guys relief pitchers, it still doesn't address the impact of what losing a relief pitcher like Kimbrel might do to that bullpen.
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I hear your frustration here and I agree with you for the most part. I do think that the role of "closer" though has become over rated. The way I look at it is without a kimbrel on our staff, you have hurt our bullpen dramatically. I absolutely do not subscribe to the theory that if Kimbrel was not out there and not adequately replaced by someone of about the same ability (if that is possible) that we would have still won a world series title. I don't really even like to look at things this way though because it is second guessing in hindsight which I think is ridiculous. Every player on that roster had a role to play - some greater than others. If you take just one of those guys out of that lineup, we never have gotten to where we got.
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few weeks and you'll be back to normal - look at it this way now you have the time to post more frequently here on tsox! lol good for you for saving the procedure for the off-season.
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I'm still thinking that Kimbrel is coming back home.
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You might be right about Familia - almost seems as though the Sox have a no ass hole and potential a - hole approach to players coming in.
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Louie A. and Nellie F. - two of my all time favorite players growing up.
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ok - here goes - my bet is that Kimbrel comes back to Boston.
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It is going to be very interesting to see if the Yankees will sign Machado. Obviously they might not now.
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Seriously! Who really feels this way? You of course are taking shots at Dombrowski and who really gives a s***? I say - great job done by all. Whoopie doo. Theo did a wonderful job - Ben was Ben- DD has the job.