Jump to content
Talk Sox
  • Create Account

moonslav59

Old-Timey Member
  • Posts

    103,926
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    128

 Content Type 

Profiles

Boston Red Sox Videos

2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking

Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker

News

2026 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by moonslav59

  1. I think a trade is how we add a SP'er.
  2. There's more evidence Clemens raped a 16 year old girl than Verdugo did, clown.
  3. How about the year they signed or re-signed 5 qualifying free agents? 2013 $155M/7 Tanaka $153M/7 Ellsbury $85M/5 McCann $45M/3 Beltran $16M/1 Kurda He-he-he... No ring! (Missed playoffs)
  4. I don't know why I took him off ignore.
  5. Funny. The guy in your foto is a saint.
  6. Downs may outperform Verdugo. I'm keeping him. Besides, our 2B depth chart sucks.
  7. Matz makes $5M and has one arb left. JBJ is owed $11M and is done after this year. A one for one deal would not fly. Maybe we pay $5-6M, but even then, I think NY says no. We'd have to add someone (Houck? Chavis?) or take on some salary (Familia is owed $11.7M x 2 and the lux tax number is $10M x 2.) Familia & Matz for JBJ would save NY $5.7M, this year and $11.7M next year. To me, that's not fair to Boston, unless Bloom expects a Familia rebound. Maybe JBJ for Matz & Familia +$5M? I'd like JBJ, Houck & Chavis for Matz, Smith and Familia and $10M.
  8. Looking at the splits (see below), Pillar will play CF vs LHPs and maybe RF/LF when Verdugo/Beni needs a rest.
  9. Assuming we want to improve the rotation without hurting the future by trading wanted/needed prospects... A. Who do we trade? B. Next question, who can we trade for that is decent and won't cost us a lot in return? My answers: A. Chavis or Dalbec? One year control player(s) like JBJ and or Workman? B. A pitcher that costs too much for his team but will not put us over the tax line. (Basically, the higher salary reduces the needed return.)
  10. Verdugo is our FT RF'er.
  11. How about JBJ & Chavis for Familia, Matz & DSmith? The trade simulator accepts the trade without Chavis! It also accepts JBJ & Chavis for just Matz and Smith, but we'd probably have to give some cash. JBJ & ____ for Danny Duffy or Ian Kennedy?
  12. Pillar splits over the last 3 years: v LHP/ v RHP .823/.681 (2019) .686/.717 (2018) .940/.628 (2017) Overall: .711 3 year UZR/150: +2.8 DRS +8 in 3686 innings JBJ .640/.787 (2019) .562/.768 (2018) .766/.713 (2017) Overall: .727 UZR/150: +4.1 DRS: +7 in 3589 innings Small 2019 sample size Puello .841/.669 (.740 overall in 147 PAs)
  13. He's owed $11M. Maybe we find a team looking to save some money and had a decent pitcher making $12-18M a year. We'd still be significantly under the lux tax, but we'd be much better with our rotation and maybe close to the same in CF with Pillar/Puello vs JBJ.
  14. It's nice that Cleveland has dealt away a lot of their best talent. Houston did not add much, although they have some nice young talent maturing. MN, TB and Oak should be good, but they are not "crazy good," and anything can happen in this great game. One key aspect to our chances is what we end up doing with the newly created budget space. I'm not sure we'll see a whole lot of moves before opening day, and maybe waiting for the deadline might work out better, anyways as not too many quality players are on the trading block, right now,
  15. It’s not about trading him for the sake of just doing something. It would be to improve the team beyond 2020 and or to free up more budget space for acquiring pitching. We have a huge whole in our staff. If trading JBJ allows to get a better pitcher than the step down value between JBJ and Pillar, then we can be better in 2020, too. If that can not be done, then we keep Jackie.
  16. No doubt. The chances he flops of never amounts to much more than a +2-3 WAR player is significant. Here's a few things I found... https://www.dodgersnation.com/dodgers-prospect-news-alex-verdugo-receives-high-ranking-from-mlb-com/2019/01/25/ Baseball Prospectus wrote this in 2018: Prospects with multiple 70-grade tools aren't especially common, particularly when one of those tools is the elusive hit. But if Verdugo's bat pans all the way out he might be that guy. His arm will certainly do its part, and judging by his demolition of PCL pitching at age 21, the stick should be favored to follow suit. It remains a mystery in this stimulated era of long-ball offense what Verdugo's power numbers might look like as a modern-day big leaguer, but he's a good enough hitter to grow into an everyday role whether the pop comes or not. He'll try to force the issue of a longer audition on a short timeline in 2018.
  17. Jake Marisnick .588 in 2016 .815 in 2017 .674 in 2018 Altuve .926 in 2016 .957 in 2017 .837 in 2018 Springer .815 in 2016 .889 in 2017 .780 in 2018 Correa .811 in 2016 .941 in 2017 .728 in 2018
  18. soxprospects.com slots Jeter Downs 2nd and Conner Wong 12th. 1. Casas 2. Downs 3. Mata 4. Groome 5. Jimenez 6. Dalbec 7. Duran 8. Houck 9. Song 10. Chatham 11. Ward 12. Wong
  19. Yes, Papi was pretty much a dead pull hitter, even when they put the shift on him. He hit 24% of balls to LF over his career. The last 4 years were under 21.4%. Spray charts... https://www.fangraphs.com/players/david-ortiz/745/spray-charts?position=DH&type=battedball
  20. As team, we hit more HRs on the road (127 to 118) Most Hrs on the road (Home) 19 Devers (13) 18 JD (18) 16 Bogey (17) 15 Vaz (8) 12 Mookie (17) 11 Moreland (8) 11 JBJ (10) 8 Chavis (10) 5 Beni (8) The biggest swings were Vaz & Devers.
  21. That and his Theo apologist rants were classic. His Crisp was a God and Jake sucked rants were annoying. I did agree with him on Manny, but that was about it.
  22. There were better offensive CF'ers who play great D than Hamilton, but I doubt anyone would feel like we were packing it in by trading JBJ, especially, if they followed it quickly with a CF'er signing. Look, JBJ has been my favorite player since even before he was a rookie, but $11M is too much.
  23. I'm not buying it. Losing JBJ was not going to lose any viewership of fan excitement, especially, if they followed it up with a signing of another great defensive CF'er.
×
×
  • Create New...