moonslav59
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Wouldn't we have to remove "dead money" from all teams to get an accurate read on that adjusted ranking?
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We agree on something! People complain about how the big spending teams make it hard for low-budget teams, but rarely do we hear about how cheap owners are making a killing on profits and just don't want to spend more.
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No. ( Maybe, if they initiated a solid floor at over $80M to start with.) Do you think the NHL should remove their ceiling?
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It was MLB who screwed Finley over. Now, GMs can buy and sell contracts at will.
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Maybe, because of Yankee crybabying?
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Like all the times all we heard was "20-something rings, Moe-Foe!"
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You need young studs, first. We did lock up Whitlock- not 15 years, but still.. Who do we have, now? Houck? Bello?
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I'm not looking to dump Story's salary. I still think he might earn it. He's athletic and a top defender. I fully admit, I'm biased towards players like him and Kike. Up the middle D- BABY! Old school on this one!
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From the mid 70's to the early 2000's, I often said to fellow Sox fans, "Ill take 10 last place finishes for just one ring!" Now, I am spoiled.
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Yup. Here are his yearly PAs per season since his year two: 639 716 705 682 681 507 608 600 In 2020, he played in 53 of 60 games (241 PAs, which would have placed him 2nd on the Sox in 2020 PAs)
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No. Nothing wrong. I'm talking about trading prospects for the next Pedro, Schill, Beckett..., but first we need a solid farm, but whenever Bloom tries to trade to build up the farm, he gets knocked down for doing so.
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All those guys we traded for were for prospects only. We did get a ML'er in the Betts deal. We got one on the Ottavino, Beni, Diekman,Workman/Hembree and Renfroe deals. Maybe prospects would have been better. LOL!
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The pen did pretty good when we had Houck, Whitlock and Schreiber all with defined roles and in the pen, at the same time. We still needed a couple more dependable guys, but Strahm got hurt and nobody else stepped it up. I agree, we need fixing and a new approach.
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There is no fix. This is about next year's hopes.
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Like beating your asses, last year?
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The only other way is via trade- like Pedro, Schill, Beckett, Sale or via a beefed up farm- Lester, err... It seems that when Bloom makes trades for promising prospects, in order to try an beef up the farm, he gets bashed for that, too.
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The eye test tells me pretty much what these numbers show me, except for Sawamura. Both tell me Whitlock has been much better as a RP'er. Both tell me Schreiber, Houck and Strahm have done well in the pen, and Barnes has been shaky but ok. When we demoted Valdez, I wondered why, and didn't even know his OPSA was so good. (I was going by my eye test.) The stats confirm my eye test on the pen killers, too. My eye test would have ranked our top 4 starters just like the OPSA numbers ranked them: 1. Wacha 2. Pivetta 3. Hill 4. Nate One can say, "See, the eye test is very accurate," but one could also say to the data aversion group, "See, the data is correct." The part that the eye test doesn't cover, is when you compare our players to those on other teams that our eyes don't watch much, or at all. No, I did not hear Millar. I often have the sound turned down and listen to music, instead.
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The pen gets a lot of abuse that maybe the rotation deserves: OPS Against: .708 RP'ers .757 SP'ers Individual OPS Against in Relief ONLY: .399 Whitlock (115 PAs) .550 Schreiber (205) .587 Houck (178) .589 P Valdez (72) .659 Strahm (136) .664 Sawamura (221) A case against using OPSA .665 Danish (130) .699 Barnes (131) These were the pen killers (note their PAs Against) 1.376 DHern (43) .879 Ort (82) .864 Brasier (221) .831 Robbles (111) .799 Davis (232) .744 Diekman (171) Starter OPSA in order of most PAs Against .729 Pivetta (626) .774 Eovaldi (423) .752 R Hill (375) .605 Wacha (354) .859 Wink (283) .813 Craw (259) .723 Whitlock (164) .911 Bello (105) .663 Houck (69) 1.296 Seab (63) .584 Sale (25) .186 Davis (22 as "opener")
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If they are selling, they may want to get their finances in better order, but maybe the new owner wants some big named players on the roster.
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OK, $100M was an exaggeration, but BTV has him at -$37.5M. Rendon is at -$140M. They might get the Dodgers to take him for a prospect, but I think even they would want some money chipped in.
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Yes, it looks like maybe 1-3 a year will just barely go over 200 IP. It's been a steady decline for decades. -
Would they trade Trout + $100M?
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Unless we add and bring up German, I'm not sure we'll see an improvement.
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Verlander is the only pitcher to crack 250 IP since 2008 (Sabathia), and he only did it once at 251 IP in 2011. Since 2000: 266 Roy Halladay '03 260 Randy Johnson '02 259 Curt Schilling '02 257 Curt Schilling '01 The most since 2015: 233 Kershaw '15 232 Keuchel '15 230 Price '16 BOS 229 Arrieta '15 228 Scherzer '15 & '16 228 Verlander '16 227 Sale '16 CWS 227 Bumgarner '16 223 Verlander '19 MOST since 2016! Zach Wheeler led MLB in IP with 213 in 2021
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Like Carlos Rodon, who will likely opt out. A QO offer is not a bad idea for Wacha.
