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Top FAs Remaining (as ranked by MLBTR) 11. Jake Odorizzi 21. Jackie Bradley Jr. 23. Taijuan Walker 27. Trevor Rosenthal 46. Rick Porcello 47. Cole Hamels Honorable Mentions: Brett Gardner, Shane Greene & Jeremy Jeffress Could Bloom have done better by waiting to score some of these guys at rock bottom discount rates, or will these guys sign soon for reasonable prices?
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Thanks. That makes more sense, why he's #14 on our list. I still think TBR they could have gotten Mazza & Springs for nothing.
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Bloom's farm building: (soxprospects.com's rankings) 2. Downs (with Verdugo & Wong in Betts trade) 9. Seabold (with Pivetta in Workman/Hembree trade) 13. Yorke (2020 draft) 14. Hernandez (Mazza/Springs trade) 16. Rosario (Moreland trade) 18. Potts (Moreland trade) 20. Jordan (2020 draft) 21. Wong (Betts trade) 24. Wallace (Pillar trade) 26. Araus (Rule 5 2019) 28. German (with Ottavino trade) 32. Whitlock (Rule 5 2020) 33. Winckowski (with Cordero & 3 PTBNL in Beni + cash trade) 35. Drohan (Draft 2020) 39. Koss (Aybar trade) 41. Bleis (IFA 2020) 2 PTBNL from KC (Beni) 1 PTBNL from NYM (Beni>K Lee) ML Roster Additions Still on the 40 Man Roster (non prospects): Verdugo (Betts trade) Richards (FA) Hernandez (FA) Renfroe (FA) Ottavino (Trade) Pivetta (Workman/Hembree trade) Cordero (Beni Trade) Perez (FA) Sawamuta (FA) Arroyo (Waivers) Plawecki (FA) Valdez (Waivers) Brice (Santos trade)
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MLBTR... The Red Sox were among the teams in attendance for free-agent righty Chaz Roe’s bullpen session over the weekend, Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com tweets. The 34-year-old reliever spent the previous three-plus seasons in Tampa Bay and is familiar with Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom, who used to be a Rays executive. Roe threw only 9 1/3 innings in 2020, but he was overall a solid bullpen option as a member of the Rays, with whom he pitched to a 3.54 ERA/3.73 SIERA in 119 1/3 frames.
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Me, too, and I bet some services have it that way. Fabian might be a good get, too. Please, no HS kid.
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Sogard misses the top 60. Didn't someone say Hernandez was top 10 on the Rays list?
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I never count the Rays out, but on paper, but they took a big hit. The Jays improved but still lack pitching. The Yanks appeared to have stayed about even. The O's went from bad to worse. The Sox got significantly better but starting from last place makes it hard to determine where we end up.
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The deal makes. Very little sense, but it shows how GMs view players and prospects much differently than others. Maybe TB sees something in these two- maybe an adjustment here or there that will turn them into their next gems. I don’t see it, but I’m half blind.
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The Rays always surprise but when you compare player to player. We look better, even figuring for injuries. No Snell, Morton or Chirinos. It will be close.
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To get anyone for those two scrubs is a steal! With Vaz only having 2 years of team control left, boosting the catcher depth chart can’t hurt, although this kid will not be ready in 2 years- if ever.
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ALE wins 97 Yankees 88 Jays 85 Sox 84 Rays 52 O’s We lost power again- maybe rolling blackouts. Water is back.
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Well, Vaz is not a great hitter, but he is one of the greatest hitting catchers, today. He's had 2 very good years a decent one, for a catcher, out of the last 4 seasons: .801 in '20 .798 in '19 .735 in '17 I didn't comment on the pitching, because there was nothing to add. edit: I didn't notice you comment on Verdugo.
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Verdugo is just 24 and has this line in his last 163 games (2019+2020): .300/.351/.476/.827 Hardly ordinary and on the upswing of his career. Vaz is one of baseball's best hitting catchers. He has 30 HRs and a .798 OPS in his last 655 ABs (2019+2020) Not really ordinary. Dalbec has yet to prove himself. I agree our defense sucks, but Verdugo is a plus OF'er and EHern has very good numbers in CF. Too bad, he may not play there much. My guess is Dalbec will end up a plus at 1B in 2021. I'm not a big fan of Vaz behind the plate.
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Weird how we were 10th oldest with only Brasier at age 32 and everyone else at 31 or younger. We used 30 pitchers in a 60 game season. 1 @ 32 (Brasier) 6 @ 31 (only Walden remains and may not pitch in MLB, this year) 5 @ 30 (only Eovaldi & Barnes remain)
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Bloom barely spent anything, last winter. He spent much more, this winter, but he had so many holes in the 40 man roster that spending large and long on one guy would have meant leaving a few slots for guys like Springs, Payamps and Mazza. Plus, IMO, Bauer, Springer and Realmutto were not the blue chippers you go all out to get. Maybe none are available, next winter either, and I know you are not for just spending on the best available just for the sake of spending and getting a little better at the expense of the future. Look at all the slots Bloom filled this winter with a relatively small spending budget: Richards Ottavino E Hernandez Renfroe Gonzalez Andriese Cordero Sawamura Whitlock Non 40 man: F German J Winckowski C Koss 3 PTBNL (from KCR & NYM) Last summer: Pivetta Seabold Potts Rosario non 40 man: Wallace We can haggle over any one move or small group of moves, but with all the slots needed filling, with the spending budget given, I'm not sure we could have done all that much better. Had we signed Odorizzi ($13M x 3) and JBJ ($9M x 2) and had to offset those signings elsewhere, we'd be left with several holes unfilled.
