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  1. moonslav59
    The "cap" only applies to about 4-8 teams each year.
  2. moonslav59
    Well, if the Myers deal gets done, it apparently included Quantril, so we'd have our 4/5th starter.
  3. moonslav59
    I disagree. No way would we pay the tax, if he was just going to be our 4th OF'er. He might have been good enough to be a role player in MLB, but the tax issue may have prevented him for that.
  4. moonslav59
    I don't "feel sorry" for Rusney. I firmly believe he was not good enough to be anything more than a 4th OF'er, but it does seem unfair that some stupid rule prevented him for even getting a chance to do that. He's making $72M, so no sympathy here.
  5. moonslav59
    If the offer was $300M/10, it would have been insanely unreasonable for Mookie to accept, as is.
  6. moonslav59
    I'd love to see Sale, Eovaldi and ERod all get 180+ IP, this year. (That will likely not be enough, though.)
  7. moonslav59
    I agree. I will say that had the Sox been able to call him up without being taxed, I doubt he'd done well enough to prove he belongs in the bigs. That being said, he deserved a chance. By the time he gets his next chance, he'll be post-prime.
  8. moonslav59
    I never thought I'd see teams sold for what they are being sold for, but you hardly hear any complaining about that.
  9. moonslav59
    I think we can safely say the Sox SP'ers are no more injury prone than Yankee SP'ers.
  10. moonslav59
    Must be little to talk about, if Castillo is back on the front burner.
  11. moonslav59
    Well said. I got real choked up a couple time times during my eulogy.
  12. moonslav59
    Just got back from my best buddies funeral in Maine. Over 265 attended! Wow, spring training games have started. I have some catching up to do.
  13. moonslav59
    He looks like the type of player worthy of a shot, but I trust our evaluation people.
  14. moonslav59
    We also traded Schilling, Cecil Cooper, and many more prospects and young players that went on to greatness.
  15. moonslav59
    I think the year before we got Nunez and Reed in July. We didn’t win a ring, but they were good pick-ups.
  16. moonslav59
    Marrero is on the list.
  17. moonslav59
    That seems to be a reasonable position. Keeping a balance is probably the best way to go.
  18. moonslav59
    There hasn't been enough time for most prospects traded away to prove anything. Some, like Guerra, have proven to be vastly over-rated, but some still show a lot of promise. One has "proven" he belongs, but it's still too early to judge: Yoan Moncada hit .915 last year at age 24. Here's a list of all the prospects traded by DD and their highest ranking on soxprospects.com. (Travis Shaw was no longer a prospect when traded.) 1 Yoan Moncada 1 Blake Swihart 3 Manuel Margot 3 Anderson Espinoza 5 Michael Kopech 5 Jalen Beeks 5 Deven Marrero 6 Javier Guerra 7 Luis Ax Basabe 9 Mauricio Dubon 11 Shaun Anderson 12 Wendell Rijo 13 Logan Allen 15 Santiago Espinal 16 Ben Taylor 17 Ty Buttrey 18 Luis Aj Basabe 20 Bautista Gerson 20 Carlos Asuaje 20 Stephen Nogosek Some are already pretty much sure busts, but let's come back and revisit this list in 3-6 years.
  19. moonslav59
    I doubt it, but I'm pretty sure SD would prefer to have JBJ and pay $11M less in cash to Boston. That doesn't mean it happens. We might also trade JBJ to someone else, but with Verdugo hurt, I doubt we trade him.
  20. moonslav59
    Sandy Leon.
  21. moonslav59
    I was mostly talking about your points made last winer- before the 2019 season. He wasn't top 5 because he was out hurt? If he was healthy, he counts as top 5. Your math is funny. If a guy is really hurt on the Yanks, you don't count him as a starting 5 guy out hurt. If he's a Sox guy, he's one of our top 5 guys always out hurt.
  22. moonslav59
    Ok, I mixed up the 2/3 and 1/3 split, but 33% of $13.8 is not $3.8M. The $3.8M comes from the idea that the $10M SD pays is totally deducted from the $13.8M tax line. 33% of $13.8M is 5.6M.
  23. moonslav59
    Did you count him as one of your top 5 starters out hurt all the time? No.
  24. moonslav59
    You got that right.
  25. moonslav59
    Yes, I get it and I am looking at it that way, too. They paid most of the contract, so they should pay most of the taxes. I just don't think this way is proportional. The contract was $83M. Let's say they pay the Sox $27.7M, which is 2/3 of the total contract. In my opinion, they should pay 2/3 of the remaining tax hit, so at the end of his deal, they pay 2/3 his contract and 2/3 his taxes, since AAV is what is used to calculate the taxes. 2/3 of the $13.8 lux tax cost is about $8.6M. We'd be "on the hook" for $5.2M not $3.8M. The difference is not much, but I think it is fairer.
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