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  1. moonslav59
    I agree. I am not for trading for a 3Bman. I was just responding to the idea of trading for Beltre and how it might affect Devers.
  2. moonslav59
    I agree, and if we did get Beltre, we'd probably move Devers to DH and back up 3Bman for just 2 months. He'd be back at 3B next season.
  3. moonslav59
    I totally agree, and I still think the call-up was the right move. Our 3B situation has been in shambles since before Middlebrooks. At least we have some promise. At best, we have a guy that can still hit over .800 this year and higher in years to come.
  4. moonslav59
    It's sometimes hard to spot irony in print. Thanks for the insight.
  5. moonslav59
    Cots has us at $1.675M under the max limit. There is no way we are bringing up Castillo. His contract would cripple us next year and beyond. I doubt we trade JBJ, but if we do now, we'd add about $3M to the number above. Trading him at the deadline would add about $2M. There will be players available at or before the deadline that would be better options than Castillo.
  6. moonslav59
    We might lose only Pom after 2018. he real "cliff" begins after 2019 or 2020 not 2018.
  7. moonslav59
    A contending team not up against the luxury tax limit. Without putting much thought into it, here's a list of teams with their 3B OPS to date: .645 LAA .678 SEA .701 WSH .720 BOS .736 AZ How about DH? .760 CLE .764 LAA
  8. moonslav59
    Of course our statements are just opinions, and I'm not sure if we should have to preface every statement with, "In my opinion..." To me, it's really not even about whether our ex-prospects do well or not. I'd have traded most of them anyway, but for different players. I'm happy DD created a 4-5 year window, but I wish some of the players we traded for had more than 2.5 (Pom) or 3 years (Kimbrel) of team control. I realize my "wish" might not have been possible,but that's what we are here to talk about: ideas, alternative ideas and what not.
  9. moonslav59
    We have less than $2M to spend this summer. Beltre will be owed about $6M at the deadline. We might need the Rangers to pay about $4.5M out of the $6M to make it work for us. We'd have to sweeten the pot to get them to do that. Other teams can offer a lot without demanding money. Another choice could be to shed some salary before acquiring salary, or to trade someone like JBJ for Beltre. JBJ would have about $2M owed to him, so Texas would only have to pay $2.5M not $4.5M. On the $40M penalty level: It's really not as bad as it might seem to be. We're already paying a big tax on the $38M we are spending over the limit. The tax on a few million more is not a deal breaker. The draft pick penalty of moving down 10 slots may seem like a deal breaker, but is moving down from 27th to 37th really a horrible thing? There are some options, but creating new holes in our system to patch one we think is too big to overcome is not what I think is a good strategy.
  10. moonslav59
    It won't come close to doing it. Chavis was a huge question mark before the PED discovery. Mata holds some value, but he's so young, I'm not sure how much the Reds value him. Beeks, Shawaryn, Johnson? I don't think so. Groome is hurt. We probably need to keep Velazquez to take Wright or Pom's place next year (assuming Wright becomes the #5). I seriously doubt we have the prospects needed to get Scooter, and besides, do we really want to trade away the remaining best 3-4 prospects and totally ruin any chance at getting the youth infusion we will need around 2020 or 2021 and beyond? I still think we'll make the type of trades we made last summer- A Reed and E Nunez.
  11. moonslav59
    Right about the time some were advocating benching, platooning or demoting him to AAA.
  12. moonslav59
    Pom for Scooter? You're high. Pom is a rental and may not pitch this year. The Reds will want top young talent. WE DON'T HAVE ANY we can part with. Get over it. We are NOT GETTING anyone big.
  13. moonslav59
    Folly is in the eye of the beholder.
  14. moonslav59
    ...and why wouldn't we expect Torres, Andujar and maybe others to start slumping during their first few hundred PAs?
  15. moonslav59
    Maybe that's why you missed my point. It wasn't yours to begin with.
  16. moonslav59
    4 in 15 would sound nice!
  17. moonslav59
    Save it for an off day, or better yet, for the allstar break.
  18. moonslav59
    Of course, there isn't. I was mocking the folly of missing HRam.
  19. moonslav59
    The only real trade chip I think the Sox might have is Pom, and it would take a lot to happen in the next 6 weeks for his value to come up. The main thing about trading Pom would be the money freed up for another trade for a salary dump sort of player. Pom is under an $8.5M contract and trading him at the deadline would free up almost $3M for us to add elsewhere. I just don't see us trading for anything significant, but last year, we did get Nunez and Reed without giving up too much.
  20. moonslav59
    I'm not for trading any bull pen help, unless it is for an upgrade.
  21. moonslav59
    How about it? He was .638 with SF last year. He's got 11 HRs and 45 RBI in his 315 PAs in his second stint with the Giants. .710 OPS. (Pablo is .757 in his last 365 days.)
  22. moonslav59
    Red Sox projected to win 100. Astros 105. NYY 104. No NL team over 93.
  23. moonslav59
    It's kind of funny to me that only 2 or 3 posters have an issue with us DFA'ing HRam, when the numbers show that letting Pablo go might have been a bigger mistake. 2018: OPS .882 Moreland .798 Pablo .708 HRam .705 Devers 2018 vs LHPs .854 HRam .728 Moreland .585 Pablo .559 Devers
  24. moonslav59
    How about Kimbrel, Workman, Velazquez and maybe rehabbed Thornburg and/or Pom. 2018 Red Sox Pitching Starters: 3.62 ERA 1.203 WHIP .673 OPS against Relievers: 3.03 ERA 1.195 WHIP .648 OPS against Yanks Starters 3.76 1.176 WHIP .670 OPS against Relievers 2.87 1.116 WHIP .618 OPS against Astros Starters 2.97 1.048 WHIP .623 OPS against Relievers 2.75 1.044 WHIP .615 OPS against Pretty close between all 3 teams with the 'Stros looking best, so far.
  25. moonslav59
    No, but I miss those numbers. I missed them more in the second half of '16.
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