moonslav59
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Well, year 4 would be a contract year again, so he'll be trying hard. I just don't think, no matter how well HRam does, he'll be worth $22M next winter.
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Well, top one is also top 3.
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If he plays very well this season, he will likely suck next year. I'm not saying we will bench him, if he's doing very well, since that depends on how well Moreland and Swihart are doing.
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It's not the "overpay" I complained about. It was the fact that our team need to add power, 1st base is THE power position, and yet we chose to stay the same by signing Moreland. There were so many other 1Bmen available that the chances we'd miss out on one by waiting was just a plain silly argument. Duda (or even Moreland) could have been a fall back AFTER we signed JD. The other thing that bugs me is that everyone bashes Ben in "hindsight", when actually after the HRam signing, experts said it was a steal for the Sox, but nobody is allowed to hindsight criticize DD. (and with me, it's not hindsight: I wanted Duda, Morrison of Moose from day one.)
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Why is it okay to say Gray and Tanaka were previous aces and leave it at that, but we can't say the same for Porcello & Pom? We have 4 guys who have pitched like aces for extended times: Sale, Price, Porcello and Pom with ERod being a highly promising pitcher who may finally be over his knee issues.
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Who? Every poster I read knows we have a ton of "ifs" to make this season special. We are not even a top 3 favorite to win it all. I bet jackson thinks the Yanks are top 3.
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I totally agree. I remember writing after the horrible 2015 season, that even if HRam hit .330 40 130 in 2016, I'd trade him. That position did not go over too well. We should have traded him after his decent 2016 season. Now, we have to play Moreland to keep HRam's PAs low enough not to vest. Pure insanity. It could have been Duda for sure. It should have been Moose. (or Morrison by dumping Holt, too.)
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Moreland got $5.5M last year and did better than expected. Although MLBTR did not have him ranked on their list, so many posters on this site say he was worth the signing. That should prove he was worth it, right? (Sarcasm alert)
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Yes, and that's less than what Moreland gets per year, which was my point. It's not "hindsight" with Duda. I understand an argument can be made on Morrison & Moose, but not with Duda.
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HRam needs 497 PAs to vest, but perhaps more importantly he needs to pass a team physical to vest. I do have high hopes the surgery will help. HRam is a hell of a hitter, when fully healthy, and apparently he's got himself into great shape (losing 15 pounds). He'll get his chance to shine. He wants another big contract, so even if he doesn't vest, he needs to hit well in 496 PAs with us.
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You didn't hear? It miraculously healed itself!
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I'm a fan of Sonny Gray, but he's a huge question mark. His FIP went from 3.25 to 4.87 with NYY. (His career with OAK was 3.56) His HR/9 went from 0.9 to1.5. Price is a question mark, granted, but Gray is a much larger one. And, what about the 56 year old CC? He had 3 seasons in a row over 4.70 before the last two good years. I guess there's no chance, in your mind, he goes south this year in a major way. Tanaka? Your two young guys, Severino and Montgomery, looked really good, and I guess young starters like them never have setbacks or bumps in the road. All is rosy in NY this year. Nothing can go wrong.
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We retooled, too, in case you didn't notice. We added JD. We, essentailly, added Smith and Thornburg. We will get more PAs from Devers, Nunez and others and none or way less from .644 Leon (301) .709 Young (276) .593 Marrero (188) .548 Holt (164) .558 Rutledge (118) .622 Pablo (108 PAs) .595 Davis (38) Yes, we'll have a much better chance with Price staying healthy, but I'm curious why you have more faith in Gray being healthy than Price.
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Yes, but how do you get rid of it all? Nobody is going to trade for Pedey and pay his full salary. DFA'ing him does not take us off the hooks, so once again, HOW?
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They would not sign him for even $11M after this year, even if he hits .280 30 100. Look what Duda got. He's a good no field- decent hit player comp. (Actually, Duda has been more consistent with his bat-- when not hurt.)
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It was a dumb deal at the time. The only mental gymnastics going on, is posters trying to justify the stupidity and using the "hindsight" argument in acrobatic fashion. Saying that signing Moreland gave us leverage in the JD negotiations is pulling a Nadia Comanichi. Once we signed the weak hitting (for a 1Bman) Moreland to fill one of the two power slots we had open, we HAD TO SIGN JD. We could have had Duda and JD in foresight. I get the hindisght argument on Moose and Morrison to some extent, but the writing was on the wall, even at the time of the Moreland signing that this winter was going to be different. Was Moreland going to get $13M/2 from someone else the day we signed him? There was no hurry. There was no added leverage. It was dumb then; it's dumber now.
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Duda was projected to make less than Moreland from day one and certainly at the time Moreland was signed.
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Shocking!
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That's what people said last year.
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How?
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Our best time to trade HRam was the after 2016, and even then we'd have had to pay part of his contract.
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We wouldn't lose draft picks. It would just move down from like 24 to 34. It's the international pool money loss that hurts more. How much is all that worth in money, in your opinion.
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Just because we went a long way towards solving our power outage issue with the JD signing, doesn't mean we had to let a golden opportunity to add power at the most power position in mlb, first basee, go by. To say we signed Moreland to, "avoid getting into a position of desperation in the JDM negotiations (with the option of playing Moreland at first and Hanley at DH, we were able to wait him out as long as we needed to) makes absolutely no sense to me. Had we not signed JD, we'd have needed more power from 1B than we do now with Moreland-HRam- not the same. Yes, the Moose, Duda and Morrison signing for way less than expected makes the signing look worse in hindsiaght, but the signing was horrible at the time, too.
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That's what will make it even sweeter when we kick their asses all over the Bronx!
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Especially ours
