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The Reds and A's seem to be the teams everyone thinks will be out to dump salary. They both have some very nice talent, some of which play positions we already have filled- like 1B and 3B, but I suppose we could trade Dalbec, casas or move Devers to 1B. Here are the salaries for 2022: Cincy $50/2 Votto (1B) $22.5M lux tax $38/2 Moustakas (2B) $16M lux tax $34/3 Suarez (3B) $9.4M lux $10.9/1 S Gray (SP) $10.9M $8M/1 Akiyama (OF) $7M Arbs: ~8M Castillo (2nd of 3) SP ~6M Winker (2nd of 3) OF ~5M Mahle (2nd of 3) P ~3M Naquin (3 of 3) RF OAK $14.3M Andrus (SS) + option $15M lux tax $7.6M Piscotty (OF) option Arbs: ~$11M M Olsen (1B) 2nd of 3 ~$10M Manaea (SP) 3 of 3 ~$10M Chapman (3B) 2 of 3 ~$8.5M Bassit (SP) 3 of 3 ~$5.5M Montas (SP) 2 of 3 ~$3M Laureano (CF) 1 of 3 ~$3M Trivino (Closer) 2 of 4
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Many of his articles are like this.
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While that may not make up for missing 100 games in the season, the Dodgers were the best team, and they won a long post season.
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While Dalbec did great the last 2 months of the season he went hitless in the playoffs (0-12). Renfroe hit very well, at the end of 2021, too, and did better than Dalbec in the playoffs. (6-20 v NYY & TBR and 1-16 v HOU) Renfroe: .936 last 42 games (175 PAs) .859 last 125 games. I like Dalbec more than Renfroe, too, but let's not cheapen what Renfroe did with the bat and arm.
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ERod rejected his QO, so we get a draft pick, if we don't sign him or lose it by signing someone else's QO FA.
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I'd really like to upgrade RF defense, but it's not easy finding someone that can offset Renfroe's bat and arm for just $7.5M. If we trade for someone, who do we give up?
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I don't take many points off. The playoffs were still the playoffs, and a the Dodgers would certainly have made the playoffs in a 162 game season, too. It is what it is. Put the asterisk, if you must, but many seasons were marred by shortened seasons and messed up planning around them. To me, they earned it, but I can understand your view.
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That 5 out of 6 stretch was tough, but going into many of those seasons, I felt pretty good about the roster. I think that makes a difference, to me, especially in terms of judging our GMs.
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Well said, and it's easy to get side-tracked or want to make a bigger push (at the expense of the future) when you feel so close, but it's also hard to sustain a highly competitive team that wins a ring, eventually.
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Scoreboard, dude.
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I think Dodger fans are still happy with their team and GM.
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The last one was wrong, for sure. We've finished in last place many times and had many disappointing seasons, like 2019, where we spent a ton and did way under expectations. The second one: we have rebuilt faster than I thought we could, so maybe they were partially right, but we are not a top tier farm, now. Henry can spend more, but he doesn't often enough.
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He was decent. He had a couple other good years but was .771 before 2018.
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I don't think Pearce had the profile to get as much as we signed him for. It wasnt a massive overpay, and it was one year, but I think the playoffs upped his pay.
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True, but it was based on a couple week sample size. We're only talking about one more year for Renfroe, too, as we can deny arb in 2023, if we want.
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What happened with several posters was that they wanted us to go all in, but denied it would have a lasting effect on future chances. "Henry can just spend more." "We just need to rebuild the farm." "There is no reason a top spending team can't contend every year."
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I think the idea is to have a sustainable winning strategy, but when you feel real close- you make a big push that won't kill the future budgets. That's the tricky part. After Theo left, he spoke of "getting away" from the sustainable plan too much. I feel Ben was trying to build to that model, but DD up-ended that approach. Bloom looks to be trying to do what Ben was doing, but he has yet to be given a fat checkbook like Theo, Ben and DD got at various times in their tenure with the Sox.
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Making definitive decisions based on one short playoff season is not a winning strategy. It's the flip on signing guys like Pearce and Pablo because the did hit quality pitching for a small sample size or two.
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When you look at our trends in spending, we are about due for a going over the line for a year or two. I'm not saying we will, but an argument can be made that 2022 is "the year" to do it. Kike, Eovaldi, JD and Bogey are one their last years. Sale should be healthy and is only going to get older. Devers and a few others are nearing peak prime years. Whitlock & Houck can be expected to give us more innings than 2021. We have a lot of ifs, and we have a few holed to fill, but does 2023 look any better? I know we have Price's deal coming off the books that winter, but we will be losing a lot of talent, or we'll have to spend very big to keep them or replace them in kind.
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Me, too. I was fine with Ben's 3 last place finishes due to ring. Yes, it sucked, but going into each year, I liked our team on paper- some more than I liked the 2013 team in March! I will say, now that we have some rings, being a consistent contender carries more weight than it did pre-ring, but I very much like winning it all every 4 to 6 or 7 years.
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Could the Sox possibly go big on 2 players and call it a done off-season? For example, could we sign Semien and Scherzer? 1. Kike CF 2. Devers 3B 3. Bogey SS (2B?) 4. Semien 2B (SS?) 5. JD DH 6. Verdugo LF 7. Renfroe RF 8. Dalbec (Casas) 1B 9. Vaz C Bench: Arroyo, Duran/Locastro, Plawecki/Wong (eventually, Casas or Downs) Scherzer, Eovaldi, Sale, Pivetta, Whitlock, Seabold Houck, Barnes, Taylor, Brasier, DHern, Sawamura, Davis/Valdez/Feltman/Bazardo/Crawford/Winckowski
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I think the answer is very individual and subjective. One can argue just having a team you feel is good enough to be a contender in April is good enough- win or lose. I admit, I’ve been spoiled by the rings from 3 GMs, and I want more, but I also like just being constant contenders, too.
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Tigers and Angels interested in ERod... https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/red-sox/mlb-rumors-eduardo-rodriguez-draws-interest-tigers-angels?b
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"He's comfortable in Boston," Boras said. "He wanted to be the best version of himself when hitting free agency." "The ownership there supported this decision and told him they're going to make every effort to make the team even more competitive, so he decided to return," Boras said. By opting in to the final year of his deal, Martinez also protected himself from potentially making less money on a qualifying offer from Boston. -Jake Levin
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Decision on Renfroe? https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/red-sox/why-hunter-renfroes-future-red-sox-looks-murky-big-raise-looming?int
