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  1. sk7326
    Of all the decisions the management made, that was the one where you felt like they were ducking lightning bolts as they made the deal. The Price deal blew up in their face, but there was nothing in his past that indicated the medical issues. (or the other stuff)
  2. sk7326
    I was ambivalent about Bogaerts. The 11 years I don't really care - again, it's spreading money to make the luxury tax numbers more favorable. But with Bogaerts it is unlikely that he'll recover all that value.
  3. sk7326
    It's a good deal. As other teams have shown, the extra long terms of these deals make the deals more luxury-tax friendly ... Devers has a good chance to generate that value with a few years to spare.
  4. sk7326
    Andrus would cost nothing so he is probably the best option. Of the trade options, the best is likely Rojas. Crawford is expensive, and you are betting that 2022 was the fluke and not 2021 (where he was a legit MVP candidate)
  5. sk7326
    The Giants are not that team, but Brandon Crawford had a huge dropoff from 2021. Miguel Rojas would be the guy to target.
  6. sk7326
    If he does, it's because ownership asked him to. But moreover, the industry is using extra long deals to circumvent the luxury tax and Red Sox ownership has to get wise to that.
  7. sk7326
    good pickup for yanks though durability has been a major concern through his career
  8. sk7326
    Good 40 minutes of Speier with Law talking about the Sox inner workings and some higher level roster view ... I too have the Rafaela pom poms out. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-are-the-red-sox-doing-alex-speier-tries-to-explain/id1499877854?i=1000590177351
  9. sk7326
    A slugging pct over .500 in the NPB - how it translates is questionable. I am hopeful, but it looks more like Fukudome than Matsui on paper. I will be the happiest person to be proven wrong.
  10. sk7326
    It's not a terrible AAV - but it all comes down to whether he hits the ball hard. The rest of the toolset looks unremarkable. The strike zone command thing is dependent on pitchers actually caring about whether you swing the bat or not.
  11. sk7326
    Realistically, bringing both Eovaldi and Wacha back would be good ideas. I mean they are also both injury risks, but there is some actual known upside there. It's a speculative rotation, but at least one where the positive side of the coin is considerable Sale will be good assuming he doesn't tear his rotator cuff doing jumping jacks Bello has real promise Eovaldi has been one of the better starters in baseball when he has been healthy Wacha was good enough for Boston to miss him badly when he was out Whitlock was never really in a position to start for real. There is some risk that he's really just a great relieve, but he pounds the strike zone which usually is a good sign Pivetta is an innings eater
  12. sk7326
    This. When you get to a certain $$ level, those are ownership calls. Extending Sale, letting Bogaerts walk - those are ownership calls.
  13. sk7326
    I guess for Bogaerts, the locking in of those pre-arb raises was worth it.
  14. sk7326
    It does. At the same time, while it helps sign players - for teams there is a side benefit where they can decide fresh whether they want to pay for the player's non-prime years. It complicates things for the team, but you do get a fresh look at things. With Bogaerts, it never should have gotten to the hostage taking stage anyway.
  15. sk7326
    1.5 Ownership should not have been as grimly determined to make the "David Price salary dump featuring Mookie Betts"
  16. sk7326
    dislocated finger from scrolling 4chan comments
  17. sk7326
    I know a couple of people who were victims of the 38 studios grift.
  18. sk7326
    Worth noting (on the starting front) that Eovaldi does look like someone whose market is being jammed by the QO. He could still be an option. That Jose Quintana deal made me sigh wistfully. I've accepted that Sale is going to strain his UCL again going out to fetch the newspaper.
  19. sk7326
    Well, he has to find a dance partner and didn't last year. If he is happy with a 2/70 deal and getting back into the waters again, maybe he does it again.
  20. sk7326
    These decisions are made by ownership - when it gets to this dollar value, it's an ownership call. Now, on paper I would not have necessarily given Bogaerts an 11 year deal - but I do want to see what the outs look like and so on ...
  21. sk7326
    The tricky part is the power. For the most part, the NPB power numbers have not translated going across the pond. (basically it's Ohtani, Matsui and that's it) It's a LF/DH player without plus speed - so really all of this lies in his ability to hit for power. It's a real gamble.
  22. sk7326
    Schilling is a HoF'er and probably will get in at some point. But ... the violin I play for his very very tiny.
  23. sk7326
    On one hand the team is paying $17.5M a year to someone who has not been "very good" in 5 years. On the other hand, he is still above average and the bullpen did not have enough of even that.
  24. sk7326
    It has been bad (.094 now!). But you look at the underlying data .. - He is striking out a lot, but like Yoan Moncada struck out more in his callup (and is still striking out) - The batted ball numbers in terms of hard contact are pretty good Really, the kid needs to work on lifting the ball ... it has been a pattern in the minors too, where he has not actually hit a lot of homeruns for the contact he gets. Just like Pedroia's call up - the numbers have been bad, but under the surface there are some things there to see what the fuss is about. Like Pedroia his .195 ... but even in 2006, he showed up as a dude who was impossible to strike out.
  25. sk7326
    They wanted to see if Whitilock and Houck were starters or not - and unfortunately they both got hurt which screwed up the answer. Whitlock as a starter should still be explored - but it is possible Whitlock should just be a multi-inning relief weapon and that's great. Houck I just don't think can get lefties out (this is all eye test) at a sufficient rate longer term. What I'd like to see is Whitlock and Houck being used as 6-9 out relievers ...
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