moonslav59
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Has a leadoff walk ever not scored against this pen?
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This game is still very winnable.
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Some dont total .550
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Whitlock just needs to be a better starter.
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Never Devers!
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It can't be hyperbole, either. He knows not what it is.
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He flaunts it along with his boy in the schoolyard humor.
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The health thing won't last. Half the team has hamstrings made of thin glass crystal.
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Downs is at a .732 OPS, which is better than half the current Yankee OPS.
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Going to the NL would be nice. You know the Yanks will spend to replace him, most likely by upgrading 2-3 positions with the money "saved."
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The "same old issue" at 1B had an .819 OPS with 33 HRs in 545 PAs with the Sox going into 2022. The guy we traded, Renfroe, had an .815 OPS with 31 HRs in 572 PAs with BOS before being traded going into 2022. Okay, Bloom may have guessed wrongly, but it's not like it was such a clear choice.
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I'm fine with Bloom, and expect GMs to miss on some trades and signings, and we're not even sure he missed on that deal, yet. That doesn't stop me from scratching my head and expressing a different opinion, when I have one. Overall, I really like the direction we are going and Bloom's ability to spot gems like Whitlock, Renfro (Yes, he spotted him to begin with), Wacha, Hill, Strahm, Schreiber (so far), Kike and rentals like Schwarber, Iggy and to a lesser extent Shaw & Robles. I also think the Story signing will end up being a net plus, despite my initial hesitancy, once the named him the 2Bman.
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Let's not forget the 40 man roster we had in 2020 cannot really be blamed on Bloom, and as reminder, here is a list of some of the players that played a significant amount of time in that short season: Rank in PAs in '20: 5. JBJ 7. Chavis 8. Pillar 9. Peraza 10, Dalbec 11. Plawecki 12. Arauz (more than 1/3 the PAs as Bogey) 14. Lin 17. Munoz (1/5 the PAs as Verdugo) Rank in IP 1. Perez (Bloom's highest paid FA) 3. Weber 4. Valdez 5. Mazza 6. Godley 7. Brewer 8. Brasier 10. Springs 11. Brice 13. Osich 14. Covey (about 30% of the IP as Eovaldi) 15. Kickham (same as Covey) 16. Stock 17. Walden 18. Hart (almost 20% of the IP Eovaldi had) 20. Hembree 21-.30 Hall, Triggs, Leyer, Tapia (com bined for more than 50% of Eovaldi) Think about just how bad things were in Bloom's first year. He's made some mistakes on the way, most on low cost contracts, but the roster and farm have come a long way in about 2 years.
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Time For the Hypo Trade Talks to Begin ?
moonslav59 replied to vegasbob's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Yes, he had about 4-5 bad games out of 19, last year, but he's not been bad, this year. Strike him from my post, and add Iggy & Shaw, then. -
Add that $5.5M to what we paid Diekman, and maybe we get someone good/better. (Yimi Garcia, Knebel, Raley, Tepera or add a little more and get Jansen)
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I think COVID and the whole situation baseball was in played a role in that. Nobody said he's get $420, but he likely would have gotten $350-360M in a normal FA winter, and it's obvious the Sox were set on or near $300M. I wanted him back. I think I suggested longer and larger offers than anyone on this site, but it was never an easy call, and there are big advantages to never offering deals like that. Now, I'm all "Devers Forvers," but depending on wat he ends up getting, I'm not so sure going extra LNL on him is the best way to go. I've already resigned myself to no Bogey. People talk about the Sox not being the Rays, but a better comp might be the Astros, and being like them, might not be so bad. BTW, where did James Click get his start?
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I've been rough on Vaz, but when he his about .800 for a couple years in a row, he was not in my doghouse (that much, lol.) He's been a big part of the offensive turn around and has gotten some key rbis. (I'll be surprised, if he's back. We tried to obtain Stallings, this past winter- a great defender and "CERA" guy, apparently, so there is evidence, we are looking to move on.)
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Thanks for the correction, and ultimately how well Binelas and or Hamilton do might make or break the deal, but adding prospects like Binelas, Hamilton, German, Seabold, Winckowski and promising guys like Pivetta and Cordero improves the odds on someone coming through, eventually. To me, the worst part of the Renfroe deal was not losing his offense, which should be offset some for his poor D, but the money aspect. That $8M option of JBJ's $12M 2023 salary gave me scalp scabs.
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Both. Look at the roster that started 2020 vs 2021 vs the end of 2021 and now 2022. I see progression from a weak 18-22 slots on the 40 with a bottom 3 farm to a team with maybe 10-12 weak slots (winter 20-21) to maybe 8-10 (21-22), while the farm went from bottom 3 to middle or above average (props to DD, too.) When you consider Bloom haD about $40M to spend on 2020 and again on 2021 with nothing long term and so many slots to fill, I think some serious context is needed, when exposing how he missed badly on Marwin, Andriese, Weber and even his "big ticket" items: Richards and Perez. Did you expect every low to mid-range sigtning to be Wacha? I didn't. I expected slow growth and to me, we got way faster growth than I imagines possible. The jury is still out on the farm and some trades made, but I feel much better about our extended future than I did during and after 2019, when some posters were throwing around the "C" word, while those who denied it are often trying to blame Bloom for why he didn't win a ring, already.
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It was just 1 year of Renfroe, but your point is well taken. The scabs on my head are just starting to heal.
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Even if you count the JBJ trade as a total bust, the totality of Bloom's moves have been a clear plus, and while he built up the 40 man roster, he also improved the farm and got us 2 wins from the WS. Of course, he's made mistakes, but the ones people mention the most have not been completed, yet. JBJ & Binelas/Hamilton might out perform the one year renfroe had left. Cordero & Winckowski might our perform Beni, who is now on his last year. Verdugo has already at least equaled the 60 games Betts played in 2020. If I wanted to bash Bloom, I'd stick to Richards, Perez I, Perez II and Diekman/Andriese/Sawamura...
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We broke our own imposed rule on signing older than 30 SP'ers when we got Price. We may see the value in stealing Judge from the Yanks. I doubt it happens. I think we have set 5-6 years as the upper limit on length. Maybe they go 7-8 on Devers, because of his age, but I wonder...
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But, at the time, the trade was given bad grades. Apparently, that's al that counts, for some.
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Who else was even kicking the tires on a 1 year player making $28M? I'm not saying he did a great job, but Downs was not the center of that deal. 4.5 years of verdugo was. I know your refrain is always, "we should have traded him earlier, but ten you poo-poo all prospects, anyway. Bloom can never win with you, unless Henry lets him spend like DD.
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Actually, taht's on Henry, and we actually did play "money ball," except with some money over several seasons in the past- mostly between ring years, but salary was cut before 2013, too. (Later, added during the season.)
