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Yes, Pom helped us win the division once. He hurt us the other two years, and he never helped us win a ring, which is what I was focusing on, although I did not say it. CK was a huge part of all 3 division wins but not the ring. We may have won the division in 2018 without him and his contract, presumably spent on someone else and the 4 prospects back from the trade or someone else had we traded them for another player. Look, I admitted it was pure speculation.
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1) I said "might." 2) I said Kimbrel OR Sale NOT Kimbrel AND Sale.
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9/15 SOX @ Phillies 1:05PM EST
moonslav59 replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Most HRs by a Sox catcher since 1970: 26 Fisk '77 26 Fisk '73 25 VTek '03 22 Fisk '72 22 VTek '05 20 Fisk '78 20 VMart '10 21 Vaz '19 18 Gedman '85 18 VTek '04 -
Really? Seriously? We couldn't have won without Thornburg, Smith, Pom? Oh wait! We did win without them all. Hell, we might have won without Sale or Kimbrel. How about Kinsler? Just having Buttrey would have helped a lot, this year.
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...and if we play everyone more next spring, and we suck in April, will that one month sample size be "proof positive" of anything at all? I'm thinking, "NO!" Just like this April was.
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MLBTR should have a separate site just for injuries. They have nothing to do with trades and trade rumors.
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I had major issues with the Kimbrel and POm trades, and it wasn't about not liking the 2 guys we got. It was about giving up too much for a top paid closer and a SP'er with a very short record of success for some very good prospects- 5 in total. That doesn't mean I wanted to keep even all those 5 prospects. I'd have preferred to trade Espi, Guerra and Margot for a low cost SP'er like Quintana than CK. We'd still have Allen and Asuage. Maybe we give MIL Asuage instead of Dubon. I realize this is totally speculative, but maybe we'd still have Allen and Dubon and a ring (or more). Maybe. Maybe not. It's okay to wonder and debate these what ifs.
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Why are you being so Obtuse? Do you really not know there can be a happy medium? There's a huge gray area between trading them all,since their only usefulness is by trading them all (or nearly all) and hoarding them all. The Sox did keep some. Some of us think we should have kept a couple more of the prospects- not a radical position. Some are fine with trading all the ones we traded but think we could have gotten more (admittedly speculative). Some wonder, if we could have still won without 1 or 2 of the trades we made. Some could care less.
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So, some are worth more by keeping them. That's three not two uses. How are you so sure the ones we traded won't be the next Betts, Bogey or Devers? That's kind of the point being made. Just because they are not them, now, does not mean that someday they will not. Also, making this point does not mean I'm never for trading prospects. I've suggested thousands of prospects trades in my lifetime.
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Sounds like you think we should have traded Betts, Bogey & Devers back when they were prospects. BTW, nobody wanted to "hoard" all our prospects, so let's not argue against a position nobody advocated.
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I wonder.... Had we given all our starters the normal ST'ing innings, which would have been maybe 5-15 more innings each, and 3 or 4 had major injuries, would the debate, today, had been about all the extra innings they got last October and why we didn't go easier on them in ST'ing and early in the 2019 season?
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Red Sox have fired GM Dave Dombrowski
moonslav59 replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
This should casuse managers to use the lefty-righty-lefty line-ups even more. -
I seem to remember 1 or 2 agreeing with that position.
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It might be harder to draft better players with the 14th pick vs the 20th, but if staying "somewhat competitive" means extending Betts, one could view that as helping us be more competitive in 2021 ans beyond. I do see the logic in thinking let's go total reset for 2020, and deal away every player not viewed as being helpful in 2021, but the bigger decision is do you expand that thinking to 2022 as well? Guys like ERod, Workman and Barnes could all be very key pieces to returning to glory in 2021, but it sort of forces a 1 year window and not a longer term plan- not that we can't extend or resign most or all of those three. My guess is JBJ and all the FAs go, even Holt. We may look to trade JD (assuming he does not opt out). Trading Price, Sale and/or Eovaldi when their stock is low doesn't seems like a good idea, despite opening up some partial future spending space. I could see trading one of them at the deadline.
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If the plan is to reset, then even non tendering JBJ and getting him to sign for $5-7M a year might still put us over the luxury tax, or it would disallow us from signing any FAs, even minor ones.
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What do I think vs what do I want are 2 different things. I want to reset. I think we will. Assuming that, JBJ goes. Leon may be back, if he takes $1M. We bring up Dalbec and maybe let Travis and Ockimey fight for a platoon role. Chatham fights for utility with Lin and Marco. Chavis is in the mix at 2B and 1B, but I'm not expecting him to get much better. (I hope I am surprised.) I like DHern's chances at improving. Maybe Houck or some other pitcher steps up, but I'm not optimistic on that front. I think we hold onto Price & Sale, at least in hopes that they raise their trade stock- at most to still be here when the rebuild is complete, if short enough. To me, the most likely big trade name is not Betts or Price, but JD. We can get more for him than Price, and he is not part of the plan for 2022-2023, maybe not even 2021, if he opts out. Keep Devers, Bogey and Betts. If the rebuild looks longer than one year, we need to consider trading Workman and players who will be FAs after 2021 (ERod- ouch =, that hurts me to say! and Barnes)
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These dates might not be exactly accurate, but here is a list of Sox prospects by the years they dropped off soxprospects.com's top 20 rankings list: 2004: Lester Youkilis 2005: B Moss Shoppach 2006: Pedroia Delcarmen 2007: Lester 2008: Ellsbury Buchholz Lowrie Masterson D Murphy 2009: Bard 2010: Reddick 2011: Iggy Doubront 2012: Middlebrooks Ranaudo 2013: Barnes 2014: Betts Bogey JBJ Vazquez Workman Swihart 2015: ERod (traded for as a prospect) Johnson Marrero 2016: Devers 2017: Beni (Moncada) 2018: Travis Beeks 2019: Chavis 2020: DHern _____
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Yes! Some clowns (or was it just one) wanted to trade him earlier this year! Our lowest paid starter. The team wins and wins and wins when he starts.
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Red Sox have fired GM Dave Dombrowski
moonslav59 replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I kinda like the idea, but it really changes the game, probably too much for my liking. Some of those long battling ABs are classic. -
I'm optimistic on DHern, but he still has to bring down the BBs. Chavis has a lot to prove, IMO. He had a great start to 2019, but really tailed off for several months. I like the big hits he got. I don't see the next Betts, Bogey, Devers or Moncada in our system. Role players are needed, but we'll need some serious help, if we're going to get back to the top quickly.
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Any? Maybe "regret" is not the right word, and I've said over and over I'm glad we won the ring and it was worth it, but let's not sugar coat that those 3 division wins and the 2018 ring came with a price. The trades we made worked for what we wanted, but we gave up a good chunk of our future to have those wonderful 3 years. We gave up some very nice young talent. Some will never amount to much, but some very likely will. To me, it's certainly okay to look back on these deals now and a few years from now and wonder "what if?"
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Nope. I stilllike the deal, but I'm very concerned.
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It's just plain short-sighted to say, "Nobody we've traded has done well, yet, so the trades are all great." We traded prospects- some far away one- for vets. Nobody expected the tardes to be even after 2-3 years.
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Really? Look deeper.
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Exactly, and many of the players in my study had another 7 WAR season at a much older age than Betts will be in the next 2-3 years.
