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That applies for any ace with significant contract control ... other team will want young. controllable, high probability studs. I think the Beckett deal is a solid outline - 2 high level prospects and having to take a (perceived) bad contract. Now, the money in the game is such that the Red Sox probably would not have to take back perceived entrails.
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Mets want to win it all - they are not dealing Thor (or Harvey) without improving the major league club. Betts or Bogaerts are where discussions start.
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The ASG above all is the sport's regular season sponsor showcase. For that reason, the fan vote is fine - and breaking ties with marketability/reputation is fine too. A minor quibble is that ASG is a contract incentive so you'd like the choices to be sound - but that's fairly minor. For the Sox, the astonishing stat is (by fWAR), 6 of their 8 regulars are in the Top 20 in the AL ... (Bogaerts, Shaw, Ortiz, Bradley, Betts, Pedroia). Bogaerts in particular is a completely reasonable MVP choice for the first quarter of the season. Pedroia is part of a heck of a senior citizen revival at 2B behind Altuve (Cano having his best SEA season, Kinsler geting in the wayback machine)
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it's a measure of the roster and some of the manager's off field contribution ... comically bad in game managers have won lots of games
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The way the sport is - with a 13 man pitching staff, you only have 3 non-catchers on the bench ... so the whining about those guys makes a little more sense than normal
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Young mashes LHP and can defend corners capably - and could play CF if you need him to. That is a perfectly fine 4th outfielder, especially since he is not the primary backup at CF.
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Is Curt Schilling a Hall of Famer?
sk7326 replied to Youk Of The Nation's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Oh, easy yes. Advanced Stats are very kind to him. His career is quite similar to Pedro's in terms of overall value. -
There are some basic things which are working for Price - abnormally low strand rates so far which you expect to get better. Strikeouts are at a career high and while walks and homeruns are not great they are not out of line with his career. Flashed 96 against Houston. He'll be fine.
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I don't even know 100% if that's true. The kids weren't ready in April - but from the Grady Sizemore experiment to reacquiring Stephen Drew, the org was very itchy when they weren't making their dreams come true immediately. As opposed to betting on track record and just have Farrell smile and tell the press that the kids are doing exactly what we asked.
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There was a lot that smelled about the 38 Studios thing, both from the state and from him. That doesn't take away Game 6. I don't think he was out to screw anybody (just get a pile of money), but his choice of stakeholders to take care of says stuff about him personally. His Game 6 performance was heroic. But I don't require him to be a hero. After all, Spiderman is a hero. (the Hulk on the other hand is a skin condition)
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It was not a great crop for MVP that year (by bWAR). Justin Morneau though was one of the worst MVP choices of the last few decades. Johan Santana and former Red Sox Great Grady Sizemore were probably the best choices, with Ortiz having a very strong case.
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I think that is a fair sentiment. I also think that a DH's offense often has to be greater than a position player's offense because of defensive value and positional scarcity. That is basic team building - the way a big hitting CF (assuming he can play CF at a decent clip) is more valuable than a big hitting LF because they are just harder to find.
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Snubbed out of MVPs is a bit much. Other players who do offer major contributions in premium positions have a chance to add value in more areas (including the basic opportunity cost that comes with a good bat at a specific position). A DH has to do a lot to overcome that.
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To a point - but he uses the fame from said accomplishments to advocate ... he is a public figure, it is fair game to some extent.
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If you are a properly functioning adult - you can separate your feelings about the 2004 heroics and the general way he lives personally. Put another way, he can be an odious guy who sold out his own employees in a very dicey business deal ... AND a Red Sox hero ... all at the same time.
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Not much - but given how much influence a starter has in his games, the gap can get closed pretty easily. The pitchers value pitching is sufficient - often to match the overall contribution of a good position player. I agree mostly with the reliever thing - Sutter is not a good HoF inductee. The one-inning closer is a modern phenomenon, but one that has been around for 20 years and is here to stay. Rivera did it better than anybody - and by a wide margin. So he should get in. The others are much dicier.
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Well punished is not the right term. For instance, Mike Schmidt had a fairly similar offensive profile to Ortiz. But he created additional value playing a solid 3B that Ortiz could not. So that should matter. It is totally legit to let DH's in ... but it is also legit for the DH offensive threshhold to be high compared to a fielder, because there is no defensive contribution to weigh in. Ortiz and Edgar Martinez clearly pass that threshhold to me.
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No doubt. But I don't think it is wrong to have a higher offensive threshhold for a DH than for a middle fielder.
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I think your first choice is to see if Papi wants to come back. I am sure you will know whether the team has discussed it based on how amazing the Papi tributes are as the season rolls on. I know you want to go out on top, but I am sympathetic to what Bill Walton once said. You have the rest of your life to be old and unable to play.
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His career start has been proof that his success at Arkansas was legit - he can mash that level of competition. (SEC tracks fairly well to High A). Now AA will give us more knowledge about where he really is. As I've noted before, I think there is about a 20% chance he is up here to man LF.
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Absolutely - it is ok though to have a higher bar for a DH offensively than a different position.
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Tim Raines and Jeff Bagwell are probably the best players not in (and who do not have the steroid cloud over them - for the record they should all be eligible if there is no failed test) ... and yes, Catfish is one of the shakier HoF'ers in history
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DD probably had input to the degree that he let Farrell play the right players. The org decided to let Castillo and Panda win or not win those positions instead of giving them away. I doubt Farrell wanted to play less effective players.
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Why would you do that. One issue is about administering the rules properly. I am amazed that folks get all bent out of shape about PEDs but not about umps being doing an essential job badly. Batters want a consistent strike zone - virtually nothing would change about the game aside from the horrible balls and strikes calls which you are not allowed to question.
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Strike zone is in the rule book - the technology is here to do something consistent right now. It is an imposible job for home plate umps to do. Following their success rate on mlb's gamecast is remarkably funny. You would still need home plate umps for swing/no swing, foul tips and plays at the plate. But we have technology to outsource the part of the job they are worst at. I admire that Vasquez is an elite pitch framer - but if you think of it, pitch framing is only a thing because home plate umpires for the most part are lousy at their job.