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Barfield is 29. He's ranked 56th on soxprospects.com. He only hit over 13 HRs once before 2016. He was a big star down here in Sugar Land. He hit 27 HRs in 510 ABs. (I saw him once.) Last year, he hit 28 HRs in just 355 ABs (with 49 XBHs). Take a look, but I doubt he makes it.
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A “medical matter” ... prevented the Red Sox from finalizing the five-year, $110MM agreement they reached with free agent J.D. Martinez on Monday. Former big leaguer J.D. Drew can relate, having agreed to a five-year, $70MM deal with the BoSox in 2007 that took seven weeks to become official because they had concerns with his right shoulder. Drew – who, like Martinez, had agent Scott Boras as representation – looked back on the experience with Rob Bradford of WEEI. “My first words were, ’There’s nothing wrong with my shoulder.’ I was like you can put whatever you want in there,” Drew recalled. “But [boras] said, ’I have to protect you.’ From that point on I gave him complete freedom to do whatever he needed to do.” Eleven years later, Drew remains a believer in Boras’ tactics, and he expects the agent’s expertise to benefit Martinez. “I guarantee Scott and J.D. are on a page where they know what’s happening, he’s completely assured by Scott that they know what they have to do,” he said. “He’s going to fight, he’s going to fight, he’s going to fight and get the best he can and make sure it’s fine with him.”
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Yes, Elias should be in the mix. MLBTR reports.... The Red Sox expect to begin the year without either left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez or righty Steven Wright, manager Alex Cora told reporters, including Jen McCaffrey of MassLive.com, on Sunday (Twitter link). Rodriguez is working back from the right knee surgery he underwent in October, and Wright had a season-ending procedure on his left knee last May. With those two on the shelf, the Red Sox will choose among Hector Velazquez, Roenis Elias and the out-of-options Brian Johnson to serve as their season-opening fifth starter
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Who is fascinated with Johnson? He's maybe a 6th or 7th starter, at best. I have Wright and Velazquez ahead of him. He might get a look before Velazquez due to being out of options, but that doesn't mean we're fixated on him. (BTW, I've been talking about Cobb all winter.)
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The LoMo deal is a 1 year risk. If he does great, then we'd want him another year with the vesting $8M year 2. Moose might get a similar deal to this. Imagine getting both for $11M/1 with the second year coming in at maybe $16M/2! $27M/2 for both M & M! Wow! That's about half the cost of JDM at 2 years before his opt out.
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What's better? 3B Devers 1B HRam-Moreland DH JDM-HRam or 3B Moustakas-Devers 1B Morrison-HRam DH Devers-HRam The second option would be much cheaper.,,,maybe even cheaper by enough to add Cobb or Lynn.
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Morrison will earn $5.5MM in 2018, Joel Sherman of the New York Post tweets. The vesting option is worth $8MM and comes with a $1MM buyout.
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What if we could have gotten 3 from these guys: Morrison, Moustakas, Arrieta, Lynn, Cobb instead of JD & Moreland?
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Even $16.5M/2 is a steal. I was thinking he'd get $33-36M/3. I said it the minute we signed Moreland: it was a big mistake. Now, we're hearing HRam is going to be the FT 1Bman, so we're not even going to get much benefit from Moreland's 1Bman's glove. SHAME!
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Apparently, there are escalators and a vesting option that could make it $16.5M/2.... still better than Moreland at $13M/2.
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Twins to sign Logan Morrison for $6.5M/1. I'd much rather have had Logan for the same yearly money Moreland got for 2 seasons! Looks like late signings will be bargains.
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Velazquez has options remaining and offers a very nice depth choice. Cutting him would be lunacy. (Elias has an option as well, and may very well start the season in AAA.)
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Of course, injury history plays a role in the amount any team might offer a player. I do not think his injury history was the reason the top spending teams avoided bidding on JD. The two other biggest spenders, the Yanks and Dodgers, are looking to reset their tax rates. The Cubs, Giants and others chose different spending routes. Was JD's injury history the reason they went another way? I doubt it. The Cards and CWS are in different spending modes right now. I think we'll find out the AZ offer was woefully short of what the Sox offered. JD is not the only big FA looking at signing for much less than expected. There's still a lot of big names out here unsigned. Let's see what they sign for, and I think we'll see that injury history is not the driving force behind less bidding wars.
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Latest on J.D. Martinez, Red Sox By Kyle Downing | February 25, 2018 at 10:50am CDT SUNDAY: The two sides “have continued to work though contract language,” tweets Heyman, who notes that there’s a “high probability” they’ll complete the agreement.
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Good for them. If you really think cap space is all there is to determining who might be interested in any FA making JD's type money, then you're losing some of the respect I've always had for you. There's no way 26 or 27 teams might have signed JD to anywhere near what the Sox paid had they not been worried about injuries.
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Except the two biggest spenders other than the Sox.
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https://thesporttank.com/2018/02/23/concern-level-rising-over-handling-of-j-d-martinez-situation/
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Maybe we found that starter depth we hoped for,
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Yes. Cap space.
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There may be a reason we are now.
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Some of the early season low game totals were not injury related. Some of his injuries have been minor. I'm not saying I know what the issue is now, but I'm glad we're giving it due diligence.
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If there's something wrong, it's good we found it while there's still some good FA options out there. If it's minor, the signing will be announced soon.
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MLBTR... The Red Sox have signed left-hander Tommy Layne to a minors pact; he’d been playing in the MLBPA camp. Brian MacPherson (formerly of the Providence Journal) was first with the news; Sean McAdam of the Boston Sports Journal has since confirmed the report. Pete Abraham of the Boston Globe tweets that the deal does not include an invite to spring training. This’ll be the 33-year-old’s second stint with the Red Sox, for whom he pitched 95 1/3 innings and earned 20 holds from 2014-2016. He put up a 3.30 ERA during that span, but with an unsettling walk rate (4.63 BB/9). Originally a late-round pick by the Diamondbacks, Layne has also spent time with the Padres, Yankees and Dodgers organizations. He’ll compete for a spot on a Boston roster that has plenty of high-end lefty starters but little in the way of lefty relief options.
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Will do. We jet ski on Long Lake now and then.
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Sox to hire Alex Cora as manager
moonslav59 replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I'm not sure what Cora's position is, but I've never been for making a line-up into a lefty, then righty thing. I'd prefer going with the best hitters, which I think Cora wants. I do think it's a good idea to adjust the line-up to move guys up who do very well vs righties or lefties. If Cora is against that, then I guess I disagree, but that doesn't mean I think I'm smarter or dislike Cora. I liked his hiring. I liked the JF firing. I like our direction.
