moonslav59
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Good point. Some came up and fizzled and Beeks & Buttrey were traded. Did I miss any more? -
Here are some fWAR numbers of Sox players and JD FWAR Player (Off/Def) 2.6 Dugo (+6.0/+1.8) 2.6 Devers (+11.9/-5.1) 2.4 Duvall (+15.9/-1.6) 2.3 Duran (+13.3/-3.1) 1.8 Turner (+15.4/-14.1, some at 1B & 3B) 1.6 Casas (+15.4/-14.8) 1.4 JD Mart (+10.1/-9.7, almost all at DH) 1.0 Yoshida (+7.8/-14.8)
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Certainly several teams have way more homegrown stars than we do. It's one of the key reasons I don't blame Bloom for our record from 2020-2022. It's really hard to consistently win with next to nobody being called up for 4 straight years. When you see teams like TBR, ATL, LAD and BAL calling up 2-3 some years, it really puts our situation in context. I do see a change beginning, and a lot of hopes that it will be steady, going forward. 2017: Devers 2018: none 2019: none 2020: none 2021: Houck & Whitlock 2022: Bello, Duran, Wong, Crawford & Wink 2023: Casas, Abreu, Rafaela, Murphy, Walter, EValdez, DHam & Bernardino, if you count old prospects. Of course, these guys aren't Arozerena or McClanahan, but change usually comes slowly, and I see an uptick in quality and quantity over the past 2 summers.
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It's a bit confusing.
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The Sox need more teams like the Angels to improve on our playoff odds.
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Maybe this is payback for us facing PIT when they were on fire.
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So is him gaining 1.0 dWAR in 3 games: -1.8 ad DH full time -0.8 at DH for all but 3 games.
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So, if this is about bWAR, Yoshida at DH (-1.8) will have a lower bWAR than if he stays in LF (-1.4 in 2023?)
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When people agree, not much communication is needed.
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Correct!
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We have been "lousy,"for the stretch from Devers in 2017 to this season, but that might be turning around BTW, from 2017 to today, we were developing Casas, Bello, Devers, Rafaela and others.
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Indeed. His legacy is a great one. Almost all the prospects he traded away underperformed expectation. Only a small few of the players he traded for underperformed. He was not the one that put the brakes on spending and trading prospects, so he should not be "blamed" for 2019.
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JD played LF in 3 games.
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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.
