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  1. moonslav59
    Everybody WONG- CHANG, Tonight!
  2. moonslav59
    We've had great success making blockbuster trades for top SP'ers, but the last one was Sale backin December 2016. (The extension sucked.) Other big trades for aces: Beckett (NOV 2005) Schilling (NOV 2003) Pedro (NOV 1997) Other notables: Peavy (post ace) JUL 2013 ERod (was a prospect and never an ace) JUL 2014 Porcello (ace for a year) DEC 2014 Pomeranz (why did I even bring him up?) JUL 2016 Eovaldi (ace for a series) JUL 2018 Pivetta (ace of the 5th starters) AUG 2020
  3. moonslav59
    Last few starts: 4/14 Houck 4 IP 2 ER 4/13 Kluber 4.2 4 ER (1 ER through 4.1 IP & left game w 2 ER in 4.2) 4/12 Freakin Chris Sale 4/11 Whitlock 5 IP 5 ER (Was at 3 ER in 4.2 before back-to-backers) 4/10 Pivetta 5 IP 0 ER 4/9 Crawford 5 IP 1 ER 4/8 Houck 5 IP 2 ER 4/6 Sale 5IP 3 ER 4/5 Kluber 5IP 1 ER 4/4 Pivetta 5IP 3ER
  4. moonslav59
    I fixed that for you. It's going to be much better.
  5. moonslav59
    Jad posted this afternoon, on the other thread.
  6. moonslav59
    It's possible, with some pitchers & catchers, the pitch calling is a very small part of it, or it's more about the pitcher's confidence in his catcher's pich-calling than the actual pitch the catcher calls for.
  7. moonslav59
    He's also 22. Mayer is 20.
  8. moonslav59
    Our BAbip is bad, so it seems we've had bad luck with lucky good results.
  9. moonslav59
    It's more than just calling pitches. It may be some really weird and hard to identify intangibles between some pitchers and catchers- like how and/or how quickly the catcher places his target, what sort of stance the catcher assumes, how that catcher talks to the pitcher when going to the mound, body language or others I can't even think of.
  10. moonslav59
    Agreed. The end result was, we moved on from Vaz and Plawecki and ended up with McGuire and Wong (Alfaro). One can look how that worked out, but with so many moving parts and a wide financial disparity, it's like comparing apples to watermelons.
  11. moonslav59
    Not many hot hitters on our team, right now: Last 14 days: 1.666 Duvall 1.014 Devers .933 McGuire (1.000 last 7 days) .917 Tapia (just 12 PAs) .775 Verdugo .637 Turner .628 Yoshida .625 Kike .586 Dalbec (11) .542 Refsnyder .524 Casas .458 Wong .394 Arroyo .111 Chang (These last 3 guys have 86 PAs in the last 13 games- YUCK!) .
  12. moonslav59
    Fully understandable. The sample size is small. Let's see how we feel in a few months.
  13. moonslav59
    I think the hope was that the very inexpensive catching tandem of McGuire and Wong could come close to what Vaz and Plawecki gave us and were projected to do going forward, and with the money saved, we could direct more resources at upgrading other positions that, in theory, might far outweigh any loss we might see at the catching position. Also, the longer term hopes of McGuire, Wong and maybe even Hickey and Brannon came into play in the decision made. Vaz would have taken a longer term commitment that we wanted to give him.
  14. moonslav59
    ...and like it or not, there was no way we were going to pay Vaz even close to what he got via free agency, so we basically traded away 2 months from a lost and broken season for Abreu and EValdez. If you want to combine the two trades to match up positions, we traded: 2 months of Vaz & 1 yr and 2 months of Diekman (and about $5M in contract cost) for McGuire, EValdez & Abreu Nothing Vaz does going forward changes the results of the trade, IMO. It is a separate issue. I doubt Diekman shines, this year and makes us wish we still had him. The guys we got back are all potential (or "suspect" as Red might call them,) but between the three, I'm thinking at least one should be helpful.
