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  1. moonslav59
    Interesting.
  2. moonslav59
    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.
  3. moonslav59
    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
  4. moonslav59
    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
  5. moonslav59
    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
  6. moonslav59
    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.
  7. moonslav59
    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.
  8. moonslav59
    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.
  9. moonslav59
    They're on sale!
  10. moonslav59
    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.
  11. moonslav59
    I just can't imagine signing Betts without a reset and paying a 50% tax on $35-40M. If people think $38M is too much, how would $56M sound, even if just for 1-2 years?
  12. moonslav59
    Some seem to think Price at $16M x 3 is a bargain to LA. (I don't.) Trading Betts got us to reset. Trading Price set us up for a better 2021 and 2022. When we signed Price, most of us who thought the deal was needed or who liked the deal knew the last 2-3 years would be a net loss in value vs cost. I think we did well getting LA to pay $16M x 3. I expected they might pay $12-14M.
  13. moonslav59
    Yes, and does the team we have now look any worse than 2012, 2014 or 2015? (Except for the rotation?.)
  14. moonslav59
    I don't like the guy, but he would be fun to watch, and he may go all out to try and build a case for a big contract, next winter.
  15. moonslav59
    I doubt trading JBJ loses one fan or NESN viewer. If you read over the JBJ threads of years past, you'd think most would be thankful (not me).
  16. moonslav59
    Well, when two struggle vs lefties, it's nice to have a 4th OF'er who bats righty, so we can rest those two vs a lefty.
  17. moonslav59
    They have shown a willingness to change course, suddenly, but it's been a success, overall. Henry has chosen to spend large and then reset or spend less over and over. I'm not sure why so many expected him to change than M.O. and become a spendaholic every year.
  18. moonslav59
    I almost always believe women, but not when the sex was consensual and Clemens was her sugar daddy. Those are facts, BTW. The question is about when the sex started, and if you choose to believe Clemens spent 2 years grooming her and waiting until she turned 18, that's fine.
  19. moonslav59
    That's how I see it. Without a reset, we'd have had a way smaller chance at signing him than we do now, no matter how small our chances are after trading him. Plus, it seems like a minority want to pay him more than $375M/10, so we'd be losing him anyways- for nothing.
  20. moonslav59
    He took her on vacations, alone from ages 16-18. The girl was a consenting target, but it's still statutory rape, if sex happened. She even said she "can't deny" anything in the story that came out, except she said she was 16 not 15 when "it" started..
  21. moonslav59
    It's assumed JBJ gets traded.
  22. moonslav59
    I gotta think he sees something that can easily be adjusted to make him a plus. His pay does not match his history.
  23. moonslav59
    I didn't really mean to imply we need to get a 122 ERA+, but it's more about quality than quantity, to me, except that we still need more "quantity" in replacing Porcello, so really, we need both- a 180 guy with a 105 to 110 ERA+. We can afford to take on some salary, so maybe someone is out there.
  24. moonslav59
    Exactly. You don't bring a 15-18 year old girl alone with you on multiple vacations without some sort of hanky-panky. Down here, in Sugar Land, word was they stayed in one room, and he paid off people to be quiet about what they witnessed, but I can't find that in writing. At best, he was "grooming" her for sex when she became legit. He's a scumbag and always has been. I'm not getting why he's being defended so strongly.
  25. moonslav59
    Our catcher depth is really bad. I'm thinking we trade Chavis or Dalbec (I choose Chavis) with a one and done player like JBJ or Workman for an innings eater who may be a slight salary dump-type guy.
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