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  1. moonslav59
    By all accounts, he was a great guy. He very easily can be considered the best "all around" player of alltime. His defense was second to none, in his era. He won 10 straight GG and 11 total. He had enough speed to lead the league 4 times in row in SBs. He ended his career with 339 of them. He also led the league in triples, 3 times. With the bat, he rarely K'd more than 80 times a season and came pretty close to having more BBs (1468) than Ks (1526 in 12,545 PAs!) He led the league in BA, once and ended with a .301 BA and .384 OBP. Twice he led the league in OBP and 5 times in SLG. His power was enormous. He led the league in HRs 4 times during an era with plenty of HR hitters. He led the league in TBs, 3 times and OPS, 5 times, including once at age 34. He was ROY and then spent almost 2 years in the military. 2 MVPs (12 times a top 6 MVP vote getter) 24 AS He ended up with a .940 career OPS (155 OPS+) Papi retired at age 40 with a 141 OPS+ for some perspective. From age 39-42, he still had an OPS of .846 (136 OPS+) RIP Say Hey!
  2. moonslav59
    Interesting concept to cut salary and lessen the return we'd normally get. I'd say it might work, if we could be sure JH would spend the savings, but we can't say that. Probably, only the Dodgers might even consider something like this. Yoshida is owed about $56M, after 2024. At the deadline, it might be around $62M still owed. I don't think any contender would ever play Yoshida, but if they get some real talent with him, maybe taking on much of his contract might be an idea. A lot would depend on how much a team wants 1 or two from Jansen, Pivetta, Martin or O'Neill. I'm wondering how much we'd have to pay a team to take him off our hands for zero return. $47 of the $62M/3.3 yrs left? $52M? How about Wink, Yorke, Yoshida and half what we owe him ($31M) for a far away prospect?
  3. moonslav59
    MLB OPS Leaders 18 players are over .850 with 180 ABs and we have 3 of them: 1.115 Judge 1.024 Soto .996 Ohtani .994 Ozuna .986 Kwan .979 Tucker .951 G Henderson .930 Devers .916 Witt .912 O'Neill .906 Harper .905 Freeman .903 Profar .896 Correa .893 Betts .873 Y Alvarez .863 K Marte .850 C Wong
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    Don't look, now, but O'Neill is over .900 and Rafaela is nearing .690. We can't seem to gain much ground on the teams above us in the WC race. Currently, we are 11th in MLB. -2.0 from MIN, who is tied w TBR at 6-6 in the 9th. -2.5 from KCR (and ATL from the NL) -4.0 from #7 MIL and -4.5 from #6 SEA On the flipside, we are 2 up on #12 STL and 14 teams are between a .452 Win% and .500. (3.5 games seperate STL from #25 TEX & HOU!) Only 8 games seperate 18 teams in MLB #8 ATL and #25 TEX/HOU Only 7 games seperate us from #4 CLE and being 25th by ourselves.
  5. moonslav59
    Woo took it on the chin, tonight, losing 16-4. Yorke went 0-5 and Lugo 0-4 w 3Ks Meidroth was 1-4 with his usual BB. Abreu 0-4 in rehab Alvarez homered and Kavadas, Sogard and Gasper all had 2 hits. POR won 12-11. Campbell is just going absolutely nutty: 3-3 w a HR and BB & HBP Teel & Mayer went 3-5 Jordan had a 3-run triple Anthony 0-5 GRE lost 1-0 as Early pitched well 5IP of 1 hit/2BB no runs allowed ball.. C Coffey sucks: no HR and only 2-4 SAL won 2-1 as Rodriguez "Cruzed" through 5 (2H, 1 BB 0ER) Brannon 3-4 (up to .819) Anderson 2-4 FCL won 5-4 Arias 3-4 w BB Cespy 1-5
  6. moonslav59
    If it was a 1 year of Sale for 1 year of Grissom, maybe, but Grissom has a long time to redeem himself (or maybe a short time to prove he's a flop.)
  7. moonslav59
    If O'Neill keeps hitting like this, he should fetch a decent prospect. If he's part of a package deal, it could get interesting. I do think Pivetta & Jansen have the highest trade value, as of now. If Martin puts together 6 weeks of elite pitching, he could, too. It's starting to look more and more like maybe we don't sell, but who knows?
  8. moonslav59
    Ref has another year of control, unlike O'Neill, and one of our weakest areas is lack of RH'd bats. I don't see us trading one of MLB's best RH'd bats (Ref) over the last 2-3 seasons, combined. Only 17 batters in all of MLB have more PAs and a better OPS v LHPs than Ref since 2022. That's a 3 year period of over 280 PAs.
