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At $18M, I assume no Kike and no Richards. It would also work with no Kike and Ottavino. No Kike, Renfroe, Marwin, Sawamura combined.

Playing with fire, all night. Richards was bound to get burned.

Our pitchers are outhitting our lead off hitters, this series.

We are going to need more runs.

Richards: the Craig Kimbrel of starters.

I wonder why Marwin is leading off.

Isn't this just what baseball needs smack in the middle of a season?

Can we maybe count on one of these guys to turn things around? Or, have they already started to, and we've hardly noticed? We may just need one. Dalbec .816 OPS in his last 10 games (3HR, 2B, 3B, 2BB) Arroyo .858 OPS in last 13 games (3HR, 2 2B, 2BB) Cordero is hitting .406 in AAA (1.290 OPS) with 5 HR, 8 2B, 1 3B in 16 games. (Still at AAA) Chavis just won Player of the Week in the Sox minors: 5 G, 19 AB, 9 H, 3 HR, 5 R, 10 RBI, 3 BB, 4 K, .474/.522/1.000 (Just called up)

"Cock-ah-roaches!"

Or, guys that led their team to a a 49-12 records up until May 1st, 2021, but the team has gone 4-5 in his last 9 starts. True, the 7.63 ERA could have caused a 2-7 record, but 7 bad starts out of 9 turns the world against you. Forget the previous 61 starts- only the last 9 count.

There is over weight as in having some fat, then there are guys like muscle bound hulks like Bonds and Judge.

I don't think GMs place value on just what you have done, lately. They know he has the upside you touched on. He has higher value, now, than many think he does. Of course, if he pitches very well for the next 6 weeks, maybe it goes up some. If we keep him, and he does better and better as he rises up the levels, then sure, his value increases, but I think it's not all that low, now. BTV is not an expert at establishing trade value, but here is how they currently value our prospects and rookies: 48.5 Casas 39.7 Duran 24.7 Downs 10.8 Jimenez 9.9 Mata 8.5 R Hernandez 7.9 Houck 6.8 Yorke 6.0 Seabold 4.3 Groome 3.8 Song 3.8 Ward (TJS) 3.3 Bello, Ramirez, Winckowski 3.0 Rosario I'd rather have Song, Bello or Winckowski than Groome, but these guys rate him more highly. Maybe some GM does, too.

CWS win in 10. Phew. Now, Go SOX! Gain a game!

Zunino just hit his 13th HR to make it 7-5.

Great News!

Another factor is how maybe the big hulky players may have used PEDs to extend their careers more often than the little guys. Should Bonds & Clemens and others be included in the study?

There are other factors, not even counting that the "sky high" value might be pushing it a bit. We have a bunch of rule 5 players, this winter and should be looking at adding at least the same amount of free agents we lose. Our 40 man roster depth has improved a lot, and although we still have a few player we can cut loose or trade, I'm thinking we'll want to trade Groome at some point, before he can show his true value.

We can find examples to support each side. One point of order would have to be what determines who is a hulk, who is "small" and who is in between. Then, what percentage of players fall in each group. Next, which group plays longer, more innings, more games per player than the others. Another thing to look at would be average WAR per player after age 33 or 35 or ___. The parameters might be arbitrary, but I'd like to see any studies that address this. Over the past 40 years, these are the top 20 games played leaders: Henderson Murray Ripken Bonds (had help) Winfield Vizquel A Beltre Pujols Yount Biggio Palmeiro Baines ARod Jeter Brett Molitar Griffey Jr. Da Evans Suzuki Dawson Looks like a pretty good mix of small, medium and large.

I think everyone would rather have Verdugo leading off than Arroyo/Kike, but that choice affects another slot, too. Devers is way better than Renfroe in the 5 slot, and Renfroe is way better than _____ in the 6 slot, and so on. The analytics show the 5 slot is way more important than the 1 slot, and the our 3 slot is really the slot to make an adjustment before addressing the 1 slot. For arguments sake, how would posters slot our 4 best hitters if these were the only slots open? 1. _____ 2. _____ 4. _____ 5. ____ I'd go... 1. Verdugo 2. Bogey 4. JD 5. Devers Swapping Devers and JD makes sense, too. Batting Devers 2nd vs RHPs might be best. The modern method would slot Renfroe 3rd, but I'm not really all that okay with that. It would keep the line-up lengthened and actually might work better than having the 4 in a row 2-3-4-5 or 1-2-3-4. Renfroe's OBP has been super-duper good, of late. .440 last 7 days .396 last 14 .407 last 28 .317 in 2021/ .293 career If we want best recent OBP up first, this could work: 1. Renfroe 2. Verdugo 3. Bogey 4. JD 5. Devers (or flip JD and Bogey)

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That's still better than Kike, and he's been around .300 the last week to month ago. Kike is getting worse. .328 in May .241 in June .255 last 28 days

You don’t play that much for a team like the Dodgers unless you earned it. Just because he was never FT at one position does not mean he’s not or cannot be a FT player. He’s had a rough start, this year. Maybe it’s the start of a decline, but maybe not.

Or any future significant signings. We’d still only have 4 good hitters, too. I’m

Arroyo’s nice OBP numbers are a small sample size. That’s the only reason I can see for not putting him there. It’s not a bad reason, really, but it were up to me, Arroyo would have been leading off since his return from the IL. BTW, Arroyo’s OBP is .261 over the last 7 days and .318 the last 14. Renfroe has had a very high OBP, lately. Maybe this is best: Vertigo Renfroe JD Bogey Devers ??? Dalbec???

I’m more old school when it comes to line-ups and was very surprised to find out the 3rd slot was the 5th most important line up slot.