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Given the prospect price, I'd imagine Abreu is lower ... but contractually we are thinking similarly, somebody with arbitration control etc. Ozuna has his 2 arb years coming up and makes $3.5M now. The skinflint Yeah Jeets ownership doesn't have to fire sale him yet.
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He has overcome every challenge the org has given him since he was 17. He forced their hand in making him their 3B last season (by simply being better than the alternatives, both in house and via trade). I'm betting on the kid. Best option for a bat is to revisit the Abreu trade to see if there is something reasonable - and then look at Santana for a high floor, meh ceiling one. Or Hosmer for the real boom/bust one.
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It will be interesting to see if the Sox re-visit the Abreu talks - and from a value perspective, he is the best option for 1B. And yes, I could see an argument for dealing Chavis and stuff for him.
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Fwiw, at minimum Keith Law pointed it out at Moncada's callup ... a lot of the scouting stuff I read saw a guy whose natural athleticism compensated for a lot of lacking craft which played at AA enough
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I think it could have worked - but Stanton had to want to come here. Alas
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it probably won't happen - but it would be fun for Stanton to turn the Yankees down
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He was - but it involved working with the stuff the team was giving them - scouts, analytic sorts, Francona. I was taking issue with the idea that he was doing it as some sort of Rain Man - that the Red Sox had not done any "computer analysis" in 2003-2005
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Except that is not obvious. There is a small gap in OPS sure ... but in the minors (to a certain degree) who cares? It's developmental, winning is a secondary goal ... and we don't know what a kid actually has to do to have passed the level. Moncada and Benintendi's OPS numbers were also close - but one was much, much more major league ready than the other.
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405 and 10 are awful ... the 5 is the only way to get to Anaheim, and genuinely terrible, unless Ohtani really chose the Angels for their large number of strip malls.
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Otani is basically nothing payroll-wise after paying the posting fee. Moreno wants to win, so stranger things have happened.
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it is also why minor league stats are um ... dangerous to use in this sort of manner Benintendi had a .515 SLG with a 11.9% K rate Bradley in AA had a .437 SLG with a 18.1% K rate Benintendi was making more frequent harder contact - Bradley was excellent in AA ... but had holes in his swing non-big leaguers were getting to regularly.
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LA > SEA > Anaheim ... especially with the traffic on the 5
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A lot of his peak was right in its wheelhouse. Because the Sox analysis was proprietary does not mean it did not exist.
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Honestly the sushi on the west coast is just a different level
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Adam Dunn (on offense) with an adequate RF glove = one hell of a valuable player
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The key is whether the reverse is true. That has been the funny part of the entire Stanton saga. Stanton has basically total control of the process - yet Classy Derek Jeter has acted like he doesn't.
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There was limited $$ flexibility - so really it came down to Otani's choice. I can't blame Dombrowski for Otani liking Seattle better. If I were him, I'd probably do the same thing.
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I think it was clear Dombrowski did not want to block Devers - and any 3B solution had to be a short term one. Of course they all stunk - and the trade market stunk, and Devers had that magnificent season the farm, so there you go. Dombrowski definitely looked at the farm and quickly said Devers and Benintendi were the guys to keep and have treated them as such.
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Vasquez should make the next step to full starter - remember it took him a while to emerge last year, so I am not sure how much to hold the pitcher splits against him. He clearly hits well enough to not be a drag - I mean he is a mediocre hitter, but good enough for the defense to play. And he did improve at the plate over the season. But a .270 hitter who doesn't give away at-bats with his framing and arm is clearly a good starting C.
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http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/21709815/mlb-officials-keeping-close-watch-foul-play-shohei-ohtani-pursuit The way baseball has tried to basically keep his salary down has more or less forced this eventuality
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His scouting is a great fastball, plus-plus slider and splitter ...
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It is probably going to be an AL team - so he could hit a couple of times a week. Also in the land of 13 man pitching staffs - having a potentially "much better than you'd expect" pinch runner/hitter is pretty valuable. The Red Sox should do their best - and will ... but this is one of those cases where I don't really think money is going to matter much. Otani will be wildly underpaid for a couple of years regardless ... Olney speculated a team like Minnesota could be a dark horse - with basically no payroll commitments after FY20, they could sign Darvish ans Otani as a package.
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The deal would certainly raise many eyebrows among the other owners. BTW: The way Jeter handled the Conine stuff and how apparently he has not talked to Stanton at all ... ARod doesn't seem so bad.
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Kluber was magnificent. Sale sputtered down the stretch - I do think Farrell's options were limited here though. The non-Sale parts of the rotation had flaws in performance and/or bulk which forced a lot of bullpen usage.
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Fortunately, there is a little less hard livin' with Martinez at his age.