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  1. moonslav59
    Ben, Bloom and Brez would have spent $50M more year, if JH allowed them to do it.
  2. moonslav59
    Good article. We certainly need a LH's RP'er, and I'll go farther and say the need for a RHB is overblown. I'd like one, yes, but it's not as high a priority as a LH's RP, a solid SP and another solid RP'er or three. Just get a serviceable RHB catcher, and count of Story, Campbell and Ref to do the rest. Also, Anthony is no platoon player. He hits lefties, very well.
  3. moonslav59
    If the pen is not significantly improved, the sham continues.
  4. moonslav59
    Agree. 8 teams is pushing it, for me.
  5. moonslav59
    I didn't realize their bWARs were so high, and maybe expectations biased my statement.
  6. moonslav59
    Gotta say that list is not something to moan and groan about, right? It turned out rather amazingly, how few did real well. I know the argument that he barely knew the ones decided to keep, except maybe Devers & Beni, but facts are facts. He kept the best and traded almost all the higher/highest stock ones. Also, the returns of Sale, Kimbrel, Nate and Pearce far outweighed the misses like Thornburg, C Smith and maybe PomPom. He knew how to run a high budget team. That 2018 team was a juggernaut. 2016, 2017 and 2019 were all really good, on paper.
  7. moonslav59
    Exactly. The best ones were Dubon and Beeks- not the ones we thought, like Moncada, Kopech, Espinoza and others.
  8. moonslav59
    I'm not saying DD was bad- just the opposite. I won't say I wish he stayed, because he'd have had a rough time with JH's budget's, too. Probably couldn't have done any worse.
  9. moonslav59
    I'm terrible with knowing how good our pitching prospects will turn out. I hardly ever see them live, and go mostly by scouting reports and stats, so that's one reason. I know we lack any great hopes, except maybe Perales, but I think we might have a few more Houck's, Bello's or Crawford's up our sleaves.
  10. moonslav59
    Mayer, Abreu, Wong, Crawford & Wikelman for Ober (3 arbs), Ryan (3 arbs) and Jeffers (1 arb)
  11. moonslav59
    Kimbrel was really his first move (NOV '15) followed by Chris Young and Price in early DEC. That Price signing shocked the hell out of me, and others. Midseason '16: traded Rijo & Wilkerson for Aaron Hill and traded Basabe & Almonte for Brad Ziegler, then Espinoza for Pomeranz. At the deadline, Pat Light for Fernando Abad. 2nd offseason (Fall '16-Spring '17): Dubon, Shaw & Pennington for Thornburg and the big shocker: 4 players for Chris Sale. Selected Josh Rutledge Rule 5. Singed Mitch Moreland. Traded Buch for Josh Tobias. Paid cash for Hector Velazquez. 2017 midseason: Doug Fister off waivers. Traded Longhi, I Diaz & S Espinal for IFA bonus pool space. Traded Shaun Anderson & G Santos for Nunez and then 3 prospects for Addison Reed. 3rd offseason ('17-'18): Re-signed Moreland & Nunez. Signed JD Martinez. Midseason: Santiago Espinal for Steve Pearce, then Beeks for Nate. Also, Buttrey & Jerez for Kinsler 4th off season and his last: Quiroz for Colten Brewer (effectively Kimbrel & Kelly's replacement) Extended Sale & Bogaerts. Midseason: Cash for Andrew Cashner
  12. moonslav59
    Even if they went to 7 game series in each round, there is no need to cut back that much, and they'd never give up that amount of money over a concept. Going to 154 would just return to the old days, so it would not be that extreme, but my guess is they will stay at 162, while still expanding the playoffs.
  13. moonslav59
    I do think we might match up with MN, if they are looking to trade Lopez or some of their soon-to-be arb pitchers. I'd like to see us get Jeffers, their RHB catcher with 1 year of control left. He also averages about 28 HRs per 650 PAs. Get it done!
  14. moonslav59
    I get that Rafaela played 14 more innings at SS than OF, but his 634 OF innings was 140 more than Ref and 633 more than Yoshida. I like the grades given. I'd have made some minor adjustments: A+ Duran A- Abreu B+ O'Neill and Ref C Rafaela INC Yoshida
  15. moonslav59
    I don't trust what any of these guys say. They could go to 14, soon, then 16, if and when they expand to 32.
  16. moonslav59
    True but more than half get in. (I'm not for the idea.)
  17. moonslav59
    While I do think 154 games is enough to weed out lucky teams, I agree. The long season is for a reason. Asking teams to win short series after short series adds back in the luck factor, or as some call it "a crapshoot." Baseball is not like basketball and football. The playoffs should not be like theirs.
