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  1. moonslav59
    Making it look ho-hum, is not a bad thing, though, is it?
  2. moonslav59
    My bad. 1.11. bWAR would be 2.38.
  3. moonslav59
    There is a $3M buyout if Buehler takes it, and we don't want to pay him $25M. If he takes it and we accept, he gets $25M. If he refuses, we could offer him a QO and not owe him the buyut.
  4. moonslav59
    I didn't call him a 1 WAR player. I just responded to him being called one. BTW, 1.4/202 is not equal to 1.1/160. Not trying to nitpick, but just responding.
  5. moonslav59
    Sox are 8th in runs scored (3 behind 6th place) T5th in everyday player fWAR 8th in OPS (.001 from 7th) 15th in ISO. 4th in pitching fWAR 6th in FIP 8th in ERA- 27th in OAA (Defense) but 3rd in DRS.
  6. moonslav59
    Except Rafaela has been more than a 1 WAR player. 1.2 fWAR per 160 3.0 bWAR per 160.
  7. moonslav59
    I'm thinking we'll give him the offer, unless he gets hurt or looks bad, and another comp pick is a good get.
  8. moonslav59
    We almost had a full system sweep, tonight, but GRE lost 1-0. Woo won 5-0. Criswell looked awesome: 8Ks and 0 BB in a 2 hit 5 shutout inning start. Grandal and Mayer homered. Mayer and Anthony both doubled and went 2-4 POR scored 5 in the 8th to win 9-8. Monegro struggled, but the O had 10 hits and 6 walks. Jh Garcia 2-5. GRE lost 1-0 and managed just 3 hits. SAL won 12-6, Brooks went 5 one hit innings (4K/3BB) Encarnacion continued his hot hitting with two 2Bs (up to .820) and Anderson added one, himself (.888). Arias 0-4 w BB (.818.)
  9. moonslav59
    Wilson is long out of options. I think we send down Wink or Weissert, or keep Newcomb stretched out by having him in Woo's rotation. I do think others are better than Wilson, but I doubt we expose him to waivers. We like to keep decent options around, but I guess if they see he is no longer decent, maybe we cut ties early.
  10. moonslav59
    I answered: "I'd put Chapman 2nd and Weissert ahead of Wink." (The rest is about right.)
  11. moonslav59
    He's on pace for a 3-4 WAR season, thanks to his D.
  12. moonslav59
    I missed the "might be sent down" quote. I'm not sure avoiding long term commitments is a sign of a lack of confidence. Anyway, he's always looked like a decent batter, to me.
  13. moonslav59
    When we call up Anthony, Rafaela becomes higher depth than DHam at 2B, SS and 3B. He's also above Romy v RHPs. Romy can play 1B, so I think he stays over DHam. Rafaela can also steal bases, but not like DHam. If Casas is heating up, Grissom is losing the outside chance he could be called up to play 1B w Romy. I'm not sure how much raking in AAA improved Grissom's trade value, and there is no hurry to trade a middle infielder, just yet, but the day might ne near.
  14. moonslav59
    We have "played worse" than our record shows, now, is what I meant. Yes, I think we are a playoff team, on paper, but have played like crap against weaker teams than we have in past years. I like this team.
  15. moonslav59
    Nice game, for sure. Good to see Casas with a dinger and Rafaela get on base 3 times. Bello got the job done, and the last 3 RP'ers were pretty much lights out. Hey, and this was a winning team we beat. NYY, BAL, TBR & TOR all lost! The Sox are a half game from 1st place: 14-10 NYY 14-11 BOS 12-12 TOR 9-13 BAL 9-14 TBR We have the 5th best record in the AL and hold the second WC berth, 25 games into the season (just over 15% of the games.) Not bad, considering our D has sucked, 3 of our top 6 SP'ers are on the IL, not counting Sandoval, and a bunch of players we were counting on have been in slumps.
  16. moonslav59
    I'd put Chapman 2nd and Weissert ahead of Wink.
  17. moonslav59
    You could be right. When you pitch more than 1 IP, like he did in 9 of his first 22 outings, it's hard to gauge what is overuse. Pre- All Star game, he pitched in 33 games in 96 days. He pitched back-to-back days 5 times with only one time involving going into the second inning in one of those games. He had 8 days off then 5 off before his first meltdown game right after the AS break. He fell apart on July 19th and never really recovered. 8.05 ERA and 6.48 FIP He was shut down on SEP 10. He did have a 4 game stretch before that SEP 10 game (3 IP 1 H 0BB 3K and 0ER.)
  18. moonslav59
    What was Ryan's spin rate?
  19. moonslav59
    Doesn't it seem a bit contradictory, when some of us claimed we were better than our record showed, due to the unbalanced schedule and playing so many ALE teams, and Red shot down that point? Now, the weak schedule says we are worse than our record shows? I'd say you can't have it both ways. That being said, I do think we were better back then, and are worse than our record shows, now. At least this position is consistent.
  20. moonslav59
    Better to say they lost 50% of their top 6 starters, on paper.
  21. moonslav59
    Abreu has not proven he can hit LHPs well enough to break out of the platoon role. Duran has not done great vs lefties, either, so maybe he can get a few days off as Abreu or Rafaela get to play vs some LH'd starters. I think Anthony needs to play near FT to be worth the call up, and I mean almost totally FT. When Devers gets a day off, we could DH an OF'er (Duran or Anthony.)
  22. moonslav59
    I see the point on Bello, but if he had/has a couple really good years, the whole idea can shift to it looking good. He's making $2.5, this year, which would have been pre-arb. $6M in '26 and $8.5M in '27 seems like very high arb contracts. $16M in '28 is where it really starts looking very sketchy and risky. $19M in '29 with a $1M buyout for '30 is not a killer. I'm hopeful he can make this deal look good. He might have a better chance at proving it that Rafaela.
  23. moonslav59
    Duran has played CF more than LF, so far. He does not have a strong arm, especially from the triangle, but fangraphs has these arm scores for CF only: +3.0 Rafaela +1.8 Duran I don't think the drop off on defense in CF as as big as many seem to think it would or might be. The possibility of huge gains on offense with Anthony over Rafaela is just too high for me to say no to.
  24. moonslav59
    I hope people don't think I dislike Rafaela, because I like Anthony better. I love great up-the-middle defense. I also think Rafaela can improve his offense. I'm just not sure if he can reach the .700 to .725 range for a full season. I think he can get enough playing time with an Anthony call-up to still show he can hit .700+. He's had 700+ PAs, already. That's more than Dalbec had, before he lost his job, but of course Dalbec was a horrible defender. Casas had about 150 more PAs, than Rafaela, before this year. With no Sox OF'er, other than Refsnyder losing team control for 3 more years, it seems like a squeeze is present, but since RAF can play a decent 2B and OK SS & 3B, he should have a good shot at earning back a FT job.
  25. moonslav59
    Yes. I have had discussions with him over the deal, and it seems his main issue was about why the hurry? (Same with Bello.)
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