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  1. moonslav59
    Casas, onlyh if we move Devers to 1B and have faith that Campbell, Mayer, Grissom can play 3B. (All should be better on D than Devers is.)
  2. moonslav59
    Agreed. Our catching depth is not very good, beyond Wong and Teel, and Wong's defense needs vast improvement, and Teel is just a prospect. Corner IF is very weak on depth. Meidroth offers hope, and moving a middle IF'er to 3B could be good enough, but yes, OF and MI seem to be over-loaded. The middle IF part seems strange, since 2B and SS have been one of our weakest areas, even when we had Bogey. OF: Duran, Abreu, Rafaela, Anthony, Refsnyder/Yoshida (DH)/ Campbell, Montgomery, Bleis, Valdez (?,) Jh Garcia, Castro, Cespedes (?) Taylor, Ehrhard, Fermin, Brito, Turner MIF: Story, Campbell, Mayer, DHam, Grissom, Romy, Meidroth, Sogard, Valdez/ Romero, Arias, Cespedes, Cason, Riemer, Anderson, Alcantara, Nunez, Pinto
  3. moonslav59
    Plus, his numbers diminished, pretty quickly and significantly. I know injury was part of the reason, but there was no reason to expect a turn-around. 2012-2015 (4 years before BOS) 2.90 ERA (133 ERA+) 2.90 FIP and 5K/BB 4 years w BOS (98 GS) 3.84 (118 ERA+) 3.74 ERA+ and 3.9 K/BB We needed an ace, badly. I thought Price was a must do deal. He helped us get a ring in '18, and that may have made the deal "worth it," but his first 4 years of the 7 year deal fell significantly short of what I had hoped for.
  4. moonslav59
    I'm not either. Too unreliable, and that has been a major issue with our rotation.
  5. moonslav59
    No more words. We need actions. (Emphasis on the "s.")
  6. moonslav59
    I get your point and agree 100%. We don't even have expensive arbs, this winter and not much, next winter. No excuses, at all.
  7. moonslav59
    Or become like my Packers.
  8. moonslav59
    "If that's what it takes" are the words than make me wonder. Of course, that's WHAT IT TAKES! DUDE! We all know it does. The fact that he is acting like they need to figure that out, still, makes me think "sham" all over agin.
  9. moonslav59
    I totally agree, but I am so far from expecting we even go over the line by $19.9M, it's not funny. I doubt we go over it at all. I could even see us coming $5-15M short. That's how low my expectations have sunk.
  10. moonslav59
    He's going to get 14 years- 13 min. Opts outs are too hard to project, but I guess he might worry the market could keep going up and up. I just think $600-700M/14 is not something anyone should worry about ending up feeling short-changed.
  11. moonslav59
    This has been a long-standing point made by many, including myself, but until we actually see JH open his wallet, again, I think we will continue thinking of trades. We also will have a glut of talent and only 13 slots on the ML roster for our wealth of positional players. To me, it makes sense, even if we spend big to add to the 26, we can think a trade or two can fix some of our weaker areas (pen & rotation) by trading duplicated values on the positional side of the 40 and the farm.
  12. moonslav59
    That says it all, MVP. The kids are ready. The foundation is set. Maybe they think giving the kids one year to get established, and waiting another winter makes more sense, but Red Sox Nation is tired of waiting. The time is now!
  13. moonslav59
    Just outbidding the Rays for Eflin and keeping Nate or Wacha around, instead of signing Masa might have snuck us into the playoffs 1-2 times.
