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The MVP rules explicitly say that pitchers are considered fair game. Starters pitch fewer games but have much more influence on the games than a position player. It is hard for a pitcher to deliver MVP level performances - but they can. Verlander did when he won. Now the Eck, Willie Hernandez atrocities are a different kettle of fish. And remember, when Pedro lost, two voters did not put him on the ballot due to feeling that pitchers have their own award. They violated the rules of the award by not considering pitchers. If you did not think Pedro was a Top 10 player that season you have left your sense.
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I never said the budget is limitless. I did say that the Red Sox can always increase the budget for the right reasons - there is no practical move which is actually unaffordable i.e. preventing the store from being open. The budget is a matter of how much the owners want to put into their toy. The team is a mint.
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makes sense - it was really a 4 man race until the end of september when it shrunk to two.
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I think with baseball there are fewer excuses on that front. Performance is much easier to measure and separate than in a sport like basketball. A good player on a bad team's contribution is much more transparent.
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The flexibility should be the same as the other months within a series - it also allows opponents to be able to prepare a bit more reasonably. Honestly in baseball the roster rules are precisely backwards. Seriously, they should start the minor league season later and expand the roster in APRIL when the players are still getting stretched out.
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I agree, MJ had better teammates.
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The idea that is freed up money is a bit of a red herring - imagining a salary cap which does not really exist. After all they ended up spending less to replace them. That it was a better trade than Slocumb for Lowe and Varitek (to name one) is a bit much.
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In September it makes sense to have to freeze a 25-man active roster for each series. You can make injury substitutions, but the injured player has to go on the DL.
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Trout could (should?) have won 5 straight MVPs at this point. Seriously - he's almost like Michael Jordan in the mid-90s. It's not fun to vote him MVP every year - but really he is. Betts was the only other remotely justifiable choice - and that is an achievement in itself.
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In 1995 Mo Vaughn won the MVP and Tim Wakefield finished 3rd in the Cy Young (obviously one of the worst MVP selections in history - although it made me happy)
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Gonzalez has continued to be a good player. He was not the anchor bat the Nation was looking for - and his end in SD portended. The shoulder injury sapped a lot of that - and as it turned out, a lot of his OBP was driven by being the only good hitter in a terrible lineup in SD. But he is still above average.
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The K-rate problem at AA came with him, and was there at the AFL cameo also ... the field bit - he needs reps, no matter where. Describing the position choice as a zero sum thing is a little weird - the Sox will get him instruction wherever. Just because Hanley had such a comically bad adjustment to going to the outfield means that is typical - it's not.
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That is very reasonable. I've always thought that his future was RF (because of having a shortstop's arm) - while allowing the Sox to use Bradley to fill some other gaps. (because he is a bit lower ceiling of their outfielders, and it's not like they don't have star caliber replacements in house)
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His ability to make contact has been an issue - and there is a legitimate argument that the org sees Devers as the 3B future. There is clearly a lot of craft which needs to catch up - although the physical talent is remarkable. His body has always made more sense for an outfield corner.
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Porcello is a keeper right now. Now - nobody is untradeable. The Angels offered Mike Trout for Rick Porcello, that's a no-brainer. But - obviously failing something like that. The funny thing to consider is that it's a reasonable possibility that the Cy Young award winner might end up the team's #3 pitcher by the end of next season. (same applies for Price)
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Roger Clemens 1986 for the former, Pedro 1999 for the latter
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#3 if I had to choose. Frazier kind of sucked last year - but he is probably not that bad. I am much too bullish on Rodriguez to deal him - so absolutely not given the choice.
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Terrific news. As I noted, while you could certainly argue for others - Porcello was absolutely a worthy choice in a pretty crowded field.
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The problem with doing the Miller thing is that then you have to plan for your relievers to pitch 40-50 times a season instead of the 60 or 70 you actually see. Also, part of the mission in the regular season is to cultivate some of these folks anyway. Figure out who the pitchers you trust are, etc
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There is not a ton of evidence Vasquez is ahead of Swihart by any large margin to begin with. Vasquez is definitely a big league, but his range of outcomes is much smaller in both directions than Swihart.
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The thing is - the scouting sorts who rate Swihart highly is because he should end up being a plus defender at the position ... right sort of build, outstanding athlete. Now he probably won't get to where Vasquez is defensively - especially in terms of framing and such. But his arm is fine and Vasquez was not some sort of game calling savant. There is real reason to believe Vasquez can't really hit - and even if catcher is a defensive position, you need a little.
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My understanding is that teams use (in a lot of cases) their own recipe for WAR ... a sum of measured baseball accomplishments compared to a replacement level baseline. Of course they also have this massive amount of Statcast data that the public doesn't get ... so I am sure they use measures that differ from what we get and what other teams do. All I am saying is that the general principle is sound - this is not something like RBIs which don't mean anything to an org in terms of performance measurement. WAR after all is just a normalized sum of all of a player's measured accomplishments on the diamond ...
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Well Espinoza is somewhere else, so there's that Moncada would be tough to lose - especially given the giant bonus ... but with his 40% AFL strikeout register, there are fair questions as to whether he actually is the best 3B option in the org on a longer term.
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I think the Sox had a division to win - and the alarming state of their pitching early meant someone had to take the fall. Plus Vasquez was there as a viable option. With the offseason they can now try to see what they have. Will Vasquez hit? Can Vasquez work with pitchers? Is essentially six weeks of great baseball enough to overlook Sandy Leon's career overall?
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Possibly - franchise might prefer to put Moncada in instead of Devers