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  1. moonslav59
    I agree: we need to see action, as in some serious spending to show a true commitment. I would not call Crochet "crickets," but Chapman and he are not nearly enough to show an improvement over a team that missed the playoffs. While I agree that Anthony, as well as Campbell and Mayer are pure speculative values, I am near certain one or two will be plusses, this year. I mean how sure are we of DHam, Grissom, Narvaez or even Rafaela (or Abreu v LHPs?) Make big signing or two moderate ones, one more trade from surplus areas and we should be much better on paper. If we look much better but disappoint, well, at least we can say we tried.
  2. moonslav59
    One of the stories on the possible Casas to SEA trade rumors was that they were looking for a RHB 1Bman, not a lefty. Now, there is a rumor they are looking at Josh Naylor- a LHB. Would you do Casas for Castillo? If SEA says no, would you add Rafaela or DHam? I doubt SEA does Casas, Abreu & Fitts for Miller or Woo.
  3. moonslav59
    They still have Castro 18th. Sometimes they really stick with certain players way too long.
  4. moonslav59
    40 Man Roster Changes this Winter PLUS: Crochet & Narvaez by trade, Chapman & Wilson by free agency and Jh Garcia & Dobbins by Rule 5 protecting. MINUS: Pivetta, O'Neill, K Jansen, Martin, DJansen, E Valdez, Sims & Garcia (not counting players who are not on the 40 but still in the system or players who left the team before the end of the season.) Notables who left during the season: McGuire, P Reyes & C Anderson
  5. moonslav59
    With Arenado refusing the Astros trade, I wonder if we may have talks with STL, and no, not with Yoshida going to STL. Apparently, STL was willing to pay $5M for each of the 3 remaining years. (COl is paying $5M for the next 2 years, each.) If the number stayed the same, his cost would be: $22M in 2025 ($20.5 AAV) $17M in 2026 ($20.5 AAV) $10M in 2027 ($10 AAV) If we gave them Rafaela, the total money would be pretty close, but the AAV would be: $14M in 2025 and 2026, and $3.5 in 2027, then a savings of about $6M/yr from 2028 to 2031`. He'd greatly improve our defense, and the contract would still allow us to sign a pitcher and maybe TH and a pitcher, or sign TH and trade Abreu and Casas for a pitcher. (Throw in Wink! LOL)
  6. moonslav59
    Who takes half-Price at half price? Porcello was a no-brainer, granted, but many were bummed about losing Kimbrel, until he started sucking. Some wanted ERod back. Some wish we now had Sale.
  7. moonslav59
    Good stuff. SP's had Romero as high as 8th, so maybe they were not that far off. My ups and downs, right now, are... I'm higher on Cespedes han most. Both he and Jh garcia are top 10. I like Jo Garcia, too, but over a small sample size. I think D Reyes keeps moving up. I've always felt like they had Castro too high. I think they are so high on Cason, because of the Ohtani Effect.
  8. moonslav59
    If the bar is just to be "better," I can't disagree. I do think the half-Price dump may have needed to be a 3/4 Price dump. I'd still like to see what the budgets would have been, all those years, and you still did a bit of hindsight picks.
  9. moonslav59
    Come on, Man, what? Give nate 33 starts in 2020, and he still is lower than Nick.
  10. moonslav59
    I remember reading, at the time of the trade, that Abreu was the real prize, not the recent hard-hitting Valdez. They did seem to undervalue WA and overvalue EV. Who would you say they are short-changing, now?
  11. moonslav59
    You could hindsight hand-pick all the best signings from 2019-2024 and make it work at almost any budget above $180M.
  12. moonslav59
    Same years as Nate (4). Houck started more games than Pivetta in 2020 (3-2.)
  13. moonslav59
    Yes, I asked the question. I do not think small signings need a boards approval. I doubt moderate ones do, either, unless they bring the budget over what was set. I'm not sure how they do it, especially on major deals. That may indeed be a big part of the problem, and why it seems to take forever for a formal offer to even be made. What seams troubling to me, if we hear rumors of player A getting $200M/6 offers, and 2 weeks later, we hear we offered $180M/5.
  14. moonslav59
    I was all for keeping Betts, but it would have made for some serious juggling and payroll boosts to make it work. Yes, it was JH's choice. I agree on that.
  15. moonslav59
    In 2023, yes, but no so much the other 3 years. 2021: 30 GS/ 1 RP gm 2022: 33 GS/ 0 RP gm 2023: 16 GS/ 22 RP gms 2024: 26 GS/ 1 RP gm (15 days on IL) Nobody else came close to starting as many games for the Sox, since 2019. 107 Pivetta, 73 Nate, 71 Houck, 69 Crawford & Bello IP: 633 Pivetta, 431 Houck, 408 Nate, 392 Crawford, 377 Bello Pivetta leads in both areas from '22-'24, too.
