notin
-
Posts
53,557 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
45
Content Type
Profiles
Boston Red Sox Videos
2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking
Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
Guides & Resources
2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker
News
2026 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker
Forums
Blogs
Events
Store
Downloads
Gallery
Everything posted by notin
-
That can be changed with one bout of forearm tightness…
-
Graveman had a great year as a relief pitcher, but this was his first season in the bullpen. Prior to 2021, he was just another oft-injured and occasionally effective starter. There might be another questionable starter on the board who could be converted into a very effective relief pitcher. I’m thinking Jose Urena…
-
Concussions are weird. It just took one too all but end the careers of Jason Bay and Justin Morneau, but Brandon Belt just keeps stacking them up and plowing forward…
-
Apparently they have money. Still trying to figure out the advantage of Matz over Danny Duffy…
-
Tension is building and expectations running high as we approach the culmination of the Steve Matz Lottery!! https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/11/steven-matz-expected-to-sign-this-week.html You heard it here first! Soon we will know the decision! Soon we will know what team has won the right to proudly display this extremely mediocre and replaceable pitcher!!
-
I remember when Clint Frazier was nominated for a Gold Glove. I think he’s available now…
-
1.4 fWAR in a 60 game season in 2020. Released in 2021…
-
Marcel Ozuna is the only thing that can save me as a fan
notin replied to Swiharts Ghost's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
“Therapist” is two words… -
You wouldn’t say that if you ever saw him play SS…
-
Bello may never get above AA. Means would be a good get, but acquiring him figures to not be simple. I’d throw Duran out there for part of the deal, but no way is he enough to get it done…
-
Ah the America’s Cup. The Aquatic Kentucky Derby!
-
Orioles listening on John Means. Should Boston be talking? And who should be mentioned first? Would anyone go as high as Yorke and Bello, which is closer to Means’ BTV value and certainly a package Baltimore will listen to…
-
I’d rather watch just about anything over golf, and was tempted to use the Ryder’s Cup as my overrated example. I also briefly thought of the Beanpot tournament…
-
You mean like Wil Cordero? Or Chico Walker?
-
The Rule 5 draft is the most overrated event in American sports, with the possible exception of the Kentucky Derby…
-
60 day IL means starting his service time clock and doesn’t count towards the full year Ward needs to spend on a roster to be kept. So, coupled with the year necessary to keep him on the roster means a selecting team gets one minimum wage year before arbitration hits once they decide he’s a keeper. (For two years in total) Teams would be better off finding healthy unprotected arms rather than trying to invest two years in Ward to see if he is worthwhile
-
Bogaerts is a better overall player than Correa, at least according to fWAR…
-
It actually would have been very stupid to protect Thad Ward. That would mean the Sox has TWO 40 man roster spots dedicated to pitchers who were going to be out for nearly the entire season and who couldn’t be placed on the 60 day IL without it accruing their service time and bringing them closer to free agency and arbitration…
-
Jimenez is very very fast, but is not a good base stealer. Any team selecting him to Buttrey him on the bench as a pinch runner would be doing his career a great disservice. Not to say some dumb team won’t…
-
I wouldn’t say there is no chance Jimenez gets taken. He’s not in that much different of a position than Akil Baddoo was last year. Likely? No. Impossible? Also, no…
-
And is there anyone we really worry about losing? Jimenez is the highest ranked of the unprotected, but he’s still in A ball. Ward is probably two years away from actually being controlled by a new team, assuming he can stay healthy. And by then he’ll be pushing 26 with still only maybe 6 innings above A ball. I suppose there always someone like Feltman or Hart that some team is willing to gamble on. Or maybe Zack Kelly, although he’s fallen grew a few cracks already…
-
But for a lot of teams, the Sox unprotected players might not be the best options available. We might lose a player, but so will a lot of teams.
-
It’s not the roster spot that’s the problem. Teams like the Orioles and Pirates often struggle just to get 25 major leaguers. The problem is keeping the player on your MLB roster and not only taking away a year of development but coinciding that with bringing the same player one year closer to free agency. Heck one year closer to first year if arbitration. I think a lot of times these teams realize they’re probably just better off staying the course with their own farm players…
-
In that case, I would have won. Those guys wanted to protect everybody up to and including Chaim Bloom’s mother-in-law
-
Or the starting 3b, like he’s been the past couple seasons…
