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It wasn't just Hosmer: 3.5 Groome 1.8 Rosier + 1.2 Ferguson = 3.0
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Some BTV values of interest: 6.7 Verdugo 6.5 McGuire 4.2 Paxton 2.9 Seabold 2.6 Winckowski 2.4 Hamilton 2.1 Abreu 1.9 Wong 1.8 Rosier 1.7 Valdez 1.4 German 1.2 Binelas & Ferguson 1.0 Kelly & Refsnyder 0.9 Pivetta 0.7 R Hern 0.5 Gambrell 0.3 C Hamilton 0.2 Downs & F Valdez 0.1 Kike, Ort & de la Rosa -0.3 Joely -5.7 Jansen -7.8 Barnes -37.4 Story 6.4 Bogaerts 3.5 Groome 1.9 Renfroe 0.0 JBJ -0.8 Betts -9.6 Beni -14.2 Vaz
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In Lux Tax $Millions 40 Judge 36 Cole 25 Stanton (-$3M paid by MIA) 25 Donaldson 23 Rodon 20 Rizzo 15 Severino 10 Hicks ~10 Torres
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According to MLBTR's top Free Agents, here is who is left: 23 Eovaldi 24 T Rogers 33 Profar 37 Drury 39 Chafin 40 Segura 41 Wacha 43 Brantley 44 Conforto 47 J Turner 48 Kluber 50 Rucinski Andrus Fulmer S Lugo W Myers Fujinami Belt Carpenter Smyly Cueto M Moore
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The loss of Bogey and JD on offense is big, despite them only having 135 RBI combined, but in all honesty, don't you expect improved offense from... 1B (Casas> Dalbec/Cordero/Hosmer) 2B (Strory over 1/2 Story) LF (Yoshida> Dugo/Pham/Cordero CF (Kike > 1/2 Kike) RF (Dugo & Ref > JBJ/Duran & Co) C and DH may be slight losses, but our catchers hit like .680 and our DHs hit near .760, McGuire & Wong may hit near .680 and a DH combo of Dugo/Yoshida/Dalbec/Arroyo/Ref may hit .760, too. The big loss is Bogey and the lack of RH'd depth. One big RH'd bat and a solid SP'er and I may feel more optimistic. Add a Devers extension, and... (I can't say it, yet.)
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We sign him or trade him by May 1st- likely by opening day.
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I like Mata, Kelly, German and Walter ahead of Murphy.
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So, if Bello didn't advance so quickly and graduate, we'd have a top 5 pictcher. Mata is close enough to count. Walter, Perales & Wikelman have hopes, and we have some very young pitchers on the rise.
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The optimism here is deafening.
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$177M/7. I had thought he'd be a good option, if Bogey took $200M/8 and he'd get $140M/6, but with Mayer on the horizon, I guess he never was an option. It's Andrus or Story with fill in the blank at 2nd.
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Xander Bogaerts has signed with San Diego Padres
moonslav59 replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I just feel we didn't have to get back to that position. -
I'm not feeling very cheery about the winter moves, so far. A Devers extension would help, for the long term, but 2023 looks depressing, despite the odd belief I have that we should be better at 1B, 2B, 3B, LF, CF, RF and maybe even or close to even at DH and Catcher. Our pen is better. We are worse at SS, SP1, SP2. Those 3 slots are big step downs, but overall, it doesn't look as bad as I feel. Right now, I won't try to convince anyone it's snot so bad, because I'm not feeling it, myself.
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Good points. Should I list losing Cordero under the "add" column?
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I'm actually glad to hear this.
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Thanks. I'll edit.
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Xander Bogaerts has signed with San Diego Padres
moonslav59 replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Certainly not much to be optimistic about. It looks like trades and a couple second tier signings is our only hope for 2023, otherwise, it's wait till next year, already. -
Can the Orioles really say they should be better at over half their starting 9? Did the Jays and Rays improve? Is the addition of Rodon outweigh the loss of Taillon, Chapman, Gallo and others? The winter is not over, There will likely be a trade flurry that improves some teams and maybe hurts others in 2023.
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They only get the ones where no reports say they are "in on."
