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He used to suck on D, looked pretty good in 2023, much better in 2024, including in CF, then kinda meh, so far this year. Anthony is better. Rafaela is way better. Abreu is way better and can play RF. Duran> Refsnyder on D. It's not that Duran sucks on D, he's just 4th best on the Sox. Also, we may end up playing Campbell in the OF, in the long run, especially with a healthy Bregman back and KC & mayer hitting well enough to stave off a demotion. (A Story trade might be next.) Maybe his value would be higher on another team playing the OF more than DH. -
Agreed, but with Duran being the worst defensive OF'er, except for maybe Refsnyder, he will likely DH more than any of them. Once Bregman returns, we'll have an extra infielder to cycle through the DH slot to add. In a sense, we will be replacing Devers bat with a mix of more PAs from Mayer, Anthony and KC while lessening the impact on PAs by Abreu, Duran, Rafaela and Story. If we DH Refsnyder vs LHPs, who plays RF? Anthony? vs R LF: Anthony & Duran (one DHs) CF: Rafaela (Duran some games) RF: Abreu vs L LF: Duran CF: Rafaela RF: Anthony DH: Refsnyder
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Those eye rolls were telling. Cora not even daring to ask Devers to play 1B was too, if we believe what many say happened and did not happen. I really liked Devers. He looked like a kid who really loved playing the game. He produced like no other Sox player since the Betts and JD days. That may not be saying much, since we've had a pretty weak team with a revolving door of guys names Renfroe, Duvall, O'Neill & Turner. This is truly amazing, shocking and a bit scary.
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I clearly explained Duran to DH.
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He's gaining weight? Before the DH and 1B issues, was he an attitude issue? The guy has been our best hitter for a long time. He's been a Yankee killer and RBI machine for years. Until the injury, last August, he was on pace for a career high in OPS and was pretty close, this year, too. The FT DH thing is valid. The $30M a year thing, into his mid to later 30's, too. The unwillingness to play 1B has been beaten to death, and apparently Cora never asked him to do it, but I do agree that no DH is worth $30M a year. Add inflation adjustments and Papi never made near that. All I can say is that JH better spend teh savings, or we are right back to square one with him, again. This cancels out the Bregman signing, financially.
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Will it be Duran to DH? LF: Anthony CF: Rafaela RF Abreu/Refsnyder or... Once Bregman returns, some infielder to DH? (KC, Mayer, Bregman, Story rotation?)
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Harrison was a top 25 prospect, last year. Maybe we think he can be the next Crochet. While Devers has enormous value, he value per dollar spent is in negative territory, according to BTV. The age old question will be: does JH pocket the money, most of the money or repurpose it to boost us in an area we need more than a FT DH. Maybe Bregman can return earlier as a DH. Maybe we still have faith in a Yoshida return. Maybe this was made to free up the OF logjam, once Abreu returns. Is the downgrade from Devers to Duran at DH and Anthony in LF vs Duran more than the plus we get in the rotation and farm? Inquiring minds want to know.
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I like our team on paper better than the Jays, but baseball is played on the field- not even on cardboard.
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Wild how SS asked if I'd trade Devers for a top shelf pitcher, earlier in this thread. I'm not sure I'd call Harrison "top shelf," and maybe the plan is to flip him (with others) for Skenes or the like.
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Does Harrison have 3 or 4 arbs after next season's last pre-arb year? 4 or 5 years of control?
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I'm still in shock. Devers forevers a Giant.
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So, Mayer is our 3Bman for an undisclosed amount of time.
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Kyle Harrison was the 23rd ranked prospect in all of MLB, last year. We must really like him. Jordan Hicks looks like an attempt to move the money part a tiny bit in SF's favor, as he is owed $12M x 3 more years. (His AAV is $11M, so the Sox gain a lot there.)
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Will he play 1B w SFG? LOL!!!!
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Brez has balls the size of Jupiter!
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I'm falling out of my chair!
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A Realistic View of the 2025 Red Sox: Part II
moonslav59 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I can see keeping Mayer over Campbell, when Bregman returns, but you mentioned sending KC down when Abreu returns. I like KC more than DHam, but if we cant find a way to play these 3 kids more than 70-80%, I think we send 'em down. I'm not sure we try anyone at 1B, as long a the Toro-Romy duo keeps raking. -
Duran would bring back more than that. His "off year" is still heading towards a 2.5+ WAR season. He's still 7th highest in fWAR since 2024 at 6.7. He's got speed and many years of control.
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What would we have to add to that deal to get Painter? What would we have to add to Painter to get Skenes?
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Cora batted Story 4th. Since it worked- no beef from the can Cora crowd.
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He had a worse stretch of about the same length of time, when Bregman was in the line-up, at the start of the season. I'm not so sure the mini slump is related to Breg's injury, or not. Devers has been streaky over much of his career. Also, from May 23 to before today, his "slump" has been: .812 over 21 games. With slumps like that, who need consistent hitters? 18 RBI in 21 games is like 140+ RBIs over 160.
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There has always been the lure to good pitchers to try and get batters to swing at balls out of the K Zone or out of their comfort zone. Some of the best pitchers "go after" batters near but just out of the K zone more often than we might think. I'm not disagreeing with you. Too much nibbling can backfire, and it also leads to high pitch counts and more taxing of the pen that is optimal.
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I'm not sure it can ever be quantified, especially when comparing catchers from different teams, staffs, parks, coaching and more. It's one of those, "You know it when you see it" things. I liked Vaz, but it was sort of a long-standing beef I had, that our other catchers, for the most part, got better numbers from the same pitchers during the same seasons, more often than not. Even the more unbalanced and smaller sample size comps seemed to greatly favor the "other guy." Vaz did hit better than the other guy, most seasons and had a decent CS%, and some other metrics, but not that unmeasurable aspect.
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Bello had a 3.86 ERA and 3.22 FIP over his previous 4 starts, before today's gem. Maybe, he is finally giving us what we hoped he could. Both the Bello & Rafaela extensions are looking better than they did a few weeks ago.
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SEA is up 6-0, late vs CLE, so the WC standings will look like this: 39-32 TBR +3 38-33 TOR+2 36-34 SEA --______ 36-35 MN -0.5 37-36 BOS -0.5 35-35 CLE and 36-36 TEX -1.0 Crazy how in less than a week, so much can change.
