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Yes, I neglected to mention him- another OF'er we have best suited for LF and maybe ONLY LF. Ref started 16 games in RF. That makes 52 starts by back-ups, worse defenders and someone not named Dugo.
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B-R has Duvall listed as a LF'er/1Bman, so one can view this signing as yet another head-scratcher, but if he can do okay in CF, I guess things might work out. It seems strange that defense was such a big thing, last winter, that we thought swapping out Renfroe for JBJ was worthwhile, but now we seem to have no problem putting a guy we avoiding putting in RF, like the plague, last year out there FT in 2023. Then, move a GG caliber CF'er to SS and replace him with a LF'er, put a DH-type in LF and call it a winter. That being said, the line-up might look like this, and might not be so bad (on offense): 1. L Yoshida LF 2. R Kike SS 3. L Devers 3B 4. R Turner DH 5. L Casas 1B 6. R Duval CF 7. L Verdugo RF 8. R Arroyo 2B 9. L McGuire C Bench: R Wong C, R Refsnyder OF, R Dalbec 1B/3B, (L Valdez 2B or L Duran OF) My guess is we will add a middle IF'er and Duran & E Valdez will start the year in AAA.
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It just further reinforces the idea that Bloom is a great farm builder!
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Oh, I worried about them, too. I'm sorry, but defense matters to me. Maybe too much. Maybe too little to you. I know what I saw from Kike in CF, and all the metrics and stats support the idea that he is great on def4ense in CF. It seemed just as easy to add a SS over a sketchy CF'er. I'm trying my hardest to bash Bloom and Cora, but you Bloom brown-nosers are making it hard on me!
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He could very easily be better than Renfroe in RF (on D.) Of course, he won't have Renroe's arm, but yes, he supposedly has trimmed down, this off season, so maybe that will help. I know I ranted a lot about the team having 8 left fielders and Kike, last year, but most of my issues about Dugo in RF were about the team being so reluctant about playing him in RF as JBJ was struggling mightily for months and months. I figured, how bad must Sox management feel about Dugo's D in RF to try Arroyo out there and not in LF? How bad must Sox management feel about Dugo's D in RF to try Cordero out there and not in LF? How bad must Sox management feel about Dugo's D in RF to try Duran out there and not in LF? Even Almonte played a game in RF over Dugo. It was only when we traded for Pham that We moved Dugo to RF. GS & Innings in RF 11- 124 Cordero 16- 108 Arroyo 5- 46 Duran 3-24 Ja Davis 1- 8 Almonte 36 starts by these chums! None would be better in LF with Dugo in RF?
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I'm on record as being in total disagreement with this plan. It makes zero sense, to me. It's not like no SS are available on the market (FA and trade.) While I do think Kike is a great athlete and may end up doing fine at SS, it's not worth the gamble. I will add one point, before Kike pretty much became our FT CF'er he had only player CF for over 150 innings in a season one time, and that was just 373 innings in 2018.
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Can he play it well is another question.
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Kike has barely played a half season in innings at SS over his 9 year career. Here are his defensive metrics by position: DRS in innings/ UZR/150 SS: + 9 in 618/+12.3 2B: +18 in 1717/ -5.3 CF: +21 in 2494/+7.8 LF: +15 in 603/+18.0 RF: +3 in 343/+11.9 Maybe he'll do a great job at SS for us. I'm still questioning the idea, but it looks like the plan.
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DH and Turner will be on the bench... LOL! (Don't tell notin, this!) Seriously, though, haven't you heard, Dugo will be traded. Book it.
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Josh Harrison is being mentioned as a possible Sox addition. He's had some mixed defensive metrics over the last 2 years at 2B, but over his career is at +26 DRS in almost 5000 innings at 2B. He has a -0.7 UZR/150 (-4.4 from 20-21-2022). Gotta like the .343 OBP over his last 650 PAs (2021-2022.)
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Rusney Castillo cost us over $70M and Moncada's fee and 100% tax cost us a ton, too, but they were both younger than Yoshida and Dice-K. I get why they consider them "prospects," and they did not play MLB, so that's why they call them that.
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They listed Dice-K as a prospects, way back when, too.
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I think we see Mayer, this year, too. I do think it's a bit too early to say he is a foundational player, but he sure has that promise.
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I'm surprised we didn't add another LF'er.
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No. I got the point. I thought we were okay at 1B with a returning Dalbec and his .800+ OPS and Casas near ML ready on the farm. I did not like our RF situation, and did feel like we needed depth there, but Arroyo was an after thought, and Refsnyder was a shocking surprise. We did not have the funds to fill all the open slots, especially depth slots, and I was happy we finally went for some quality over quantity with the Story signing, although I did "scratch my head" over the position choice, at the time. I've never claimed Bloom made all good choices, despite what a certain poster likes to believe. I hated the JBJ deal from day one- even before we got him back. You don't have to ask me how that worked out. It worked like I expected it to work.
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Except Bogey.
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I still think this team is significantly better than 2022's team, even with Story out, all year, but better than last place does not mean greatness. We need a lot to go right to be a fun year, but we have so many legitimate hopefuls than we don't need all of them to happen, to have a nice season. Nice being making the playoffs.
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All of them, and for good reason. Year 1, he had 15-20 open slots on the 40 and a buck-fifty to spend. Year 2, he had 10-14 open slots on the 40 and two-fifty to spend. Year 3, he had 8-12 open slots and filled 6 of them, and even then, he had to spread the wealth, except for the Story signing. This year was supposed to be different. He had about 8 slots to fill and $90M to spend. I'm actually happy with our 40 man roster depth, now. I was so happy with it, I expected this winter to be more about quality than quantity and a focus on filling our higher need areas and not LF and DH, but I'm the Bloom Brown Noser, so what do I know..
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That's the other way to clear a roster spot.
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Forget about who is most likely to be DFA'd. Who do you honestly feel are the worst 3 players on our 40, or what 3 players would you most want to be gone? To me, Brasier and Duran are in the discussion, and both are not WOO guys, per se. They are high up on the depth chart and may play key roles on the opening day roster, if not more additions are made. Dalbec maybe in the bottom 5. Certainly Ort is. Mills, too.
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Many times, yes, but when you go through 50-60 players in a season, those #38-40 players often get a chance to "back-up" a back-up.
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I'd DFA Ort, but after that, it becomes a bit tougher- not that Mills is someone I'd be pissed off over a DFA. There are a few players with trade value, like Duran, Dalbec and even guys like Murphy, who I think a 2 for 1 type deal could be made. I think all 3 are better than many team's #40, so they could DFA their #40 to make room for a 2 for 1 trade. Yes, I said Brasier being DFA's "is not going to happen," but he's still #2 on my list.
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He didn't sign a ML contract, did he?
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I could say something about the color brown and a facial feature.
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If you're good at SS, like Kike appears to be, who wouldn't want to play there? It would also greatly improve his payday, next winter, if he has a solid year at SS.
