moonslav59

How we let the clunker Marwin get 271 PAs is beyond me.

...and then we add Marwin, Cordero, Richards, Perez and Andriese. Maybe Matz, Duffy and Iggy will be just like them. Maybe we can say we replaced them with Kike, Renfroe & Whitlock.

On the offensive side, we will be replacing these PAs: 271 Marwin (.567 OPS) 168 Schwarber (.957) 136 Cordero (.497) 127 Santana (.597) 82 Chavis (.549) 75 Arauz (.643) 64 Iggy (.915) 48 Shaw (.843) 30+ scrubs like Lopez, Munoz & Motter. Overall, we are losing some very bad numbers that far outweigh the 3 in red.

Wait to judge until after we sign someone.

IP Replacing: 158 ERod (4.74 ERA) 137 Richards (4.87) 114 Perez (4.74) 62 Ottavino (4.21) 37 Andriese (6.03) 50+ Scrrubs like Workman, Brice, Robles, Rios, Weber, Peacock & Feliz As you can see Richards, Perez, Ottavino and Andriese total 350 IP to ERod's 158. Yes, ERod will be very difficult to replace. I'd rather have Jon Gray than Matz, but if we get Matz & Duffy (+ Graveman?), they might make up for losing ERod plus the others.

Yes, but it's not like Richards and Perez pitched zero innings, this year.

Whitlock replaces ERod Graveman replaces Whitlock (in the pen) Jon Gray or Matz replaces Richards Duffy replaces Perez Iggy replaces Marwin/Santana

I was only responding to what we might do, if we limit our spending.

When you compare them to ERod, yes, but don't forget Iggy > Marwin and Matz/Graveman > Richards/Perez/Andriese. It's kind of a close call.

Maybe Duffy is flying under the radar. Maybe we sign both.

Matz, Graveman and Iggy.

Biggest differentials between BA & BAbip by Sox players: 118 Cordero 103 Duran 76 Dalbec 73 Schwarber 63 Arroyo 54 JD 43 Vaz 41 Plawecki 38 Bogey & Verdugo 28 Devers & Kike 25 Renfroe Pitchers 109 Taylor 101 Barnes 96 Houck 89 Sale 88 ERod 81 Ottavino 77 DHern 74 Eovaldi & Whitlock 70 Andriese 56 Pivetta 53 Sawamura 47 Richards 45 Valdez 43 Perez

I trust Bloom to know who is good, despite his whiffs on Richards and Perez (and Andriese.)

Better protect him, today!!!!

It seemed like you were warning of the dangers of singing Semien by using the Cano example. I guess I misinterpreted your intentions. My bad. BTW, Steamer projects Semien to have his 3rd best career fWAR of 4.5.

Being pantless was his money-maker!

Currently, cots has us at an estimated $181M, including the player benefits and Price's $16M. If they lower the first tax line to $180M, we're already over, unless we sign nobody and let an arb player go. If we project getting to where last year's tax line was, we'd have about $30M to spend. If we plan on going over the first line but not the second (under the current rules), we'd have just under $50M to spend. Not knowing what the spending budget will be, makes it hard to try and guess who we might sign, and Bloom might be waiting to know the new system before signing any big names. Going by MLBTR's estimates on AAV contract costs, who would you suggest the Sox sign at these specific budgets? https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/11/top-50-mlb-free-agent-rankings.html $20M $40M $60M Without looking real hard at it, here's what I come up with off the top of my head: $20M 9 x 3 S Matz 8 x 2 A Cobb 3 x 3 Iggy $40M 14 x 4 Jon Gray 14 x 3 DeSclafini 9 x 3 Graveman 3 x 2 Iggy $60M 40 x 3 Scherzer 9 x 3 Graveman 7 x 2 Villar or 20 x 5 Baez 15 x 1 Greinke 14 x 4 J Gray 9 x 3 Graveman I know I could do better with time, but I just wanted to get some others to give their suggestions at each level.

Because he has 2 years, and they can "spread it out" by trading him next winter or at the deadline.

Promise? (LOL)

I love seeing the Yanks overpay on aging free agents. Most backfire!

There are other options- better ones, and they can afford an upgrade.

Yes, get it done on Jon Gray. (I wanted us to trade for him at the deadline, too.)

They have so many that fit our needs that they could keep 80% and we could still get 2 helpful players. I'd focus on Montas & Trivino. Bassit & Manaea are one year guys. Less costly but less useful.

I think Kershaw will not sign with the Dodgers. I agree on the rest.

Here are the 6 I think the Sox will be looking at: Matz Taylor (Villar/ C Hernandez) Jon Gray DeSclafani A Cobb H Neris Here are the 6 I hope they look more closely at: Baez Scherzer J Gray Graveman Iggy Y Giomes (trade Vaz)