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  1. moonslav59
    The funny thing was how the front office thought their little speeches might work on these modern day players. The best motivating factor would have been to trade a star player or acquire a bonafide RP'er- not silly speeches.
  2. moonslav59
    Weber is a scrub's scrub. He's looked decent a couple times this year. He shouldn't even be on any competitive team's 25 man roster. He better not be on next year's roster, unless we've decided to blow it all up and start over.
  3. moonslav59
    There was a time when Porcello was doing about as well as Lester, but this season put the kabash on that.
  4. moonslav59
    He could have tried. The problem was that we felt we still had a chance at the WC slot.
  5. moonslav59
    I do, too. Yes, we took a gamble by signing him after an injury plagued season, but we signed him to less than he would have gotten as a FA last winter. Right now, the signing looks sketchy, but I'm still confident he will earn his money, too.
  6. moonslav59
    The Astros have balanced the win now philosophy with the keep a strong future philosophy pretty well, but I think these recent trades tilted the balance to the point where they will suffer, like we are now, by shortening their window. They should be the faves for this season and next, but they will be seeing budget issues as their young stars reach their last arb years and free agency. The Astros still have some top prospects and recent grads, so they are not heading for a cliff.
  7. moonslav59
    He very well may become that bad. Perhaps, we should just shut him down for the remainder of 2019 and hope that makes him stronger for 2020 and beyond. There's obviously something going on with the extreme babying he's gotten all year.
  8. moonslav59
    Being a top spender should allow us to compete again at some point in the near future, but I think we will need to be bad before we get good again-- maybe not "cliff" bad, but we may need to get a good draft pick slot or two and more international spending pool money to build the farm back up. Couple that with a rest of the tax and no tax draft penalties, and I think we can be back to being top contenders in 1-2 seasons. Maybe we'll have to sell off a couple high-priced and aging stars by paying a big chunk of their future salary, but it worked with the AGon, CC & Beckett deal, and it worked with the Lester, Lackey & Peavy sell-off. As much as this season sucked, maybe it made our future path more clear.
  9. moonslav59
    Can we all now agree, this season is toast? Man o man, what a disappointment!
  10. moonslav59
    Price won us a ring. We knew we'd see a downslide at some point. It reminds me of the Victorino signing. We all knew it was 2 seasons too long, but once we won the 2013 ring, nobody really cared. I doubt Price or Sale become a Sandoval or Crawford, but I suppose they could. Years of team control left: 2 Pedey 1-3 JD 3 Price Eovaldi 5 Sale 6 Bogey
  11. moonslav59
    As much as we have already. Sale, Price, Eovaldi and ERod are all under team control for several more years- hopefully into the next competitive phase we go through after the reset.
  12. moonslav59
    Neither is Weber. Johnson has had more success than Weber as a starter at every level.
  13. moonslav59
    We're not sure he's done throwing 95-96. Good point, though.
  14. moonslav59
    Yes. I don't think the make-over has to be as extreme as others. A while back, I posted a list of the top SP'ers by WAR since 2003. Almost every pitcher had a down year or two, most around 30-32, but all except Felix bounced back pretty quickly to have a few good seasons afterwards. The 3 years it took CC was an exception to the trend. I think Sale may be back to a high level by next year, but I realize that may be wishful thinking.
  15. moonslav59
    They "learned" spending large wins rings before the declines set in.
  16. moonslav59
    I looked at each of CC's 3 transitioning seasons, and the best 11 game sample sizes I found were: 2013: 3.48 (game 2-12) 2014: 5.28 (only started 8 games) 2015: 3.84 (game 19-29) It looks like Sale's transition year 1 is already ahead of any of CC's 3 years.
  17. moonslav59
    Do you discount his 11 game stretch this year as luck or what?
  18. moonslav59
    Weber should be gone after this year. I have more faith in Johnson and Velazquez, which isn't saying much.
  19. moonslav59
    I'd pay Betts over $30M. He's worth it. I wish we hadn't signed Eovaldi. It would have made keeping Betts much easier. I know having just 6 or 7 players making a big chunk of the budget creates serious issues, but Betts is a keeper.
  20. moonslav59
    He seems to have the "fire & desire" to continue being highly competitive. He's shown hints of being a great pitcher a few times this year, including an 11 game stretch of 2.24 ERA. In those 11 games (72.1 IP) he K'd 116 batters and walked just 16. Opps had just a .540 OPS against. That's like 9 Sandy Leons! I'm hopeful it won't take years for him to get back to greatness. I have no idea how long it will take.
  21. moonslav59
    Doesn't count what Brady makes from the sweetheart TV monies.
  22. moonslav59
    I agree 100%, but my point was that there is a big drop off from our top 5 RP'ers (Workman, Barnes, Walden, Taylor and Hembree) and the next 3-5 (Brasier, Velazquez & Brewer). Had we been able to limit the IP of our worst RP'ers, we may not have had as many blown saves. This doesn't change the fact that our pen sucked and needed at least 2 more quality arms.
  23. moonslav59
    There is zero pressure, right now. The season is over.
  24. moonslav59
    I'm hopeful Sale and Eovaldi will improve- possibly by a great amount, but I do not "expect" it.
  25. moonslav59
    When we got Ockimey, we knew he was "raw" and needed time to improve. He reached rule 5 last year, and it's getting close to the point where we may have to choose someone else deserves a shot with this team. I see our 2020 forty man roster as very weak on the bottom 10-15 players. I'm thinking I may rather give him one more year than several other players on the 40 man roster now.
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