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  1. sk7326
    The WC game is a playoff round ... the league's postseason roster rules apply for the WC round ... that is the weirdest thing about the WC round - that you can reset the roster for the next round
  2. sk7326
    To a degree - he held everybody ... which means that some of these people would emerge naturally. But the team when he was there did not identify - say your Margots or whatnot as premium trade stuff. Considering how young our core is - the commitment to 2020 is really about Henry's commitment, not Dombrowski's.
  3. sk7326
    Of course he can - if their replacements are quality. He has won everywhere he has done his thing.
  4. sk7326
    I've never hated the Yankees enough for their loss to offset the Red Sox not winning. Even 2003 was not comforting to see the Yankees lose the WS ...
  5. sk7326
    Well the Yankees of Mantle, Maris etc (let alone Ruth and Gehrig) were the Montreal Canadiens or Bryant's Alabama team. The championship race was effectively THEM and a few other teams. Of course you couldn't avoid it. But the 1970s and then the late 90s to now have been the only periods when the Sox and Yankees have been good at the same time.
  6. sk7326
    Here is the thing - we don't know whether Dombrowski will keep the scouting and development standard the Sox had - he has shown he can before. What he has shown - which Cherington never did - was an ability to quickly make decisions on the kids. He identified Benintendi and Devers as keepers - and treated them as such ... not trading them, aggressively promoting them. The other guys he has traded - but he traded for premium quality stuff. I don't see how that is a problem. I had an issue with dealing for an 8 figure closer - but Kimbrel at least is a top shelf entry at that position, and after a meh first year has been magnificent this season. His other big trade was for the potential league MVP this season. The Pomemranz deal I did not like (but did not think was stupid) - but again if you are going to deal kids, a pitcher at single-A who was not mature physically is at least worth a calculated risk. Keep who you want to keep and deal for legitimate major league upgrades - that is how a big market team should operate.
  7. sk7326
    The 1B/DH thing - if that is the hole in the lineup - is one of the easier holes to fill. You could look for a big answer - or fish in the pool of one year upside plays. For instance, I cannot imagine the Jays picking up Bautista's option ... I would throw an incentive laden 1 year deal at him to see what he has left. Curtis Granderson is another. Hosmer is an upside play - and 1B is a buyer's market - but yeah his age could mean a team offers 5 years which would be hard to justify. Giving Travis a full legitimate run at the position is still on the table for me too.
  8. sk7326
    Folks my age (I'm 39) remember the Red Sox as basically a good team my entire life. Yeah, there were some turkeys sprinkled in ... and years where they were 85-77 but the chase "ended" by August, but virtually every season you could (and still can) enter the season with legitimately aggressive dreams. This was not the case before 1967. The Impossible Dream is that breakpoint. In a semi-related note - it is also why you can really argue the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry did not really START until the 1970s ... until then, the Red Sox and Yankees were very rarely good at the same time.
  9. sk7326
    Trivia I am not sure of ... is Red Sox-Cardinals the most frequently played World Series matchup that does not involve the Yankees? They've met 4 times since 1918
  10. sk7326
    He is a full time bat who can play a bunch of positions poorly (but better than say, Hanley as a LF). Basically he's a better Brock Holt - but in the land of 12 man pitching staffs that is a very valuable guy to have around.
  11. sk7326
    If you looked at the calendar - the West Coast trip after the ASB made the most sense. Miss a Yankee series, get his feet wet on the road in fairly low profile games. I think what we've seen so far is that Dombrowski quickly identified Benintendi and Devers as the foundational guys in the system - with everybody else being fair game to go get premium major league stuff.
  12. sk7326
    Nunez is a very bad defender at any position ... his longest run at SS was a 600 inning stint in 2015 where he had a rather impressive -28 DRS. Bogaerts career -1.2 UZR/150 at SS, Nunez -17.9 UZR/150.
  13. sk7326
    To a degree - but they also had a high floor option in Vasquez. And Swihart missed a lot of reps with injury - but there is still a player there I think.
  14. sk7326
    Yeah - something like that. And what is interesting is - I think it is good for both sides. Again - if Harper triggers his opt out - it means the club has gotten a ton of value out of him. So yeah a deal which will have a huge headline number (10 years/400 million) but is in practical terms is a lot smaller (4 years 170 million or something)
  15. sk7326
    This.
  16. sk7326
    All stuff that required reps - so it is kind of moot ... Vasquez did not show much ability to handle a staff last year - clearly that got better
  17. sk7326
    Well the front 3 years are arguable here - the idea is to give big raises on arb level deals to make giving up FA attractive. And it makes sense for him - gets him into the FA derby by age 30
  18. sk7326
    I think this is the right answer ... I would expect something like a 6 year/150-180M sort of deal ... and besides, guys like him you figure out and then work around the rest
  19. sk7326
    I know clutch exists - it certainly does for me watching them. BUT I don't think clutch is a meaningful distinction - the list of good "clutch hitters" is basically the same as a list of good hitters. I would rather have had Ortiz up than anybody in a big spot - but I wanted him up in the little spots, and the medium spots too. And for the most part that describes Trout, Cabrera, Votto, Betts, whatever you want. For pitchers it could be slightly different - since working from the windup vs out of the stretch is a different mechanical skill.
  20. sk7326
    The team has had some durability issues in the rotation ... but a remarkably good and stable bullpen, and excellent defense has ended up more than amply making up for it. Plus you have Sale and Porcello every 5th day which has made Farrell's bullpen organization a LOT easier (Sale by being awesome, Porcello by being ridiculously durable).
  21. sk7326
    The players are human - that was never not in evidence. But when I look at a slash line, or whatever stat - the players tangible and intangible qualities come out in that wash.
  22. sk7326
    I think it's a manager trying to keep pressure off of a kid ... and limit expectations that a 20 year old is supposed to save our season. It is important to get Holt some reps too along the way - there are going to be playoff roster decisions to have (since by and large there is probably going to be an extra roster spot)
  23. sk7326
    Intangibles matter ... it's just that intangible effects CAN be measured by tangible results - and results are sort of what matters, no? I think it has been a long season - and a long season where nobody has been amazing. Betts has had a terrific season, but so much of it is with the glove it is easy to miss. So you have Sale. But otherwise, you have a bunch of "good" seasons - and the team hit a slog. Nunez and Devers have provided a spark - but then, so did a 4 game series against the worst team in the AL.
  24. sk7326
    Or not faith in Farrell, despite his deployment of this ragtag, unreliable bunch of relievers who have put up the league's best ERA
  25. sk7326
    Why rightly? His ability to eat? His ability to make oodles of profit? Some crackpot notion of "justness"? While the link between revenue and cost is tenuous (they are separate decisions by a firm) ... the fans who spend the most out of pocket of any fan base (at least for now - and I know the Yankees and Cubs are in the convo) should expect the team to throw its weight around, weight other teams don't have. If you are advocating that this team run like a higher payroll Twins, where we shrug and say "well, Betts graduated - time for more freshmen" (this assumes Betts continues to churn out All-Star/MVP timber seasons of course), then we'll have to agree to disagree.
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