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I think Arroyo is the big worry, and a guy that can play SS, if Kike gets hurt or needs a rest. Since Arroyo can play SS for a game here and there, I think we will add a 2Bman and let Kike have the SS position for 2022. My position has always been to have Kike in CF, even when we signed him to play 2B, but he will likely be a plus defender at SS, so I'm not upset about a likely upgrade at SS D from 2022 to 2023. If Duvall can do well in CF, this could work out well. I just can't see Arroyo giving us 400 PAs, and EValdez, Hamilton and Dalbec are not what I consider quality depth at 2B. If Arroyo goes down, and it's more a when than if question, who is the back up SS?

He'll be 29 in 6 years, so there's a good chance he will.

3 weeks left before ST'ing starts. A poll by MLBTR has Andrus signing with the Sox (31%). The Braves are second at 9%.

Probably a long time. With the Pirates, I doubt 2023 is a factor in him keeping his job.

I believe Ben would have made some prospect trades had he stayed as the GM. I doubt he'd have reached the level of trades DD made, but I'm pretty sure he'd have deal a few top prospects. We'll never know, of course.

To me, OBP matters more, so Bogey actually got better where it matters most. He only had one blip, where is OBP went down and that was after his .384 spike in 2019: .343 '17 .360 '18 .384 '19 .364 '20 .370 '21 .377 '22 His SLG followed a bell curve starting in 2017: .403> .522> .555 (2019)> .502> .493> .456

The consistency is amazing! I wonder how many players with a ton of PAs over those 5 seasons fall in a range of 7. (128-135)

Indeed. Duly noted.

We have a new sheriff in town!

After a spending frenzy from 2016-2017?

Career: 114 OPS+ Home 87 OPS+ Away 89 OPS+ in SD but just 27 PAs The Away splits were pretty awesome since 2018: 2022: 146 H/ 126 A 2021: 150 H/ 124 A 2020: 110 H/ 159 A 2019: 160 H/ 133 A 2018: 159 H/ 123 A

Thinking you know what I comprehend and don't comprehend is also a serious flaw in your rants, and it is further evidence you pretend you know more than you know.

Left-hander Ryan Sherriff announced over the weekend that he’s signed a minor league deal with the Red Sox.

They also changed the no pitchers over 30 rule, right after Ben departed.

You perception that others are pretending to "know it all" is a major flaw in your rants.

Yes, but I'm just wondering why they mattered, last year, but not this year.

...and Whitlock & Houck could fall short of expectations, too. Mata, walter, Murphy, Wink and Crawford could all fall flat on their faces, if they are need to fill in. Yes, the floor is very low. Yes, there is also a decent ceiling. We have to replace 69 starts from Wacha, Hill and Naate, but also 34 from Crawford, Wink, Seabold & Davis.

I put "???" next to Yoshida's OPS+. Why are you saying I have "no clue what Yoshida will do?" I've admitted that. My point was, it might not be so hard to equal Bogey and JD's run production from 2022. Aren't you the guy who ranted about needing to replace renfroe's 98 RBI for months and months? Maybe Yoshida and Turner do not replace Bogey & JDs 152 RBVIs from 2022, but my point is only that the bar is not all that high. I have no idea how either will do in 2023, but I can guess.

I still don't get why my daily posts of the WC standings sticks out to you as some sort of contradiction on my behalf or whatever issue it has to do with me "bailing." Although I may have been the first poster to give up on the team, others said way worse things about the team almost from day one. Last year's team seemed snake-bitten from day one: too many key injuries, many all at once, which forced our rotation to dip down to the #8 and 9th SP'ers on the depth chart, including forcing Houck and then Whitlock out of the pen. Too many vets declined in production. The FA additions actually ended up being a net plus (Wacha, Hill, Strahm and Ref vs Diekman.) The JBJ trade was the straw that broke the camel's back. I find it strange that posters like you, who bashed the team all year long seem so upset over my giving up on the team a few days or weeks before you. As for whine and cheese, you keep repeating this same thing over and over, too. To me, posting WC standings while giving up on our chances earliest is not a contradiction. To me, posters who said the team sucked all year but wanted us to try and upgrade at the deadline (or not have even a mini fire sale) are the ones with mixed and contradictory opinions. You were pissed we traded Vaz and ignored the fact that McGuire did better over the final 2 months of the year, and that still got us no closer to a playoff slot. We wasted a chance to improve the team for 2023 and beyond. All for what? False hopes? How much hope do you have, now, for 2023? My guess is you've already "bailed."

I found it interesting that most people felt the Sox were giving up too much by offering Duran for IKF & Peralta. I could see us giving up Lugo or Bonaci for IKF.

Old schoolers look at RBI, but they don't seem to about how easy it should be for Yoshida and Turner to out RBI Bogey and JD. All we heard about, last year was Renfroe's lost 98 RBIs. They look at how we can possibly replace Wacha's 3.32 ERA and Nate's 3.87. They don't loos closely at the fact that both started 43 games, combined and really weren't as good as their ERAs showed they were.

I don't think they expected to be in the thick of it in '21, and they were still clearly in "hoard top prospect" mode. I think they did pretty well getting what they did for essentially Aldo Ramirez. Schwarber, Iggy, Shaw, Robles and Davis all helped. The funny thing about 2022 was that McGuire, Pham and Hosmer did better than what we had beforehand.

It's going to be hard replacing Bogey's 133 OPS+ from 2018-2022 (5 years.) It was 130 over the previous 3 seasons combined. JD had a 135 OPS+ over that same timeframe, but 116 over the last 3 seasons. We are also replacing... 88 OPS+ Vaz 2018-2022 (87 '21-'22) 2022 80 Dalbec in 2022 60 JBJ in '22 92 Cordero '22 86 Pham '22 78 Duran '22 61 Plawecki '22 77 Hosmer '22 -6 Sanchez, 17 Downs, 92 Almonte, 70 Chang, -100 Shaw and -100 Arauz This final list had more than 1800 PAs in 2022. Bogey & JD had just over 1,200. Add Vaz and it's about 1520. 128 Turner 2018-2022 ??? Yoshida 102 Duvall '19-'22 87 McGuire '18-'22 83 Tapia '18-'22 More from... 97 Kike (2018-2022)

And the whole point was about a team's feelin of being in it or out of it before the trade deadline. I had absolutely close to zero hopes. The buzz on this site, especially in game threads was that the team sucked or worse. The mood was light years different from 2021. Yes, we had a bunch of returning players that offered some hope for a turn around. Yes, fans with tickets to late season games and NESN subscriptions deserved a decent product to view, which in my opinion, they failed to get, anyways, but that is hindsight. Key players never came back.

That's already been discussed over and over. It's hard to project what Yoshida will do, but I do think he can beat the run production numbers from Bogey, so I mentioned that one thing... well there are actually 2: power and RBIs.. XBHs 156 2018-2019 111 2021-2022 RBI 220 2018-2019 152 2021-2022 Yes, OPS and OPS+ and wRC+ all show how well a batter is hitting better than XBHs and RBI, but those numbers do matter, and they matter a lot. He did have Devers hitting in front of him, most of the year. He had a lot of RBI opportunities, all year. RISP 180 PAs in 2022 183 in 2018 191 in 2019 Men on Base 322 PAs in 2022 271 in 2018 327 in 2019 I don't expect the 5 years of Yoshida will be a better than Bogey was over the last 5 years, but it could happen. I don't think he needs to match Bogey's numbers for us to improve, overall. I think he can create more runs than Bogey did, last year. It appears like Bogey had some bad luck, but I don't see anyone adjusting Wacha's numbers for good luck when saying we need to replace his 2022 numbers.