  9. moonslav59
    Anything can happen, but our bench has been our savior, so far, and with players coming back (Abreu, Grissom- who may need to earn another shot in AAA and I Campbel & later, Hendriks. It might take 2-3 OF injuries for Anthony to be the guy called up. If Wong or McGuire gets hurt, I think Heineman is the guy we promote. We have 3 middle infielders who have been doing pretty well: DHam, Romy and EValdez. Westbrook may be replaced by Grissom, and maybe even Yorke is above Mayer on the ML Ready AAA list. We also have Alvarez & Sogard. One way I could see these guys called up, if if we have a major firesale and teardown, where 4-5 roster slots open up on the 40. We all know the FAs to be: Jansen, O'Neill, Martin, Pivetta, Anderson, DSmith and Keller. Maybe we decide to trade Wink and McGuire or some surprise guys Brez and or Cora has soured on. I just think the odds are low we see any of the big 3 in 2024. I would not be surprised if we wait until mis 2025 or even SEPT '25 to see even one.
  10. moonslav59
    I'm talking frozen buttah- hard as iron! LOL
  11. moonslav59
    Time will tell, and we should know more in 6 weeks.
  12. moonslav59
    A very nice win. To be honest, I kinda felt like it was going to be a loss. O'Neill has been buttah.
  13. moonslav59
    That was very deflating.
  14. moonslav59
    How many errors are just simple dropped balls or flubs as they go to throw?
  15. moonslav59
    Yoshi Whahhh?
  16. moonslav59
    The way this year is going, we might be in the exact same place as now.
  17. moonslav59
    Before the year began, I thought our offense would be okay (top 10-12,) but I was not all that confident. As you pointed out, some good bats had departed, and most were replaced by question marks. It's too early to grade Brez, and I think the Sale trade is being used to grade him more poorly than he deserves, but such is life as a GM.
  18. moonslav59
    I'd love to see all our big 3 up as soon as possible. The day we call them up will be a happy one for me. I trust Sox brass to know when that day is.
  19. moonslav59
    It took VTek until about 30 years old to be known for his defense. He was 26, when he first saw significant action and 27 for his first .800+ OPS season. I think, with catchers, the age of reaching maturity is maybe more like 27-29 than 24-27.
  20. moonslav59
    Agreed. I am just speaking to the no point in keeping Dalbec just for 3B depth.
  21. moonslav59
    I think timetables for catchers are different. On D, Mayer and Anthony are already ML ready. I have no idea how they view Teel on D, but I guess DH could be an option vs RHPs, at least. Beating out O'Neill and Ref vs LHPs would not be easy..
  22. moonslav59
    Its got to the point where I'm not surprised, anymore. Sad, but true.
  23. moonslav59
    AA June OPS 1.416 Anthony 1.283 Binelas (the other prospect in the Renfroe trade) 1.123 Campbell 1.067 Lugo .990 Teel .985 Jordan .892 Mayer AAA 1.359 Gasper 1.153 Yorke 1.009 Meidroth .877 Sogard .818 Lugo .806 Alvarez .802 Kavadas
  24. moonslav59
    It's almost always longer than I think, so I'm trying to be realistic. Being a catcher is not easy. I'm not sure how they view his defensive readiness, and I'm not sure we want to take our improved pitching staff out of their comfort zone with McGuire and Wong. Players not needing to be on the 40, often get left in AAA longer, as teams want to keep as many MLB ready options in the system, as possible. I think Teel, Mayer and Anthony all might be ML ready, very soon, as in 2024 or maybe even now. I doubt Sox brass thinks like me and you. I think the fact that none have been promoted to AAA, yet, despite not being blocked is telling. I think they deal with the 26 and 40 man roster through Rule 5 and roster changes, this winter, and then add one of the big 3 to the 40, only when needed in 2025. That may or may not happen to any or all of the big 3.
  25. moonslav59
    I was one of the few saying Yoshida deserved a longer look, and did okay for much of 2023. His ending really hurt his numbers, but I'm done with him. It's not just about his missing time and sucking much of the time: it's more about other batters needing to play, instead of him. If he stays on the 26, Cora will play him more than I want to see. Trade him and 80% of his salary to a west coast team. I agree with you on Yoshi. I just don't think adding a RHB who is a DH/OF, DH/Croner IF or DH/C fits into the scheme. Find a middle IF'er with a big RHB and let me know. As far as O'Neill's health is concerned, it is an issue, but even without him, we have Ref to DH v RHPs and the hot DSmith vs RHPs. O'Neil is 7th on the team in Games started, just 1 game behind 6th (DHam) and 7 behind Abreu and Wong. He may catch Abreu, soon. Only Duran and Rafaela have started more than 56 games.
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