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Are we sure about that? I saw a bunch of "Sox should go for it", particularly from the Joe Sheehan sorts nationally. Heck, once I saw the price for Scherzer - I thought the team absolutely should have made a push. I don't think the team is long term in a position to be stupid about the prospects to move. But if you knew Nick Yorke and another like-level prospect could get you a decent starter, I'd have gone for it.
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Jansen has been fine ... but nothing special. I think you count on recycling that.
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Yeah. The funny thing is I probably would have sold Jansen as well as the OFs in question.
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Once you see an 83-78 team win the World Series - you just have to throw your hands up in the air. But that's what makes it all fun too.
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Really the big whiff was the SS thing. And from Cora's perspective - the big problem ultimately became the bat with Kike. The defense was poor - but you could almost live with that - the team knew it was bad defensively. But his dropoff offensively made sustaining the rest of it impossible. Overall, the OF has been a plus considering the resources put into it. Yoshida has been a very pleasant surprise ... the ability for hitters to carry power from NPB to MLB was spotty so I understood the hesitation .. but he has delivered hard contact.
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I think the number of pure sellers is very low. But Seattle just traded its closer today and they are in the same WC position as Boston. So how the mushy middle behaves is still up in the air.
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I presume he and the club discussed the situation during the negotiations.
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I don't disagree. But Chang could have made that decision a bit easier.
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I am concerned certainly, particularly with age. But Story was on pace for a 4 win season last year. Crawford was one of the worst regulars in the league in 2011. It's not the same thing.
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One thing to remember is that the 2020 draft was the pandemic draft. It was only 5 rounds, and we were dealing with most of the high school seasons and spring showcases being severely effected or scuttled altogether. Lots of the top high school talent went to college (see the strength of this year's draft crop per evaluators). Even in normal years, picks will appear by the end of Round 1 who do not appear in public-facing Top 100 lists. Teams have way more scouts working than The Athletic or MLB.com. In 2020/21, the public had even less information than normal. Yorke was an out there pick on paper - but in a year like 2020, there was far more limited information for the public to say whether a pick "made sense" in general.
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The fun thing with Story is that is has largely been injuries. Last year was a disappointment to a degree - but there were enough flashes of the player the Sox thought they were getting to feel okay.
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it is a good run - but 2 walks in 97 PAs is not great
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With Rafaela, if anybody is waiting for him to develop Triston Casas' batting eye, prepare to be disappointed. But he does generate pretty good power for how tiny he is - and so far (
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Oh I don't want to "dump" Yorke. But where the Red Sox want to be as a franchise is to identify the prospects who are desirable but tradeable. I know it's annoying - but let's use the Dodgers example. The Dodgers were able to trade Alex Verdugo - a perfectly good starting outfielder prospect, to the Red Sox without thinking about it. Yes, they got a superstar in return ... but that is kind of the point. You'd like to be in a position to have good players to deal while keeping your true star ceiling clean as much as possible. On the Sox farm, I think you identify Mayer (struggling at AA, but also one of the youngest regulars in that league), Anthony (with the leaps he has made and his tools) and Bleis (the tools again) as the sort of star ceiling you want to hang on to. I could be wrong of course - but we are dealing in probabilities here. Ultimately I don't want to deal any of these guys unless a good player with substantial team control is coming here.
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This is a pretty good deal.
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To me Mayer is the only can't touch. Bleis, Anthony and the others are excellent - but Mayer being at AA just speaks to him having more big league probability. But this is all "it has to be the right deal", which means very good players with some substantial team control.
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I suppose - but it is also not playing your best org CF at CF for reasons.
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true - though Turner (obviously positional value is different) is a better player than Kike ... he can be an above average DH for another year. If he opts in, things will be fine. As far as the OF goes, i could see Rafaela in CF bumping Duran to RF and Verdugo to LF. Not the sexiest OF offensively but defensively could be excellent. The one thing is all these positions are left handed save for Rafaela and there are probably 300-400 PAs there for Turner just as a platoonish guy.
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Bloom is in an interesting spot ... he knows that this team is not a Dodger/Braves/Astros level inner circle contender. But he also knows that in baseball of all sports, being an inner circle contender on paper is not particularly important. If you get in the tournament, you can win it. We've seen too many examples of that. The Sox are not in a position to trade top prospects for a rental. So far the moves make sense - try to add bullpen help and maybe bet on Story's return to SS to aid the run prevention. Another 2B would be nice but cost matters. Jonathan India has not been good - but if that is a buy and retain low opportunity, you do have to look at it. His defense is bad, but that (tee hee) doesn't hurt the Sox team defense overall.
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This is probably right ... he is definitely the best CF in the system.
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I actually kind of agree with Dojji that bringing up Rafaela and putting him at 2nd could be an idea if the trade market doesn't shake down. Bloom made his statement about the rent-a-player and he is right to a degree. Yes, the Sox made the Schwarber deal - but I do think the Sox were interested in Schwarber returning. Good on the team for making buying a possibility.
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Well, if you don't count the whole NL pennant thing.
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The team needs a couple of useful arms. Kike has been one of the league's worst regulars this season. Playing out of position, but the bat has been the failure. Oh well. We will always have 2021.
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The 2019 story was really simple. They returned one of the best "on paper" rotations in the AL and only one of the pitchers was any good. (E-Rod)
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Bello maybe. But the team's two best starters falling to pieces would ruin any season.