moonslav59
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Better put than I tried to say. Trades are made, every year. We lost a good player in Vaz, but like you said, we got better, overall. If players were hanging their heads over the Vaz loss, maybe we need bigger changes than I imagine we do.
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He's a FA, so we'll have to outbid the other teams or offer hima QO, which would probably take.
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Yes, and to add to this, the Yanks made a few high profile moves at the deadline to give the team the impression they cared. I thought thatw as supposed to motivate a team. LOL.
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Agreed. I was going to bring up the "I'm the shortstop" thing again, but I caught so much grief over it, that I chose not to do it. It did seem like Bogey stepped up his defensive game, this year, and I'm not attributing that to the Story acquisition, but his offense certainly took a hit, particularly with his power and hitting when it counted most. The whole "team leadership" thing is hard to quantify, but I do think it is real, but my point has been, recently, that if someone is to be praised as a team leader, and his team seems to be lacking focus, making mental mistakes over and over and seemingly just going through the motions, shouldn't those leadership skills be called into question just like a slumping player's offensive skills are questioned? When Vaz was traded, where were Bogey and JD taking up the slack and directing the team to stay focused and concentrate on the improvements made to the team, and the fact that the WC was still in reach? Maybe they tried their best. Who knows what was said and done. I don't trust media reporting, but teh team did lose focus. That's not only on Cora, but it's also on the clubhouse leaders, too.
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Indeed, and again, I'm not against the idea.
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True, but the late Story signing took the heat off needing a big RH'd bat. It was only the injury to our only RH'd OF bat, Kike, that exposed the weak link. Ref ended up filling in very well, after he was called up and until he got hurt, but yes, nobody saw him as a viable OF option back in March.
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I also think the plan is to have him start, next season, perhaps with no innings restrictions. I'm not against the idea, but he's been so great in the multiple inning, high leverage relief role. If Houck comes back and looks assuring as the closer, I'd be more inclined to support moving Whitlock to the rotation. As of now, I'd like to see us add a solid #1/2 type, give Wacha a QO for the #2 slot, hope Sale or Paxton are healthy (not both) for the 3 slot, and then hand the #4 slot to Pivetta. The 5 slot can be filled by the best of Crawford, Winckowski, Bello, Mata and others. (The others add depth to the farm or pen.)
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Like we have with Story- the actual RH'd bat we did sign that likely convinced Bloom that Kike was the only RH'd bat we needed in the OF to start the season off. Also, why no love (or credit) for Refsnyder?
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soxprospects says "late 2024," but I think earlier is entirely possible.
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I'm all for this plan!
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Sale wasn't even on my list. Barnes was from before DD, but Bloom extended him, so he counts as a Bloomer.
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3 out of our top 30 prospects, of which 10 are pitchers, so maybe 3 out of 20? Bleis might be plus. Casas is close to avg/plus. Wong looks good. Maybe that number is closer to 5 or 6 out of 20. I heard Enmanuel Valdez is a whiz on defense at DH.
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A couple more games like this, and it's a lock. Too bad Bloom gave Diekman the 2 year deal, not Wacha. BTW, has anyone figured out how Bloom actually got something decent in return for DFAiekman? -
Like Ort (minor league Rule 5)? LOL. (just kidding)
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Jimenez, too, but he may never sniff a ML bench. Mayer appears to be a plus.
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We hear a lot about how long we have to wait to start seeing the fruits of farm building. Here is soxprospects.com's estimated times of arrival for our top and notable prospects: 2022 3. Bello 9. Winckowski 12. Seabold 17. Wong 2023 2. Casas 6. Mata 7. Walter 11. Murphy 16. E Valdez 30. F German 2024 1. Mayer 4. Yorke 8. Rafaela 15. Ward 21. Lugo 26. W Abreu 28. Binelas 29. Jimenez 2025> 5. Bleis 10. Romero 13. Paulino 14. Anthony 18, Jordan 19. Gonzalez 20. Coffey 22. Hickey 25. Kavadas 24. Perales 27. Bonaci The list looks nicely balanced, assuming our top prospects amount to something special, and we have a lot of interesting talent becoming ML ready by the end of 2023. We also have some very talented players about to be added to the 40 for Rule 5. 10 players- should be ready by 2023 or were already called up. Plus, there is no Noah Song or RHern on this top 30 list- both might contribute, someday.
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It will be interesting to see how long Mayer takes. One guy I find interesting is Rafaela. I know he broke into the minors at 17, but the guy can field and has hit pretty well at every level- a little slow to start, but was just promoted to AA, this year- his 6th season with the Sox, counting the lost 2020 season. Gotta think he gets a ST'ing invite after he gets protected from Rule 5.
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Sounds like you know exactly what I meant.
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Who is the crappy GM who thought it was a good idea to pay Wacha $7M?
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It's gotta be... Devers Forevers!
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All some noticed was trading away 2 months of Vaz.
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I think the Sox were all set to call up Casas, but he got hurt at exactly the wrong time. Wasn't Devers called up after about 3 years in the minors?
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8/13 Yankems @ SOX 7:15PM ET
moonslav59 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
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That's assuming Renfroe ages well. Not many players do better after age 30 than before, like Dewey did. Renfroe has had 3 decent seasons and has never played over 144 games in a season, only 2 seasons over 122 games and 3 over 117 games. I think that is a huge leap of faith on Renfroe's abilities and aging composition. Even when Evans struggled, his defense and OBP made him a net plus for pretty much all of his 20 seasons in MLB. He never had a bWAR below 0.3, and for his middle 16 seasons, his lowest bWAR was 1.2. His next 2 lowests were 2.0 and 3.0!
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No doubt, that plays into it, hence the "intricacy" term used.
