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It’s more Ogden Nash than Robert Frost…
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Offer him to Miami for one of their pitchers. Or Detroit. Duran for Pablo Lopez or Tarik Skubal?
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The day this site was infected with the dreaded scourge of notin.
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You know way too much about these movies. All I know is they often have bad pun names…
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I don’t suppose anyone knows how regularly…
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He’s been injured a lot - not a good trait, but it’s not the same as simply proving he can’t play. He has had brief successes and failures. 2021 has not been his only season. It is his only one in the past 4 years with an OPS+ below 95. When Cordero was 23, he had an OPS+ of 105 in 154 PA - his career high in PA. At 24, Duran has an OPS+ of 53 -roughly half - in 112 PA. I think I’d like Duran better but his MiLB track record appears tainted and he’s not much of a fielder. I know he’s a converted infielder, but he’s closer to Donnie Sadler than Mookie Betts in that regard. He’s in MLB now and in a pennant race and he cannot hit or field…
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Or maybe give him a supporting role in an Air Bud baseball movie. Maybe one when Air Bud’s puppies are on the verge of reaching MLB - “Air Bud XXVII - Diamonds in the Ruff”
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I suppose there is the possibility that he’d been pitching with COVID the last 4 weeks?
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Longer parts? Cordero has 86 more PAs in the last 3 years than Duran has in the last six weeks.
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I know, but I’ve said before the biggest problem Bloom had at the deadline was the lack of a top tier pitching prospect to move. All the bigger deals - Scherzer, Gibson, Berrios, Rodriguez - involved very good and in some cases, MLB-ready pitching prospects. (Only Berrios was acquired for a pitcher with little to no MLB experience, and Simeon Woods-Richardson is ranked, only 20, and already in AA.) Now maybe if just one of Mata or Ward managed to avoid TJ…
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And better outfielders on the roster. The biggest factor in Duran’s favor is the Sox don’t have much outfield talent between MLB and A ball. They have Jeisson Rosario, who is a good hit/no hit type, and Franchy Cordero, who has power, speed, can’t field and too much swing and miss aka the exact description of Duran. But Cordero is two years older so he’s washed up, but the younger Duran apparently needs more time?
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That’s actually a very useful metric. Well done…
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I might feel different about Duran if he was 22. But he’s almost 25. I’ve never been all that impressed. His A ball success was carried heavily by his BABIP. Now his speed can certainly raise his BABIP, but in high A ball, it was .480. FOUR EIGHTY. I really need someone to invent capital numbers so I can emphasize that better. He flopped in limited AA time and his AAA numbers appear to have been inflated by a park that made Marcus Wilson look like a slugger. And Wilson was released. If Duran’s career is a 4th outfielder, nothing wrong with that. Good on him for being one of the select few capable of making an MLB roster. But if he has any appeal with GMs who (for reasons I just don’t see) value his skill set, send him off for a useful piece and fill the 4th outfielder role another way. It’s not a role that deserves any priority…
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Possibly including Washington GM Mike Rizzo, since he acquired an MLB-ready SP and an MLB-ready catcher, both of whom are already on the Nats’ roster. Does a package of an AA 1b and a SS just drafted out of high school really compare?
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That the word “probably” made that response does give far too much merit to my comparison…
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The Sox might want to hold on to Casas. Duran really has no place. He has power, speed, no glove and too much swing and miss in his game. He strikes me as the Second Coming of Dwayne Hosey. Except that Hosey was actually a better hitter...
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No one has been down on Groome more than me, but it is good to see him finally take a very big step...
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There is a new metric for Gallo, the K/H. Gallo currently stands at 3.4 K/H...
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Is there better trade bait not in the lineup?
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More Kyle Schwarber fun Since the deadline: Schwarber: 18H, 3 HR, 15 BB, 15 K, 1.052 OPS in 69 PA Joey Gallo: 15 H, 5 HR, 25 BB, 51 K, .634 OPS in 133 PA ..
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Cashner had 1 save, 4 holds and no blown saves and a .667 OPSA as a reliever for the Sox in 2019. He was a decent reliever for the Sox...
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If Duran is slated for the bench, he should be traded for someone who isn’t…
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Can we wait until Robertson throws two innings before we call him a success? Granted he’s already outlasted Hamels, who some thought the Sox also should have signed and whose been an effective MLB pitcher more recently than Robertson…
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If defense for catchers is less important, where is Buster Posey on the wishlist?
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First, Lugo was actually a pretty good player before he came to Boston, where his OPS was about .100 points below his career numbers. I’ve heard stories about a knuckle injury that changed the way he gripped the bat and threw the ball. But as for Downs and his TBD potential, bear in mind he is 22, skipped AA ball, and is playing AAA after missing a season due to a pandemic. Maybe if he was in AA this year after a season off, he’d look a lot better. But he at least deserves another chance…
