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  1. Jack Flap
    So, to recap: we have an offense full of holes, a Sale who suddenly looks mortal, and now this s*** -- another distraction for a team that doesn't need any. I wonder if Farrell can see the vultures circling...
  2. Jack Flap
    I hear that Pablo orchestrated the whole thing from San Francisco.
  3. Jack Flap
    Stupid not to at least give Brentz a shot.
  4. Jack Flap
    It's just striking to me that people are proposing much larger packages than we had to give up for Sale, who was every bit the superstar at his position but on a contract that's an extreme bargain rather than market rate. I guess the only explanation is Kimmi's "dudes dig the long ball" theory. The great thing about the Sale trade is that we didn't fill one hole in the roster by tearing open others, which is exactly what trading a Bogaerts or Rodriguez would do. (And for what it's worth, while Stanton's contract is far from unreasonable, I believe there were reports last month that none of the teams who contacted the Marlins were willing to take on the full amount. I absolutely believe the sheer amount of money involved will keep them from getting the kind of fantastical return they may want.)
  5. Jack Flap
    Yeah, I'm not saying I want to or necessarily would give up Benintendi either, to be clear...I just think if we did trade for Stanton he'd be a pretty logical inclusion. As it is, the kid's on the verge of 20 HR, 20 SB, and .800 OPS in his first full season, and that's with a couple of pretty dire slumps along the way. I think he's going to get better, and I hope we keep him.
  6. Jack Flap
    I could see giving up something built around Benintendi, a couple of good prospects, and some other pieces...but definitely not "whatever they want." If that's not enough to do it, then too bad. Again, I think some people are really overestimating what it should take. He's having an incredible season, but this is not pre-arb Mike Trout we're talking about here.
  7. Jack Flap
    True. And once in a while you get a Doug Fister for nothing...or pick up an Andrew Miller as a failed starter and turn him into an elite reliever. Obviously a low success rate is to be expected for pickups like that, but if my GM isn't at least taking a flyer on a few of those guys each year, he's not doing his job, IMO.
  8. Jack Flap
    I'm not ready to pencil Smith onto any postseason rosters yet...let's see how he gets through the month of September first. The guy hasn't pitched in a major league game in a really long time.
  9. Jack Flap
    Price will never pass the Marlins' physical.
  10. Jack Flap
    Sorry, but none of your posts in this thread have addressed the fact that the tight wad Marlins will want nothing to do with any of those guys and their salaries. Their goal in trading Stanton would be to get rid of his contract, not to help the Red Sox balance their books and avoid the luxury tax.
  11. Jack Flap
    To me, the regular season is 162 games, and anything in addition to that is "playoffs"...however, if you want to argue that the "real playoffs" start with the division series, I won't argue with that, either.
  12. Jack Flap
    Given that we'd be taking on nearly $300 million in salary in any Stanton trade, I think some people are really overestimating the price we'd have to pay in talent. I'd love to have him too, but some of these proposals are bonkers.
  13. Jack Flap
    Yeah, I assumed that bit was a joke.
  14. Jack Flap
    I agree. f*** the trolls.
  15. Jack Flap
    Duda has a Nunez-like 1.109 OPS since being acquired by the Rays, and the Guardians just added Bruce, making that two AL rivals who were able to infuse some power without giving up much of anything talent-wise. Our offense has been hotter lately and will probably be fine, but I have to imagine it was luxury tax considerations that kept us from getting in on either of these guys (Cleveland took on Bruce's full remaining salary, which we wouldn't have been able to do). Bummer.
  16. Jack Flap
    And here I thought BDC had cornered the market on colorful wannabe internet villains.
  17. Jack Flap
    As I understand it, there is no more "going over the limit" and paying a penalty...the new CBA includes a hard cap.
  18. Jack Flap
    I also don't buy the idea of ownership giving Dombrowski some sort of blanket prohibition against trading prospects...after all of the talent we've dealt recently, I find it hard to believe that John Henry or anyone in the front office would draw the line at trading a Chavis or Mata if the right deal was there and it would maximize our chances of winning in the next 2-3 years. Looking around at the market, it seems far more likely that the "right deal" involving any of our top guys just wasn't there.
  19. Jack Flap
    I think there is definitely a "window" (in that our roster for the next 2+ years is pretty much set, after which there will start to be a lot of turnover one way or another), but not necessarily a "cliff"; as I've written before, I fully expect we'll find ways to stay competitive into the 2020's, and if we don't, it will be because we didn't play our cards right between now and then, not because it was predetermined by moves we've already made.
  20. Jack Flap
    Too bad he's short.
  21. Jack Flap
    We'd have been daft to trade Devers, but I doubt John Henry would care that much about losing guys like Groome, Mata, and Chavis. This story smells like BS.
  22. Jack Flap
    +1.
  23. Jack Flap
    I'm not the biggest DD fan in the world, but he's a shrewder trader than he's often given credit for. At both the 2016 and 2017 deadlines he held his fire rather than pushing for a larger move because the right trade wasn't out there (in the former case, waiting until the offseason to get his target, Sale, when the price was less extreme). Dealing Espinoza for Pomeranz currently looks like a winning bet (although I'm still hopeful for Espinoza's long-term future), as does keeping Devers over Moncada. There were reports previously that the White Sox wanted Bryan Mata in the Sale trade talks and Dombrowski refused to include him, despite his then being a 17-year-old who had only pitched in the DSL and wasn't on most people's radars. Our prospect list has certainly taken a hit, but how many of the guys we traded will actually end up coming back to bite us remains to be seen. Right now trading Travis Shaw looks like the only outright blunder...but again, time will tell.
  24. Jack Flap
    A big blah to most of those names...maybe Hosmer if the price isn't crazy, but it probably will be. I'd rather sign somebody under-the-radar hoping they're the next weird breakout candidate than overpay for a Morrison or Alonso based on their 1-year-wonder seasons. (Or just go with Travis.) And Devers isn't getting moved to 1B - at least not for a long time.
  25. Jack Flap
    How things have changed in a couple of years.
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