moonslav59
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His speed offers some excitement, but he doesn't seem like a very bright base runner. His defense improved, but he barely okay in LF. He has changed his approach, so often, and has had struggles, so often, it's hard for me to think about locking him up- long term. We have him for 4 more years: one pre-arb and 3 arbs. I don't see any urgency. Keeping the LF and CF slots open for Duran, Refsnyder, Abreu and Rafaela is still a gamble.
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You mean "rotation?"
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As with just about everyone. Even when doing well, they weren't "murderer's row," but they were better than acceptable.
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Dalbec his very well for 3 straight months. Duran couldn't do it for 2 straight. He already has 4 years of team control. It's not a top priority, to me. The guy sucked, last year. His defense improved to near acceptable in LF and still sa negative in CF. He hit well in 2 of 4 months. He hasn't earned $80M.
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Certainly Cora has more power, now. Your original post said "managed," which was talking about the past.
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Somehow, our OF finished 5th in OPS and 12th in fWAR. In 2022, the OF finished 27th in fWAR and 24th in OPS.
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Then he "managed" the guys who decided to fire Bloom, right?
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Having more quality players allows for a few to have off years, and there is still enough "others" to keep the team competitive. It also helps that they both have a had a pretty steady flow of homegrown players joining the team that could fill in of the "down" players. I know I am beating a dead horse, but that stretch between Devers in 2017 to Bello/Casas with only Houck as being significant is a roster killer- a GM killer, too.
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True, and I guess it highlights how much a GM gets praised or bashed based upon that "randomness."
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Agreed, and I still don't know how Cora "managed" Bloom.
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I am always thinking in terms of money spent on player A means less is spent on player B and C and .... I never assume the budget is limitless. Sure, I'd love Ohtani on the roster, but I'd rather have Yamamoto + Montgomery.
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End of Year Review: http://news.soxprospects.com/2023/10/podcast-ep-297-2023-season-in-review.html
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Rafaela wins Player of the Year Award for the second straight season.
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Yes, and I agree, it's not much different from what you said. Bloom had a big enough budget to win more than 78 games, the last 2 years, despite all the context and deadwood. We should have done better. The weird thing is, he did better in 2021 with less money and more unproductive FA signings than '22 and '23.
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Agreed, and within the context of other inactions and "near misses," it spelled his doom.
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That's a long list.
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I didn't say it was news. I didn't even try to hint is was something we don't already know. It's been going on for a long time. I just said TB has a large transplant population that skews the numbers, since many will never become Rays fans or ardent ones. You said they have a low senior population. I presented numbers that indicate another opinion on that point. Now, you change the debate. I'm not disputing the TV ratings. I guess Tampa has a bunch of old and young people and not many middle agers. The point I'm making is the fanbase is smaller than normal due to so many never having a chance at becoming a Rays fan, because they already love the Yanks, Red Sox and ___.
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He's the "baseball guy," who says he's not quite ready to be "the baseball guy."
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Indeed. The budgets add context, but don't change those facts.
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You asked if I see the way you do, then say you don't care how I see it. He did not spend $230M, except in 1 year. Am I right or wrong?
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Wrong. 1. I wouldn't take the average and make it sound like he specialized in spending $230 for more than 1 year. 2. Bloom did not "put together" the half Price payments, nor the Sale contract. 3. His winter spending budgets were mostly meager, when you factor in how many slots he needed to fill each year.
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I'm sort of okay thinking we can start the year with a Duran-Refsnyder platoon in LF. His bat should be fine as a platoon. If it doesn't work, Yoshida can play more LF. I'm sort of okay thinking we can start the year with a Rafaela-Abreu platoon in CF, but I'd like to add someone like Duvall as insurance and as our new FT RF'er. (Trade Dugo.) It's a risk, but we have to choose some areas where we just "have faith" in what we got, and use as many resources as possible to fix the rotation.
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They should have.
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Okay. I just don't get what is gained by repeating that over and over. Virtually every team can say that about their owner. It's pointless, to me. We can hope it happens, but hope hasn't worked for over 4 years. (The high spending stopped right after the Sale, Nate & Bogey extensions, which when taken in the context of also losing Betts, half Price and Porcello was hardly a spending spree. One could argue, the big spending stopped after the 2018 trade deadline.
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A firm no, is okay with me, but I certainly feel better about him than I did, last winter. His D is still subpar, but he went from horrific to near average in LF and just plain bad in CF. That encouraged me more than two hot months on O.
