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No. 100% paid by SFG. We did take Jordan Hicks ($12M x 3 years after this.) -
Shouldn't a GM be able to get his manager to even ask/tell the player to play where he should be playing?
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Good pull. It does. Let's hope we see the same immediate results.
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Nor Yoshida's, but pitching in some serious cash or taking back a bloated contract might be an option. Duran's poor D, this year makes me think the initial idea is a Duran-Refsnyder DH with Duran playing LF vs some LHPs. Anthony gets his FT role (LF vs R and RF v L) Rafaela stays put as the FT CF'er. When Breg returns, the DH turns into a wider mix, or we make another trade.
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No doubt, that hole cannot be fixed from within the system, this year, no matter how much we may love the 3 kids. We already have a Toro-Romy thing going that is miraculously replacing our preseason Casas expectations pretty well. Now, we have an impossible ask, and to think this was done before Bregman's return makes it even more shocking.
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People talk about how a new manager can shake up a clubhouse. This has to do some serious shaking- for good or bad. Everybody will be doing a self-check after this doozy.
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It seems like anybody could be on the block, now, except a kid. Story's contract. Yoshida's contract. Duran and the OF logjam, even with a DH slot open. Duran has more value to PHI as an OF'er than to BOS as a DH. (Abreu instead of Duran? Sell high on Rafaela?)
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Don't mess with the ABreu-Ref RF platoon. When Ref retires, we can deal with our excess OF by having one move to RF, those games. Rafaela seems to be hitting well enough to stay our FT CF'er, until he proves he can't. Anthony is not going to be traded, now should he, unless he's part of a Skenes trade. That leaves Duran. I have nothing against him. His speed is such a big plus, maybe he should be ranked ahead of Rafaela or Abreu, but our D would suffer a lot by trading one of them over Duran, despite the belief, by many, that Duran is a plus defender. (Duran cannot play RF. Rafaela might be the best defensive CF BOS has ever seen. That's no knock on Jarren.)
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Duran is a FA after 2028. You are two years off.
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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.
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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!