  14. moonslav59
    Gotta love Soto's consistently high OPS+ 142 at ages 19 and 20. 217 at age 21 was off-the-charts. 175 and 147 at 22 & 23 Then 155 with the Padres at 24 and 178 with NYY at 25. I can't stop from comparing him to Manny, and when you look at Manny's full 14 seasons, from ages 23 to 36, you see he had 2 seasons in the mid 180's as his highest, ever. He led the league, just ones at 174 at age 27. His age 26 to 36 went like this: 146, 174, 186, (BOS>>>)162, 184, 160, 162, 153, 165, 126, 166 (BOS+LAD) At ages 37 & 38, in just 751 PAs total, he still put up a 147 OPS+! If Soto can match the 13 seasons Manny had from age 26 to 38, signing him is a no-brainer: 1.015 OPS (159 OPS+) .315 BA 41 HRs per 162 135 RBI per 162 350 TB per 162 Soto's last 5 seasons: .959 OPS, but a 168 OPS+, which is better than Manny's 13 year stretch. 35 HRs and 100 RBI per 162 falls short of Manny, as does his 299 TB/162. Manny at ages 21-25: .940 OPS (140 OPS+) 32 HRs and 109 RBI per 162 w 311 TB. It's hard to know if Soto can age like Manny, and there doesn't seem to be as many antics or drama moments to his career, but to me, he looks like a once in a generation kinds free agent. We should have kept Betts, but signing Soto would go a long way to helping us get over that huge blunder.
  15. moonslav59
    Hell, go 13 or 14, if it's all about years. Still would not get him to age 40.
  16. moonslav59
    Good call.... They both were about the same age, had played 7 seasons, had about 930 games and 4,000 PAs, when signed. Soto: .953 OPS (160 OPS+) Per 650: .285 32 98 Harper: .900 OPS (149 OPS+) Per 650: .279 30 87
  17. moonslav59
    We will likely add a ML one, too. I can't see Gasper on the 26, opening day.
  18. moonslav59
    Correct, it was notin's quote he was responding to. My bad.
  19. moonslav59
    Good one. I think he was 26 1/2 and had a .900 OPS w WSH in 927 games and almost 4000 PAs. 7 seasons and 184 HRs. Per 650 PAs: .279 30 86 Soto: 7 years. 936 games and just over 4,000 PAs. (201 HRs) Per 650: .285 33 94
  20. moonslav59
    It's kinda weird how we have done much better with lower comp picks than our top picks. 2023: Campbell picked after Duffy, Anderson, Zanetello & Teel. 2022: Anthony after Coffey & Romero 2014: Kopech (Ellsbury) after Chavis (later part of Sale trade) 2012: B Johnson & P light (both for Papelbon) after Marrero 2011: Owens (VMart) after Swihart (Beltre) and Barnes (VMart) -both also comp picks. 2011: JBJ (Beltre) after Owens, Swihart & Barnes 2010: Vitek & Ranaudo (Wagner) were our first & third picks. Brentz & Workman (Jason Bay) were our 2nd and 4th picks. 2008: Stephen Fife (Hunter Morris) after Gibson, B Price (Gagne) and Casey Kelly We've had some good luck with comp picks. Let's hope the streak continues with the one for Pivetta. 2006: Daniel Bard and K Johnson (Damon) after Jason Place. 2005 wins the award: 1. Ellsbury (Cabrera) 2. Hansen (D Lowe) 3. Buccholz (pedro) 4. Lowrie (Cabrera) 5. Bowden (D Lowe) 6. Egan (Pedro) Followw this trail: We traded Nomar for Cabrera and a ring, then got Jacoby and Lowrie for Cabrera. Later we got Kopech for Ellsbury and Sale for Kopech (and others.) Now, we have Grissom for Sale. The gift keeps giving, even if the last one was a boobie prize.
  21. moonslav59
    Yes. I have never called the Sox "Tampa Bay North." I just said that the Bloom hiring and quick trade of Mookie was likely a big factor in the term being used by others.
  22. moonslav59
    I agree. I challenge everyone to name another past 26 year old FA as good as Soto. In this sense, he is "generational."
  23. moonslav59
    A guy named Hugh said it.
  24. moonslav59
    A player might have a higher potential of sticking in the bigs but a low ceiling than someone with less of a potential to stick.
  25. moonslav59
    Where is it listed?
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