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Casas' performance on the broadcast might have generated more WAR than any Sox player has this season. That was delightful.
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I could also see the team just giving Mayer a chance for a sustained period of just being healthy and playing. He is handling the level fine as a pretty young regular. Plenty of time for him.
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With Perales and Gonzalez the challenge has been finding a repeatable delivery so you can actually have command-control etc. Perales has stopped walking people. Wikelman has not. Bleis just has to be healthy. I am excited about him, Cespedes and Zannatello. But they are all just so young and so far away from the bigs that the range of outcomes is still super wide. It is easy to act like not being at Portland by 22 is some sort of death sentence or something.
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This is why the team likes drafting shortstops.
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Given that he is a good athlete, if the bat allows him to project as a regular corner, then that's a solid prospect.
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Law's updated Top 50 in the Athletic: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5530418/2024/06/03/mlb-top-50-prospects-in-season-holliday/ 4. Mayer (8 preseason) 19. Teel (54 preseason) 25. Anthony (22 preseason)
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After two horrendous starts, Wikelman Gonzalez has started to hit a groove in Portland.
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Zanatello and Cespedes look like big upside guys but in each case it is very, very early.
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He is exciting - the athleticism is beyond reproach.
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in 2023 when he did play cf ... in LA his numbers were bad up the middle also ... 2021 he was terrific
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Kike was also 31 years old, and managed to also be bad in CF and 2B in Boston and LA. His defensive contribution early in LA in CF is bad ... he might just simply be a guy who has to be on a corner now. Rafaela at SS is not an ideal option, but asking this of a 23 year old plus athlete who has experience doing it is an entirely different deal.
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poor guy - i loved his attitude all spring, dude can't catch a break
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I think the likelihood they participate at the top end of free agency - especially where we are dealing with 30+ year olds - is low with a few targeted exceptions. But I do think they will be aggressive and spend decently on retaining their better young players ... and guys they land in trade. If they are at the top of the payroll mountain, it will be because they have a lot of really good talent in their mid 20s.
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I am one of those people - just because he hadn't figured out a consistent way to get lefties out. And obviously, his delivery gives lefties a great look at him. If that gets fixed, he should stay in the rotation. The A's aren't proof of much of anything.
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I have concerns on a bunch of fronts, but the Bello and Devers extensions happened. Also, when you see the dirt cheap deals that Snell and Montgomery got ... there are a lot of cheap owners out there.
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especially with the rule changes limiting the ways that postioning can be used to paper over limitations ... managers and coaching staffs have less power to hide poor infield defense
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Cora's one of the best managers in the league - he doesn't have to prove anything there. For me, the watch item all season is going to be the defensive metrics. We are still in crazy small sample size theater so far, so nothing conculsive can be had. But on paper, this team should be more like "average or better" - which would be a huge upgrade over "Actively harmful" like they were last season. That alone could add a few wins ... and if it allows the pitchers to not worry about being super fine with hitting spots, so much the better.
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81-81 ... the team is much better defensively. Is that enough to turn this pitching staff into a playoff team. No. But it could be worth 2-3 wins - the defense was that atrocious. I just want to see whether there are leaps in pitching ... whether some of our pitchers with talent but a 10-20% likelihood of starting actually hit that.
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I sighed wistfully when I saw how ridiculously team-friendly the deals to Snell and Montgomery were. It would have been nice as a floor raiser. I don't really have a problem with their approach to the position players. There is a runway for some promising kids to take jobs. What configuration that takes up - or whether they have, say, 3 starting outfielders from this bunch, is an open question. At minimum, this should be more fun in the near term.
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If he can put up a .310 sort of OBP - he is going to be an immensely valuable player.
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The latter two have to prove they can play ... honestly, my bet might be Abreu.
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Wait and see is fine. My faith in Breslow is not because he has a ring with the Sox so much as that he was charged with reworking the pitching infrastructure with the Cubs, where there has been some success.
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I trusted Bloom until the evidence changed. Breslow there is no track record - but I like baseball and being alive, so I'll let him have the benefit of the doubt for now. As far as Cora goes - my trust hasn't wavered. He has always managed the most out of the roster more or less.
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Oh, he might bust ... but it's the sort of the deal the team has to make it they don't want to draft younger pitching. I think it was good process - hopefully the eval of the player is correct.
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Right. Now, a deal like the Schreiber deal, where Breslow dealt a useful middle reliever for the guy who is aruguably the best pitching prospect in the system - is a good sign. But that has to be the route if you are squeamish about using high picks on them.