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  1. moonslav59
    Maybe Jim Loscutoff?
  2. moonslav59
    More than double? Nope, this is not the same JH. Something we all agree on! Everything is more than double.
  3. moonslav59
    We have enough good SP'ers that do well vs LHPs in the 8th and 9th innings. LOOGY's are out of style.
  4. moonslav59
    So, maybe Tolle starts for the celtics.
  5. moonslav59
    The wait my be tied to see who we add next. If it's a SP, we might trade Duran for an infielder. If we add an infielder, maybe Duran gets traded for a pitcher. I could be wrong. I think Bregman is the Sox domino.
  6. moonslav59
    He may be that LHP in the pen some are calling for.
  7. moonslav59
    All part of the "sham."
  8. moonslav59
    You are correct. This Henry is spending about double what the one in 2003 and 2004 did. Good point. This Henry is locking up our young stars, so we don't see another Betts, Bogey, Lester fiasco. Correctomundo! This Henry of today gave out the biggest contracts in Sox history both in terms of large and long and another in AAV. For once, I agree with you! 🤪
  9. moonslav59
    GMs also see the havoc he causes other teams when he's on base. His value is still much higher than most OF'ers starting in MLB, right now.
  10. moonslav59
    Just to satisfy the fans?
  11. moonslav59
    He certainly seems to have a better mix. I'd be fine with him starting in the MLB rotation in April. I also think we could use Harrison in the pen, and I would not want to mess with Early in the pen. That being said, I think Brez might have Harrison be the #5.
  12. moonslav59
    Do you think 2025 was the same as 2022-2024? Even if it turns out to be a one and done uptick, it was an uptick, nonetheless.
  13. moonslav59
    If the issue is that Brez values Duran significantly more than any GM in need of an OF'er, then maybe no match up will ever come to be. If someone values him closely to Brez's value, then we could trade him for prospects. Then, we know some teams will trade a 2Bman, 3Bman or SP for the right mix of prospects. They may not be the same as the ones we get for Duran, but we should be able to find close to even value at a position of higher need. It might be a little complex, but I can't imagine not being able to work something out, whereby we get shut out of trading Duran. I don't know the Reds thinking, but I think they'd do Lodolo for Duran, and it's Brez who would balk. Would they do Duran + Sandoval (or Harrison) for Lodolo and Singer? The money works better for the Reds than the straight Duran>Lodolo suggestion. I'm not sure I'd do Duran for just Lodolo, but in theory, our gain at SP2/3 would be greater than our loss at DH/4th OF'er.
  14. moonslav59
    One person's idea of what a competitive offer is does not always mean it's close to what others offered.
  15. moonslav59
    He very well might be. Going by the short sample from 2025, he looks way better.
  16. moonslav59
    Our 1B was such a mess in 2025, so it's hard to not see Contreras as a significant needle-mover. Do you view the 2026 Gray as being better than the 2025 Gio? Oviedo and the return of Crawford and Sandoval as better than Buehler/Dobbins/Fitts and the 2025 Houck? While I agree on wanting better pitching than Gray and Oviedo, our 2026 pitching projections look better than 2025. 1B looks way better. 3B (Bregman) and DH (Devers/Refsnyder & others) look way worse, for now.
  17. moonslav59
    It has nothing to do with how highly I rate Duran, and some here think I am underrating him by continually suggesting we trade him. Team want Duran and want him badly enough to give us something we need- something much better than Sandoval/Oviedo or DHam/Eaton/Sogard. Do you think Duran has equal value as oviedo or Sandoval? How about DHam plus Sogard? If yes, then you undervalue Duran. I've suggested trading him straight up for Lodolo. BTV says that's a "major overpay" by the Sox ($46M for $31M of value.) Does that look like I'm overvaluing Duran? BTV has Paredes worth $11M. I've suggested trading Duran for Paredes and a $7-10M RP'er. Once again, you are wrong about what I think. Maybe just stop pretending to know what I think.
  18. moonslav59
    Other than 2013, it failed from 2011 to 2014, too. This is nothing new. It's been a pattern, although the recent down cycle seemed longer than that 4 year period with Ben at the helm, due to the 2013 ring.
  19. moonslav59
    No, I merely pointed out that had we given Betts $29M, I doubt we'd have changed our budget plans going forward. More likely, had we kept Betts, we would not have extended Sale or Nate. I'm not assuming the budgets stay exactly the same, but I suggested that in my opinion the decision was made to cut the budget by a lot for the next few years, and I doubt it would have changed much had we kept him. I don't think we let Lester go because the plan was to slash the budget for years to come. I do think that was the case at the time of the Betts, sale, Nate & Boget choices made. I think JH & Co felt we could still win with the 2020 roster with very few big money additions needed. That year, injuries killed that hope. We did okay in 2021, but then the lack of replacing departing talent in kind caught up to us.
  20. moonslav59
    You continually confuse suggestions with predictions, no matter how many times we try to tell you there is a difference. I expect you will keep doing this over, and over, and over again.
  21. moonslav59
    Certainly two or more. You seriously doubt that?
  22. moonslav59
    Of course we don't know, but my guess is the idea was to cut the budget, and that's why we traded Betts & half-Price. I doubt keeping Betts would have changed the budget plans much. Just my opinion.
  23. moonslav59
    The Story and Masa signings came a few years later. How do we reach the 2020 and 2021 budgets with $29M from Betts added? First, we'd have likely traded Half Price anyway, but that was already deducted from those budgets, so we'd have had to dump others.... One from 2020....? $26M Sale $22M JD $20M Bogey Maybe 2 from....? $17M Nate $14M Pedey (nope) $11M JBJ $8M ERod
  24. moonslav59
    Of course that is an issue, but multiple teams need an OF'er like Duran to "get them" to where they want to be. We should be able to include a third team to help us get a piece that offers a bigger gain at a position of need than we lose by having the DH position shared by 4 guys over Duran as the near FT DH. The foundation is there for a trade that helps 2-3 teams. We may be reluctant to take less in return that what we value Duran at, and that might be what's holding it up, but a trade makes too much sense to not happen. Perhaps we already have a trade or two agreed upon, but we waiting on some FA shoes to drop, first. We may not want to trade away one of our best offensive players, until we have a good bat FA signed. We may be looking at signing a pitcher, instead, and if that happens, we trade an OF'er for a 3Bman.
  25. moonslav59
    How much they need Harrison in the pen might be the deciding factor.
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