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It seems like maybe Bloom saw something in Perez, none of us saw, but was a year or two off on his timing. Not so for Richards.

Lugo's first year was decent. The injury cut down his range on D, and that was all he had prior to the injury. Renteria ended up costing us about $40M for 1 year. I think only Price ended up costing us more than that, if you figure the total we paid him divided by 4 years.

Apparently, he keeps fighting, even after being put on ignore.

And people were bitching about trying Bobby Dee at 2B! LOL! If this doesn't win Cora the MOY Award, nothing will!

Thanks for the eye test report. Only time will tell. These two both seem to have some holes in their games to repair before making it to the bigs, but neither is too old for their level or seem destined to be AAAA players, despite the lies one Yankee posters keeps spouting about Binelas.

Some won't admit it's too early to judge a trade for prospects. Beni was a fine player. I doubt he'd have made much of a difference, but he was a plus player. His team control ends, this winter, so his half of the trade is just about in the books. So far, it looks like a bad trade. Cordero has sucked. Wink no longer looks all that promising, but there is still time to turn it around. The other 3 prospects are far away from the bigs, and mjay easily amount to squat.... or not. The $3M saved year one was used to sign an OF'er named Renfroe. One can choose to not count that as part of the trade, or sub Marwin's name for Renfroe, and the dynamic changes significantly. Fill in the blank on who we signed for Beni's second year.

Shhhhh.... We don't won't the Yanks to can cashman or Boone.

I figured it had to be.

It might help to know a little more about him for planning the 1B situation for 2023. September call-ups don't affect service time, or did they change that?

Teams can no longer bring up 15 guys, but I do think they may want a look at Casas. The AAA season ends earlier, and Casas missed some time, this year. I think we'll see some DFA's to make room for everyone they want to give some more playing time- maybe Plawecki might be one, but they might want him to tutor the prospect catchers. We could also demote and not DFA Cordero, Dalbec and a few others to make room for prospects.

Never took the Elk to be a censorship hound.

Looks like Devers is finally getting over the Vaz trade.

Post of the Month!

We'll see what Casas has in September. If Bello gets healthy, we'll start him a few times for a better look-see. Maybe DFA Plawecki and let Wong and RHern get some experience.

The race for a top 10 draft pick has officially begun: 41-83 WSH 45-79 OAK 47-77 DET 47-76 PIT 48-73 CIN 50-75 KCR (beyond our reach) 52-17 LAA +8.0 53-70 CHC +7.0 54-70 COL +6.5 54-69 MIA +6.0 56-67 TEX +4.0 56-66 AZ +3.5 60-63 BOS

Pop Quiz, tomorrow.

Yes, he should have gone inn there and told them to pack it in, so we could get a better draft pick.

You know your pitching is bad when McGuire looks better than anyone else, last night.

The problem is, anyone would look foolish going after Henry, so Bloom is made out to be the guy who chose to slash the budget and make building the farm the top priority.

I'm guilty for being optimistic about some Sox players and prospects. What a lousy fan I am.

For sure. It looks like it's down to the low minor prospects we got. Strike 1: Cordero Strike 2: Wink ...

Gibson was phenomenal, but it's hard to compare eras. Pedro put his numbers up in the era of big offense and juiced up batters. Gibson's best seasons were when they mound was at a different height and Yaz won the BA title hitting .301. No disrespect to Bob. Looking at the ERA+ numbers, which compares pitchers vs other from that year (era) here's what we see in their peak years: BOLD = leg league Gibson: 136 151 1962 105 127 126 148 110 1967 258 1968 164 133 119 139 133 Pedro 146 1993 124 123 117 219 1997 163 243 1999 291 2000 188 202 2002 211 2003 124 146 Pedro 166 in his best consecutive 13 seasons ('93 to '05) Gibson 137 in his best 13 ('61 to '73) [/b]

His rookie year was pretty awesome, when you count the first two rounds of the playoffs. 2.78 ERA/ 1.098 WHIP 0.43 ERA/0.572 WHIP in 21 NL Playoff IP 2.26 ERA overall: regular season + NL Playoffs (84 IP combined)

He's a FA after this year. Our best bet to bring him back might be to offer him a QO. (He'd probably take it.) I would not offer Nate a QO, because he might take it.

The $3M they saved on the Beni trade, again the limited budget, was used to sign Renfroe. After 2019, we cut $60M and needed to fill these slots: 1B 2B RF (Betts traded) C2 OF4 IF bench Utility That's 7 slots before we even look at pitching or 40 man roster depth. The pitching (listed by most IP in 2019): 1. ERod out with COVID all 2020 2. Porcello (pitched 12 starts w the Mets and was out of baseball) 3. Sale (did not pitch in 2020 and barely any in 2021 or 2022 at mega bucks) 4. Price (traded with Betts as salary dump) 5. Walden (good riddance) That's all of our top 6 pitchers in 2019 out or traded by 2020. Then... 7. Nate (missed some time over the last 3 yrs of his $17M/yr contract years) 8. Barnes 9 Velazquez (gone) 10. Brasier 11. Brewer (gone) 12. Cashner (gone) 13. Taylor (missed all of '22) 14. Weber (gone) That's at least 8 or 9 pitchers gone from the top 13 of 2019, not to mention the 40 man roster pitching depth that needed upgrading. Look at that 2019 roster, and all the holes left going into 2020, and you tell me about the great 2018 team residual affects?