  18. moonslav59
    Great point and list. Much had nothing to do with a radical cut in winter spending. While the payroll went up, as Maz keeps pointing out, much was due to arb raises and the extensions that just kept the status quo. There was basically no new spending after 2018, and any new spending in 2020 and 2021 never replaced what was lost, in terms of expiring contracts or players traded away (Betts, Price, Beni...) I will say, I do not think the nate extension was bad, but it wasn't as good as the JD signing or Kimbrell & Sale trade. The Bogey extension was great, despite the opt-out. I doubt we get him for $20M a year w/o that. We can say he should have worked to get a non opt out with Bogey and a Betts extension, but that is really speculating on things with too many moving parts.
  19. moonslav59
    Let's get their catcher back.
  20. moonslav59
    Kinsler did solidify the 2B defense, as Nunez looked pretty bad out there. There were also guys like Brasier, who did very well under DD.
  21. moonslav59
    Agreed, and I'd say the same about the 2019 Sox. Sure, he let Kimbrell and kelly walk without replacing them, but he was accused of overkilling it on the 2018 team, so blaming him for 2019 seems far-fetched, to me. It also begs the question about how high were expectations going into 2014 or 2022. If you look at the 2021 roster and consider Bloom added Wacha, Strahm, Hill and got our best season out of Schreiber and Story in '22, one can wonder why it all turned so sour. On paper, it looks like the winter moves should have helped.
  22. moonslav59
    He should not be blamed for being handed a massive budget to work with. He did pretty well with his biggest contracts, although the Price deal lessened the return we got for Betts. The Sale extension hurt, but to me, it made more sense at the time than the Yoshida signing plus deals like Gio+Kluber+ Richards + Perez x 2. One major criticism he got, at the time was "emptying the farm," or "leaving it barren." Call it luck on some of his guys, but the fact is he kept maybe the best 6 out of 6 or 7 prospects. Devers, Houck, Duran, Crawford, Rafaela, Beni He drafted or IFA signed: Houck, Duran, Casas, Crawford (most were not high draft picks) Bello, Rafaela (IFAs) Shugart, Murphy, Bastardo, Wikelman, B Gonzalez Shaun Anderson (traded for Nunez), Scherff (for Robles), Blaylock (for Urias) Quiroz (for Brewer) This is better than decent, considering lower draft picks.
  23. moonslav59
    That would be a good idea, but I think they'd need a 27 man roster with 28 for Sundays. The union would likely insist on this, and with good reason. If you teams a day off every week, but play a double header every Sunday, teams would play 7 games a week, and the season would be 162 days long + the AS break. The season could be 24 weeks long. That's about 3 weeks less than now, so in theory, teams could get another day off 3rd week and play 20 games in 21 days.
  24. moonslav59
    I like a lot of MN's higher-priced players. Buxton's injuries turn me off, bigtime, but if taking on his salary greatly reduces the return, I'd consider taking the RHB and returning LHBs and prospects, pre-arb and arb guys to get some good pitching. Carlos Correa: $37.3M x 3 ($33.3M tax hit) NOPE Byron Buxton (Mr. Injury) $15.1M x 4 ($14.3M tax hit) DOUBTFUL Pablo Lopez: $21.75M x 3 (but $18.4M tax hit) A BIG YES Joe Ryan & Bailey Ober both have 3 arbs left. I'm not sure why MN wants to trade them, now. Both BIG YES Ryan Jeffers RHB catcher has his 3rd arb due. He seems like a perfect fit to bridge to Teel. BIG YES BTV: 44 Joe Ryan (value back in May) 37 Lopez 23 Ober 22 Correa 13 Jeffers 0 Buxton So, Lopez + Jeffers= 50, Ryan + Jeffers =57 and Ober + Jeffers=36. I doubt we'd pry two SP'ers away, so one plus Jeffers looks like a great match for the Sox side of the trade. I'm not sure who they like on the Sox, but maybe if we took on Buxton's salary, they'd want Abreo ($29M.) DHam has $11M value, but that seems too high. He did very well at 2B D and has speed, but I'm not sure a .700 OPS (the new .750) is good enough to make those two worth $50M. They might take Mayer for Lopez + Jeffers or Mayer + Dobbins for Ryan + Jeffers. Abreu+DHam might get Ober + Jeffers. Hard to know what other teams might offer, too.
  25. moonslav59
    There is just too much money in playoff games to decide not to do it. Maybe we go to 14 first.
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