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Do you agree that these are our best and worst positions by value as we look to 2018? Here's how our positions rank by WAR: Rank Position WAR 2 SP 14.5 4 RP 5.3 5 RF 4.2 8 2B 2.3 11 SS 2.4 16 LF 1.7 19 CF 1.9 21 C 0.8 11 out of 15 DH -0.4 26 1B 0.7 27 3B 0.1 Certainly Devers makes 3B look better than 27th best in MLB. I don't see our catching crew as a weakness despite the ranking of 21st out of 30. To me, 1B/DH is clearly our weakness now and looking to 2018.
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I get your point, but is not letting one even get a chance (4 teams not 5 in each league) a better option? If you give them a 3 game series, then the other 8 teams have too long of a break. It's not perfect, but I think they have it right.
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0 PA 31 SB 17 CS Bad SB% (74.6%) for someone hired only to steal bases. -
Old pal Rubby de la Rosa to undergo Tommy John surgery.
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Roenis Elias comes off the 60-day DL and will go to AAA. Noe Ramirez is DFA'd.
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His first name is 50. His second name is Cent. There's only one of him, so it's singular.
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Debunking the 3 year window myth -- the Red Sox in 2020
moonslav59 replied to Fan_since_Boggs's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
So, have any "cliff dwellers" been convinced that the 3 year window is a "myth" or had been "debunked" on this thread? -
Small sample size, but 79 runs scored in the 13 games in August! 6.1 runs per game 20 HRs, too. We're still 9th in runs scored, but we are only... 1 run from 8th (DET) 12 runs from 7th (AZ) 19 runs from 6th (TEX) (31 from LAD and 34 from NYY) We're tied for 17th in OPS and tied for 18th in wRC+. nothing to write home about, but moving up, up, up.
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You think GMs base trade value on some services rankings? By and large those services do pretty well ranking players, but when serious injuries are involved, I'm not sure those rankings represent true value. Plus, I am sure some GMs and organizations surely value players differently. Some team might prefer having Mata over someone ranked 92nd. They might have preferred 2 healthy top 100 prospects (Groome & Chavis) over 3 with 2 having current serious injuries. I think this deal is pretty darn comparable, if not better: Groome Chavis Mata Flores (adding Beeks or Lakins could be an option as well) According to Baseball America's mid season top 100, the Yankee top prospects were: 3 Torres 36 Rutherford 49 Frazier 56 Adams 71 Florial 73 Sheffield 87 Groome 89 Fowler 96 Chavis Mateo & Kaprielian were not top 100 on this ranking list. MLB had Groome at 23, Sam Travis at 89 and Bobby Dalbec at 92 with none of the Ysankee players in the trade listed. Before the season started, Baseball Prospectus had this: 29 Groome 43 Mateo 58 Kaprielian NR Fowler
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Yes for Castillo not for us. Our choice is simple, IMO. I'd have to be a hell of a lot more certain that Castillo will do better than Brentz to add Rusney to the 40 man roster and face a $10.4 total luxury tax over the next 3 years combined.
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Hard to know. Maybe I'm undervaluing what the Yankees gave up due to injury concerns, but we do still have some nice prospects not named Devers. I'll always kick the tires on a good to great pitcher under team control for a few years at a pretty low cost. I'm not saying DD didn't kick the tires, but he did say, we are "not looking for SP'ing."
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I don't see where "straw man argument" fits here. Nobody knows. We could have called up Devers two days later and seen a different (worse) result over a tiny sample size of a players first 10-15 games.
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She meant "good shape" for 2018. The good thing is, usually 1Bmen are easy to acquire and are not expensive. The bad new is, I don't see any FA 1Bmen that jump out at me an scream, "Sign me!"
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...Even without Pedroia. Or Price. Other teams have lots of injuries and are still doing well (Astros & Dodgers). Here's what we have been missing: SP2: Price SP4: Wright RP2: Smith RP3: Thornburg RP5: R Ross 2B: Pedroia
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If we trade Castillo, and he is on another team's 40 man roster, we will be luxury taxed on the amount we are paying of his remaining contract. Why pay more than we are now?
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In hindsight, yes. I have trusted Sox brass on deciding when "when" is. It looks like they nailed it. It's not an exact science. It's not as simple as saying every player that did well out of the gate could have or should have been called up earlier, and every player that struggled out of the gate was called up too early.
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The luxury tax added by adding Castillo to the roster would be carried over for 3 years. The 3rd year might be a 50% tax. Once you add Castillo to the 490 man, you're locked into counting his salary for tax purposes until the end, even if you knock him back off the 40 man, if he sucks. It's not a disqualifier, but it's not as simple as just looking at 2018. Brentz and Castillo both have very similar OPS vs LHPs this year, so I'm leaning towards Brentz right now, if I had to choose between just those two. I doubt both will be on the 40 man roster next year.
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He probably wouldn't have, but we'll never know. He might have been somewhere between flop and what Lin/Marrero gave us.
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I think the cost was lower than expected. There was certainly high risk involved, but Gray can be an ace.
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...and if we called up Devers too early and he flopped then where would we be now?
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I'm still thinking we may have dropped the ball on Sonny Gray.
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If JBJ was thrown out at the plate, maybe more would be jumping on the "JF must go" bandwagon.
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Rusney does not play 1B.
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8/16 vs Cardinals
moonslav59 replied to Maxbialystock's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
No. He's looked awful of late. I even researched his K rate of over 20 the last 10-12 games, which is about double his norm. I was hoping the big hit was a sign of life, and he did end up with 3 tonight. I was not an immediate projecting a turn around. I didn't mean to imply he was showing he's turned it around, but I can see how it looks like that's what I meant. -
I doubt Moreland is back next year. Maybe we'll look for the next 1 year 1Bman, and hope we guess right like TB did this year.
