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I'd like to see a reset, myself. 1) It will lessen any future penalties for going over the limit in future years. 2) It helps keep other fans from saying we outspend everyone else and should win (or "we bought a ring.") 3) We need to get some better draft picks AND do well with them.
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She's very good at getting the most out of her guests. I'd say 2.91.
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We don't need to reset to have no draft penalties. Just stay under the $40M over line.
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Sometimes players who look "meh" in the minors surprise in the majors. I do think watching them play in the bigs adds a little (not a lot) of insight. It's no biggie. Cora's already done it to a large extent.
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Pom had actually started more than 1/2 year before the trade. 22 starts in 2012 (no relief). 4 in 2013. 10 starts in 2014. 9 starts in 2015. 17 starts in 2016 before the trade.
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I wouldn't "tank," but I'd play every borderline 2020 player we can to possibly gain insights.
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I do, too. It looks better afterwards, and the ring certainly helped, although CK looked bad in the 2019 playoffs. I loved having Kimbrel. We won a ring. It's hard to say the trade was a failure, and I'm not saying that. I'm okay with overpays. The Sale trade was an overpay. The Thornburg trade as well, but it wasn't a gross overpay, although the Thornburg one looks bad, now. It's like the Price signing. We all knew we paid too much and/or for too long, but we needed an ace, and he was one of the top 3 aces to enter free agents in a pretty long window. Overpay? Yes. Still a plus signing? I think, yes. (It's looking worse now than at the time, and that's scary with so many years left.)
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I think Duran is too high. I've always liked Mata. I'd go: 1) Casas 2) Mata 3) Dalbec 4) Groome 5) Ward Big drop off here 6) Chatham (maybe wishful thinking here) 7) Jimenez 8) Houck 9) Duran 10) Fill in the blank ___________
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Red Sox have fired GM Dave Dombrowski
moonslav59 replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I don't disagree with anything here, but I'd like to add: 1) To sign the best FAs, you have to go with longer deals than you want. Otherwise, you don't get the man you really want. 2) On the prospects we traded, most have yet to reach prime or are just breaking into the majors now, so lets wait on the "what have they accomplished" part of the judgment. 3) For many of us, it was not about wanting to hoard all our prospects, and I don't think Ben was going to keep even half of them.It was about trying to make deals like the Sale one- not the Kimbrel and Pom ones. -
Espi was a top 20 prospect, which is very rare for a kid that age. I think we could have gotten better with a larger package, but we had very littleleft to add to a deal after the farm had already been nearly gutted. I'm thrilled DD had the sense to keep Devers & ERod.
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There are trades that have some good and bad parts. Kimbrel was a great closer. We needed one. DD got one, but it's hard to deny he paid top dollar for him, like he was a FA AND he gave up a package that is usually only seen for s top SP'er or everyday player- not a closer. As I said, once the cost of a top FA closer began to sky-rocket, the finanical part of the deal didn't look as bad as at the time of the trade. We'll never know, if we could have gotten Kimbrel without giving up Allen, or who else we might have been able to get with a similar package or by adding Espinoza to a mix. It's all conjecture. I have no beef with anyone that still loves the deal. I hate it less now than I did then, but I'm still on the side that it was too much of an overpay.
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We're closer to .500 than the Guardians. That's sad. We're as close to the 9th best AL record as we are to the 6th best AL record. We're 14th in MLB. 0.5 from 15th (NYM) 1.0 from 16th (AZ) and the second tier. 4.0 from 17th (TX) 5.5 from 18th (SFG) 8.0 from 19th (SDP) same as we are from CLE.
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I think, barring any major losses to the line-up, we'll be a top 3 offense, again. That being said, will we still lack timely hitting and bunch our runs too much, then we'll be no better off. (Not that I'm placing blame on the offense for 2019.)
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Good to see the team rise to show Cora who we are.
