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  1. moonslav59
    His fall back is always strawman building.
  2. moonslav59
    Not going to happen. He's locked into criticizing anything and everything. Sure, it's easy to just say we should have locked up all our young stars early, at a much lower cost than they would be, now, but we have tried that. The player needs to accept a low offer to make it work. Betts turned down our offer, and later a much larger offer. We traded him, instead of losing him for nothing, and Red call that a big mistake. We've tried to sign Devers for a while, and ended up paying him more than anyone wishes we had to do, but now that's a mistake, too. We failed to extend Bogey without the opt out, 3 years ago, and low-balled him, recently. We apparently offered him a contract very similar to the top offer Red suggested ($168M/6) and he turned it down and signed elsewhere- again, another big mistake by the Sox. You can never do good with Ole Red. Damned if you do: damned if you don't.
  3. moonslav59
    Yes, but I was using Anthony as an example of how, where and who "extra" bonus money can be used on.
  4. moonslav59
    He has not been "utility." He has been the starting SS for MIA for 4 straight years and has had 500+ PAs those 4 seasons, except 2020. GS'd at SS 122 in 2019 39/60 in '20 128 in '21 136 in '22 GS'd at other positions: 1 at 1B in '19 1 at 3B in '20 Not "utility." Not part-timer.
  5. moonslav59
    No, and we are not sure Mayer will be ready in 2024.
  6. moonslav59
    They might take Duran straight up- 6 years for 1. They might take Murphy and Dalbec. There were rumors they asked about Dalbec.
  7. moonslav59
    I'm a huge OBP guy, but age, SLG and defense are big factors, too. BTW, Devers has had an OBP over .352 in 3 of his last 3 full seasons. His OBP since 2019 is .352. That is way better than good.
  8. moonslav59
    We still need to add Turner & Kluber to the 40 man roster. Rumor is we are looking to trade rather than DFA at least 2 guys, and we seemingly look like we will be adding a middle IF'er. So, maybe at minimum, we need to clear 3 slots for Turner, Kluber and a SS (2Bman). A 2 or 3 for 1 deal would solve a lot of roster issues, but I'm not sure many teams are looking to add 2-3 players to their 40 man roster on the level of Brasier, Ort and Taylor/Seabold or even Duran. For example, I'd love to trade Brasier, Ort and Seabold for Rojas, and our roster would be a clean 40, but I seriously doubt MIA takes that. They'd probably want Duran and Seabold or someone like Murphy.
  9. moonslav59
    I'd rather we trade for a 1 year bridge SS like Rojas, Mateo, A Rosario or Mondesi. I don't think we'd have to give up much, except for Rosario.
  10. moonslav59
    Devers was worth every penny of this deal, on paper.
  11. moonslav59
    Just this past draft, we picked Roman Anthony with the 79th pick- very similar to the comp pick we could have had with getting under the tax line, and we gave him a bonus of about $1.6M over slot. We also paid Brook Brannon about $550 overslot. We were able to do this by paying under slot bonuses to Romero ($600K) and a little more, here and there. It does affect who you draft- perhaps more than the number pick you get, at times. In 2021, we picked up two of our most promising lower round players by paying them over slot: #136 Nathan Hickey ($600K over) #316 Kavadas $125K over) In 2020: #89 Blaze Jordan ($1.1M over)
  12. moonslav59
    It's the lost bonus slot money that matters more.
  13. moonslav59
    That was unforgivable for me, too, but I'm not sure that was Bloom's doing. I'm thinking that was on JH & Co.
  14. moonslav59
    No doubt.
  15. moonslav59
    Yes, he's going to break the pay record by a lot. I doubt I'll ever think it's a good idea to use so much of the budget for one guy on the Sox, but if JH is willing...
  16. moonslav59
    Who knows? I'm just saying, if Devers gets $30M x 11, I see Soto getting $33m x 15 as being about in line with value vs pay on the open market.
  17. moonslav59
    He's 2 years younger than Devers. He's better than Devers. If Devers is worth $30M x 11, Soto is worth $33M x 15, now. If he was a "homegrown" player, would the narrative be different? I'm not saying I'd pay it or want so much of the budget tied up in just 2 players, but "worth" is a hard thing to figure, these days.
  18. moonslav59
    Very acceptable $33.3 AAV.
  19. moonslav59
    I fixed that for you...
  20. moonslav59
    Why are you still making imperfect posts?
  21. moonslav59
    MLBTR still has this wording in their article: Devers was previously set to have a $17.5MM count towards Boston’s luxury tax but that number will now jump to $30.09MM. The specific breakdown of the Devers deal isn’t known, but the competitive balance tax is calculated based on the average annual value of the deal
  22. moonslav59
    They need to wait to opening day to put Paxton on the 60-day IL (lol), but I'd go with Paxton. Technically, we have 6 starters, now: Sale Paxton Kluber Whitlock Bello Pivetta
  23. moonslav59
    The soxprospects.com podcast talked about the Sox working on trading away a couple players to avoid having to DFA anyone. Brasier, Dalbec and Ort's names came up, a lot. We still need to add Kluber and Turner to the 40, and a couple 2 for 1 trades would work, nicely, if one was a SS and the other a SP or RF'er, but most teams are probably not looking to add to their 40, unless they are better players than those 3. Duran & Ort for M Rojas works for me. Dalbec and Brasier for Michael A Taylor, anyone?
  24. moonslav59
    I'm all for the idea, now that we only added Kluber. I also like him as a SP'er more than Houck. I think he'll be fine. Just don't jerk him around, unless he needs his inning managed, at some point.
  25. moonslav59
    Yes, we get the conundrum. I guess paid up front could mean upfront when the contract extension begins in 2024.
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