moonslav59
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The Beni trade freed up about $3M, which was what we got your guy, Renfroe for.
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Pretty close to the best, IMO. Nothing to get all bothered about.
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By trading him?
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$44.4M x 2. WOW! He wanted 3 years, but that AAV is wild! Apparently, there is a vesting option for 2025, but details are unknown, right now. This is one deal I might have thrown the dice on, due to the short term.
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Okay, how about he did "about the best we could expect?"
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Yes, you keep saying that. We get your opinion. I disagree, as we spent on Story, when we had more slots to fill and less money to spend than this winter. (Just my opinion, and yes, I've repeated that often, too. )
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Exactly. You can't just look at one move in a vacuum. I seriously doubt Bloom is going to "leave much money on the table," so what he doesn't spend in one area, he can spend more in others. Lets wait for the totality of his moves to make a final judgement. I'm not saying each move cannot be judged separately, but to me, we need to see how he spends the whole budget to give a final grade. Then, the hindsight grade will be how his legacy is set.
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In theory, we might have gotten Maeda instead of Downs/Wong, and he did pretty good for a year or two, after he was traded. I just don't think the argument that "he could have done better" is all that significant. We might have done slightly better, and who knows what Wong and to a lesser extent, Downs have left in them?
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Yes, totally fair, but is the differential large enough to slam Bloom for "not doing better?" (Not that you did, but others do repeatedly.)
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They all will be "too high." Swanson's will be lower (and maybe shorter) than the big 3, and if the savings from him allows us to go big elsewhere, it might be worth it.
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He's confusing who he is responding to. So much for "perfect posting."
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I don't disagree, but nothing special before? 20-21: 6.0 Bogey 5.7 Swanson Nothing "special" for Bogey in the two previous seasons, either, then.
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Exactly what I said. (From 2019-2023: Bogey 133 OPS+ to 103 for Swanson.)
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Name a reported return significantly better.
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So, the sports talk show majority may not mean what some think it means.
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I expected better moves by Bloom, too, and his FA signings have not been great. (2022's was his best FA class.) The JBJ trade was the only real bad trade he's made, IMO. The Beni trade is still TBD. His waiver, minor league FA and Rule 5 moves have been plus. His drafts are TBD, too, but look good on paper. This winter should be telling.
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Do you project him as being better than Bogey at SS going forward? Who will be mo ved off SS earlier?
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I did, too. My only point was that Craig chose to veer towards 2B not home and forced the need to step over Middy. IT doesn't change the fact that the right call was made, but at some point the runner can't just go out of his way to run into a fielder just to get the call- not that that was what Craig did. I think he was in an awkward position to get up off 3B facing home, so he sprung up off track. Had Middy not lifted his legs, no call would have been made, and he'd have been safe, unless he tripped anyway.
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And even if these choices were flipped, it's not on Bloom. Bloom was handed Sale, Betts, Bogey, Nate and JD's contracts (also Pedey and Castillo's non tax budget $14.2M) and told to cut the budget. No way will I ever believe he chose to cut the budget or had a choice to spend significantly more.
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I was looking at 2021-2022- a pretty large and recent sample size, where Swanson has a +1.0 RRng. 2021-2022 1st in innings at SS 2nd in fangraphs rankings on D 8th in DRS at 2 (not all that great, I know, especially with so many innings) 10th in UZR/150 at 1.6 (only area behind Bogey)
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I'd rather have Conforto for 1 than Gallo or Bellinger for 2-3 or Beni for 3-4.
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Agreed, and we need a 1Bman, too, so trading Casas for Reynolds opens a new hole to fill. I don't think the Sox top brass view this winter as the time to trade a top 4 or maybe even top 6 prospect.
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How does saying "I think..." and "May be..." mean I am sure about the statement I wrote? I'm not too high on 1Bmen. I think they are easy to find at reasonable costs, although the Freeman and Abreu deals are changing that. Romero has a lot of upside, IMO, and plays a premiere position. He MAY end up better than Casas. I would not bet against that. As of right now, I think Casas has more trade value, but that doesn't mean I would choose to trade Romero over Casas. I think Romero is undervalued on BTV, but it's typical with farther away prospects. The one bad thing about Romero, in terms of who should we trade of the two, is he is blocked by Mayer and Story.
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Sounds about right, but I think the AAV should drop, at least slightly, for every year added, even if just $27M x 6, $26.5M x 7 or $25.75M x 8.
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I'm pretty sure they all sat down to come to a consensus, but I think the starting point was that a massive budget cut had to happen. They probably worked our scenarios where they kept Betts and somehow dumped Price and maybe someone else, or cut the pre-2020 winter spending budget in half or more, but I seriously doubt Bloom made the final call. He may have been on the side of trading Betts rather than not filling 5-6 holes with a tighter winter spending budget than he already had. Remember the 2020 roster and how thinly spread the $40M he had to spend created a pretty weak team. Now, one could easily say, in hindsight, I'd rather have Betts at $29M budget cost than $10M Richards, $6M Perez and then trade Beni ($3.5M), Pillar ($4.2M)and a couple other guys over the winter, instead of that deadline, but we stayed under in 2021, too, so who don't we sign before that season? I just think it is plain wrong to blame Bloom for the Betts trade.
