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  1. Does this mean our line-ups are wrong?
  2. It's like our staff is solely responsible for the league HR uptick over 2018.
  3. I'm pretty sure we lead the league in guys getting on base right after a solo HR.
  4. I doubt he opts out, too.
  5. I don't know where to look for this.
  6. That's not how the Sox look at things.
  7. I've seen $25.6M in other sites, too.
  8. The Sox just don't do these type of moves. I'm not saying it doesn't make sense, but I seriously doubt we trade him, unless we are out of it by the deadline.
  9. Another 5 runs allowed by our starter. This is getting ridiculous.
  10. Castillo is still owed $14M+ next year. He's "off the books" in terms of the tax budget, but Henry is still paying him. I doubt we trade Betts. Hembree will be back. Leon may be back, if he signs for less.
  11. cots has Sale at $25.6M per year over the next 4 years on their tax budget list.
  12. My guess is that we could have moved JBJ last winter, but DD did not like the offers.
  13. Offer arb and trade him.
  14. I never liked either Moreland signing. Decent 1Bmen, especially of the platoon variety, are a dime a dozen. We jumped the gun to overpay twice for his fragility. Pearce was overpaid, too. In fairness to DD, I seriously doubt any Sox fan would have been fine with the idea of having Chavis and Marco as our Right side infield starters on opening day. In looking at 2020, with an eye towards cutting the taxes we pay, I'm fine with starting out with Chavis, Marco, Dalbec, Travis, Lin and Chatham as our 1B/2B options. If we end up being competitive and need help at 1B or 2B, we can make a deal in July.
  15. Maybe the guy continuously choosing lemons needs some time in the shop.
  16. 2020 Tax Salary Budget: $Millions 31.0 Price 25.6 Sale 22.0 JD (assuming option) 20.0 Bogey 17.0 Eovaldi 13.8 Pedey 4.5 Vaz Total:$134M (7 players) Arbs: (est) 27 Betts (3rd of 3 arbs) 10 JBJ (4 of 4) 9 ERod (3 of 4) 4 Beni (1 of 3) 3 Workman (3 of 3) 3 Barnes (2 of 3) 2 Hembree (2 of 3) 1 Wright (3 of 3) 1 Hernandez (1 of 3) Total $60M (9 players) Non arbs (24 players on 40 man roster) Total: $16M 40 man roster with no FA signings: $210M +$15M player benefits= $225M Bye-bye: Porcello, Cashner, Moreland & Pearce Holt (maybe back) & Leon (unless back for near min) To get under the $208M limit, we'd have to not only avoid signing any FAs, we'd have to trade about $17M in salary. That would likely be JBJ ($10M) and maybe Eovaldi (by paying about 1/3 his salary) or getting Pedey to retire and forgo his salary (fat chance).
  17. Yes. Maybe we should re-sign him! (LOL)
  18. ...bring Farrell back! As the pitching coach!
  19. Any FA signing is a gamble that is more likely to fail than succeed. As it turned out, we needed a back-up 1Bman due to Moreland's continued fragility. As it turned out, we needed a SP'er as the only mid season move we made was for a starter. DD picked the right positions to sign, although had he known Chavis would do this well, he may not have needed a 1Bman, he just signed the wrong guys. Had he signed Morton and Matt Adams, we'd be ahead of CLE, TBR and Oak, and the pen problems would not seem so drastic.
  20. He's still the best Sox manager I have ever seen, so I think his job is safe. It's now obvious the restgate had nothing to do with Sale and Porcello imploding and Price unable to go past 80 pitches.
  21. Why trade JBJ to save the tax, only to replace the tax by calling up Castillo?
  22. More specifically, we are 10-14 when scoring 4-5 runs. We've also lost 7 games when scoring 7 or more runs (5 when scoring 8 or more). Last year, we were were 33-9 in games where we scored 4-5 runs, and we only lost 2 games when scoring 7 or more runs- both at 7 runs. The 4-5 runs scored games have killed us. Our SP'ers often let up 5 runs by themselves. Sale: 6 times allowing 5+ runs, including 4 of his last 6 GS'd (5 times with 4 runs allowed) Price: 2 times plus 4 with 4 runs allowed (3 of last 4 starts with 4 or more runs allowedZ) Porcello: 9 times with 3 at 4 runs allowed ( 6 of last 7 at 4 or more). 15 times, Porcello and Sale have left the game after allowing 5 or more runs. That's over a third of their starts. 23 times allowing 4 or more. That's over half.
  23. ...and so were the posters who said all along that even Henry had limits on spending priorities.
  24. Rusney is not an option due to the tax, and part of the idea of trading JBJ would be to save us money on the budget next season.
  25. I don't think Henry's statements are going to mean squat to these 3 pitchers.
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