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Everything posted by notin
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The problem is spending has long term repercussions. Paying players like Price and JDM as they age their way out of contributing doesn’t mean the team doesn’t spend. We just saw Colorado extend their homegrown superstar and then trade him anyway. Is that really any better? (Actually it’s worse, as the players they got back are arguably lesser players than Verdugo and Downs.)
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You think Henry doesn’t spend? Lucky for you that you didn’t grow up in Pittsburgh...
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The Sox need pitching, but the draft is such a crapshoot anyway, just take the best player regardless of position. I have my doubts either Rocket or Leiter last until the 4th pick. But these “MLB-ready” arsenals produce as many Jay Groome/Mark Appel types as they do David Price/Chris Sale types...
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I hope not. That’s like planning your retirement solely around winning MegaMlions. As much as Soto would be awesome, that involves planning around unknowns that the Sox cannot control. What if, 4 years from now, Soto signs a massive 10 year extension with Washington? Then what? Switch the focus to Wander Franco? A GM shouldn’t plan around players controlled by other teams. Only the ones he can control himself.
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Much like in poker, being “all in” is only a good thing if you follow it up with a win...
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Unless Bloom knows something about Odorizzi I don’t, like whether or not he’s two fastballs away from a visit to Dr. Andrews...
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And if he signs Odorizzi and Bradley, I don’t see how Toronto is markedly better. This team would then easily in the running for second in the East and playing in October...
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Absolutely. Bring in Bradley and Odorizzi (or Porcello). The Sox just reset. Why worry about going over?
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No. He takes lots of money and then fails to return good baseball. He’s a thief and a Villar...
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Like if he signed Villar for 2b?
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No pen. That’s actually the full story...
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Just 3 years and $109 mill. Or one Trevor Bauer...
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Houston used to be the worst when they had Tal’s Hill and a freakin’ flagpole out there. Wrigley probably is now. Ivy is no substitute for padding on brick walls...
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In those same season’s Bradley’s OPS+‘s are 89, 90, 92, 118. So how much of an improvement is Hernandez over Bradley? They’re similar hitters, as Bradley’s OPS+ of 94 in that timeframe is a bit under EHern’s 98. But like with CF defense, Bradley’s numbers come as a full time regular and not a sporadic part timer...
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Do they think it means he’ll be back in 60 days? Are they aware that’s a minimum and not a set duration? Prince Fielder spent multiple consecutive seasons on the 60 day IL. All it means is Sale will be out long enough that the Sox need not hold his 40 man roster spot...
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Did he break it in a tar pit? Injuries just prove my and JBJ's point. The job has enough going on without some lunatic deciding to add hills and flagpoles and quicksand out there. This is center field, not Pitfall! (Waiting to see who gets that reference.)
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Or Porcello...
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Besides, JBJ would never play for the Astros. Bradley is not going to play for a team that once disrespected center field by putting a hill with a flagpole right in the middle of the playing field. Sure. it's gone now, but its not like they took it down for safety reasons. You know, like a sane person would. They took it down to put in more seats. So if you're Bradley playing for the Astroos, you might find yourself going go to work every day scared of what these psychopaths are going to dream up next for your part of the field. Will you show up one day and there is a crocodile pond in CF? Or a tar pit? Maybe a raging bonfire? A bus full of of mimes? Or maybe nothing, and do you wonder "minefield?" Stay at Fenway. Sure the walls are all at funny angles, but no hills, no flagpoles and no tar pits...
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Also I think you're looking at Minute Maid Park through a mirror. The short porch is in LF. Under that scoreboard than Stanton broke. The RF line is deeper, and the right fielder and right-center distances are also further than their LF counterparts...
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When has JBJ bet on himself before? He even settled before his arbitration hearing last season...
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Bradley in CF. Verdugo in RF. Cordero/Renfroe in LF...
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Is Houston interested? It seemed like a match made in heaven back in November, but the two sides have never come to an agreement. At some point, one has to wonder if JBJ wants to play for the Nippon Ham Fighters...
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Porcello's fastball velocity is, like his IP totals, unwavering over the course of his career, ranging from a high of 93.5 mph (in 2012) to a low of 91.4 mph (in 2011). Last year it was 92.1 mph. (Data per Fangraphs). That's such a Porcello-like consistency. Now go sign him, Bloom...
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Verdugo
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Gardner back to NY for $4mill What does this do to JBJ's price tag?
