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  1. notin
    Was Bello ever really paid TOTR money? It seems like he got free agent low end starter money. Not sure if the never-ranked Bello was ever viewed as TOTR material..
  2. notin
    The faith most of us had in Campbell, Anthony, etc. wasn’t from the organization; these players were all highly ranked by neutral third party evaluators like Baseball America, Baseball Prospectus, and MLB.com…
  3. notin
    But there’s no point in putting up with a league-worst defensive 3b while the much easier 1b is being manned by stopgap players…
  4. notin
    Isn’t that what you just used?
  5. notin
    How am I supposed to know what you heard?
  6.    mvp 78 reacted to a post in a topic: A Realistic Look at the 2026 Red Sox: Part I
  7. notin
    But it will never happen. A team gets about 6.100 plate appearances a year and only hits about 180 home runs. No plans on scoring for ther other 5,920 PA?
  8. notin
    Kind of see most teams doing it. Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn’t. Campbell is hardly the first. Eloy Jimenez for example. David Fletcher as well. Colt Keith isn’t exactly thumping. And the jury is still out on Konnor Griffin, Cooper Pratt, Colt Emerson, etc.
  9. notin
    I was not aware. I thought they still had him in the INF…
  10. notin
    The point is the Sox risked paying like an MLB regular/bench player, as opposed to waiting until he became a star (if ever) and paying him like one. They took a risk. It didn’t pay off, still might, but they’re better off whiffing on 7 year $50mill contracts than 7 year $217mill ones. Right?
  11. notin
    They only started extending players a couple years ago. Has there been any time for an established star? Might as well argue that MLB is so much weaker today because 50 years ago, there were 60 Hall of Famers playing. Today? Not a single one!
  12. notin
    The Sox are 23rd in OBP and 27th in runs scored. It’s a pretty solid relationship. It’s not like they’re 10th in OBP here. Now, Milwaukee is last in MLB in home runs and 8th in scoring. Tough to say that’s an established link. But there 7th in OBP…
  13. notin
    Most post-arb starting outfielders make at least a $7.5mill AAV…
  14. notin
    $23 million for tuition? College is expensive, but where is this kid going? Berkshire Hathaway U, home of the Fightin’ Bitcoin?
  15. notin
    Probably one of my posts. I never said Arizona wanted that combo, but I certainly proposed it and it was deemed fair on BTV. At the time, Arizona still had Blaze Alexander and hadn’t moved Lawlor to the OF yet, so Duran appeared a decent fit on the surface, plus he was significantly cheaper and had only one less year of control and was much younger than Marte. Bello just seemed like an additional enticement….
  16. notin
    The longer they wait, the pricier they get. Sure they may never recoup an ROI on Campbell, but his AAV is utility infielder money. Not exactly risky…
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