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There is reason to expect positive regression. The team won 93 games without anybody having an uncommonly good year (aside from Devers). If you go through the lineup positions. C: Leon hit like a backup. Vasquez was by the end of the year his most likely best case scenario - pesky hitter to get out, but largely an empty .270 sort of dude 1B: Moreland has meh on base skills but can hit 20 HRs. Right in the middle, maybe better than that - of what you could have expected. 2B: Injuries, injuries. SS: Bogaerts struggled. How much of it was injury related? I think a lot - but it is an open question. 3B: Devers was a revelation clearly. LF: Benintendi was fine. Not amazing, but clearly good. CF: Bradley was a mild disappointment but this is probably what he is. A bit of a three outcome player who fields well enough to support it. RF: Betts was an MVP level performer - but yes dropped off a bit at the plate. DH: Ramirez was probably what you'd expect from him these days, but not very good.
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He is a very very poor fielder - and since he doesn't walk or hit homeruns, his value lies in making hard contact. When he has a good streak, it's fun.
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Stanton: I KNEW there was a reason I didn't like Jeter!
sk7326 replied to Carter's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Stanton drove the train here. Which made the fairly widely reported idea that Yeah Jeets did not contact him early on a very questionable move. Now, it might not have helped - but then celebrating your acquisition of the team by doing no media, running off Jeff Conine and then not contacting the soon to be MVP is a bit odd. -
Clearly a sign of being out on Hosmer - and a low enough dollar amount that if a better solution came, they could address it.
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What is funny is that if I didn't know better - I'd have forgotten that the Red Sox won the division with a pretty young core as far as these things go.
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Stanton: I KNEW there was a reason I didn't like Jeter!
sk7326 replied to Carter's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
The former president of the Marlins certainly has reason to say they were losing money while running the grift of tax payers and largely pocketing competitive balance money. Given that the ownership group got greenlighted - that they would want to clear payroll does make sense. What makes less sense was putting the baseball operation in the hands of somebody with no background in any of the work such as Yeah Jeets - aside from brand recognition (which is something). The bigger question was how MLB greenlighted a sale to a group with so comincally uncapitalized that their first move after buying the team was firing or selling off everybody who fans might want to see for 35 cents on the dollar despite having a new stadium more or less built for them. -
The rotation depth thing is worth exploring ... there will probably be a "Fister-esque" name or two who will shake out and be available for a 1-year deal. Brett Anderson, bringing John Lackey back, Andrew Cashner ... Porcello is sort of what he is - can soak up a ton of innings, and if he can keep the ball in the ballpark - he can be very good.
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What is interesting is that I actually would consider offering him a 2/50 sort of contract ... give significant extra AAV for a shorter hitch and a chance for him bet on himself and be back in the market at a decent age.
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The things with Hosmer (in particular) and Martinez is that Boston is the only team with both an identifiable need and a ton of money ... Boras has shown no hesitation to get into a staring contest in the past ... but the Red Sox might actually have the leverage here.
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Multi-millions, who knows? But in the eras of a 3-4 man bench, multipositional ability is important. I could see the Sox preferring to say give Swihart that whirl - and I'd agree with that.
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Holt can field the umpteen positions he can play. Nunez' ability is entirely in whether he is making hard contact.
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that is possible - and probably pushes him to a bad team ... which i respect. But i am not sure he gets more than 2 years, $10M or something.
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I think Nunez can be had later in the winter ... he's not a starter on a good team (but a supersub - that is different).
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Cano is the best 2B of his era (outside of Chase Utley) ... Pedroia has been consistently better than Gordon
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It is possible. Remember, this is what JD wants - Boras is working for him, not the other way around.
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What is interesting is that there are not a lot of good 2B options out there period. Pedroia if healthy (which we have to assume will never happen) is a 4 win player still ... that is not something you fix easily. But I think you give Hernandez and/or Merrero the wheel, it will be okay. The latter can give you the defense - enough that if he just hits somewhat competently he will be an adequate replacement.
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Creating runs - which is kind of a big deal. After all Pujols had 2 less homeruns too - and was one of the worse regulars in the entire league. This applies double for Odor from Texas.
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He makes many fewer outs ...
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yuck! he is a major, major fluke rule candidate
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most important job for a hitter is not making outs and Santana was a lot better at that
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Santana has a much longer history of getting on base. Moreland's best OBP season as a regular was .330. Santana's worst was .351. Both are pretty solid defensive 1B. I am not sure I'd have given Santana that money - but he is a better player than Moreland by a considerable margin.
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Angels are paying a 32 year old for 3 years who came off of a single good season - mozel tov to them
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The Marlins created that situation by: 1. Not having any money 2. Not being particularly proactive with Stanton - or even communicating intent. They don't owe the reigning MVP an explanation statutorily - but it's a baffling way to do bidness especially when he held all the leverage. Maybe he doesn't cooperate more with them - but they never gave him any real chance to. 3. Lots of teams have fire sales - it happens all the time. Few have gotten so little back relatively. At least one of these trades would have gotten you tossed out of your roto league.
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They got his age 33-35 seasons. Yuck.
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Cole has some durability issues - but unlike the Marlins, the Pirates are at least going to try to get some actual players for him.