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My guess is, it's not pro-rated, so basically, if you divide $45M by 2.3, it comes to about the QO offer per year but times 3. How long will it take Kimbrel to get to close a game?

Playing for losing teams is not easy. It sucks.

I get this, but the extra 30-35 PAs the 3 hitter gets over the 5 hitter seemingly would outweigh this, and if the 3 guys also gets on base a lot more than the 5 guys, he will set the table for the next guys to get more rbis. Maybe part of the reason the #5 gets more rbi opportunities is because you put a great hitter up before him (in the 3 slot). I'm not discounting the studies, but those 30 or so extra PAs help more than just for rbis.

He's back over .600, and the 3 rbis help that previous number look not so horrendous.

lmao!

Chris Freakin' Sale!

Vladdy hammers Britton, and the Yanks lose! Come on Sox- keep the roll going!

An interesting stat tidbit: OPS last 14 Days: 1.026 Nunez .929 Holt .499 Chavis OPS last 28 Days: .929 Holt .727 Nunez .685 Chavis

Sox OPS last 28 Days: 65+ PAs unless noted 1.130 Bogey 1.024 JD .995 Devers .993 Moreland (45 PAs) .929 Holt (21) .877 JBJ .790 Pearce (39) .790 Vaz .767 Leon (31) .743 Betts .727 Nunez (41) .697 Beni .685 Chavis

Both are common to many players. It just gets stuck with JBJ for weeks and weeks before he can pull himself out of it. He's done well over the last 3 weeks, so let's hoe that's the JBJ we'll see for the rest of the year.

That's maybe the biggest change from the old view. We went from one of the weakest up 2nd to one of the best in just a few years.

I like your line-up, too.

He was god awful until May 20th but has done well since.

Kepping him, winning another ring, and then getting a comp pick after offering him a 1 year deal might not be bad.

I don't disagree, but sometimes I think it is overblown. Some players are labelled non spot light players after a very short sample size- often very early in the player's career, and they never get a chance to prove otherwise.

Let's hope he figure it out and quickly! I'm not sue a Holt-Nunez combo can get it done, although Nunez seems to be improving.

We couldlimit it to one, if we go with Shawaryn vs TEX

Well, these lists are based primarily on promise not stats, but your point is well taken. (What about Lugo & Song cracking the top 20 withour ever even putting on a professional baseball uniform?) My top list might look like this... 1. Casas 2. Duran 3. Hernandez 4. Mata 5. Flores 6. Dalbec 7. Diaz 8. Feltman 9. Howlett 10. Chatham 11. Groome 12. Houck' 13. Decker 14. Jimenez 15. Scherff

I understand your wish, and I'm not sure any data exists to answer your questions. My guess is, you still want your best OBP guys bunched together in front of your best power guys, and the higher up in the line-up you place them, the better chance they get up 1 more time in a game. In terms of the 3 vs the 5 slot hitters, our 3rd batter got up 33 more times than our 5th hitter in 2018. That's a lot. The rest of the ABs must really be more important than we imagine for the studies to show having your better hitter 5th outweighs those extra 33 PAs. I agree, it doesn't seem to make sense, and again, the difference the studies show apparently are very slight, but I trust the studies know what they are doing, and the results are valid. Maybe, I trust science more than I should. Maybe future studies will show a difference, but as far as I know, not one study shows otherwise. BTW, it's not like our 5th best hitter sucks as a 3rd batter in the line-up. Our best 2 hitters are Betts and JD with Devers and Bogey challenging this year. That leaves Beni (who is slumping now) or the Moreland-Pearce platoon as the philosophy's recommended 3 slot batter. I'm fine with that, but I agree that it looks better with them up 5th (old school thinking). Before all these studies came out, I'd have advocated for this... 1. Betts 2. Bogey 3. JD 4. Devers 5. Beni v R/Pearce v L 6. Moreland v R/Beni v L 7. Chavis 8. Vaz 9. JBJ I'd still be okay with this, as the slight advantages lost may be close to negligible.

Next 16 games in 15 days: KCR Sale KCR Porcello TBR Price TBR Weber/ TBR(2) Shawaryn TBR ERod TEX Sale TEX Porcello TEX Price TEX Weber or Shawaryn @BAL ERod @BAL Sale @BAL Porcello @MN Price @MN Eovaldi ? @MN ERod OFF DAY Then, home for TOR (3), CWS (3), NYY (2)

2nd Day Draft 4. Red Sox remain opportunistic Speaking of American League East teams drafting potential values, the Red Sox entered the draft with modest expectations. After all, Boston had just two picks in the top 100, and none in the top 40.Yet the Red Sox exited day two having selected five of MLB.com's top-150 draftees. Brian Sakowski @B_Sakowski_PG Red Sox making the move here for Noah Song, drafting aggressively. First round talent with FB into upper-90's and plus breaking ball, military commitment coming from the Naval Academy kinda clouded the sign-ability. Still, big upside play for the Red Sox here 16 1:29 PM - Jun 4, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy See Brian Sakowski's other Tweets Those five are Cameron Cannon, Matthew Lugo, Ryan Zeferjahn, Noah Song, and Jaxx Groshans. Four of those five players -- Lugo (38), Song (68), Cannon (79), and Zeferjahn (84) -- were ranked in the top 100. Pre-draft rankings mean only so much and blah blah blah, but that's a healthy 2:1 ratio in terms of top 100 prospects versus top 100 picks. The Red Sox will take it.

Will any of these draftees break into the top 20 Sox prospect list? Here's soxprospect.com's top 15 1. Casas 2. Dalbec 3. Duran 4. Hernandez 5. Groome 6. Chatham 7. Houck 8. A Flores 9. Mata 10. Feltman 11. Howlett 12. Decker 13. Shawaryn 14. Scherff 15. D Diaz

Sounds good!

Maybe. and a 2 batter limit, if they get on base.

I'm not sure about messing with his 1 inning routine. I think he's only gone more than 1 inning once this year. I'd probably go with Barnes, but I won't criticize Cora for bringing back Workman.