moonslav59
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Everything posted by moonslav59
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I do think other systems have more highly regarded and ranked pitchers, but it’s hard to put a grade on Bloom’s development program, so early.
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He will be owed about $3.5M. We can pay all that. I’m not expecting anything good in return, but call up Reyes.
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I usually cut Cora some slack, thinking he knows more than I do, but there is one thing we all know that he can’t seem to grasp. Nick is right: there is no reason to play Kike at SS. If there is nobody on the roster that can okay SS, instead, insist on getting one or play Areoyo or Turner there- anybody but Kike at SS! He’s got incurable yips!
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Yes, I know. They were all acquired over 3.5 years ago. Blooms kids will come eventually.
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My statement about GMs and player injuries was not meant to be related to Barnes.
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GMs are usually judged in hindsight, even if they sign the healthiest player ever, only to see him get hurt. It’s still the GM’s fault.
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7/14 SOX @ Cubs 8:05PM ET
moonslav59 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Nice game. Good to see the longball coming back for the Sox. -
Won't be long, now. Yanks in Sox rearview mirror is a pretty sight.
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I guess he should draft inferior players, just because they ar pitchers.
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I disagree. He drafts the players with the best chance at doing well, and they are everyday players. It does not mean he does not value pitching or have a strategy on finding pitchers. He found Whitlock, Winckowski, Schreiber, Bernadino, Kelly, Denlinger, Jacques and ... Drohan E R-C Rogers Monegro Troye Guerrero Liu Dobbins Blalock Bastardo Paez Hoppe Dean Gambrell I Coffey and more
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Someone would likely take him, if we paid his whole contract. Don't expect anything much in return.
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It helps hide Chang's low offense and improves SS defense, but I'm not sure about the loss in 2B defense offset. When Story comes back, Story at SS and Turner at 2B creates an awesome line-up: 1. Duran CF 2. Turner 2B 3. Devers 3B 4. Yoshida DH 5. Story SS 6. Verdugo RF 7. Duvall LF 8. Casas 1B 9. Wong C
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What clue tells us Devers is "not much of a team guy?"
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He's been know to give self-wedgies, from time-to-time. But he only does what he told to do by JH, as we all know.
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I'm not sure we can say "less interest in developing pitching." He certainly does not like to draft them highly or give the biggest IFA bonuses out to pitchers, but my guess is, developing pitchers is a very high priority for Bloom. It's the only way he can get some from our system. i like his drafts and IFA signings. The vast majority are too far away to see results, but some of the ones he traded for or added via Rule 5, have contributed, already. Bello is DD's guy, but I think Bloom's crew helped him develop well. Give it time. Much of the value is still speculative, but I think our young pitching is improving from where we have been over the last decade, despite no top pitching picks or IFA signings.
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2023 MLB Draft
moonslav59 replied to sk7326's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
With a name like that, he can might get us to forget Jeter Downs. -
Much better does mean doing well or even adequately. He is doing better. He needs to improve on that better, going forward.
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JH will always want to reset, soon after spending bigly, so keep that in mind when looking for long term sustainable plans.
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I'd say no to Anthony for Ohtani, alone.
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Yes. I understand what they do, and it is useful.
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Sox Prospects has D Hamilton and Kavadas, as well as Lugo on the 2025 roster, but they are just listing who could be ready by then, in some ways. McGuire is still under control in '25, too
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We still have a long way to go on building up pitching in our system, but it has been an issue since the Theo years. It's been a while since we've had a few promising pitchers in the system, at the same time. I'm sure someone can find a moment in the last decade or so, where we had a few, but I like our current group, and I'm not sure we've had more in over a decade. Kudos to DD for grabbing a few promising pitchers and not trading them before Bloom took over. Kudos to Bloom for not trading any great ones. He traded Aldo Ramirez (Schwarber) and Groome (Rosier and Ferguson) and some are very upset about us losing Ward & Song, but here is what we have, right now: MLB Experience: 24 Bello 25 Wink & Murphy 26 Walter 27 Whitlock, Crawford & Houck 28 Kelly 29 Schreiber & Mills No MLB Experience 19 E R-C 20 Perales 21 Wikelman 22 Guerrero & Rogers 24 Drohan & Mata 25 F Fernandez Below 30 rankings on SPs: Monegro, Troye, Dobbins, Blalock, Bastardo, Hoppe, Paez, Dean, Denlinger, Liu, Gambrell, I Coffey and more
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You were close. He's done okay after 7 starts. Start # 8 4IP, 3H, 0ER, 3BB, 1K 9 4 IP, 7H, 3ER, 2BB, 5K 10 3IP, 4H, 1ER, 1BB, 5K Last 2 starts are better than his first 7. 11 IP, 15H, 4ER, 6BB, 11K Not great, but his ERA went from 5.60 to 5.05.
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He may have "acquired" one, already... from DD. Brayan Freakin' Bello!
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Stop pretending you don't get the point being made. We had no farm maturing from mid 2017 to mid 2022. That wasn't Bloom's making. Acting like Bloom could have done what the O's did is comparing apples to oranges, and you know exactly what I meant, and try to divert with goalpost moving comments.
