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  1. moonslav59
    True, and as long as Cashman is at the helm, the Sox need not worry, too much, no matter how much they spend and spend.
  2. moonslav59
    The kid is 24. We should try to get him to age 31.
  3. moonslav59
    Maybe a dreaded opt out after 5 or 6 years.
  4. moonslav59
    Agreed, but do we want to taunt Correa? Houston's most "clutch hitter?" (Not that clutch is repeatable.)
  5. moonslav59
    This proves the problem is Cashman.
  6. moonslav59
    He's nearly ML ready. True, he could explode, next year and see his value rise, but he may not. I only mentioned Casas, because we have Dalbec and may bring Scwarber back. Maybe Dalbec can play OF, but we have the OF locked up for 2022, too. (Kike is a FA after 2022.) Downs and Duran might have lower trade value, right now. Dalbec is not going to get us a quality young arm by himself.
  7. moonslav59
    Sounds about right. At his age, I might go $210/9.
  8. moonslav59
    I think they got blinded by Pablo's playoff heroics. I do wonder how much Ben was involved in the final decisions. My guess is he was okay with all those moves. I think the Castillo move was more forgivable.
  9. moonslav59
    I do think a trade makes more sense. As you know, I'm not high on Stroman for what I think he'll get. I'd be willing to trading Casas or Dalbec plus Downs, even with his stock lowered or Duran for the right young pitcher. (I'd want 3 years of team control or an extension as part of a deal. I guess 2 years would be okay for Dalbec and Downs.)
  10. moonslav59
    I'm not even close to expecting anything good from Sale, this season.
  11. moonslav59
    When they announced HRam, I thought, "Great, we have a 3Bman!" Then Pablo...
  12. moonslav59
    If he turns it down, we can sign him as a FA or pocket the draft pick and sign someone else with that $18.6M plus maybe more $$$.
  13. moonslav59
    Good point. I'd still rather have a guy like Greinke at $14-16M than the 2021 Richards and Perez at $16M combined.
  14. moonslav59
    There is no disagreement over what is going on, now. We both know he is sucking, badly. I was just bringing up the odd fact that he seems to be K'ing more people, the worse he gets. I expect he recovers, next season, but maybe not fully in April.
  15. moonslav59
    That's why he was let go, IMO. While I wanted to see him get one more year, with an expected bigger budget, with that FA signing track record, I can see why they went with a proven good big spender in DD.
  16. moonslav59
    Short term deal might make him enticing.
  17. moonslav59
    Agreed. I guess the real question is who are the top set-up men? Houck Robles Brasier Taylor A while ago, I did a "confidence chart" on our staff that was highly influenced by the recency bias. Here is my updated list: Listed in order of most confidence... Very High Confidence Eovaldi Whitlcok High Confidence ERod Houck Pivetta Moderate Confidence Taylor Robles Ottavino Brasier Low Confidence Sale Sawamura Very Low Confidence DHern Perez Off the Roster Davis Barnes Richards
  18. moonslav59
    Think about this for a long time: .365 BAbip. Had it been near .290 to .300, we'd be talking about extending him at $25M x 4+ years. (OK, maybe I'm exaggerating.)
  19. moonslav59
    True, and look what he did his last 17 starts: 8-4 3.60 (3.03 FIP) with a crappy D that led to a .348 BAbip Playoffs: 4.97 ERA (0.95 WHIP) and 4th in IP at 12.2 in MLB playoffs 2021.
  20. moonslav59
    I'm not sure they were all in on so many farm moves, but not enough to stop him. DD filled the need we had for that time and place. Bloom is the guy we needed after DD.
  21. moonslav59
    The Astros had scored 5+ runs in 9 straight games, until ERod and our scrub RP'ers kept them to 3 runs- basically on one bad pitch.
  22. moonslav59
    It was meant as a counter argument.
  23. moonslav59
    I liked ERod mocking Correa, too- at the time, but when I saw Cora saying, "No, no, no." then hugging him and talking in his ear, I knew what he was saying, and he's right. No need to pump up Carlos. Cora is the man! He's in total control, and he's got this team right where they need to be at the exact right time. Locked and hyper focused. Hell, they are even fielding better! (It was hard for me to say that!)
  24. moonslav59
    GMs love one year deals. The risk is minimized. Also, ERod has a lot of incentive to have a career year on a QO season.
  25. moonslav59
    Devers outhit JD and Boegy and is still pre-prime, yet you don't list him as a "good bat." Hmmm.... Devers forevers. Lock him up- long term.
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