sk7326
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I think the team looked at the 2021 offseason like they did ahead of the 2013 season. This was not REALLY a last place team. Bloom made some unsexy signings with some significant upside, and the team bet on some of the players who were bad in the sprint season to have more normal output. Now Kike was not as shocking a revelation as Victorino was in 2013 - but the same general vibe. I do think the team felt that they had a roster which could compete for a Wild Card position - and this being baseball, get into the tournament and who knows? But I don't think management expected this team to spend as many days in first place as it did. Of course management, did not anticipate the team choosing such a banger of a "fight song".
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1. Yes, but I think it's moot 2. Absolutely 3. Sure, 4. Fine 5. Absolutely 6. Starter 7. Not really. But he's a good platoon bat who should be able to defend the corners - and it's worth looking into it. 8. No.
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I think the team would like more certainty - but the bullpen is always going to be a place to throw bodies at. There is just a large universe of guys who 1) have awful platoon splits, 2) have no third pitch, 3) have scary looking deliveries ...that are worth trying to see if there is something there. I will say with Bloom in charge - I'd expect the ability for Boston to "make" relievers out of these sorts of guys to be better.
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I think if the Red Sox bring in starters from outside the organiztion, you're looking at guys with short deals with some upside - or some "done that before". Like Jon Lester is obviously close to washed - but is still durable and capable of some low level innings eating. Dylan Bundy is still young enough to feel like the team could turn him around. Zack Greinke would be great on a 1-2 year deal - but I imagine he's staying in Houston on that sort of arrangement. The Sox are signing relievers regardless. The one thing we know about Bloom - coming from the Tampa Bay tree - is that he's going to bring in a bout 75,000 live arms and just go through them until a bunch of them click. There is no way that Bloom is betting on Whitlock wearing the Superman cape again.
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In the regular season they have - they have had very quick hook with Houck even during the slog. Cora is ruthless in the playoffs - but starters giving innings just helps get through the 162.
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I saw that the qualifying offer amount this year is going to be $18.6M. Personally, I absolutely offer Rodriguez the Qualifying Offer. If you could do 3 years for $50M or less, I'd take it. But that number I think is totally reasonable if Rodriguez just wants to take the QO and prove it in 2022.
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Houck won't see the third trip to the order until the team is confident he can do damage on his glove side of the strike zone. But he has been rock solid in his time here.
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Heck, the players might agree to a salary cap ... as long as it locked in revenue share for the players. Right now - the players are getting all the downsides of "life with a salary cap" and none of the positives. The players should really be fighting for much, much, much larger minimum salaries. (since all of the future adjustments, including arbitration - build from there) I also like the idea that any minor leaguer called up should get the big league minimum salary for a month - regardless of how long he is actually on the big club.
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He's a great manager - he served his time. But - it's a hanging curveball.
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Wouldn't want to enter the ALCS with tricks Cora still knows.
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One thing Dombrowski was good at was making aggressive calls on the farmhands.
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The thing that Cora has done is been ruthless with his pitching changes. ERod and Sale got off to horrible starts - but Cora has not let guys sit there and harm the team (to whatever degree possible).
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This has been a fun ride. The playoffs are always a crapshoot in that baseball is very noisy to begin with, and going to short series only exacerbates that. Houston if they advance is a serious challenge. Their pitching is excellent of course. The other big thing is they are the hardest team in the league to strike out, and the Red Sox were one of the worst teams in the league at fielding balls hit in play.
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JD Martinez has a 1.200 OPS on one leg and 15 ABs!
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He actually pitched significantly better than his results - that was the weird thing about his season. He walked fewer batters, struck out more of them and allowed less good contact. But his season sucked. He and Eovaldi were striking victims of the Red Sox statuesque defense.
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Rodriguez is a decent bounceback candidate - just because he pitched a lot better than his results. Vazquez is a decent bounceback candidate as well. Verdugo is a solid starter. Schwarber is worth looking into re-signing. Dalbec is not a starter - but as a guy who gets a bunch of PAs against lefties spelling the corners? Sure, why not. 2B is the position where the team could stand to upgrade most directly. And of course Bloom will undoubtedly keep trawling the bottom of the oceans for arms. I'd re-sign Rodriguez myself, and perhaps hope the last couple of cursed years gets a mild discount. Sale-Eovaldi-Rodriguez is a good starting 3 ... and then you find at least one more starter. This team winning 92 was overachieving - but not by THAT much. Overachieving was having an 8 game lead in the division.
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Yeah - the new CBA will make this interesting. I think there is a good chance there will be some actual salary cap. (the players might do it if it locks in a percentage of the pie. Right now the players are living with all of the downsides of a salary cap with none of the benefits) Ideally, we can bring Schwarber back - Dalbec is not a starter, but as a platoon bat playing both corner positions there is a really interesting player. Upgrading 2B would be nice.
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The Sale extension was fine. I did not LOVE the Eovaldi extension, but given the market he was entering, somebody was going to pay him. He was hurt so much in 2019 and you're better off just throwing all of the 2020 stats (this applies for every team) out the window. There is a good pitcher there clearly - albeit one with some injury risk.
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It's baseball. Any team can win 4 of 7 against another. Obviously the Astros are a real concern - the best team in the league at putting the ball in play against a team that ... uh ... lets a lot of balls put in play hit the ground.
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A self inflicted wound which is still hard to unsee.
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10/11 ALDS Game 4 vs Rays
sk7326 replied to Thunder's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
This is a profoundly flawed team - the worst of the teams this team has taken to the playoffs this century. But the fight they have shown all season is huge. When their season almost fell to pieces due to that stupid COVID outbreak - they pulled it back. When the Yankees registered three straight comebacks in Fenway, the Red Sox overcame. When the Nationals had them down 5-1. Etc etc etc And of course, 3 of the 4 titles the Red Sox have won this century were under first year managers - and TECHNICALLY this is the first year of Cora's second go-round. -
10/11 ALDS Game 4 vs Rays
sk7326 replied to Thunder's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Because the infield was in all the way - that was a choice by the Rays, one they did not have to make -
10/11 ALDS Game 4 vs Rays
sk7326 replied to Thunder's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
One legge JD Martinez was outstanding. Really all of the big guns showed up big in this series. Schwarber has low key been the best of all the deadline acquisitions in the league. -
10/11 ALDS Game 4 vs Rays
sk7326 replied to Thunder's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
it was 1st and 3rd - they could have still done it. I was surprised they did not play the middle guys at double play depth.