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Bogaerts is one of the league's toughest to strike out. He is in a slump - that will likely pass. Betts is so not hard to get out he was runner up in MVP last year. Outside of Bradley, none of the Big 3 are 25 yet. To write epitaphs for them is utterly batty. The team is actually the hardest to strike out (or had been for most of the year - Astros might have passed them, I have not looked) in the league. It's just a rough patch right now.
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Different denominators and assign equal weight to two things which are not equal But slugging is important - and it's not like there is not a significant correlation between the two. Indeed the splits between the two like Boston's - is legitimately unusual.
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Bradley is a good player. The team has an ample replacement - if a good deal showed up.
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Priority? 1. Betts - He is a legitimate top 10-15 player. He won't be 25 until October 2. Bogaerts - A 3 or 4 win shortstop whose career is looking more like Derek Jeter than A-Rod ... which is fine. He won't be 25 until October 3. Benintendi - Still on rookie deal, has handled aggressive promotion well. 4. Bradley - He's been good! But his production is peaks and valleys - always is. Excellent defender. But he is the most dispensible of the 4 Bs and if you can make a needle moving deal, then yeah you move him and figure it out.
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Similar production premium positions and Bradley is 2.5 years older
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If the idea is trade for Frazier to solve FIRST BASE - that makes more sense
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In baseball I think it's less an either:or. Do we have the horses compared to the other teams - probably not, although it's not obvious - and Cleveland is every bit as good as the teams you mentioned even if the wins have not matched. Get into the tournament and you have a pretty fair shot as winning it. We took 2 in Houston already - it's not magic. There are no huge needle movers on the market - the Sox should not pay for one. But a corner bat (and that could be as simple as a platoon partner for Moreland) and relief depth is very much gettable and will improve the team's odds of getting into October. (which was high anyway) This team is built to play up in October - much more than last year.
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Moreland has this issue in that he is just not very good I think trading for any corner bat makes sense - but you have to consider 1B something to shore up as well.
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The TV product gets hurt by the rotating of analysts - I am not sure how easy it is to build chemistry in the first place. I think some of that is by design - management (I suspect) does not want a more provincial, interesting TV broadcast (like the Sean/Jerry days let alone earlier). I've been a fan since 1986 (first game was more like 1983 but I was 5) ... the Sean and Jerry TV combo was the best ... Jerry worked harder then and Sean challenged him more to do so.
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I don't mind some alternates - I like secondary logos (I liked the Red Sox "Socks" friday night hat when they sported them). The Navy ones are fine. Other stuff - or holday specific stuff is silly. And for the most part, the team cannot really improve on the home whites - although going with a 1975 era hat would be the sort of change I'd approve of.
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Fridays mostly ... fwiw, the navys get a thumbs up, the reds get several thumbs down
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The Red Sox have a viable path ahead at 3B - so I think they'll be able to outwait the ChiSox for a Frazier.
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The trick is that selective aggression - it's not take/not take ... it's recognizing what a good pitch is - sometimes the hitters have been too careful.
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It is good to have Holt to staff the bench ... especially given 12-13 man staffs. But yeah they need a real starter ...
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what he said - now i do not know if there is a free spot on the 40 for him yet ... well, DFAing Pablo creates one for sure
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He is a 4 or 5 win starter ... oh noes!!!
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A homerun off a lefty in his debut!
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Both have handled being promoted aggressively - Devers has been among the youngest regulars at every level he has been in - and this year the power (usually the last thing to show up) is arriving. Obviously he is a prospect with the caveats - but there is no ceiling. Guys who do what he does at his age are almost always going to be really f'ing good.
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Devers
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This is not a meritocracy - just how markets work. The Rays never let Longoria get to free agency and signed him when he had less leverage ... hooray The industry is drowning in cash - beats John Henry buying another yacht or plane
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Moncada was creating a lot of air at AA too ... i think it was a calculated risk that didn't work ... which is different than mishandling. After all, these are all probabilities. If one part of his game was ML ready they could have seen if he could figure the other stuff yet, but the cake was just not baked nearly enough.
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I've got your rental right here
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Sandoval was the youngest of the big FAs that year with a pretty good Fenway swing and excellent contact skills - and a very good athlete (if you weren't you would not be able to be a starting 3B with his suboptimal conditioning). I did not love the signing but understood the case - but this was on the extreme left of the bell curve of outcomes for him.
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They don't - they just make outs ... outs are baseball's clock after all. Just an ebb and flow - nothing a ball finding a hole can't fix.
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Small sample size alert!