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Has anyone done a breakdown on all the key players lost and gained by each AL East team? Please add names I missed: BAL? Add: A Frazier, K Gibson, Cordero Lost: Jorge Lopez, Mancini, Lyles, Aguilar TOR? Add: Bass, Swanson Lost: T Hernandez, Stripling TBR? Add: Eflin Lost: Kluber, Zunino NYY? Add: Rodon, Kahnle Lost: Taillon, Chapman, Gallo, Britton, BOS: Add: Yoshida, Jansen, Martin, Joely, Mills (if you want to count more from Casas and Bello, Kelly, German, Wong and some prospects or even more from Kike & Story, Sale, Paxton...) McGuire Lost: Bogey, Nate, JD, Wacha, Hill, Vaz, Strahm, JBJ, Diekman, Downs I know I'm missing a lot. I know other teams are expecting more from many players who were injured in 2022 or not called up until later in the season.
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No, it does not matter, if sometimes you said CF D. You said CF. I said you said just CF and you denied saying and called me a liar. The fact that you still can't just say, "I meant to say CF" speaks volumes. Yes, I have said things that aren't true or realized I wasw rong later and admitted it and apologized, when needed. That's the big difference, and if you knew what being on a high hose meant, you'd see it is you on the horse, not me. I was wrong to say you hated Cora, when you never said it. I said I was wrong and apologized. It didn't help, because yo keep bringing it up, as if I'm still saying it I was wrong to say Kike had the best season on defense in CF in my lifetime when a half dozen others were just as good or better. I agreed when called out for my over exuberance on a current Sox player I cheer for. You'll never say you even made a slight mistake, mistyped or didn't mean exactly what you wrote. Instead, you double and triple down on a your false statement and blame others for not knowing what words mean.
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You called me a liar for saying something you said and doubled down by saying you did not say it. I'm not missing the meaning of what you said, and it doesn't matter if you said "D" a few times or not. You said what I said you said, and you called me a liar, then denied you said it. How hard is to to say, "I meant to say CF D," or "My bad, I thought I said CF D?" You still can't say it. I don't understand why it's so hard to just say it. Instead you blame me for not knowing you implied CF D. Words have meaning, except to you, I guess. (I knew would go back to taking horses and horse s***.)
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But you won't acknowledge how the lack of it affects a GM's chances at quickly building a winner.
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Yet, Bloom is given no or very little leeway when you look at the farm infusions of all or wiing teams vs what he got in 3 years plus what was added in the previous 2 years before he took over. You never seem to take any context into account. Would the 67, or 75, or any winning Sox team been nearly as good with next to nothing in the 5 years prior to those good seasons? Yet, somehow yours and others' expectations don't seem to take that into account. Add to that the burdensome contracts he inherited and the sporadic declines of the vets and "stars", plus the mandate to trade Betts and Price, but nope: bottom line is winning and winning only. Everything else is just "an excuse." Well, the "excuse" for winning was having impactful farm infusions leading up to the glory years or close to glory years.
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I'm sorry, but I have to disagree. Our biggest need is SP, SS (or 2B), RF and then maybe another SP, a catcher and another RP'er. DH is maybe 6th or 7th. I could be okay with 5th or even 4th, if we filled the top 3 adequately. Would you rather have Arroyo and E Valdez at 2B and Story out of position at SS and JD at DH vs Andrus at SS, Story at 2B and Dugo/Ref/Dalbec/Arroyo sharing DH? Kluber as our #3 SP and Houck in the pen vs JD at DH and Houck as the #3 and Brasier still on the 26? Anderson or Conforto in RF and Dugo/Ref/Yoshida/Dalbec in LF and DH vs JD at DH and Yoshida in LF w Dugo?Ref in RF? I know we should be able to do more than one of these things, and if we sign Andrus and Kluber, I'd feel better about JD over a RF'er, but when are we going to fill just one of our top 3 highest needs?
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Yes, you have said "on D" many times, but why can't you just admit you often say just "CF" and not "CF on D?" You do know, it's actually a sign of strength not of weakness to admit a mistake. The thing is you have done this often and to say I am lying to say you said you did, when it is clear you said it just digs yourself deeper into your lie. Did I lie to say you said it? Did you call me a liar for saying the truth? Calling me a liar is yet another lie. Covering lies that covered lies that covered... I don't expect a truthful answer- just more diversions, talk of horses, and maybe a good night Dick.
