moonslav59
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Everything posted by moonslav59
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Yes, done with Price. Already done with Pedey. Sale looks like the only possible/likely "dead money," unless you think Story will be a bust. Well, some might say bernes, too. The only locked deals are (Lux Tax Dollars): 25.6 x 2 Sale 23.3 x 5 Story 9.38 x 1 Barnes 4.56 x 4 Whitlock
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That's a tough one, because the Sox have to pay an $8M buyout or the full boat. So, if when they buy him out, he's a FA with $8M in his pocket + whatever he gets from his new team & contract..
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This really shows how much at least one GM viewed Price's future and lack of value. Including half his salary was a big part of the Dodger trade and the reduction of return value, IMO. I'm not sure the Sox would have taken the SDP deal, unless they took the full Price contract, since Myer's was getting paid a lot, and the Sox wanted to not just reset, but also cut spending by a lot.
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$117M is a lot lower than I would have guessed.
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This means not on IL or other teams?
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That's how I remembered it. The SDP offer was for only Betts. The thing is, it seems to me, people expected us to get a younger Mookie Betts for 1 year of Betts. At the time, I thought Dugo was going to turn out better than he has. He was 23 and had a decent .784 OPS playing in a big park w 44 XBHs in 443 ABs. He started out nicely, hitting .844 in 2020, but that was a short season. His total OPS with the Sox is actually worse (.771) than with LAD. Had we stuck with Graterol or maybe taken Maeda, maybe it wouldn't look so bad, now, to some.
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Is that counting Sale?
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An example of the type of trade I think red is suggesting would be one year of Betts for 5 years of Dugo- a ML player. Not as good but the extra years was supposed to balance it out. (Of course, two prospects were included.)
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Maybe they use him in that role.
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They may end up near $80M by year's end, but yes. I suppose, exceptions could be made for winning teams, like if you finish bottom 10, 3 years in a row, you have to spend to the floor..
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These guys just keep getting recycled... like Diekman. Maybe they see something that can be "fixed."
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Wouldn't we have to remove "dead money" from all teams to get an accurate read on that adjusted ranking?
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We agree on something! People complain about how the big spending teams make it hard for low-budget teams, but rarely do we hear about how cheap owners are making a killing on profits and just don't want to spend more.
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No. ( Maybe, if they initiated a solid floor at over $80M to start with.) Do you think the NHL should remove their ceiling?
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It was MLB who screwed Finley over. Now, GMs can buy and sell contracts at will.
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Maybe, because of Yankee crybabying?
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Like all the times all we heard was "20-something rings, Moe-Foe!"
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You need young studs, first. We did lock up Whitlock- not 15 years, but still.. Who do we have, now? Houck? Bello?
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I'm not looking to dump Story's salary. I still think he might earn it. He's athletic and a top defender. I fully admit, I'm biased towards players like him and Kike. Up the middle D- BABY! Old school on this one!
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From the mid 70's to the early 2000's, I often said to fellow Sox fans, "Ill take 10 last place finishes for just one ring!" Now, I am spoiled.
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Yup. Here are his yearly PAs per season since his year two: 639 716 705 682 681 507 608 600 In 2020, he played in 53 of 60 games (241 PAs, which would have placed him 2nd on the Sox in 2020 PAs)
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No. Nothing wrong. I'm talking about trading prospects for the next Pedro, Schill, Beckett..., but first we need a solid farm, but whenever Bloom tries to trade to build up the farm, he gets knocked down for doing so.
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All those guys we traded for were for prospects only. We did get a ML'er in the Betts deal. We got one on the Ottavino, Beni, Diekman,Workman/Hembree and Renfroe deals. Maybe prospects would have been better. LOL!
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The pen did pretty good when we had Houck, Whitlock and Schreiber all with defined roles and in the pen, at the same time. We still needed a couple more dependable guys, but Strahm got hurt and nobody else stepped it up. I agree, we need fixing and a new approach.
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There is no fix. This is about next year's hopes.
