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  1. moonslav59
    No doubt. My position is Devers forevers. If we can only keep one, it's a no-brainer, for me. If we can find a way to keep both, I'm thinking of a position change or two, and that just gets too complicated. I guess I'm at the point where I'm thinking we should look to trade Bogey but not hand him away.
  2. moonslav59
    Betts had one year left at $27M. Yes, maybe the Dodgers were one of just a couple of handfuls of teams that would take on that contract, but he was more than worth that contract as Bogey is more than worth $20M/1. Was Verdugo, Downs and Wong worth what Betts is worth? No, but for 1 year, yes. Will we get anything near that for Bogey? No, but we'll get more than the value of a sandwich pick. Do you really think we won't of can't get more than that for Bogey? Are there 10 teams that would trade for Bogey? I'd say no, unless we take some salary back, but I do think there would be more than one team bidding up the return value to get him. A team might also think, like they can extend him, like the Dodgers did with Betts. I'm not saying we should just trade Bogey for the best offer, if the offer wasn't better than a comp pick. I would think it should be much better. Yes, it's only 1 year, but one year of Bogey is worth a hell ofa lot more than whole careers of most prospects drafted after the first round.
  3. moonslav59
    Gotta be.
  4. moonslav59
    Much more than the value of a sandwich pick. Several teams are losing their stud SS, this winter. $20M for Bogey is a nice contract for many teams who can pay it. Look, many hated the Betts trade, and we won't get anything near that return, but we should get more than the value of a draft choice. We could then sign Baez for $10M a year less than Bogey will make and have a SS and whatever we get for Bogey plus budget space going forward. How much is that worth?
  5. moonslav59
    I see the situations as being very similar, but the scale of value is less. Bogey has a lot of value, but it's not that of Betts after 2019. Do we really risk getting just a QO pick in hopes we can outbid and overpay Bogey for 6+ years, minimum? I really think we extend him or trade him- maybe at the deadline, which would do him a favor with the loss of the comp pick.
  6. moonslav59
    I doubt he's traded, too, but getting just a QO pick would be so much worse than the Betts deal. If we extend him, I hope it's to play 2B or 3B for the majority of the deal. The guy can flat out hit. Look what he did, this year playing with a bum wrist for much of it.
  7. moonslav59
    I'm not sure he's over-rated, because I've never heard him called great. Yes, the guy played well, when he played, but he's never played more than 137 games and only over 123 twice. 3 seasons at 89+ games. 4 seasons over 81 games.
  8. moonslav59
    Current GMs are often discussed? Who knew?
  9. moonslav59
    BTV accepted this one: Bogey to HOU Urquidy & Downs to OAK Andrus, Montas & Trivino to BOS
  10. moonslav59
    You did when he was the active GM. (lol)
  11. moonslav59
    Cots has the Pirates with no guaranteed contracts above min wage, right now. They have 11 arbs with the highest estimate being about $4.3M for Reynolds. (He may be traded, this winter.) They have 3 players who are on their last arbs (Kuhl $3.1M est, Gamel $2.5, and Shreve $2.5M) OAK will likely try to dump Andrus and his $15M deal. (Maybe the Sox could trade Bogey somewhere else for a pitcher, then take on Andrus, so we could gte Montas and Trivino for much cheaper returns. Piscotty makes $7.25M in 2022 with an option for 2023. They have 10 arbs with Olsen, Chapman and Manaea making close to $10M est. Bassit $8.5 Montas $5.3 (one more arb for '23) Laureano & Pinder $3M Trivon $2.8M Kemp $2.5
  12. moonslav59
    They should have moved decades ago. How long will they wait this out?
  13. moonslav59
    Indeed. This is the way baseball is. I just don't understand why they don't move to Sacramento.
  14. moonslav59
    Nobody was even bashing DD.
  15. moonslav59
    Okay- third or 4th highest. Still, in context, having your closer be a top 4 salary is a bit strange. right?
  16. moonslav59
    He'd be the highest paid player.
  17. moonslav59
    I did not say over-paid. I said costly. I never said anything of a problem. I'm not sure why you added names that are not DD's, either. The point was DD's players have a large share of the budget. They do. It's not a problem, IMO, except for Price. (One could say most of the "dead money" is DD's.)
  18. moonslav59
    It doesn't make sense to me, either. Maybe they get rid of many of those names plus Trivino. Maybe they think Olsen brings fans in, but Trivino will not. BTW, Montas is due a nice arb raise. That's the guy I want. He has 2 years of control- not 1 like Bassit and Manaea.
  19. moonslav59
    They are looking to cut salary. It does seem like Trivino's is no a whole lot, but their tradition is to keep finding min wage closers.
  20. moonslav59
    Dead or not, other DD players are costly. Some drop off the rolls after 2022.
  21. moonslav59
    There aren't many non crapshoot RP'ers. SP'ers seem like less crapshoots, and 4-6 innings is more than most RP'er give.
  22. moonslav59
    He has better numbers than Eovaldi did.
  23. moonslav59
    It's going to be 60% Bloom's team by opening day.
  24. moonslav59
    The same line-up includes Schwarber.
  25. moonslav59
    November 20th is the Rule 5 date for protecting players from the draft in December. Here is the complete list of eligible Rule 5 players in the Sox system: (Current soxprospects.com ranking) Brayan Bello (6) Kole Cottam (59) Kutter Crawford (26) Jeter Downs (5) Durbin Feltman (34) Victor Santos (31) Josh Winckowski (14) Cole Brannen Franchy Cordero Tyler Dearden Tyler Esplin Frank German Devlin Granberg Kyle Hart Gilberto Jimenez (7) Kaleb Ort Yusniel Padron-Artiles AJ Politi Tyreque Reed John Schreiber Thaddeus Ward (19) Marco Cardoso Pedro Castellanos Felix Cepeda Ricardo Cubillan Osvaldo De La Rosa Jonathan Diaz Ryan Fernandez Ryan Fitzgerald Antoni Flores Rio Gomez Geoff Hartlieb Zack Kelly Dominic LoBrutto Bryan Lucas Charlie Madden Elih Marrero Joan Martinez Alexander Montero Oddanier Mosqueda Brendan Nail Aaron Perry Ceddanne Rafaela Oscar Rangel Jesus Rosillo Roniel Raudes Yasel Santana Zach Schellinger Gregori Segovia Chase Shugart Caleb Simpson Miguel Suero Jake Thompson Grant Williams
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