moonslav59
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I love the deal, but I'm not going to kid myself or lessen what I thought of Moncada or Kopech, because they ate no longer ours. Moncada is about as sure a bet as there is, and his upside is near limitless. Kopech is much more speculative, but his upside is enormous. I wish them well, except when they face us, and I expect this deal to rival the HanRam & Anibal Sanchez for Beckett (and Lowell) deal. Both sides could easily claim a win.
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...but four years at about $17M total for one year of Davis at $10M? That's way too steep.
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None of the prospects listed was ranked number 1 in all of MLB. Kopech was getting very high praise. One scout said the session he watched was the best he'd ever seen as a scout. We gave a lot, but we got something that never occurs. You just don't trade for known aces like this anymore.
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I'd love to see him back as well, and a $2.5M tax on a $5M offer doesn't seem all that bad.
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I'm most concerned about his defense and batting vs lefties. I think he'll keep the weight off.
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No, just joshin'! (My offer might be enough though.)
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Agreed. There should be no pressure applied, but he should know that we'd welcome him back, if he chooses to return.
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I don't think it was a "win a championship now" mandate. It was more like, get us out of last place and set us up for a big splash pitcher signing the following winter that will get us over the top mandate.
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The Nationals were outbid by the Red Sox in their attempt to acquire Chris Sale, but that wasn’t for lack of trying, as Barry Svrluga of the Washington Post (Twitter links). Remarkably, the Nationals were willing to deal outfielder Victor Robles and both their top young starting pitching prospects, Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo Lopez, for Sale. But the White Sox instead opted for the Red Sox’ incredible offer, topped by Yoan Moncada and Michael Kopech. Robles, Giolito and Lopez are the Nationals’ top three prospects, according to MLB.com. All three of them rank among the top 40 in baseball and Robles and Giolito rank among the top ten. Robles has earned praise as a five-tool talent with good hitting ability and exceptional speed. Both Giolito and Lopez could make an immediate impact in a big-league rotation, and all three players have enormous upside once they reach the big leagues for good. That the White Sox were able to get one offer this good is incredible in its own right; that they had to leave it on the table because they found one they liked better is even more so. -MLBTR
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Today’s acquisition of Tyler Thornburg from the Brewers will end Boston’s foray into the relief market for the winter, Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski told reporters (including Pete Abraham of the Boston Globe). Most notably, this would seem to end any chance of the Sox re-signing Koji Uehara or Brad Ziegler. -MLBTR
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On International signings: The details of the new bonus pool system for the 2017-18 July 2 class of international prospects has been reported by Baseball America’s Ben Badler, who provides a recap of how the July 2 market has been altered under the new collective bargaining agreement. All teams have been assigned bonus pools of either $5.75MM, $5.25MM or $4.75MM, based on their revenues and market size.
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What if someone gets hurt mid season, and Papi is bored out of his mind?
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Would anyone have added Swihart and Travis to the Sale package to get Quintana and his extra year of control instead?
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...and with Davis coming off an injury season that saw him go from a 0.847 WHIP in 2014, a 0.787 WHIP in 2015 to a 1.131 WHIP this year. He's 31 and has one year left at $10M-- more than Sale's luxury tax cost!
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It almost happened earlier in Red Sox history: One of MLB's worst teams for 5 years (1962-1966)- then one win from a ring, then back to mediocrity 7 years (only reaching 89 wins once) befor another near miss in 1975 followed by 83 wins in 1976. We kinda sucked around the near miss 1986 season as well.
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That would not be Benny Boy, who prefers to hoard prospects. I seriously doubt Ben would have unloaded all but 3 good prospects, but I think he would have traded a few and signed a big FA pitcher last year.
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So what? Trade Devers, ERod, Pomeranz, Travis and Owens for Quintana?
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Jorge Soler for Wade Davis! Wow!
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White Sox Talking Jose Quintana Trades With Astros, Nationals, Other Teams Told you guys!
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Their current odds are 3:1, and although that seems great, there's still a 67% chance they don't repeat. The Sox odds went from 10:1 to 5:1 yesterday.
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Depends if going over the luxury limit matters.
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I'm pretty sure most teams carry 12 pitchers during the season not 13. Maybe even more carry 11 than 13 for the playoffs, but I'm not sure about that.
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That's a good question. Pablo is one of baseball's worst hitters vs lefties. Holt and Hernandez both bat LH'd. We do have a few things working in our favor: 1) We only faced a LH'd starter 23% of the time this year. Maybe that happens again next year. (Just 37 games for a platoon are needed.) 2) Holt has a better OPS vs LHPs (.709) than RHPs (.704), and while it's not great by any means, it's way better than Pablo's the last 3 years combined (.651). 3) While Hernadez only has 9 PAs vs LHPs in MLB career (1.055 OPS), he hit lefties at .328 in AAA this year (.736 OPS) and .315 in 2017 (.710 OPS) both better than vs RHPs! (He had a .731 OPS vs LHPs in AA last year (.315 BA).
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I think Hernandez could surprise some people at 3B next year. Devers took a huge step forward on defense this year, so maybe he could be ready earlier than we hope.
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Scary. We also have Hernandez and maybe Devers by 2018.