  15. moonslav59
    One could argue Cora's line-up construction has maximized our run-scoring to near miraculous proportions... We are 4th in runs scored in MLB and 26th in BA at .230, 21st in wRC+ at 95 and 16th in OPS at .724
  16. moonslav59
    Agreed, and I have often said maybe the variances have little to do with any skillset, and is just about some sort of comfort level thing based on who knows what, but I do think some pitchers, and perhaps many pitchers, for whatever reason, just do significantly better with one guy over another.
  17. moonslav59
    Indeed, a head scratcher. I was willing to hand Diekman away or even pay a little of his contract for a bag of balls, so I'm getting your point, and then some. Certainly, some sort of cloud hangs over McGuire's head.
  18. moonslav59
    The Sox are 4th in MLB is runs scored with 76 in 14 games (5.4 per game.) We have been aided by Reach on Errors as we have aided our opps, too. We have also got on base 9 times via HBP (T3 in MLB.) Other offensive rankings: T8th in lowest K% at 21.3% 9th in HRs w 18 16th in OPS at .724 T28th in BAbip at .265 Pitching 12th in K-BB% at 14.7% 16th xFIP at 4.54 25th in ERA- at 111 25th WHIP at 1.47 26th .320 BAbip (thanks to our D) 26th fWAR at +0.2 26th runs allowed at 76 (5 are unearned, but we all know the bad D caused many more than 5.) .
  19. moonslav59
    You should and an "e" to your names- as in "jaded."
  20. moonslav59
    But, he had a better CERA with the CWS while not catching Cease, at all, so I doubt they traded him away out of fears over CERA related issues. BTW, he did not hit well with them (.546 and was under .700 w TOR, before), so maybe that was it, or they just liked the other two catchers better. God knows why, but maybe they saw something in Diekman.
  21. moonslav59
    Many pitchers will go to their grave thinking their battery mate matters. Some, it doesn't seem to matter much. It takes time for relationships to grow closer or farther apart. With so many new pitchers, including some that were injured, last year or while McQuire or Wong were on the big club, I think time will shake things out. I do think the catcher matters on many teams. There must be times and places where both catchers are pretty close to the same, and maybe it's just some intangible confort level thing with some pitchers. It's way too early to know anything about who might or might not be better placed with each pitcher, and maybe in this case, it doesn't or won't matter, at least for 2023. Many managers choose to match up certain catchers with certain pitchers and shy away from any sort of choice based on which catcher hits the pitcher they face that night better. That makes me think, managers think it matters.
  22. moonslav59
    And what he's done from age 23-26 vs Bogey. They both came up very early, and I'm not so sure why ages 20-21 seasons should weigh the same as later seasons. The age aspect is a huge factor. Bogey is more than 4 years older. If we set prime years from 26-31 (6 years), Bogey turns 31 at the very end of his very first year of this deal, so maybe 1-2 years in prime and the rest post-prime! Devers, with his extensions starting next year, will turn 31 after his 5 season under contract. 5 seasons in prime and 5 post prime. 2 out of 11 prime vs 5 out of 10 prime. I should also point out that the last 5 years of the Devers deal will be ages 32-36, while Bogey's last 6 will be at ages 35-40. This later comp might show more disparity than the first 5 year comp, but who knows how any player wil age out?
  23. moonslav59
    This is a great example of when poster, including myself, bitch about how s***** our 25th and 26th guys are, or our 39th and 40th and who should be DFA'd, and I say, "Look at what questionables other teams have." It seems to fall on deaf ears. Just imagine if Franchy was still on our 26, or Colten Brewer (TBR), Yusei Kikuchi (at big money w TOR) or any of about 4 guys from the O's 13 man staff.
  24. moonslav59
    No doubt there were spinklings of good stuff.
  25. moonslav59
    I guess I hit your funny bone. If the season ended, today, the Yanks would be needing tie-breakers to make the WC. Sure, so far you guys look better, and I would not bet the Sox end up better than the Yanks, this year, but it's not the slam dunk you think it is, so laugh away.
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