  16. moonslav59
    Does JH and Brez really need permission for every signing? I think there is merely input on what the spending budget is and then it's not all that complicated.
  17. moonslav59
    Well, I thought the idea was to keep the team intact. Okay, take away Kimbrel and the contract he got and replace him with someone better at $14M. Why do you assume the budget would be higher than the $20M I added? You think trading Price + half his money would be easier without including Betts? Also, what about the need to give Bogey a bigger and longer extension, and how has he been since he left BOS? Do we keep JBJ? We can "best case scenario" this to death and create a decent team, but the costs were going through the ceiling, even with Porcello coming off the books and later, Pedey. Imagine the payroll being $18)m, which is what it was, not $200, like I suggested. Of course, it was JH's "choice" to slash & Burn, and Betts was the poster boy for that, but that roster was a tough one to keep strong without massive spending. The farm help did eventually come, but not really in time to keep us strong from 2019 to today.
  18. moonslav59
    The lack of an ability to trade Yoshida makes this the best option. I feel like we'd be selling low on Casas, but it's hard to guess those things. We can get way more for Casas than Yoshida. If we decide to give Anthony a FT OF role, we could trade Casas and Abreu for pitching. 1. Duran LF 2. Bregman 3B 3. Story SS 4. Devers 1B 5. Yoshida-Ref DH 6. Anthony RF 7. Campbell 2B or DHam-Grissom platoon 8. Wong-Narvaez C 9. Rafaela CF (We could also play Campbell in CF, if DHam and Grissom are doing well at 2B) Keeping Casas greatly improves the line-up but turns Yoshida into a bench waste and forces us to ...gasp, gasp, gasp...spend on pitching.
  19. moonslav59
    I still look at our roster and think: where are we strongest and weakest? (Hint: it's not the OF or DH.) Strongest to weakest (assuming health, which is a stretch with Story at SS) : DH: Devers, Casas, Yoshida-Ref platoon and Corner IF (except on D): Devers and Casas OF: Duran, Abreu, Rafaela, Anthony (Refsnyder/Yoshida in a pinch and maybe Campbell) MI: Story/Mayer/Romy/Rafaela/DHam at SS and Campbell/ DHam-Grissom/Rafaela/Romy at 2B SP: Crochet, Houck, Bello, Giolito, Crawford, Criswell, Priester, Fitts, Dobbins Pen: Hendriks, Chapman, Slaten, Whitlock, Winckowski, Wilson, Guerrero, Penrod, Kelly, Booser, Weissert
  20. moonslav59
    Is anyone disputing this? Assume we get Mookie to agree to the Dodger contract with us. Assume we don't cut the budget from $236M to $180M like we did, but just reduce to $200M, instead. 31 Price 30 Betts 22 JD 20 Bogey 17 Nate 14 Kimbrel 14 Pedey 20 Vaz, ERod, Barnes This leaves about $30M for the other 30 guys on the 40.
  21. moonslav59
    To me, this is more concerning than if it's all just a sham. How can they be this far off on what they think an offer needs to be to land a FA? Some of the reported offers have been so low, they look Lesteresque.
  22. moonslav59
    Winter is not over, yet, but... Crochet>Pivetta + pen games Jansen, Martin, Anderson, Keller ??=?? Chapman, Hendriks, Fulmer, Wilson & Whitlock O'Neill ??>?? Anthony & Campbell (more OF time by Rafaela, as he should not play SS.) McGuire/DJansen ?? >> ?? Narvaez
  23. moonslav59
    Last I heard, the Dodgers are far away from the number TH wants. Maybe they budge- maybe not. If they don't I don't see the Mets of Yanks making a high bid, so this auction should be winnable for the Sox.
  24. moonslav59
    Even if JH & Co knew they were likely to be outbid on Soto, it does not make a $700M offer non serious or a ploy. It certainly could have been just a public relations sham, or that might have been a factor in making the offer, but it doesn't mean they were 100% certain PLan A was an impossibility. The other point is, even if they thought it was close to impossible, does that mean they should not make a fair offer, anyway? I will say, this is coming from a guy who thought the final offer for Lester was just for show, so I can see where some are coming from. To me, I thought Fried was Plan B, and maybe like the Mets, the Yanks were simply not going to be outbid for him. I'm not sure what Plan C is or was. If It's Burnes or Bregman, and we get shut out again, it sure will look like this has all been taking the sham to a new level. I suppose going for quantity with some quality, like signing Flaherty, Hoffman and Santander might ease my distaste for what has been going on, it would still fall short of what I hoped for.
  25. moonslav59
    Also, the AAV for B & B vs Soto is what matters more than total dollars.
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