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  1. moonslav59
    Thanks. I think harmony discourages copying and pasting copyrighted material to a large extent.
  2. moonslav59
    The Pirates entire season would be free, then. To me, we should be playing bubble players to get a better read on 2023. I'd be playing McGuire and Wong. I'd have called up Casas and played him at 1B. I'd play Arroyo at 2B and Story at SS to see if Story's arm is okay at SS, and give Arroyo more 2B reps. I'd play Dugo in LF, Kike in CF (to see about re-signing him, if he looks healthy) and ref in RF. Pham, Cordero, Dalbec at DH. Sorry Bogey and JD. However, I can see why this will never happen.
  3. moonslav59
    I'd offer him a QO. I actually forgot to add him, but I added Abreu from my last suggested plan. Maybe QO Wacha and don't ask for Luzardo in the trade, and take back Yorke.
  4. moonslav59
    Agreed, but I'm not sure winning is the plan, nowadays.
  5. moonslav59
    Then, Arroyo at 1B it must be. Not OF. Not 2B. Not DH, although it might be his best spot- and the team's best line-up. No, Cora will not bench JD. He won't even move him to the 6th or 7th slot in the order.
  6. moonslav59
    BTV accepted this trade as a minor overpay by the Sox: Casas, Yorke, Wikelman & RHern to MIA Lopez, Luzardo & Stallings (the catcher Bloom tried to trade for, last winter) Sign: Abreu 1B (1-2 years), Swanson SS (3-5 years), Nimmo CF/RF (5-6 years), Kike (3 yrs), Fulmer (3 yrs) & Rogers (3 yrs) SP1 Lopez SP2 Sale SP3 Paxton (Bello) SP4 Luzardo SP5 Pivetta Closer Houck Relief Ace Whitlock Set Up Fulmer Set Up Rogers Set Up Schreiber RP6 Barnes RP7 Taylor (Crawford, Wink, Murphy, Seabold, Kelly) RP8 German 1. R Swanson SS 2. L Nimmo RF 3. R Story 2B 4. L Devers 3B 5. R J Abreu 1B 6. L Verdugo LF 7. R Kike CF 8. L Cordero/R Arroyo/ R Dalbec/L E Valdez (Bench) 9. R Stallings C/L McGuire C I'm not sure how much this puts us over the tax line, and if we extend Devers, we'll be looking at a tight budget beyond 2023, unless we can get Abreu to sign a 1 year deal. (We lose Barnes after 2023.)
  7. moonslav59
    I'm curious, too.
  8. moonslav59
    Agreed, but I still think this is the best OF, right now: LF: Dugo CF: Kike RF: Refsnyder Ref is hitting better vs RHPs than Pham. He kills lefties. Pham can PH, be the 4th OF'er and maybe DH here and there. Ref is better, for now, anyway.
  9. moonslav59
    I just called Porcello okay, along with Lackey and Nate, who both had worse numbers in many areas. Had we won a ring in Porcello's Cy Young year, I think the mood would have been different.
  10. moonslav59
    That's what I would guess, and it's another reason why I don't hold Bloom to the fire as much as some do. Many of the major choices he made were forced on him. 1. Betts/Price deal and salary dump going into 2020. 2. The Story signing. 3. The severely restricted budget going into 2021, when we had 10+ slots in great need of upgrading. 4. A mandate to build up the farm, which makes it hard to add players via prospects for stud deals. 5. The uncertainty around spending going into 2022, then bam- sign Story, NOW! I'm not downplaying all the bad moves and choices Bloom made, although some of them are still open, due to the prospects we got. He made some bad choices. No doubt.
  11. moonslav59
    Were Schwarber and Rodon your first 2 choices? Also, was Bloom's checkbook open early in the winter signing period?
  12. moonslav59
    Of course, nobody is going to say getting eight 1 WAR seasons from a player(s) equals one season of an 8 WAR by a traded star, but where should the line be drawn? It's probably impossible to expect a 1 year of Betts and 3 years a half- Price (like my play on words, there?) deal to bring back someone similar to Betts, but here is the WAR tally: Verdugo bWAR: 2.1 (Short season), 2.2 + 0.9, so far + 2 years of control remaining fWAR: 1.9, 2.0, 1.3 Downs: bWAR: -0.7 fWAR: -0.3, so far Wong: bWAR: 0.1, -0.1 fWAR: 0.2, 0.0, so far Betts: bWAR: 3.6 (short season) fWAR: 2.9 + a decent playoff performance It hurts watching Betts do great with the Dodgers, but the trade was forced on Bloom, and the results are not as bad as many want to think it is. Plus, we still have 2 years of Dugo and 4-5 of Wong.
  13. moonslav59
    I guess one could say it was Schreiber, who was called in to put out the fire in the 5th inning.
  14. moonslav59
    Maybe when they brought Ort in? (LOL)
  15. moonslav59
    He was so far from "horrible." No he was not worth close to that contract, and I'm okay, barely, with saying it was a horrible contract, but he was not Horrible. No stats show he is in the bottom 3rd in any major category. He's in the top 3rd in a few. Let's just agree to disagree on this one and get over it.
  16. moonslav59
    I still wonder if Story was the guy Bloom wanted, all along. I get a feeling JH panicked and suddenly told Bloom, in March, it was OK to sign someone to about $150, and what choices were left, at that time. Pure conjecture on my part, as we were apparently interested in Baez and Suzuki. In that respect, I'm glad we got Story.
  17. moonslav59
    You still have to guess right and outbid these contracts: $130M/3 Scherzer $115M/5 R Ray 11-8 3.58 $110M/5 Gausman 10-9 3.14 $77M/5 ERod Major Cluster $71M/3 Stroman 3-6 3.98 $56M/4 J Gray 7-6 3.83 It looks like we should have just brought Martin Perez back, instead of Robbles & Diekman. 10-5 2.89 I'm sure all the Bloom bashers would have loved that signing, at the time.
  18. moonslav59
    The Betts shadow. (Not his fault.)
  19. moonslav59
    And, did you see Cora laughing when we were down 3? The nerve of that clown!
  20. moonslav59
    Is it ever going to be okay to move JD down even 1 slot?
  21. moonslav59
    Bazardo gets the Bazzarro win!
  22. moonslav59
    It's amazing how this team refused to let Cora hold them down.
  23. moonslav59
    The best part of the 2B is that JD can't GIDP!
  24. moonslav59
    We shoulda benched Devers!
  25. moonslav59
    Signs of life, despite Cora telling them to slack off and go easy, tonight.
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