moonslav59
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But, maybe not more than Judge.
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In-season negotiations are sometimes not wanted by the player. Maybe, something will be done (or decided) early in the off season.
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Is that enough? We break even, if lucky, on Bogey, Devers and Wacha. We lose Nate, Hill, Strahm and add maybe Nimmo (your OF) and some pen help. I think we need to add another solid SP'er, too, minimum.
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9/25 Last vs First
moonslav59 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
1. The nice catch on Lynn's drive to end the inning? 2. The ball lost in the sun but recovered to stop the ball from getting past him? -
If you had to pick one trade out of these listed, which would it be? (BTV Values listed) For Lopez (MIA) 35.3 A. Casas 39.7 B. Rafaela 15.1, Yorke 12.3 & Wikelman 6.6 For Luzardo (MIA) 22.1 C. Rafaela 15.1 & Wikelman 6.6 D. Yorke 12.3, Wikelman 6.6, Duran 5.9 For both Lopez 35.3 & AGarcia -28.5 E. Wikelman For both Luzardo, A Garcia and $8M cash F. Wikelman For both Lopez 35.3 & Luzardo 22.2 G. Casas 39.9, Rafaela 15.1 & Winckowski 3.3 For Lopez 35.3, Luzardo 22.1 & AGarcia -28.5 H. Rafaela 15.1, Yorke 12.1 & Winckowski 3.3 I. Yorke 12.1, Wikelman 6.6, Duran 5.9 & Winckowski 3.3
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Here is my current DFA/non-tender/trade for far-away prospects list: (Pham and Paxton have options) Chang Almonte DHern Bazardo Ort Cordero Brasier Not likely, but would not cry seeing them traded: Downs Danish Duran Hosmer (not until we get a better read on Casas) Seabold Winckowski Taylor (if and only if deemed permanently damaged goods)
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Every team has its limits- both in terms of overall budget and in terms of what is the highest they think someone is worth. They will overpay when absolutely necessary, and Judge kind of fits that bill for the Yanks. Maybe the Mets just go with a nutty offer to get the publicity and fans all riled up. Should the Yanks match a nutty offer? I doubt they will, but I guess it depends on how nutty. Gotta think the Dodgers might make an offer. I know he has said he wants the highest AAV ever, but I think it will come down to biggest dollar amount and the years added will tip the balance.
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Yes, they "have enough" to get anyone, but spending that big on one guy, likely ,means we let a couple other slots go unfilled or filled with scrub additions.
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Someone will claim DHern. These guys get recycled, often. Maybe someone things they know the secret to reducing hids walks allowed.
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Alone, no. (He's not coming to Boston.)
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I guess they want people coming for the game. Nothing about unvaxxed player restrictions, as far as I know.
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Very sad, and a nice step forward by the O's. 8-7 v BOS 8-8 v TOR 9-10 v TBR 5-11 v NYY 4-3 v HOU 3-3 v CLE 3-4 v MN 2-4 v SEA 2-1 v STL 1-2 v MIL Not bad vs top competition.
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Canada to drop COVID border measures on Oct 1st. Maybe, by next season, the unvaxxed will be allowed to play in TOR.
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Agreed, but Red's point was Barnes has stuck around due to high cost, which I do think comes into play, at times. I don't think it does with Barnes. He'd still be here at the min or $8.9M per.
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I don't think Santana would have cost too much. I am doubtful he was available in late May, but we could have gotten 4-5 weeks or more from him. You have a good point, IMO, now.
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He was lights out in AA and AAA without a great secondary pitch. I know that often means squat, but maybe not in his case. He still has time to develop one, too. FYI, I have him pencilled in as our 7th or 8th RP'er in 2022, and feel he could easily be beat out in ST'ing, but I'm optimistic about him.
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I doubt it. Many pitchers stick around for longer than that, and many never had as good a record as Barnes beforehand. Diekman (1.49 WHIP) pitched 38 inning for us, this year and was not DFA'd. Sawamura (1.42) pitched over 50 innings. Brasier (1.32 in 58 IP) has sucked for years and costs next to nothing. Roblesd (1.58) almost lasted 26 IP. In 2021, Andries s*** the bed for 37 IP (1.77 WHIP.) I'm not sure why DHern (1.73 0ver keeps getting the call- over 85 IP!!!
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I'm certainly not thinking he will close for us in 2023, and he should not be planned to be so, but I think he can be a good set-up man. Unless he pitches his way out of that role, it is his, at this point in time.
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Okay! Great! I wasn't busting your balls, but I have asked for names over 10 times. Yes, I now see he was traded on June 27th. I don't know how good the return value was, of if Bloom could or would have tried to top the players given by SEA (Fleming and Mills- both show no good numbers to date.) This trade was still 5 weeks after Casas got hurt, but thanks for suggesting a specific offer.
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I call vague suggestions non constructive. maybe "phantom" was too harsh. Sorry. I also said it is just my opinion.
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It's the GM job to "worry about the future," and I'm sure every GM worries about it more than I do. Yes, teams often "suffer" because the future is chosen over the present. It's the nature of a GM's job. I'm not saying Bloom had no choices of getting a capable 1Bman at a reasonable cost, but I never heard a peep about any rumrs of 1Bmen available, and to my knowledge, none were traded between May 20th and the end of July. If you know of any, now would be a good time to name names. I'm not saying Bloom is blameless on this issue. Ultimately, he was wrong to trust Dalbec & Casas, despite my opinion that every GM would have too. He trusted Cordero could improve at 1B D. He was woefully wrong. He is partially to blame, for sure, but I thought it was the players who win or lose games. Bloom bet and lost. We all lost.
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I think Casas was widely viewed as being ML ready by June 2022. He would likely have been called up by early June, had he not gotten hurt. I remember many posters bitching about using Schwarber at 1B in 2021. While his D was a negative, nobody was complaining afterwards. I don't think it was a farce to at last try Cordero, then Arroyo t 1B, before looking elsewhere, either. By May 30th, Cordero's OPS was up to .793. His D sucked, but the hope was he'd improve- like Schwarbs did. He DID NOT. I think he even got worse as time went by. Did they go too long? In hindsight, yes. Should they have tried Arroyo at 1B, sooner? Maybe.
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No, I never said that. I said why not suggest an actual offer than makes sense to both teams. That's constructive. Saying fire Bloom for not making a trade for a phantom is not constructive, IMO. I'm fine with that being your position. I just have an issue with you calling that constructive. Teams rarely make trades in May and June. It is very rare, and usually it is for a back-up who may have had as much promise as Dalbec/Cordero/Arroyo, but likely would have done better, granted. You can't do any worse than what we got from May 20th to the Hosmer trade.
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Then Casas got hurt May 20th- about the time he might have been called up. I'm not sure they knew he'd miss that much time. They also thought maybe Cordero or Arroyo could fill in, until Casas returned or Dalbec turned things around. It didn't work. I realize many, including Red, thought it was not going to work, and they ended up being right. Hurray for them- bad for the Sox. It may certainly be possible, a 1Bman was available for a price Bloom thought was too high, and he can be blamed for that, but before I call him out on that, I'd like to know what was demanded. I am pretty sure, trading away a key prospect for a rental 1Bman was not something Bloom or the longer term plan would be in favor of. Plus, I doubt even getting Josh Bell that early would have been nearly enough to keep us competitive. If it did, it might have created a situation where we would hav ebeen buyers at the deadline- screwing over our future, even more than we did, anyway by not at least trading JD and Nate and re-setting the tax.
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No, you are not being asked to be the GM, but just saying get a 1Bman without specifics is not constructive, IMO.