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I thought it was a bad deal. I still do. Yes, we won a ring, and it's impossible to prove whether we win none, one, two or three had we not made the trade. Kimbrel was great for us- just about every year. It wasn't about the players we traded. I would have wanted to trade many of the prospects DD ended up trading. It was about trading so many AND paying top or near top dollar for his contract at the same time. Same with the Espi-Pom trade. I liked Pom, but I thought we needed better than him, and I wished we had the Kimbrel prospects or others to package with him for a much better pitcher. Look, I realize Sale and Quinatna might not have been available at the time of the CK and DP deals, and we'll never know what the other choices might have been available. I've said it many times. DD brought us a ring. I'm fine with what he did.It worked. That doesn't mean I have to like evey move he ever made, and I don't. I'm sure you probably don't like some things, too.
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.178?
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I didn't say I wouldn't have traded them. Also, We may have won a ring without Kimbrel.
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Look what Oprah makes. Need I say more.
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DD Fired. Big Ppi on Hand. Coincidence?
moonslav59 replied to bosoxmal's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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DD Fired. Big Ppi on Hand. Coincidence?
moonslav59 replied to bosoxmal's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Doesn't this kind of contradict this: I don't see the firing of Dombrowski as a sign that Henry is going to blow the team up, or anything close to that. Despite the way they have looked for much of this season, the team has a lot of talent and should be able to compete next year with some pitching help. I don't expect any big surprises in terms of getting rid of the starting players. I guess you could call trading JBJ a big surprise, but most would not. It is possible to win now while having a vision for the long term. Henry just needs to find the right guy to do it. -
It's okay for Henry, who is richer than God, to want to squeeze every penny to make a profit, but Mookie has attitude issues for wanting what he can make on the open market.
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soxprospects.com's updated September rankings: https://soxprospects.com/ (Note: Chavis & D Hernandez "graduated", so take that into account when looking at the +/- numbers.) 1) Casas (+2 from April) 2) Mata +8 3) Dalbec +1 4) Duran +9 5) Groome +1 6) Jimenez +11 7) Houck -2 8) T Ward +31 9) Song NR in April 10) Chatham -2 11) Lugo NR 12) Decker 0 13) A Flores -6 14) Zeferjahn NR 15) C Murphy NR 16) C Cannon NR 17) Aldo Ramirez +31 18) Howell -7 19) M Wilson NR 20) B Bello +1 Big Movers in the 20+ ranks: Minus: -23 Schellenger (20>43) -21 A Scherff (18>39) -17 D Reyes (19>36) -13 Ockimey (27>40) -12 Feltman (9>21) -11 D Diaz (14>25) -10 Northcut (17>27) -7 Shawaryn (15>22) -7 Lakins (23>30) Plus: +23 E Bazardo (51>28) +23 R Fitzgerald (56>33) +20 C Rafaela (54>34) +5 K Crawford 29>24
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Betts will be 27 next year. If we sign him for 10 years, it's really just 9 more years, with his last season coming at age 36. While it may be true that players with his body type don't always age that well, I'm thinking most of the 9 years will every good to great years. The last 2-3 years may seem like a big overpay, but I doubt he'll be like Pablo or HRam by then.
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Probably not as much as I'd want, but one year at $26-29M is not as risky as $300M/10, so if a team is looking for a championship in 2020, maybe they'll overpay, like we did. Betts is better than Kimbrel, so there's that, too.
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I loved Kimbrel and said he was the best when we got him, but I hated the trade from day one, due mostly to his top contract. It was like we signed a FA and gave up 4 prospects. It didn't jive with me. As time went by, and closer contracts sky-rocketed, I mentioned the deal looked better, but I still wish we never made it. I was against the Pom trade, but not because I disliked Pom or thought Espi was going to be the next Pedro (Okay, I once said that "might be his upside), but because I thought we could have packaged him for something better (Sale or Quintana?). I thought the Thornburg deal was okay, because I was not high on Shaw, at the time, but I did think Dubon was a lot to give up. We didn't give up that much for Carson Smith, but Wade Miley has gone on to do some pretty good things. I loved the Sale trade and still do.
