Kimmi
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I would sign him for 3 years. Anything more than that, no thank you. So no, he won't be a fit.
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That's what we have Bloom for. Honestly, I don't have the time to study the other teams closely enough to know what players are out there. I am not suggesting we get a mediocre closer. I am suggesting that a very good closer can be obtained without spending a lot of resources. Also, Red Sox Stats @redsoxstats · 10h After years of getting progressively nastier, Barnes had been in a pretty bad skid since the middle of last May. 52 IP, 4.82 ERA, 4.51 FIP, 1.64 WHIP, 33% K%, 16% BB%. He's had a big turnaround the last 6 weeks though, which is welcome news for 2021 or a trade this winter.
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#BringJBJBack
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The financial and prospect constraints were going to be here in 2020, no doubt, which is a big part of why Dombrowski was let go. However, I was hopeful that we still had the talent to keep us competitive this year. One big problem with hitting a cliff is that if anything goes wrong in terms of injury or underperformance, the team doesn't have the flexibility to fix it.
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Houck has been very impressive. Good for him. He will have a lot of confidence going into the postseason. It's still a very small sample size, so we have to temper our enthusiasm, but he has made is it difficult not to be excited about him for next year.
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My point was that one should never spend a fortune on a closer. I don't like spending big money on any players, but IMO, resources should be prioritized for starting pitching and position players. Bullpens should be put together cheaply. I am not saying that good bullpens are not vital to the team and 'cheaply' does not mean mediocrely. The offseason plan should never involve acquiring an expensive stud closer, especially as the first order of business.
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Well since you are Canadian, I suppose I can excuse the soft spot for the Jays.
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They have been feast or famine in the last few weeks. The bolded statement is pretty much the case with any team in the playoffs. One thing to keep in mind is that how hot or cold a team is playing leading into the playoff has no correlation to postseason success.
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I may have to do that some time when I get bored.
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I kind of like the expanded playoffs, but I completely understand the reasons stated against them. There's a game starting like every hour on Wednesday from noon to 8, or something like that. How in the heck am I supposed to watch all of that? LOL Agreed on the Yankees. In terms of teams making it into the playoffs, they are mediocre. Definitely not a powerhouse. The Dodgers appear to be that powerhouse, but strange things happen in the playoffs. Anyone can win. I would be fine with the Cubbies winning, though I would prefer a team that hasn't won in a long while. First and foremost, anyone but the Yankees.
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I'm not a huge Roenicke fan, but I can't blame him for pitching decisions. I have no problem with adding a closer. I do have a problem with adding a closer for a large amount of money.
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To be fair, I thought that the Sox could be competitive when we still had Sale and ERod. I didn't like Price being traded for that very reason. Also to be fair, it would have been very difficult for any team to overcome losing as many starting pitchers as we lost between 2019 and 2020, be it through trade, free agency, or injury. But that doesn't erase the fact that the team had very little flexibility to make any moves, and losing Price and Porcello was a direct result of trying to regain some flexibility back.
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Nice. I guess fake, created hate doesn't serve the purpose. LOL CC is a competitor, but he also has a tendency to be whiny. Didn't he complain about the Sox bunting against him with his bum knee? He's also one who was outspoken about how the Yankees were cheated out of the World Series because of the Astros' sign stealing. Where is that sealed letter that was supposed to be unsealed?
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LOL I like Yankees fans when their team is struggling.
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It has more to do with our inability to make any moves to improve the team, not that I would have made them anyway during this shortened season. The FO's hands were tied.
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As I've said before, when you don't have the starting pitching, and the bullpen has to carry the load of the starting rotation as well as relief duties, the bullpen won't be nearly as effective or productive. Shore up the starting rotation. That's where the focus needs to be. I'm not saying that the bullpen doesn't need some reinforcement, but it doesn't need the complete or near complete overhaul that some are saying it needs.
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I am pretty sure he wasn't on bed rest. The report from ERod after meeting with his doctors is that he expects to have a normal offseason.
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I am very confident in saying the Sox will tender Eduardo a contract. Book it.
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Right. Do you expect Cherington to turn the team around in less than a year? Look no further than the your own team and the Blue Jays to see how good a job Cherington does in building a team from the farm system up.
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He will fit right in with Maddon. Two self-important twits.
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Did you hear or read the part about how CC picks a player on the opposing team to hate (for no reason) so that he can build up his hatred/intensity against that team? That's his explanation for why he hated JBJ. I guess doofus-ness just runs rampant on that team.
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That might be true, but spending a fortune on a closer doesn't change that.
