moonslav59
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I see your point. It's mostly what I read about KC's athleticism. I do believe he cannot be worse on D than Casas, but Lowe has one arb left, so Casas may DH, anyway. KC's best slot is likely LF or DH, assuming his bat comes around.
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I think Mayer will be a damn good player, but the injury concerns are just too high for my liking. Our need for a 2Bman, and maybe a SS, once Story leaves, as well as 3B depth are major issues on this team, so trading away a kid like Mayer is very risky, but I'd be okay with including him in a trade for someone like Ryan, Skenes but probably not a Keller type. We have too many OF'ers, so I have to think one gets traded. We could also trade KC and/or Mayer and roll the dice with Romero and Arias as eventual depth or replacements to our infield. If we trade all three, our return should be very nice. If we add pitchers like Sandlin, Mullins, Early or Clarke, we might be able to make 2 big trades. The next step would be to somehow get Yoshida off the 40 man, but parking him in AAA could be an option. I think we keep Casas as a DH option, because his trade value is close to nil, but his potential is an .850- 30 HR guy.
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The 2026 Red Sox Foundation & One Possible Plan
moonslav59 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
We have a lot of extensions kicking in, next year, but few costly arbs. We lost the Devers contract and will lose some contracts that brought us zero or negative value: $21M Buehler & $5M Hendriks. On the surface, it appears we should be able to afford Bregman, Chapman, Gio and one significant FA signing or trade for a higher cost player, but JH is a big unknown. I'd like to think he sees the window wide open and makes this a high spending season in his decades long trend of spending in cycles. I think we are more likely to "overpay" in players going to MIN for Ryan than overpaying by giving Cease, King or Framber a mega contract with 2-3 years more than should be. Ryan is not a financial burden, so trading for him allows us to keep our players and maybe add a less costly right-side infielder via free agency. Hell, Alonso will cost less than Framber or Cease. -
Maybe 2025 turns into another 2021- just a quick up season before going back to losing. I'm not saying I wasn't encouraged after 2021 and going into 2022, but I feel much better about our extended future, now than I did then. We had just come off that horrific 2020 season and had many of the same concerns: aging stars, big contracts expiring and needing to be renewed or replaces, and a stingy owner who did very little added spending for 2022. We may see JH gets stingy, this winter. I've given up expecting a big spending winter, but last winter did give me some hope. (Then, we dumped Devers, so now I'm back to flipping coins.) This is a fun team to watch: so was 2021. We still had JD, Vaz, Bogey, Nate and ERod... all coming up on paydays and some in decline, already. Our farm did not look great, especially with ML ready players.
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Young MLB players sign these deals precisely to get paid more early and to hedge against injury or sucking.
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You can be "athletic" and still be awful on defense. Duran was an example, earlier in his career. Another thing, KC cannot be worse than Casas on D at 1B. That's impossible. Casas can be the DH, after we trade or DFA Yoshida. (Dreaming, I know.)
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I think we trade for a SP'er. FA SP'ers are too expensive. We'll trade for Ryan and bring back Bregman & Chapman. I'm not sure about Gio. He's gonna want big bucks.
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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 think we just limit Crochets pitch counts and when we get Sept days off, he'll get extra days here and there. It's not a bad idea to have him just skip a start on a rotation with a day off. -
How hard can 1B be for an athletic guy? He'd probably be okay in LF, after a few months. I do think he still has high trade value and BTV agrees. I think we trade him and either Duran or Abreu. We might add some farm pitchers not named Tolle or Valera and get some nice returns.
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If he could just have more discipline. It's the only way one can ever improve.
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I shoulda said half inning. Glad I didn't jinx it. Too bad someone didn't teach Rafaela to have more discipline and lay off that pitch, right? LOL
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Futrell pitched well, again (1.37 ERA) as Arias is heating up. (2-4 w 2B.) Rogers pitched well for POR and Castro had 4 hits. Early went 5 IP w no ER (3 unearned) in WOO's win. Campbell 1-4 w BB. Romero, Hickey, Toro & Sogard w 2 hits. Toro homered.
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This is legendary with what we are seeing with Chapman.
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This is a storybook inning. Magically, Rafaela is back to the league norm of .720 with one swing.
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Just like that, we seem to be back to out old ways.
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Errr... I meant DHam Single time.
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DHam dinger time!
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Had a feeling after the first walk of the game, and some pitches being way outside, it was Bello's times up.
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Bello's ERA just dipped below 3.00. WOW!
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His numbers are amazing. He's Rule 5, this year. I doubt they are holding him back to avoid his selection odds going too high, but I share your curiosity. He's top 10 on the farm in IP, but take a gander at the OPS Against numbers: .531 Fajardo 65 IP FCL/A- (18 years old) .550 Mullins 87 IP A+/AA (24 years old) .556 Rivera 73 IP A+/AA (22) .590 Tolle 92 IP 3 teams (22) .597 Aita 196 IP A-/A+ (22) .609 Early AA/AAA (22) He's older than all these guys.
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He was an uberman.
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Marl Belanger played 18 seasons and also won 8 GGs. His career .580 OPS did not stop him from receiving MVP votes in 3 seasons. The O's won the WS in 1970 with Belanger batting .562.
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exactly, and he had to go back pretty often, because he was so shallow.
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With platoon guy Abreu on the IL, this would have been a day to give Duran a breather and RHB Jh Garcia another shot, but watch Duran go off, tonight!
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Every team in MLB would love to have KC and his contract. Nobody wants Yoshida at 30% of his contract. One is plus value- one is negative. BTW, BTV still has KC valued highly (40.4,) For reference, Duran is 64.4, Rafaela 42.6. Mayer 51.2, Abreu 37.4 and Arias 22.2. Both Yoshida and Story are over 30 negative.
