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Are we sure Houck is THAT much more than a swingman? Crawford is interesting but similar question. Bello is a keeper tho.
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No matter the ranking - if you read The Athletic, ESPN, Fangraphs, MLB.com ... they all say roughly the same thing. The org is loaded with position prospects - best in years ... and a pitching desert, with a lot of arms but almost nothing above a swingman.
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Both Rikard and Romero have a lot of experience at this point as well as experience with this club and ownership. Amiel Sawdaye would probably be my top choice - but with knowing that ownership will way not have your back here, that will probably influence candidates' views of the whole deal.
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Don't ask me. Teams (like the Astros until recently) fired their entire pro scouting group, just relying on StatCast data. Everybody spends on amateur scouting.
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If you look at MLB.com, the Astros have not had a farm system ranked above 27th for a few years. Same with the Braves. The Cubs were 10th in 2013 and fell to 25th by 2017 - the year after they won the title. It'd be nice to have a constant stream of prospects and whatever ... but waves are not uncommon.
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It'd be nice for South Shore League All Star Mike Hazen to come back. But he is also a single dad with 4-kids in school out there. I would not bet on it.
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Kyle Schwarber is back to having a higher OBP than Yoshida despite batting .197. I love baseball.
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Of course, the Dodgers are the ultimate expression of the "Rays way - but with big time $$"
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The thing with the farm rankings if you look over time is that it makes perfect sense for good teams to fall in the rankings ... if you graduate prospects or deal them for major league help, well of course. It'd be nice to be the Dodgers who don't seem to have such mortal team concerns, but everybody else has had to deal with that. And it was definitely wild that Dombrowski hado to walk the plank for it less than a year after he delivered on the goal.
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The thing that made the firing icky was that "emptying the farm" sort of came on the label when they hired Dombrowski in the first place. They didn't hire him to "not" do that.
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Beefing up the scouting departments is in itself a very "Rays" thing. They have the largest pro scouting department in the league. And if you are going to trade someone like Verdugo - the pro scouting becomes vital.
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Yankees need a young'in to pop next season for sure.
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The team needs to upgrade the pitching and defense ... and I do think they should give real runways for Rafaela and Abreu to play. I am not looking for a full teardown - but lean more into the kids. But - as most of the autopsies of the Bloom era have pointed out - this team as-is would have been a playoff contender if the team just spent resources on pitching!
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When you are the Boston Freakin Red Sox - "adding another pitcher" should be a both/and question
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I need to hear more. If he did not want to trade Sale for a sack of potatoes because he thought Sale could be better than that - it makes sense. It's not like they weren't shedding payroll either way.
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The thing with bloom is that he basically signed one free agent in the deep end of the pool - Story ... who has been too hurt to say a whole lot about one way or the other, though it has not been promising. The other guys have largely been okay - but they have all be fliers on the margin. My view on Bloom ultimately is the same as Dombrowski. Both did exactly what they were hired to do, and management fired them when the optics got marginally challenging. Both cases were equally tawdry.
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The team is still 9th in the majors in OBP. But yeah, it has been all borne on batting average. The guys Bloom has brought in have largely not walked all that much. Of course, that role might not be a market inefficiency anymore.
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Certainly there would be cranky fans - but you can't let them dictate your moves. The opt out for a goliath like Boston should have been a nothingburger.
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When you look at what Rodriguez signed for, and the underlying numbers before he left - it was pretty clearly a mistake to not sign him. Letting Eovaldi go was a pretty obvious mistake too - if you're going to sign an injury risk - sign one who actually can pitch here. It is particularly notable with Bloom's near total negligence of pitching - both in free agency and in the amateur acqusition fronts.
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For someone like JH that should have been a both/and not an either/or.
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1. When you have a future Hall of Famer entering his prime, to not keep him is cheap 2. Bogaerts is a little different and the decision to let him go is less terrible than the plan to replace him. 3. The Red Sox should never be having the 12th highest payroll in the league - not with their revenue, not with what they ask out of their fans $$-wise. 4. The team extended a couple of guys after 2018. Great. What they did not do was push to optimize this core - not the way the Dodgers (another Tampa Bay inspired front office) do. 5. Now, when Bloom took over, the minor league system was not at the position the Dodgers is - where there are constant supplies of Verdugo-level players that have value in trades for premium players so they CAN be in on almost any player they want. But in terms of assets, nothing is stopping the Red Sox from being that sort of behemoth. 6. The Red Sox are one of the big kids on the block - and they need to act like that.
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There is not a ton of evidence that management was willing to do what it took - and that's not a DD problem.
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Or just more pitchers, period - which is usually how the teams at the top remain consistent there.
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Bloom put together a high variance rotation - both performance and medical-wise. The variance with the 2019 team was more unforeseen - particularly Sale and Porcello. Bullpen variance just comes with the gig.
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The 2019 team scored more runs than the 2018. Basically the entire starting rotation collapsed - mostly health, but some performance. The 2023 team is going to only have 1 pitcher go over 150 innings pitched. Combine that with the wretched defensive personnel - there is just not much you can do with that.