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  1. moonslav59
    20 games over .500 may not really be a big exaggeration. It's just 12 more than what we have, now..
  2. moonslav59
    Of course. He's not sitting Duvall or Dugo (the other choices,) so he made the choice: a slumping player (Masa) over the red hot one (Abreu). He's done this several times, this year. (BTW, it doesn't mean I think Cora is a bad manager.)
  3. moonslav59
    Can't you apply that to JH and on an even bigger scale? JH is mega rich, so what's the difference between $365 and 300 to a guy like JH? I'd say it means much less to him and the legacy he leaves his children and their children than to Betts.
  4. moonslav59
    I'm pretty sure our 1B coach said and did what every 1B coach does in these situations. That's why his name never came up in the talk about the play. I'm sure he told Wong, "There's two outs. Run on contact." The rest was up to Wong and maybe the 3B coach. Did he, or should he have added, "but be careful and don't get thrown out at 2B, because you have a slow runner in front of him?" 1. Maybe he said it. 2. I'm not sure that needs to be said, everytime it comes up. 3. Said or not, it was 100% Wong's fault.
  5. moonslav59
    You have a ton of holes to fill, while also hoping many of your younger and injured players come back and play and or improve. Sounds all too familiar. IMO, you have to many holes to not call it a total make-over. (Of course, "total" never really means all 26 and 40 players turned over.)
  6. moonslav59
    I don't see correcting a falso rumor, assuming it is, as being wrong, either. The timing seems weird.
  7. moonslav59
    Agreed. The weird thing is, our team BA is .266, but it's .281 with RISP. That seems to be not true, to me. I also wonder if we lead the league in hits with RISP that do not produce actual runs.
  8. moonslav59
    I remember thinking Casas was going to be a big upgrade over Dalbec, Hosmer & Co, on both O and D. We got the O, but the D has been very disappointing. I'm not saying we will be let down by Rafaela or Abreu's D, but there is a chance their O suffers through year 1. I like our OF outlook, even without D & D. Keeping Duran in LF is a must. Refsnyder, too, as much as possible. A few games here and there, okay. I still think we trade Dugo but add some veteran OF depth.
  9. moonslav59
    Strawman, strawman.
  10. moonslav59
    The Devers extension has not even started. Yoshida is slumping for 3 weeks. Story has missed most of his first 2 years of his deal. It does look like the big signings are not Bloom's strong suit, but the jury is still out on all of these deals. I will say, Story is a real athlete and a great defender at a position of great importance, so if he can stay healthy, just his glove alone will be helpful. (His bat needs to earn the money, however.) The Yoshida deal has a long way to go, and he's not getting younger. He will need to earn that money at DH. Wherever Devers ends up playing, he needs to rake.
  11. moonslav59
    Yes, I corrected that, but not quickly enough for ole eagle eye.
  12. moonslav59
    It does seem odd he never refuted the $300M "offer" until now. I'm not sure why that is viewed as dirty laundry.
  13. moonslav59
    There is a chance the Sox never made a formal $300M offer, but it was floated in negotiations as a starting point (or might have been the end point.) The response or nonresponse by the Betts negotiators might have given the Sox a clear impression, their offer was not even close, and they decided to move on right then and there, but like I said, who knows. Your final statement seems very plausible, but I will add, trading Mookie might not have really been what the Sox wanted. They likely wanted him to stay for $300M/10, but once they knew that was a no go, they "wanted" to get what they could for him, and dump Price, at the same time.
  14. moonslav59
    That makes some sense, but why not start Abreu in the Lance Lynn game?
  15. moonslav59
    ...and some posters seem to dislike all 3.
  16. moonslav59
    They thought they could win in 2019.
  17. moonslav59
    Verdugo did not start. (Cora started Refsnyder vs a LHP, but we could have sat Kike.) Alfaro started, too.
  18. moonslav59
    The Beckett trade also involved taking a salary dump player in Mike Lowell. The rest is history.
  19. moonslav59
    The exact alignment by record in 2023, too! See what building a great farm can do?
  20. moonslav59
    What a difference 2 year deals can make, right? All those one year deals made some sense, but starting from scratch every winter sucked.
  21. moonslav59
    His fWAR screamed of consistency. His IP screamed of durability. You can't get much better of a track record prior to a major signing than Price had. 2015: 6.7 FWAR/ 220 IP 2014: 5.6 fWAR/ 248 IP (unheard of, now) 2013: 4.0 fWAR/ 187 2012: 4.3 fWAR/ 211 2011: 4.8 fWAR/ 224 2010: 4.3 fWAR/ 209 We all know the year was too long, but that's what you have to do to get "the best." As it turned out, we got less good years than we thought, and the 75 IP in year 2 hurt badly. 2.5/176 & 2.3/107 in years 3 & 4 fell way short of hopes, too. The choice to dump him as part of the Betts deal was not the ending we had hoped for either. That deal really hurt us, badly. (I was for it, at the time.)
  22. moonslav59
    No pitcher had a better resume than Price, at the time of his signing. Scherzer, the year before was about the same. It was "too late to do anything but trade Betts" 100%, because JH made up his mind. He was already cutting back after 2018. We can all say, "He's a rich Mother ef'er and can do anything," but that does not mean he was going to do it. Bloom was given no opportunity to extend Betts. I believe that 100%. It can't be proven beyond a doubt, but I'm 100% certain.
  23. moonslav59
    The time to have locked up Bogie was when we got him to sign the deal with the opt-out after 3 years. We should have just paid more, then, and had him until he turns 33 or 34. Same with Betts. Same with Lester. Waiting for one more year is asking for trouble. The funny thing about this is that many here argue we should have waited one more year to extend Sale- the best pitcher we've had since Pedro. You know, the position we can't seem to fill, adequately. (Yes, he had injury issues. I get it, but when you wait, you risk the guy does great and will ask for and get the moon- with someone else.)
  24. moonslav59
    This gets to the drux of the whole debate: we don't know enough of the particulars to really know with any certainty how we could have kep Betts in Boston, and at what cost. Betts is never going to say, I would have taken $____ over ___ years back in 2017 or 2018 or after 2019. Players like to keep fans thinking they are loyal to them, the city and the team, so I'm not sure everything Betts says is totally upfront. When he says, I really wanted to stay in Boston, he would never add, "if they just pais me $400M/12." But, maybe that's what he was thinking, at the time. Maybe not.
  25. moonslav59
    I thought you agreed, yesterday, it was not the 1B coach's fault. BTW, they did not ask the 1B coach or ask Cora or Wong about the 1B coach, because they know it had nothing to do with him. No way any 1B coach in MLB says that whole script you said needed to be told to Wong. No way. it's something that is understood, or in Wong's case, should have been. It goes without saying: you don't run into the 3rd out with bases loaded in a come from behind attempt. I know you love Wong. I do, too, but he Eff'd up, badly, Period.
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