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  1. moonslav59
    One thing I find interesting about Bloom's winter moves is that I thought the one before 2021 was worse than before 2022 and 2023. The Renfroe acquisition turned to gold, but Richards, Perez II, Marwin, Diekman, Sawamura, Santana and others were worse than... 2022 Wacha, Hill, Strahm, but yes, the JBJ trade sucked bigtime 2023 Turner, Martin, Jansen, Duvall, Paxton ('22), Yoshi, Kluber
  2. moonslav59
    You weren't optimistic during the season?
  3. moonslav59
    Would you trade JD straight up for the improvement of our two comp draft picks by 2 rounds and an extra $1M in bonus money? To me, the player return was near meaningless, if not totally meaningless.
  4. moonslav59
    30th is way worse, and I happen to think we are better than 16th but maybe not as good as 5th. (7th to 10th is probably where we are, and that is light years better than 26th to 30th.) Anthony Teel Mayer Bleis Cespedes Rafaela, Abreu, Wikelman, Perales, Zanetello & maybe Yorke and a few others are very respectable prospects. When you figure, we just graduated Bello, Casas, Wong, Crawford and Wink in the last 12 months, it's hard to understand anyone who does not think it is vastly improved over 2019-2020.
  5. moonslav59
    I know the "hit rate" on big FA SP'er signings is not great, but I think you should be able to get "good starters" for this: $25M x 7 SP $25M x 6 SP $25M x 5 SP $5M x 3 for LH RP
  6. moonslav59
    There was a point, somewhere somewhat deep into the season, where the Sox had played the toughest schedule to date.
  7. moonslav59
    If Story can just hit like his road OPS while with COL (.725) and give us near GG defense at SS, next year, our SS position will have improved by leaps and bounds over 2023. As of now, our SS position has hit .629 (no help from Story, here) and the defense has been as bad at SS as I have ever seen in over 50 years of watching Sox SS play D, before Story's return.
  8. moonslav59
    Okay, maybe not "giving up," (poor choice of words by me,) but certainly not helping improve the chances on the here and now. The trade was for prospects and the "future," or "suspects as you like to call them.
  9. moonslav59
    I think many feel like to get to a point where you have to just settle on the best offer, no matter how bad it seems to be. It did not have to be JD, but getting under the tax line, so we'd have better draft picks and more bonus pool money, seemed like enough of a "return on trade" for JD, by itself. Anything else we got back could be viewed as gravy. If the Sale trade rumor is 100% true, that is an unforgivable mistake. I'd have called for Bloom to be fired on the spot, if I knew then, what we seem to know, now. I don't care, if the return was Brasier's twin.
  10. moonslav59
    You were optimistic in 2021?
  11. moonslav59
    In hindsight, trading Sale would not have really hurt the "here and now," but at the time, everyone would have viewed it as giving up on the now. I'm just pointing out how leaking this news seems to run counter to the narrative that Bloom should have tried harder to win now. I suppose he could have trades Sale and then made other "buy" traes to more than offset trading Sale. Again, it's obvious they fired Bloom for not winning in '22 and '23, but they are throwing everything they can at him, including stuff that goes counter to their narrative. It's like they are trying to give everyone a reason to blame Bloom and only Bloom, and not themselves to even a tiny extent.
  12. moonslav59
    You are arguing with someone who agrees.
  13. moonslav59
    Many felt 2022 was the wake up call for JH. The Devers extension gave hope we might be poised for a splurge. Going over the tax line, in 2022, may have hurt more than we know, but I seriously doubt we'd have gone over in 2023, no matter what we did in 2022. I am no longer expecting a splurge. I'll believe it when I see it. I think the odds are we stay under the line in '24.
  14. moonslav59
    It was about losing in the here and now. I am not disagreeing. However, the leaks about not trading Sale, JD, Paxton... show that was part of the reason they lost trust in him. This board did not leak that info. Hence: rock and hard place.
  15. moonslav59
    They spent a lot, last winter and still stayed under the line. Devers extension kicks in, next year, so the spending has already started to some degree. (Devers may have made about $29M had he had one more arb year.) We do lose 3 players who contributed quite a bit: JT, Duvall & Paxton. While their contracts were great, for this year, replacing them at that same money will be nearly impossible. (Thanks, Bloom!) I have us at about $50M to spend and not pay tax- $70M, if we go over but stay below the second tax line. We need 3 SP'er, but may get just 2. We need a LH'd RP'er, to some extent and maybe a big RH's bat, unless we put our faith in Story, Ref, Urias & Rafaela. You can maybe get two top pitchers for $50, but then what is left over for those other 2 slots and maybe rotation depth? We could trade for one SP'er and have plenty to spend and not go over any line (my projection.) If we spend close to $70M (my hope,) we can meet all our needs and IMO, be good enough to very very competitive. $70M could bring us Yamamoto and Gray or Montgomery plus Duvall and a LH'd RP'er.
  16. moonslav59
    I agree 100%, but there was a rock, and then there was a hard place. We all agree, Bloom was fired for not winning in the here and now, but the biggest gripe also seems to be he did not do enough to sacrifice the here and now for the future.
  17. moonslav59
    No, but they may never "splurge" during the next guy's 4 year term.
  18. moonslav59
    We should have traded for him when notin suggested.
  19. moonslav59
    I feel the same way, and even 16th is way better than 30th. Some people seem to not have the optimism gene in them.
  20. moonslav59
    At this point, I'd be happy with his road numbers (.725) while with COL. (About 30 points lower than Bogey's road numbers while with BOS.)
  21. moonslav59
    Houck vs old friend Nate. Start a streak!
  22. moonslav59
    Milagro!
  23. moonslav59
    You'd think he'd be hugging it.
  24. moonslav59
    Despite his recent slump, he's still top 20 vs LHP in MLB since 2022.
  25. moonslav59
    And converted half to other positions, already.
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