moonslav59

If Story has the season you projected, he'll probably still not opt out.

Keep the mojo rising!

Just like that: Crochet & Campbell locked up. Devers was smiling on the field. Storytime is not a snoozer. Mayer is pushing against the door. Abreu is saying, "trade me, why????" I'm not sure I ever felt so good watching a 2 and 4 team. Has the Sox upper brass really set the bar this low? (LOL)

Jap Stock looked pretty good, too- and for longer. Hard to sit Story or Bregman to give Mayer a shot. Could Campbell to LF, Duran to CF and Abreu/Ref in RF make room for Mayer at 2B? Rafaela could be that uberutility man Cora has always wanted. DHam and Narvaez would complete a very nice bench.

I really do believe that. I know people say they don't listen, but the grumbling was ground-shaking. They had to feel the vibes. I also truly believe they saw the rising prospect crop and tried their hardest to con fans into thinking they were trying to "win now," but it was always about the long term. They could not make it a 100% tear-down rebuild, so they had to walk a tight rope for a while (not to well, i might add,) but here we are. The cycle of going for the now has arrived. It was the longest interval under JH & Co., but I think this is how they plan. Cycles. 2013 may not have been the plan, and maybe it convinced them they could keep winning, even during the "off cycles" with the right GM and coaching, but it's not easy. (2021 bought more time.) Bloom's #1 job was to rebuild the farm, while trying to give the appearances we were not totally giving up. Had we not done well in 2021. the jig would have been up, earlier than now, IMO. As much as Bloom gets roasted alive, as did Ben, both provided some strong building blocks for those who followed. DD used them to trade, while Brez seems to have found a healthy mix. We'll see.

Even your guy, Story hit well, tonight.

I mentioned it a few times over the winter, but yes. D is often overlooked, unless it sucks.

Does anybody wish we kept Bogey and not got that comp pick?

That was very nice. Overall, our D is way better.

Nice game, even saw a bit of offense.

KC is an athlete, so there is hope he can get better at whatever position(s) he ends up playing.

Or, if the ones he did invest in did well. While a few like Wacha did okay, the highest paid SP'er all sucked. Richards, Kluber, Paxton & Perez.

To give you an idea of just how tiny these sample sizes are, Story's OPS just jumped from .321 to .610 with just one swing of the bat.

Not sure about this, at all.

It might look that way if he dropped him below 4th. Last year, he batted 4th 430 times, 2nd 153 times and 3rd 18 times.

Salaries coming off the books, next winter (AAV): $31.7M Bregman, if he opts out. $21.1M Buehler $19.3M Giolito, if team option not given $10.8M Chapman $5M Hendriks, if team option not given $2.3M Wilson $2.1M Refsnyder So, anywhere from $35M to $90M.

To each his own. I didn't think saying 3-67 added anything further. I was going on the assumption that posters on here had watched the games and knew the sample size would be around 3 for 67. In fact, I'd have thought it might have been 70+ PAs, so saying 67 made it look better than I expected. 🤪

That catch he almost made in LF showed me that maybe he could maybe be a plus defender in the OF, if we need or want him there. (Yes, a one play sample size! LOL)

Yes, sorry. I thought of that right after I clicked enter, but figured it was still useful info.

Maybe 2-3 pre-arb years and 3-4 arb years, so I'm thinking one or two FA years plus the 2 options available, so 2-4, maybe?

According to soxprospects.com, here are the ETAs on their next highest ranked prospects: 2025 (late) Dobbins (8th) 2026: Perales (4th), Sandlin (11th), JH Garcia (12th). Romero (13th) & Early (14th) 2027: Bleis (6th) & Tolle (10th) 2028: Arias (5th), Cespedes (7th), Jo Garcia (15th) As of now, none of these prospects listed look to make the money KC just signed for.

It’s perhaps not an accident that the club waited until after Opening Day to get this deal done. It was reported last March that players who sign pre-debut extensions, like Chourio, aren’t eligible for the prospect promotion incentive. To discourage service time manipulation, the current collective bargaining agreement put measures in place to encourage teams to carry top prospects on Opening Day rosters. One of those measures is that top prospects who are called up early enough to earn a full service year can earn their clubs an extra draft pick via awards voting. -Darragh McDonald

I guess since I copied and pasted from a previous post, it turns weird.

No problem. It does seem to hurt a little when so many ex-Sox players keep doing well.

It's hard to imagine KC not being worth $19 or $21 that far ahead, but if he's not, it's a nice "insurance" to have. He'll be 30 and 31 those option years.