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Free agency is not the only way to spend money. If ERod looks healthy, extending him is one way to spend rather large and somewhat long. As for FAs: Some are old- some are better than Bauer and much better than Odorizzi: Syndergaard Kershaw Scherzer Verlander Greinke Lynn, McCullers RP: K Jansen Familia Knebel A Bradley R Iglesias Non pitchers: OF: Conforto, Pham, S Marte 1B: F Freeman, A Rizzo SS: Lindor, Correa
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what's left.... if any moves at all?
moonslav59 replied to Noles_1335's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
He's not worth $8M/1, so why pay it? Pillar at $5M would have been better and cheaper. I still think RP'er or 2B are the only two slots worth filling while staying under the tax line by $1-2M. -
I could see that as making sense but not for JBJ. I guess with JBJ or Odorizzi, if we sucked at the deadline, we could make enough trades to get back under.
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True, I wouldn't say we are young, but we have very few old players and none way beyond prime. Ottavino is 35 and is a FA after this year. JD is 33- not far from prime. Brasier is 33 and not a key piece to the team. Richards is 32 with low mileage and an option year in 2022. Sale is just 31 with high mileage. Andriese is 31- not a key piece. Eovaldi is 30 and has 2 years left. Barnes is 30- last year of control. Vaz is 30 and has an option for 2022. EHern, Perez, Plawecki & Valdez are 29. Renfroe & Bogey are 28. ERod, Taylor & Pivetta 27 Dalbec, Chavis, Arroyo & Cordero are 26. Verdugo, Devers, DHern,Whitlock & Houck are 24. No major pieces to the 2021 team are under 24.
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I agree. I'm not expecting much more than a mild run at the wild card slot, but we could do much better than that (or a bit worse). There is a lot to watch with many subplots. Getting to see some prospects later in the year could be exciting, too. I'm thinking Devers, Verdugo and Bogey could have career years in 2021. Maybe just one or two do, but I'm guessing at least one does. Dalbec could compete for ROY. EHern will be fun to watch. Renfroe, Cordero, Vaz and others all can do well. Our pitching looks questionable in many areas but there is a lot of chances for good to very good years from 6-8 pitchers and decenct years from another 4-6 pitchers. Our defense is the only area where we look to be not only worse from last year but as bad as we've been in a long time. I don't need to see 94 wins to enjoy watching, and in some ways, it might have been harder to watch a high expectation team like the 2019 team win 84 games, than this team win 81. It makes it easier, for me, knowing that the future is brighter. The future did not look brighter in 2019.
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I guess $204M is not enough for many fans.
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what's left.... if any moves at all?
moonslav59 replied to Noles_1335's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
He's 36 and played 160 or 175 innings in CF, last year and 647 0f 879 in 2019 in CF. 34 OF'er had 600+ innings in CF since 2019. Dyson placed 13th with a UZR/150 of +3.5 (JBJ was at +0.1) and 15rh in DRS at 3. 25 CF'ers had 800+ innings. Dyson placed 10th in UZR/150 and 12th in DRS (same as JBJ). -
Maybe we should have worried more if he had projected 86 wins.
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According to BTV, Lee has a value of 9.3. They already gave is Winckowski (0.3) and this what they have that comes closest: 13.2 Vientos 3B 4.9 Ginn RHP 4.5 Ramirez OF 2.6 Dominguez RHP I'm no expert on prospects, but it seems like maybe we should have just kept Lee. Cordero has a 3.5 value. Beni is 4.6 (-2.8M paid)=1.8. The return might equal near 1.7. Here is what KC might offer (2 players): 4.8 Melendez C 4.1 Bowlan RHP 3.2 Pratto 1B 2.6 Marsh RHP 2.6 Hernandez RHP 2.3 Fox SS 2.0 Candelario SS 1.8 Matias OF & Hicklen OF 1.7 Hernandez RHP 1.6 McConnell SS, Massey 2B, Gentry OF & Collins OF 1.4 Hernandez C, Guzman SS, Florentino SS 1.3 Rave OF 1.2 Garcia SS 1.1 Murdock RHP, Haake RHP & Bolanos RHP many at 1,0 and under
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This is not a bad core of young and prime players: (3 or more years of team control) 27 Bogaerts (opt out) 23 Devers 24 Verdugo 31 Sale 23 DHern 24 Houck 25 Dalbec 27 Pivetta 25 Cordero Casas, Downs, Mata, Duran, Jimenez, Ward, Seabold, Ramirez, Song, Groome, Yorke, Lugo, Potts, Rosario, Jordan...
