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8th place among all Sox players since 2004 is comparing him to chumps? Players with 400+ PAs and a worse OBP than Ref's .373 since 2004: .370 JD Drew .368 VMart & Mueller .367 Nixon .365 Pedey .363 JD M .356 Bogey .343 Devers among others. Also, only 19 players in all of MLB have more PAs vs LHPs and a higher OPS (.889) than Ref since 2022. All the rest must suck.

He places 8th in OBP by all Sox players with his amount of PAs or more since 2004. (That's not his split.) He's been our best batter vs LHPs since 2022, who is still on the roster. He's making peanuts. Mistake?

When I look at the non pitchers on the FA list and what MLBTR projects their contracts to be, I can't see many deals I support offering. $264/12 Bellinger: LMAO $150/6 Chapman: sorry notin. Nope. $80/4 Teoscar: sure, we need another DH! NOT! $70/4 Candelario: Nope. $54/4 Gurriel: Not another LF'er! $50M/5 Jung Hoo Lee: A CF'er, but bats LH'd. $45M/3 Soler: Yup, another LF'er! $40M/2 JD M: We have 9 DHs, already. $39M/3 Garver: More DH than catcher, but does bat RH'd w power. $36M/2 Hoskins: 1B/DH- been there-done that. (That's only 10 in MLBTR's top 30 FAs.) $26M/2 Kiermaier: Nice glove in CF, when healthy, but bats lefty. $20M/2 H Bader: Hey! He bats RH'd and plays CF. Can't hit well. $20M/2 Urshela: Nope $18M/2 Ahmed Rosario: Bats RH'd but not well. Could be good at 2B. $18M/2 Merrifield: RHB, but near .700 and not good on D: Nope $16M/1 Turner: RHB, love the guy, but we have a DH. $16M/2 Heyward bats LH'd. $15M/1 Belt bats LH'd. $12M/1 Tim Anderson: bats RH'd but fell off a cliff and is not good on D. Maybe OK at 2B, but Nope. That's the top 50, and only Rosario looks mildly interesting, to me. Some of the honorable mentions look more appealing: Duvall Michael A. Taylor Pretty sad. The best of the best don't fill a need or cost way too much.

I don't want Duran in CF or Ref in RF. It would defeat the plus on D in LF.

Signing Wacha or Cleninger would not be what I call a "pipedream." Signing Severino would be a nightmare.

Yes, I read your post on D, and I'm not against adding him. Gurriel is a RHB. He is much better on D. Here is another O comp: Career: 115 OPS+ Gurriel 105 OPS+ Dugo 2020-2023: 113 OPS+ Gurriel 105 OPS+ Dugo 2023: 108 OPS+ Gurriel 100 OPS+ Dugo I'm all for signing Gurriel and trading Dugo.

I thought he was as good as gone, before this.

Bowl Rankings & games remaining: 1. Ohio St. (Mich St, MN, @#3 Mich) 2. Georgia (#9 Ole Miss, @ GA Tech) 3. Michigan (#10 @ Penn St., @MD, #1 Ohio St) 4. FSU (MIA Fl, @ FLA) 5. Wash (#18 Utah, @#12 Ore St., Wash St.) 1 loss teams 6. Oregon (USC, #12 Ore St.) 7. Texas (@TCU, @IA St., TX Tech) 8. Alabama (@ KY, @AUB) 9. Ole Miss (@#2 GA, ULM, @MS St.) 10. Penn St. (#3 Mich, @ Mich St) 11. Louisville (VA, @MIA Fl, KY) Then Conference championships games.

Who was the fool who brought up this guy's name? We don't need another DH!!!

Since 2004, who is 4th on the most IP list for the Sox, behind Lester, Wake and Beckett? Just IP after 2004... A) ERod Porcello C) Buchholz D) Lackey (Note: the #4 guy is over 200 IP ahead of #5.)

Do you know that among Sox players from 2004 to today, with 420+ PAs, Refsnyder has the 8th best OBP at .373? Out of the top 10 with 1,000+ PAs, which does not belong? Manny, Papi, Youk, Agon, Betts, Damon, Pedey, JD Drew, Millar and Nixon. (Note: Mueller belongs on the list.)

Since 2004, the Sox leader in ISO with 350+ PAs is, surprisingly, Duvall at .284. Name the one player with 1,000+ PAs who is not in the top 5: Manny, Ortiz, JD, Betts & Devers (Note: Moreland is top 5! Bobby Dee missed top 7 by 49 PAs! Salty is 7th!)))

Since our magical 2004 season, which player does not belong on this top 10 wRC+ list? 550+ PAs 148 Manny 147 Papi 140 Beltre 138 AGon 135 Betts 134 J Bay 134 JD M 130 Youk 128 Casas 123 Devers (Note: VMart belongs in the top 10.)

He's as good as gone.

Gurriel: 115 OPS+ career (113+ since 2020.) 2023: 108 Gurriel 109 Yoshida

The fact that he DH'd more than he caught over the last two seasons, you have talked me out of the idea.

Framing Skills: 2023: 28. McGuire +1 (15th in 2022 at +3) 47. Wong -4

Statcast has Wong at 15th in "pop time" out of 60 catchers with 15 attampts at 2B. McGuire was T37th In 2022, Wong was 7th and McGuire was 28th.

2023 OAA Catchers SB's: 6. Wong +5 25. Garver 0 38. McGuire -1 2022-2023 (82 catchers with Min 20 SB attempts) 10. Wong +5 T24. McGuire+2 T36 Garver 0 2022-2023 Blocking (70 qualified): 40. McGuire -1 46. Garver -4 63. Wong -10

He was hurt and maybe playing hurt, right? (I know that's often the excuse used.)

I hope they never change their top decision makers.

He has about the same CS% as Wong & McGuire- career and in 2023.

I'm not sure what anyone has Garver's contract projected to, but I think he should get more than $20M/2. Maybe something like $33M/3 or or $25M/2 min. I'm liking him, more and more.

IMO, they will move Soto.

Agreed, and they could DH the other games. We'd lose the DH, if we ever had to move the DH to catcher in a game, but that would only happen due to an injury. I doubt either would ever need to be PH for.