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Certainly, there is hope he can put together a full season of how he was doing before the toe injury. Certainly, Moreland is a bargain when compared to Hosmer and even Santana, Alonso and likely Morrison. If we still end up signing JD Martinez, I'm more than fine with the signing, especially, if we don't trade JBJ, so JD can play LF. I still would have preferred to have JD at DH and start the season with HRam (with Swihart or Travis as the back-up) and see if the old HRam can return. If not, finding a decent 1Bman anytime during the season is one of the easiest things to do.
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We needed more than a guy who makes great connections just 22-24 times a year. The 1B position is THE POWER POSITION. We needed to add power. We had an opening at THE power position. We chose status quo. 2017 ISO (32 1Bmen with 450+ PAs) 4. Lucas Duda .279 6. Logan Morrison .270 11. Jose Abreu .248 13. Yondeer Alonso .235 17. Mark Reynolds .219 21. Mitch Moreland .197 22. Carlos Santana .196 27. Hosmer .179 (If you look at just the bottom 3, we got a steal, but clearly better power hitters were out there.) 2014-2017 ISO (32 with 1500+ PAs) 4. Duda .242 9. Abreu .224 17. Santana .199 18. Morrison .196 21. Reynolds .191 22. HRam .189 23. Moreland .187 29 Hosmer .160 30. Alonso .153
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Well, if you count the 2014 deadline, I'd say the ERod trade was a plus. Doubront for Marco Hernandez and Ranaudo for Robbie Ross were okay. Every GM has a bad stretch of signings and trades. Ben's strength was clearly in building up the farm. Only the Uehara deal was a standout in other areas. I think Theo is the best MLB GM of alltime.Look at the signings and trades starting after the Nomar trade in 2004 all the way to his last day. That's a super long period of "meh". in that area only, plus the farm was not top 10 when he left either. (Note: I'm not trying to disparage the greatest of all time, but I think judging Ben so harshly on 3 signings that may or may not have been his ideas is going too far. Yes, all 3 were horrible, but that was not all he did for the team.
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I seriously doubt Price opts out, unless he has a Cy Young type year, and even then the odds are still probably less than 50% with the elbow issue scaring away GMs.
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I'm praying for that, but I'm not sure it will work. There are so many other more important things worthy of serious prayer.
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$16M/2 with an $8M vesting 3rd year.
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I think his name is JD Martinez.
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Not even prayer will work.
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The fangraph's value page is highly skeptical. Longoria signed for long term security at a discount rate.
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Moreland is okay, but 1B is THE position for power, and we need power. Status quo just doesn't do it for me, unless it is part of a plan to save money for something very powerful.
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Apparently, many people see him as being a whole lot worse than he was.
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...and CS%
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Catcher's career are shorter than most. I chose Vtek's 7-9 year years where he was FT. I don't see that as arbitrary. I can see how that time period excludes some catchers from making the list, but I lowered the PAs to get a wider sample of catcher comps. I also don't think VTek's old age years should be held against him, but I'm fine with using his .776 career OPS. So, from 2000-2017, there are 43 catchers with more than 3000 PAs. VTek finished 12th in catcher OPS. IMO, he was top 5 on defense (despite the poor CS%)> His staff-handling was great, but I realize that is subjective.
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Look what Nunez, Davis and Reed cost us.
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No. I became a Sox fan in 1972. Fred Lynn was the best defender I saw, until he crashed into the wall. Darren Lewis was right up there. Rick Miller was very good. JBJ is the best Sox CF'er on defense I have seen.
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1) I think HRam is better than Moreland. 2) If I think Moreland is $3M better than HRam, I don't sign him for $6.5M to replace HRam. Does that explain it better?
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I think people sometimes put too much stock into just a player's most recent season. While I always feel like the fangraph's value page is over inflated, they has Longoria worth $20M this year and over $25M in his previous 4 seasons. (he was over $32M in 3 of his previous 4 seasons.) My guess is, he is not viewed as overpaid. Longoria made $13M this year
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Sox fans are not the only people who know VTek brought more to the table than what the numbers showed, and the numbers showed he was top 5-7 for a pretty long time. Pitchers who have been caught by dozens of catchers sing his praise more than I've ever heard any other catcher receive.
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If it was between only Moreland and Hosmer, I'm a 100% for Moreland.
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Moreland is okay, but he's not an upgrade over a healthy, producing HRam. If HRam sucks or gets hurt, finding similar players to Moreland mid season is one of the easiest things a GM can do.
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While I firmly believe JBJ has been the best defensive CF'er since I started watching the Sox in the early 70's. I have to say, I have no way of knowing where he should rank in MLB. 30 CF'ers with 1500+ innings from 2015-2017: According to DRS, JBJ ranks 8th at +24. According to UZR/150 ranks 11th at +4.9, which is a good number but not great. Can anybody who has seen any of the below players for more than 200 games tell be JBJ is definitively better than any one of the 10 guys with a better UZR/150 since 2015? 25.1 Kiermaier 16.9 K Pillar 15.2 Hamilton 13.5 J Lagares 10.5 M Taylor 9.5 L Cain 8.1 L Martin 7.8 E Inciarte 7.1 O Herrera 6.9 B Buxton 5.0 AJ Pollock 4.9 JBJ I know I can't.
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I loved the Sale deal.
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Why wouldn't they want to unload the most over-rated player to a divisional rival? My point was meant in an overall sense- not just for Longoria. Compared to what has been given up for Stanton, Ozuna, Longoria and others, we got hosed in the Kimbrel, Sale & Pom deals.
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Big question mark, yes, but if he fails, we could have traded scraps for some as good or better than Moreland.
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When was the last time Travis hit .850? We don't want HRam to play a full season, so why look for his last one? HRam was at .866 just last year. That's better than Travis has ever done on the farm. HRam was over 1.000 in 2013 in 86 games. I just want .800 from HRam in 480 PAs. .750 would beat Travis and is certainly $6.5M better than what Moreland will give us.
