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IMO, DD's friction with the top brass seemed to be over the change in spending and trading away prospects philosophies. Had we brought back Kimbrell and traded Casas or Bello back in 2019, we might have kept the winning going another year or two. Okay, I just added another hypothetical... YIKES!
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The Rays are very good at identifying and acquiring ML and miL talent on other teams, while timing almost perfectly when the players they trade away are at their exact point of the start of decline. I might argue this is their strongest suit. Their record of acquiring players that go on to have career years, sometimes just for 1-2 years is astounding. (Some are then traded or non tendered in 1-3 years.) Their record of dealing away apparently good players right before a serious decline in uncanny. Yes, they have drafted and developed pretty well, but I put ATL, BAL and LAD above them in that area- maybe tehre are even more teams, but I am no expert on even our farm, let alone other teams.
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So, how many Yankees are NEAR locks at being near SOLID in 2024?
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Why did the Angels accept the arb?
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Indeed. Had the spending kept rising, too, he might still be here.
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What about all the balls hit that are not HRs?
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No, because I already laid out how our D should improve significantly without any outside additions. SS: greatly improved with Story FT and Reyes as back-up. 2B: significantly improved with Reyes and Urias. LF: improved with Yoshida to DH more often and Duran/Rey in LF, instead. CF: could be greatly improved the more Rafaela plays there. The rest should be even or maybe improved at 2 slots by age progression at 1B and C. We don't need to add players based on defense, but re-signing Duvall would not be hurtful, if he plays more RF and LF over CF.
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You changed 4. My point was meant to show that other than 2021, the winning % has been on a steady upward slope.
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I'm not sure he gets the $11.9M he got, this year via his final arb.
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114 OPS+ 2022-2023 is not that bad for a plus defender. I don't think we should pay for 3B, when pitching is our biggest need, second biggest need and third biggest need.
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If 2021 had been a .440 winning %, this would have been Bloom's progression: .519 in 2019- before the purge .400 in '20 .440 in '21 .480 in '22 .520 in '23 Perfect graph line! Extend this guy for 4 YEARS! We'll be at .640 by then.
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Why? He's getting paid enough and may end up seeing the benefits of his work starting in 2025, like Ben might have in 2018. He's been playing the long game, as I suspect he was told to do, hired to do, and has been doing rather well, IMO.
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Ouch!
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Even if they give him $20M to fill the 3 big slots needed to fill? SP1 SP2 RH'd OF
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fWAR 2021-2023 11.6 Devers 11.4 Chapman Looks good to me. 2023 fWAR 5. Candelario 3.4 6. Henderson 3.3 7. Chapman 3.2 8. Machado 3.1 T10. Devers 2.6
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Poor defense. Yes. Poor attitude? Not sure. Paid too much? Maybe. Easily replacable? Seems that way.
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I'd try to make it possible for Abreu and Rafaela to be on the 26, but they need to be playing a lot. I'm not sure we start the year like that. If they view Rafaela as SS and 2B depth as well as the most of time CF'er, he should be on the 26. If we bring back Dugo or Duvall, I'm not sure Abreu gets enough playing time to start on the 26. (Or, we start Rafaela in AAA and Abreu on the big club.)
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It depends on how much they give him to spend this winter. If it's under $20, No. $20-30M? Maybe $40-50M? Probably Over $50M, Certainly
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Agreed, as long as it only one.
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The goal is what top brass says it is, and we don't really know, because they lie to us.
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Updated OAA Team -49 BOS -25 CIN -17 CWS -17 OAK -16 MIA -11 BAL -10 MIN By Positions: 1B: T29th at -9 2B: T30th at -11 SS: 24th at -7 (thanks to Story's return) 3B: 29th at -8 Talking outs differential with our top competitors? -66 TEX -60 SEA -52 HOU -45 TOR 45 to 66 more times, our pitchers had to get 4 outs in an inning, this year. Infiled: -38 BOS (we are as bad as the next two combined) -21 TOR -17 CIN Outfiled: T 27th at -11 We are at 0 in RF T12th), -2 in CF (3oth) and -10 in LF (T26th)
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The hard part is upgrading the D without hurting the O. Players that are good at both are costly.
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Not as easy as you might think. 2019-2023 OF'ers with 700+ PAs Renfroe ranks 46th in fWAR at 7.5 (just below Duvall and above Santender and Beni. Only 52 OF'er had a higher OPS, so less than 2 per team. He is likely not worth his contract and younger OF'er have more upside. Tighten the sample size to.... 1,000+ PAs: Renroe ranks 46th out 0f 117 OF'ers in OPS 1500+ 41st out of 79 2000+ 27th out of 37 ONLY 19 OF'ers have more PAs and a higher OPS than Renfroe since 2019.
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He's made many. He's also made many good signings, good steals and good draft and IFA selections.
