moonslav59

Options for what? The only players who need to be PH for are our catchers. To me, that's more important than having a poor fielding Holt sitting on the bench every inning of every game. Holt is only needed, if there is an injury. Marrero can be used as a late inning defensive replacement, and I guess once in a great while, you may want to PH for him in extra innings, but I'll take the flex a third catcher who can play 1B and LF over Holt 7 days a week.

Agreed. Mental blunders was second. Lost power third.

4 man bench: Moreland: 1B/LF Swihart: C/ 1B/ LF Marrero: SS/ 2B/ 3B Leon: C If someone gets hurt, Holt is called up in a flash. What's the problem with this alignment? Having Holt & Marrero is redundant. Besides, Leon may be a better hitter than both these guys two anyways. Since JD can play OF, HRam can play 1B, and Nunez can play just about anywhere, we'll have all the one day flexibility we need.

Taking first pitches right down the middle is one thing that has bugged me for years. Things have changed since the days of trying to get to opposing pens as soon as possible. I'm glad Cora seems to be on top of this, and we'll see some adjustments this year.

Easy choice. It's not like you have a clown at 3B that needs replacing.

It need not be an either - or.

Maybe, finally, one of our prospect starting pitchers can actually develop into something special.

Or, most of it. Remember, he was coming off a nice 2016 season.

Well put, and probably taking the average WAR between the two is most accurate most of the time.

I was not for signing EE. I'm just saying we could have, if we wanted to do so.

No, but we chose to go to arb with him rather than trade or DFA him. There were several options fo4r reducing salary to accommodate EE. One, we could have trade HRam after he had a pretty decent season. We would not have saved $22M, but we might have saved $10M. Here's more.... (mix & match) $6-10M HRam $6.5M Young $5.5M Moreland $2M Abad $2M Holt

Yes, my biggest beef was Holt even starting, but then putting him 1st or second was what blew my gasket.

Holt might be in AAA when Pedey comes up, as we might keep the out-of-options Marrero and Swihart to start the year. Depending on how Holt, marrero and Swihart are doing once Pedey returns, any one of them could be traded or DFA'd. I'm wondering if Pedey and marco start on the 60 day DL. (Can you begin a 60 day DL in spring training, so it only goes 45 days into the season?)

I'm sure Eck has been told this, yet he persists.

We could have signed him and stayed under the limit had we traded Young and not signed Moreland and Holt.

This board is all about giving opinions.

fangraphs has.... 5.4 Sale 4.9 Severino 3.6 Price 3.6 Tanaka 3.3 S Gray 2.5 Pomernaz 2.5 Porcello 2.1 Montgomery 0.9 ERod/0.7 Wright 1.6 CC Sabathia Pen NYY 2.2 Chapman 1.6 Robertson 1.2 Betances 1.1 Kahnle 0.9 C Green 0.2 Warren 0.1 Shreve & Gallegos BOS 2.3 Kimbrel 0.8 Smith 0.7 Kelly 0.2 Barnes 0.1 Thornburg & Workman C 3.4 Sanchez, 0.2 Romine, 0.1 Higashioka 1.4 Vazques & 0.6 Leon 1B 1.9 Byrd & 0.1 Austin 0.7 Moreland & 0.6 HRam DH 2.8 JD Martinez & 0.1 HRam 1.5 Stanton, 0.6 Judge, 0.3 Gardner & 0.1 Sanchez 2B 2.3 Pedroia & 0.6 Nunez 0.5 Torres, 0.3 Wade, 0.1 Torreyes & Drury 3B 2.6 Devers, 0.3 Nunez 0.8 Drury, 0.6 Andujar SS 3.4 Bogey & 0.2 Nunez 2.6 Gregorius, 0.1 Torreyes & Wade LF 3.4 Stanton & 1.3 Gardner 2.5 Beni, 0.6 JDM, 0.2 Nunez CF 3.2 JBJ & 0.4 Beni 2.4 Hicks, 0.3 Ellsbury RF 5.6 Betts & 0.1 Nunez 3.8 Judge, 1.5 Stanton, 0.1 Frazier Totals 6.4 Stanton 5.6 Betts 4.4 Judge 3.5 Sanchez 3.4 JDM 3.4 Bogey 3.2 JBJ 2.9 Beni 2.6 Devers 2.6 Didi 2.4 Hicks 2.3 Pedey 1.9 Bird 1.7 Gardner 1.4 Vaz 1.3 Nunez 1.0 Drury 0.7 Moreland 0.7 HRam 0.6 Leon 0.6 Andujar 0.5 Torres & Wade 0.4 Ellsbury 0.2 Torreyes & Romine 0.1 Frazier & Austin

A couple of stories from MLBTR... Veteran Red Sox star Dustin Pedroia had a bit more done to his knee than had previous been known, Pete Abraham of the Boston Globe reports on Twitter. In addition to cartilage restoration work, Pedroia underwent a microfracture procedure to his tibia. Regardless, it seems that the hard-nosed veteran is progressing well given that he has now advanced to taking batting practice. Meanwhile, fellow infielder Marco Hernandez is still six weeks away from resuming baseball activities, Rob Bradford of WEEI.com tweets. Hernandez underwent shoulder surgery last May and only just had screws removed, but at least he now seems to be in sight of returning to the field. In other Red Sox coverage, Bradford discusses new signee J.D. Martinez’s unique relationship with his personal hitting coach. As it turns out, new Boston hitting coach Tim Hyers is well acquainted with Martinez’s guru Robert Van Scoyoc, who’ll be allowed to continue consulting with Martinez even though he has been hired by the Diamondbacks. It’s a deep and interesting look at how Martinez’s unique approach will fit with the organization.

I'm dying to see how little Moose gets.

If Carson Smith comes back strong, we may not need Thornburg. If both do very well, watch out Yanks!

Same thing happened last year with EE and others. Two years now. Will he hold off next year?

I get the reasons why, but watching these good hitter sign for peanuts is making me dislike the HRam (and Pablo) signing more and more.

I did not know this. Do you have the same info on our other starters?

We could have a better hitter for $3-5M. We couldn't say that 3 years ago. That's what changed.

All these bargain deals makes the HRam signing look even worse.