moonslav59
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Ooooh, stinky cheese. Yum- yum, yummy, yum-yum!
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Agreed. I remember thinking when Scherzer and Price became available in back-to-back years, that was special. It seems like all the very best pitchers are locked up before free agency, unless they are old or injured.
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It's good for SS, an area we need. OF is not great after Judge & Nimmo. SP seems to have a lot of questions attached to the top arms. Diaz already signed as a closer. Rogers looks good, and there are a few other good pen arms, but nothing really great.
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Giants reportedly offered Judge $360M for 9 or 10 years. I wonder if the go higher, if the Yanks match that. Rodon meeting with the Rangers. It seems like our owner is no longer in the same league with these free-swingers.
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There is more smaller (or no tax paying) teams, and they love the revenue sharing, too.
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I should have put my post in green. I'm not sure Verdugo in RF and Contreras at catcher helps our defense, much at all, even if we improve on D at SS (???), 1B (Casas) and the return to health by Kike (CF) and Story (2B).
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Is it a lavish buffet?
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I think Rays have kept the concept, in general, alive and continuing.
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If we do add 8-9 players to the 40, there will have to be a lot of trades of DFA's. I see 3-5 DFA candidates, but they others are tradable. Maybe when Bloom says add 8-9 players, he is including a couple 2 or 3 for 1 trades and 6-7 signings.
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In this case, I'm glad he underbid, but I agree with your point made.
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Senga and Yoshida! Hurrah!
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Trevor Story is not a moneyball signing. All teams look for bargains. Even with the cost cuts before 2020, Bloom was given $40M to spend that winter. Billy Beane has never had that much to spend in one winter- maybe even two combined.
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Sounded like the 40, to me.
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$11.5M/2. Maybe we will be forced to do better, elsewhere.
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Are you thinking another name belongs on this list?
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Who is the most likely Sox signing for the most money? Bogey? Contreras? Nate? Senga? I doubt Correa is even being considered. Maybe a Devers extension that starts in 2023, so it lessens the affect in following years?
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It shouldn't take more than a half hour, but they'll find a way to drag it out.
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I'm still hoping we add Jansen or Rogers, but it is probably more like a dream. If we add Fulmer and Kahle, but go bigger at SP'er, we might be okay, but we will have to hope, once again, that we stay relatively healthy. Leaving Hosmer, Dalbec, Refsnyder and Arroyo to handle DH might work out okay, but only if we don't go light at SS and corner OF. Boosting our offense at Catcher migh6t take up some slack in the line-up, but Vaz & McGuire were pretty good on O, last year. (Our catchin OPS was .694 overall.) If we lose on D behind the plate, I'm not sure it's worth the cost. I doubt we get Nimmo, so it pretty much leaves a top 3 SS as our best hope to at least tread water on O, unless a big trade materializes. Is Contreras, Conforto, Andrus and in-system players at DH and 1B going to keep our offense about the same? Casas should be a significant upgrade at 1B. If Story & Kike stay healthy- a plus at 2B and CF. Maybe expect close to the same from Devers & Dugo. It's SS, RF and C still up in the air.
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MLB Draft Lottery is tonight. The Sox have a 7% chance to pick top 6 and a 0.8% chance to get to #1.
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please no!
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I see your point, but I'd be greatly disappointed with a Contreras, Andrus & Gallo plan for the non-pitching side of the ledger. It's just extending the bridge or rebuild, whatever you want to call it, and since I doubt we spend big on the rotation, we'll be leaving a pretty big chunk of the $80M on the table.
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I agree. the 8-9 player statement was the most disheartening words I've heard, this winter. I'm pretty happy with 33-34 players on our 40. Sure, another 2-4 could be upgraded, but I do not feel like building up the foundation (quantity) should be a higher priority than building up the top 18-20 players on the 26. I'd rather spend $80M on 4 players (maybe 5 or 6) than 8-9. Let the kids fill the gaps. We have enough of them to think enough can stick and help. C: Wong (RHern) 1B: Casas 2B/DH: E Valdez IF: Downs (Koss/Hamilton) OF: Duran & Crook (Rafaela late 2023- maybe?) SP: (convert to pen?): Mata, Walter, Murphy, TWard, Santos Middle: Crawford & Wink Short: Kelly, German, Wallace, Politi, Ort, DHern, Fernandez That's at least 12-13 players who could show plus value. (Not all 12 will, of course, and we could suffer while cycling through a few to finds the ones that are plus.)
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MLBTR: 32. Estevez est. $21M/7 (signed for $13.5M/2) 46. Chris Martin est. $14M/2 (signed for $17.5/2) I thought I saw another site with Estevez ranked slightly higher than Martin in value, but I can't find it. They are both pretty close. Martin might be better, but his age is scary. I wouldn't have minded seeing us sign both, but there are plenty of good RP'ers left.
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To me, "upside" means not a proven, solid pitcher.
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As he should, until he proves otherwise.
