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Farrell tactically was fine. He was not great, but he was not terrible. (like Matt Williams terrible) Tactically he did a pretty good job in the ALDS. (no way to tactically work around 2 horrific starts ... his moves were crucial to winning Game 3, and he did everything right in Game 4) He got respect - and after the Bobby V experience, having a normal human being in that position was a tremendous plus. However, he did not seem to be very good with working with a younger team. He was good in that he played kids - which not all managers do. But - and a lot of the reporting surrounding the firing noted this - the kids the Sox had were all smart, high character guys. But they often were also guys who were very hard on themselves - and Farrell was not the sort of guy who can tell the kids to take it easy or just helping them relax. Can Cora be able to work with a lighter touch - I am excited to find out.
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Cashner down from 19% to 12% K-rate in 2017. Yuck
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oh of course - but "buzz" ... whatever. There are a lot of chances to get better, but most of them are internal.
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I am happy being the boring 90 win team.
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I suspect the clubhouse was not a fun place to work by the end of 2017 ... and when you have a young team, that can often a problem.
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There was obviously a reason - but I suspect our diagnoses were different ...
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Cashner's K-rate fell through the floor last year. Liriano has been shaky - but there is reasonable upside for the cost. Lynn is probably the most reliable of that level of guy - but you have to be okay with him turning in 2017 Porcello sort of work ... where the value is in the bulk.
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There is ultimately not much history there - almost all the criticisms of Hosmer (and I agree with a lot of them) apply to Moustakas, except with more homeruns, more outs and an extra year of age.
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Previous mistakes do not excuse future ones. They absolutely CAN foot the bill ... the question is whether they ought to.
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That analysis is sound - I'd offer him (if he doesn't like 5/100) something like 3/80, with the third year maybe even a player option. Or - if it's 5/100, maybe frontload it so the last 2 years are less onerous for the Sox
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You look at the best position players who have signed. Lorenzo Cain 5/80 Zack Cosart 3/38 Carlos Santana 3/60 The Red Sox are being pretty reasonable. The Phillies clearly overpaid now once you see the market evolve - first mover disadvantage
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No - it's the Red Sox recognizing his market and their position. It's just game theory ... if Martinez had another bidder, nothing is preventing him from taking the higher offer. Indeed if I were Boston, I'd tell JD that I'd do 3/75-80 or something ... more average salary for a much more comfortable time frame. But there is no reason to up the 5 year offer.
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oh absolutely - I should have talked about sacrifice in a larger level ... and the leading by example is the stuff that gives some credibility about the other stuff. I am excited about the change in manager - but I think a lot of the change might involve a lighter touch than Farrell was capable.
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That is leadership - and how players earn their stripes to actually be able to have the words matter.
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One of the tricky things - as a fan ... is that leadership becomes media narrative as much as anything. The guys who talk to the press get conflated with the leaders. I mean leadership in these setting is often not the "inches we seek are everywhere" sort of speeches. Leadership is the 1987 Celtics seeing how hard it was for Kevin McHale to put on his shoes as he was playing the Finals with a broken foot (a foot that progressively got worse). In baseball, the manager can establish a working environment. As I maintain - a baseball manager is the most like a boss someone would have in a real-life job ... delegate, coach the coaches, yada yada
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2018 ESPN Prospects Stuff (Sox Related)
sk7326 replied to sk7326's topic in Red Sox Minor League Talk
The org's top 2 prospects and 3 of their Top 10 came from the fire sales. That is an incredible return for 2 relievers and a DH. -
If Martinez is not coming - fine. Then the question is what do you do? 1. Sign LoMo - who is young and could be a late bloomer. But it could also be major fluke rule. Would you want to go 5 years with him? 2. Sign a CarGo or Joey Bats (or something similar) - who are old and have bloomed already. But it would be a year - and maybe you strike gold (or at least silver). Statcast data would be helpful here - alas. 3. Ride with this group. This would be frustrating - but the team scored the 6th most in the AL without anybody having an outstanding season. There is reason to see things getting better. All 3 are defensible. My preference would be #2.
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College is a little more prevalent and the Seahawks have done nicely. Plus (this is true of the West Coast more generally) - you get to be outside more. Nice thing is being able to watch East Coast games and still have time to g out.
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Go figger - the current sox GM and his former assistant have made more or less identical offers.
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There are just a lot of tough things or Martinez: 1. The Red Sox are really the only customer who has the need and the money 2. The market has been squeezing guys like Martinez for a couple of years. The industry is not paying a lot of years for unathletic sluggers. 3. The Red Sox have short term options. They could go with LoMo. They could go Building 19 style (yes I'm that old) and look at Bautista/CarGo. They could simply say that "we scored the 6th most runs in the AL without anybody having a particularly good year" and just count on some turnaround from coaching and life happening. I think eventually Martinez joins Boston, but I have no problem with a hard line being taken here.
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Leadership is hard to import - it comes from the dudes who have done the work ... of course, this is all based on a strawman here, that the team lacked grit or fundamentals or toughness. That is a highly questionable premise - that the kids were lackadasical or whatever.
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Harper would be ummm ... unkind about the racism thing in Boston
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2018 ESPN Prospects Stuff (Sox Related)
sk7326 replied to sk7326's topic in Red Sox Minor League Talk
Maybe - but the Astros were already there, and the Sox were too to a certain degree. The Yankees real magic was pouncing on sell-offs with Miller and Chapman. The rest is not that amazing. And in both cases you can't blame the Cubs or Guardians for doing it - flags fly forever - but there you go. -
The Heyward signing made a ton of sense - he was amazingly young for a FA, they got him cheap relative to expectations ... and was capable of being one of the best OFs in the league if he was just okay offensively (he had been a reliably high on-base guy prior to his StL experience). The signing has not worked since he forgot how to hit. But you are right on the basics - you use the farm to craft the bulk of the team and then FAs are for specific openings. Like Lester. Darvish is a bad contract for the years, but a really good price. It seemed a lot of his problems were pitch selection related - the K-rate was still excellent. It seems like there is still some significant upside there at least short run. But some of the things the Cubs needed to keep their window open have not worked out. (Russell being more average than excellent, Schwarber not even that).
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Howard Bryant wrote about this https://www.amazon.com/Shut-Out-Story-Baseball-Boston/dp/0807009792