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  1. moonslav59
    cots has Sale at $25.6M per year over the next 4 years on their tax budget list.
  2. moonslav59
    My guess is that we could have moved JBJ last winter, but DD did not like the offers.
  3. moonslav59
    Offer arb and trade him.
  4. moonslav59
    I never liked either Moreland signing. Decent 1Bmen, especially of the platoon variety, are a dime a dozen. We jumped the gun to overpay twice for his fragility. Pearce was overpaid, too. In fairness to DD, I seriously doubt any Sox fan would have been fine with the idea of having Chavis and Marco as our Right side infield starters on opening day. In looking at 2020, with an eye towards cutting the taxes we pay, I'm fine with starting out with Chavis, Marco, Dalbec, Travis, Lin and Chatham as our 1B/2B options. If we end up being competitive and need help at 1B or 2B, we can make a deal in July.
  5. moonslav59
    Maybe the guy continuously choosing lemons needs some time in the shop.
  6. moonslav59
    2020 Tax Salary Budget: $Millions 31.0 Price 25.6 Sale 22.0 JD (assuming option) 20.0 Bogey 17.0 Eovaldi 13.8 Pedey 4.5 Vaz Total:$134M (7 players) Arbs: (est) 27 Betts (3rd of 3 arbs) 10 JBJ (4 of 4) 9 ERod (3 of 4) 4 Beni (1 of 3) 3 Workman (3 of 3) 3 Barnes (2 of 3) 2 Hembree (2 of 3) 1 Wright (3 of 3) 1 Hernandez (1 of 3) Total $60M (9 players) Non arbs (24 players on 40 man roster) Total: $16M 40 man roster with no FA signings: $210M +$15M player benefits= $225M Bye-bye: Porcello, Cashner, Moreland & Pearce Holt (maybe back) & Leon (unless back for near min) To get under the $208M limit, we'd have to not only avoid signing any FAs, we'd have to trade about $17M in salary. That would likely be JBJ ($10M) and maybe Eovaldi (by paying about 1/3 his salary) or getting Pedey to retire and forgo his salary (fat chance).
  7. moonslav59
    Yes. Maybe we should re-sign him! (LOL)
  8. moonslav59
    ...bring Farrell back! As the pitching coach!
  9. moonslav59
    Any FA signing is a gamble that is more likely to fail than succeed. As it turned out, we needed a back-up 1Bman due to Moreland's continued fragility. As it turned out, we needed a SP'er as the only mid season move we made was for a starter. DD picked the right positions to sign, although had he known Chavis would do this well, he may not have needed a 1Bman, he just signed the wrong guys. Had he signed Morton and Matt Adams, we'd be ahead of CLE, TBR and Oak, and the pen problems would not seem so drastic.
  10. moonslav59
    He's still the best Sox manager I have ever seen, so I think his job is safe. It's now obvious the restgate had nothing to do with Sale and Porcello imploding and Price unable to go past 80 pitches.
  11. moonslav59
    Why trade JBJ to save the tax, only to replace the tax by calling up Castillo?
  12. moonslav59
    More specifically, we are 10-14 when scoring 4-5 runs. We've also lost 7 games when scoring 7 or more runs (5 when scoring 8 or more). Last year, we were were 33-9 in games where we scored 4-5 runs, and we only lost 2 games when scoring 7 or more runs- both at 7 runs. The 4-5 runs scored games have killed us. Our SP'ers often let up 5 runs by themselves. Sale: 6 times allowing 5+ runs, including 4 of his last 6 GS'd (5 times with 4 runs allowed) Price: 2 times plus 4 with 4 runs allowed (3 of last 4 starts with 4 or more runs allowedZ) Porcello: 9 times with 3 at 4 runs allowed ( 6 of last 7 at 4 or more). 15 times, Porcello and Sale have left the game after allowing 5 or more runs. That's over a third of their starts. 23 times allowing 4 or more. That's over half.
  13. moonslav59
    ...and so were the posters who said all along that even Henry had limits on spending priorities.
  14. moonslav59
    Rusney is not an option due to the tax, and part of the idea of trading JBJ would be to save us money on the budget next season.
  15. moonslav59
    I don't think Henry's statements are going to mean squat to these 3 pitchers.
  16. moonslav59
    I don't see much difference between the 2019 Porcello and Brian Johnson. Porcello is gone after this year, so we're talking maybe 9-10 more starts.
  17. moonslav59
    Would it matter?
  18. moonslav59
    I agree. If they think it is sending a message to the team, I'm not sure that works.
  19. moonslav59
    JBJ's 2019 Season: To May 20th: .421 (150 PAs) May 21-July 2 1.058 (152 PAs) July 3> .600 (95 PAs)
  20. moonslav59
    The problem with trading JBJ for a RP'er was at least two-fold. Any team trading for JBJ would be a contender and not likely to give up a quality RP'er. (It would have taken a 3 way deal.) We have no OF depth. Playing JD in the OF would be very risky. Playing Holt or Travis in the OF would be such a step down, the gain in the pen would not likely offset the loss in the OF. (Plus, who DHs with JD in the OF?)
  21. moonslav59
    We still could have traded far away prospects for a decent RP'er and not strayed from this philosophy.
  22. moonslav59
    If we fail to make the playoffs, I'd trade JBJ and reset the tax. I'd look for a 1 year rebuild and try to keep Betts after 2020. Porcello, Moreland & Pearce would be gone. We might not suck in 2020, because we'd still have Betts, Devers, Bogey, JD, Vaz, Beni and 4 rturning SP'ers, but I wouldn't spend a penny over the first tax line in 2020.
  23. moonslav59
    The rotation not only has to improve for us to have a chance: they have to shine. I'm not as optimistic about that ever happening, this year, but it is possible. The last 2 games, plus the last game with the Yanks were the anti-universe of 2018. Everything went right last year: nothing is going right this year (except Devers, Bogey & Vaz).
  24. moonslav59
    No, I missed it.
  25. moonslav59
    In hindsight, signing Morton instead of Eovaldi would have probably put us in the top WC slot. Hard to chose him last winter. Just about every other reasonable signing, except Ottavino look like busts. We need to stop looking at free agents as the only way to solve out issues, and as we start having more and more holes to fill and less and less budget space, we will be in a "can't make any mistake signings" situation. Our rotation will have to straighten itself out. I still have some hope, but it is diminishing with every Sale, Price & Porcello start.
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