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  1. moonslav59
    Wrong, again. The GREEN means sarcasm.
  2. moonslav59
    Here who TOR and BAL have to play: BAL 10 TOR 7 BOS 3 @ NYY 4 HOU 3 DET 2 @ WSH TOR 10 BAL 9 TBR 3 BOS 3 NYY 3 @ TEX 2 @ PHI I'm not saying we have a chance, but think about this: if TOR & BAL go 5-5 vs each other and we win those 10 days, we gain 5 on each. Then, we beat them head-to head. Easy, right?
  3. moonslav59
    What temper? (BTW, another example of passive aggressive BS on the "partner" thing, while feigning innocence. You don't fool anyone.)
  4. moonslav59
    One game under .500. Keep this streak going! What are our chances, if we win 6 more in a row (3 @ TBR and 3@BAL?) Here's the remaining schedule: 3 @ TBR 3 @ BAL day off 2 v NYY day off 3 v KCR day off 2 @ CIN 4 @ NYY 4 v BAL 3 @ TOR 3 v TBR RED= 16 games vs teams we need to pass
  5. moonslav59
    Ok, got it. I misread your post. My guess is we may have less than a 1% chance at the top pick and maybe 1-2% at a top 6.
  6. moonslav59
    Montas just might redeem himself, after all. Judge got half the Yankees 6 hits and hit his 53rd! Geesh! Man, the Yankee O sucks.
  7. moonslav59
    I think he was just hoping you were true to your word about getting "out of here."
  8. moonslav59
    Thanks. So, we'd really have to tank to get to 6th worst. We are 12 games ahead of KC.
  9. moonslav59
    And, it's not always as easy as it seems to think or say, "Hey, the offer the A's accepted was pretty low. We could have beaten that by offering so and so." Maybe- maybe not. Maybe Bloom did miss a good opportunity. Maybe they wanted Rafaela or Bello and others. I'm also not convinced Bloom had the Story money to spend, until JH heard the rumblings of Sox Nation and suddenly said, "Okay, you can spend $140M/6." Maybe, and this is pure conjecture, Bloom might have made other moves had he known he could go over the tax line in December. (Maybe he overbids for Suzuki and/or Baez...UGH!!!)
  10. moonslav59
    You're like Eck vs Youk.
  11. moonslav59
    How low do you have to be to have a chance at the first pick- lotto style?
  12. moonslav59
    I guess he wouldn't trade Casas straight up for Alcantara. Just the thought of trading Casas is crazy.
  13. moonslav59
    I doubt we leave every eak slot to the kids, but I agree the OF is the major need (with an ace). The rest might be one year deals to bridge to the kids.
  14. moonslav59
    If anything, it might be a 1 year signing. Maybe someone who can play RF/DH would be a better fit. Mancini can play 1B/RF/DH. He's a great clubhouse guy, too, but he won't go for 1 year. I don't think a big expenditure should got for a 1B/DH type with Kavadas, Valdez, Casas and others in the system.
  15. moonslav59
    Did he have an endless b udget to sign all those players posters pined for? Yes, in hindsight, we should have signed Martin Perez not Rich Hill, and I remember many wanting Perez back. LOL
  16. moonslav59
    So, on balance, were the Bloom additions a net plus or minus: + Wacha Schreiber Refsnyder Strahm McGuire Pham ??? Story Hill Hosmer Paxton Prospects: EValdez, WAbreu, MFerguson, ABinelas, DHamilton, C Rosier - Renfroe>JBJ Diekman (turned into McGuire) It seems to me, Blooms biggest mistake was not knowing which vets were going to decline and trading them just before their declines- fan faves or not, and most of the ones who declined the most were carry-over vets, while most of Blooms additions did pretty well. To the Bloom dislikers: is this true or not?
  17. moonslav59
    Of course, Bloom could have had the foresight to trade away every player that was about to decline from 2021 to 2022, but let's break down how many and by how much the players declined- Bloom players vs inherited players: Inherited: +.100 Vaz (traded) +.070 Duran (to .648) -.001 Devers -.017 Bogarts -.023 Arroyo -.097 JD M -.148 Dalbec -.171 Plawecki '21 Renfroe vs '22 JBJ -.238 Bloom's Additions (Carry-overs) +.217 Cordero -.046 Verdugo -.146 Kike -.643 Arauz -.843 Shaw Bloom's Additions (New to 2022) .879 Refsnyder .816 McGuire .782 Ja. Davis .768 Pham .732 Story .611 Hosmer Lost to Free Agency or cut: .957 Schwarber .915 Iggy .597 Santana .567 Marwin ,549 Chavis (traded)
  18. moonslav59
    So, signing Wacha at an unbelievable $7M is "little?" Getting Schreiber and Refsnyder for nothing was just "a little?" Strahm, Pham, McGuire were just "a little? The guys Bloom added were about the only ones who did well. Guys like Bogey, Devers and Houck did fine, but they all declined or got hurt. Every other returning vet inherited by Bloom declined, except Vaz. Do you really think the JBJ trade outweighed Wacha, Schreiber, Refsnyder, McQuire, Strahm, Hill, Pham and his carryovers like Whitlock, Dugo and Wong.
  19. moonslav59
    You need to start bashing Sox players, more often. You single-handedly turned Pivetta's career around. Maybe you just did the same for Winkman. Who starts next? Better start bashing him, ASAP!
  20. moonslav59
    You hide yours well.
  21. moonslav59
    I seriously doubt we trade Casas, either. My point was that even if we trade him, our 1B situation is better than CF, SP, RP, RF and 2B/SS. Now, back to trading Casas, I'm not for handing him away for nothing. Thinking of trading someone does not equate to "giving up on him" or "undervaluing him." That's just a bias some poster seems to have while feigning objectivity. IMO, we will likely not have a big enough budget to sign 8 more than capable FAs (CF, SP1 or 3, Closer, RF, 2B or SS, Set Up, SP 4 or 5 and RP or C), so we will have to trade a prospect or two to fill at least one slot. To get quality, you have to trade quality. We are not getting Lopez for Dalbec, Downs and Duran. And this loops back to my first point: what position is currently best suited to go with what we have, now? One can argue Arroyo at 2B, despite his injury history. One could argue RF with Refsnyder or Dugo (with Duran in LF) or One could argue 1B with Hosmer, Arroyo, Dalbec/Cordero in AAA (assuming we fill 2B, CF and RF.) It's not a crazy concept to look at the big picture and at least consider all the options.
  22. moonslav59
    Your objectivity is astounding.
  23. moonslav59
    He wasn't with the Sox in 2017, maybe you meant 2014-2016. He was still "very good" in 2014, 2015 and 2016. That's 4 years in a row. 2014-2016 152 IP 2.73 ERA 0.930 WHIP is among the best of that period 11.3 K/9 1.7 BB/9 6.8 K/9 is outstanding
  24. moonslav59
    It's not a fluke, either. He had a .349 OBP on the farm, this year. I think he had 8 HRs in his last 16 games at AAA before the call-up. I hope he's a keeper.
  25. moonslav59
    I don't either, even if we trade Casas!
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