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Pen arms and possible pen arms in our current system: Listed by soxprospects.com Relievers Matt Barnes Ryan Brasier Heath Hembree Tyler Thornburg Brandon Workman Bobby Poyner Colten Brewer Zach Putman Carson Smith Austin Maddox Travis Lakins Josh Taylor (Durbin Feltman on A-Ball list) Swing Men Brian Johnson Hector Velazquez Steven Wright Marcus Walden Josh Smith Starting Pitchers (depth) Erasmo Ramirez Ryan Weber Mike Shawaryn Chandler Shepherd D Hernandez
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Let bygones be bygones.
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I think Vaz does right now. I don't think GMs get scared off by one bad year. I also think there's some doubts about Chavis due to the PED affects on his minor league numbers. I would not trade Vaz, because I have little faith in Swihart in any meaningful role as a catcher in 2019.
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I'm offering 3 quarters for 50 cents. Johnson OR Velazquez Swihart Chavis or Dalbec 3 players not 4. I'm not asking for LeClerc for this offer. I'm hoping we get something decent. Most likely, we trade 1or 2 from the list above for a RP'er- not 3, but my point is we could offer 3 and not be terribly hurt in depth or future outlooks.
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I get your point, but think of it this way: maybe Henry wanted the budget to be at about $220M, and he's already spent way more than he wanted to just to get us as good as we were last year and are now. Asking him to just go a little higher just because we are so close might look unreasonable within this context, right? The, once we get a big RP'er, what if someone gets hurt? Can we expect you and others to trot out the old "We are so close, so why not get one more piece?" Nobody is thrilled with our pen, but it's not horrible, and we are so solid at other positions, I'm not sure why we need to be great everywhere. Sure, it would help. Sure, it would improve our odds at winning in 2019, but we super maxed out last year. The same argument could be made every year. Keep everybody. Sign anyone we need. On and on...
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Let's take away the Sox and M's pitching and look at their offenses: Sox HRs on offense: 102 Home 106 Away M's HRs on offense: 84 Home 92 Away
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I'd rather do this (or sub Dalbec for Chavis). I'd also float Johnson or Velazquez (with Swihart and/or Chavis/Dalbec), if that would get us a better pen arm.
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Why is it odd, when the team just outspent everyone by $40M and won a ring? It seems like a good time to say let's cut spending, but actually, we are not cutting spending. We are spending close to what we did last year and still ahead of everyone. I get the argument about why Pearce and not a RP'er, but I totally get having a restricted budget. (It's not like our restricted budget is at $100M or $80M. We're still way ahead of almost every team... way, way, way ahead.) I think asking Henry to spend more is more unreasonable than questioning why DD let the closer position turn out to be our weakest position.
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I thought your criteria was just that the guy had to have 2 good years at some point in their careers... like with Thornburg & Smith.
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That can never be a good idea. To those who think we must upgrade the pen, I ask again, if we have only $3M to spend, what position do we weaken (via trade) to make our pen better? I'm sure, if we have Lin as our starting SS and Kimbrel as our closer, we'd be hearing about how stupid it is to have such a great team with such a big weakness at such an important position.
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He's the last guy I'd trade out of Price, Eovaldi and ERod. I do think he has as good a chance as the others of doing the best from 2020-2021.
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I was talking beyond 2019. ERod has 2 arbs left after this year. Even if he ends up not being better than Price & Eovaldi in 2020 and 2021, his contractual cost tips the balance.
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Really? I thought not. They should get up to 50% of the TV revenue, too. (And home teams should get 50% of the away team's TV revenue)
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ERod is our best hope beyond 2019. Plus, he's cheap.
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It's a lot, if the owner thinks he already way overspent the year before and is facing another max penalty tax and penalty in the next year. It wouldn't bother me at all, if Henry has told DD not to max out this year and to plan to reset after this season. We got another ring, we have a great team to watch again this year, and we still have a good chance to win it all again. Every team wants more, more, more. To be starting the season with just one clear weak area is usually a good thing.
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Just have baseball writers choose the Nobel Prize this year, and it could happen!
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One way to help even the playing field a bit would be for the visiting team to share the gait for games they play away. They could also share the TV money, for the games they play in all stadiums. When the Yanks play the Rays in Yankee stadium, the Rays get squat, and they are half the players on the field. Teams that draw a lot away would be rewarded. Home TV revenues would be slashed in half, but teams would get half of the gait and TV revenues from their away games. This would help the small market teams, and it just seems fair to me as well.
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Can you name one time an owner sold a MLB team for a loss? I guess you can say there is a risk, but it never happens. I know it's problematic to count rising team value as a profit or something the players should get a share of. The players won't give back money, if the team owner loses money on a sale of the team. I get that. My point is, the owner are making way more profit than is reported. I'm not sure why you seem to want to neglect that piece of the debate. It's been a while, but I clearly recall the player's union arguing over the fudged numbers MLB gave them concerning their profit numbers, and how they left out certain revenue streams.
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Yes, I thought that was obvious.
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Not really. We'd be paying who we replace him with something pretty close to that. The Swihart part of any trade I have suggested is not for salary relief: it's for trying to get a RP'er and ending all doubts about who our two catchers will be this year. Ideally, I'd trade Moreland& Swihart or Nunez & Swihart, but I doubt we'd get any value back, except possibly salary relief, if we can find someone to tale on their contracts. More likely, a salary clearing deal would include Holt, Vazquez or, God forbid, Porcello. I hate to trade youth, but the best way to get a decent RP'er might be by trading Johnson or Velazquez plus Chavis or Dalbec, and if adding Swihart improves the return, then add him. I might just prefer trading Swihart and Shawaryn for the best we can get, and wait for a summer deal. if needed.
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I'm thinking the same thing.
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Leon does much better with Sale & Price, and I DO NOT want to trade Leon, but I don't think Leon can catch a lot of games at this point in his career. If I felt he could catch 100-115 games a year, I'd feel better about trading Vaz. I think Vaz had a bad year, last year- on O and D. I think he's better in both areas, and we'll see it this year, but that's just my opinion. I also see Vaz as our catcher 2-3 years from now. I'm not sure Leon can last that long, so if we trade Vaz, we'll be looking for a catcher in free agency while we're looking to reset the budget. I think we should trade Swihart.
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The problem with some of the positions you mention as possible targets of cutting back on to create budget space for the pen is that there is no market for Moreland and his contract. I doubt we look to trade Pearce, and I think we'd have to wait anyways. We won't save anything by trading Swihart or Leon, so trading Vaz is the only sacrifice that might create some budget space for the pen. IMO, trading Vaz would make some of our pitchers worse, if they had to pitch to Swihart, so we lose at more than just the catcher position. Utility IF'er is not something many teams are willing to pay the money Nunez is making. That means Holt would be traded. Trading one of our 5 starters, so we can afford a closer would just create a bigger hole, IMO. Price is paid too much, ERod would not free up enough money for Kimbrel. That leaves Porcello or Sale. Who do you trade to create the $14-16M space needed for Kimbrel? Name names. Sale Porcello Vaz Holt A combination?
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Then trade Porcello and sign Kimbrel, or trade Porcello for a solid closer. Is that a better area to "economize?" How about trading Bogey or JD? My guess is, if we were missing one of those guys, you'd be saying we can't afford to economize at SP'er, SS or clean-up hitter...
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Yes, and I'm sure they'd love to add a decent starter to that list, knowing one or two are likely to fail, get hurt or under perform.
