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  1. notin
    Bring back those 70s snd 80s teams!! Also early 2000s Cubs teams with the logic of “give me 8 bats and we’ll figure out where they play later!! Or that great 2008 Tigers team with Miguel Cabrera, Ivan Rodriguez, Curtis Granderson, Magglio Ordonez, Carlos Guillen, Garry Sheffield, Justin Verlander, Kenny Rogers, Armando Galarraga and 88 losses….
  2. notin
    Toronto rode that 27th ranked offense and third ranked defense to the World Series last year….
  3. notin
    There are big differences between all 3 of those players. Four if you count Shaw. Might as well say we don’t want Pete Alonso because he’s just another Steve Pearce…
  4. notin
    The Sox did get Contreras instead of Alonso. Getting both would have meant benching either Anthony or Duran…
  5. notin
    Not that Yoshida qualifies, but Boston does give up too early on some players. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/vaughn-grissom-687093?stats=statcast-r-hitting-mlb
  6. notin
    It doesn’t work on BTV, but Atlanta has Murphy (currently on IL) ss backup to Drake Baldwin while Mauricio Dubon starts at SS. I expect them to try and upgrade over Dubon at some point. Murphy is owed $30mill over 2 years after 2026. Story is owed $25mill after 2026. So Atlanta also saves cash. If they. Insist on more, walk away. I wouldn’t give them Duran and Narvaez as well….
  7. notin
    No Mayer?
  8. notin
    Can we make snap judgments too? The less data, the better!
  9. notin
    I think Bloom was a good talent evaluator, but a timid (to be kind) decision maker. His deadline waffling effectively wasted two seasons…
  10. notin
    Proven value like Story?
  11. notin
    He started off slowly last year, but was over .900 in the second half. This year Hes largely been a utility infielder/outfielder with sporadic playing time. But he is a hitter…
  12. notin
    At 2b? Limited options there. Upgrade 2b. Get a thumper for DH..
  13. notin
    Connelly Early for Matt Shaw? Shaw has certainly shown he can hit and is a great defensive infielder blocked everywhere in Chicago. And the Cubs desperately need SP. Would you pull that trigger?
  14. notin
    Well, if it was going to be made at all, it probably did. Sale was coming of 4 years of barely pitching and hadn’t been elite Sale for 6 years. Another early season injury and he was untradable again. Grissom was a young promising player who didn’t pan out. But he was also the only time Boston got offered anything even remotely valuable for the oft-injured pitcher. It didn’t work out, but it was at least understandable. Unlike dealing Priester and acquiring May, both moves of which made zero sense…
  15. notin
    Well, every team is better if the CBO makes better moves. Sort of reminiscent of those old Derek Sanderson keys to the game for the Bruins which always included “the Bruins have to out the puck in the net.” The Sale deal was a flop. I get why he made it, but it didn’t work out. ”Better moves” is often just measured by results, but sometimes moves are just stupid. Those are what really bother me. Trading Tibbs for Dustin May was stupid, for example. Trading Priester was stupid as well. Sale just didn’t work out at all…
  16. notin
    Yoshida, Bello, Godbout and Phillips works on BTV. No idea of it works for SF….
  17. notin
    So what would you offer to entice SF to give up their first 30 HR hitter since Bonds? Given their struggles to attract free agents, counting on a pure salary dump is not likel. Also is Mayer really still a platoon player? He was a platoon player under Cora, but almost every LHH is platooned under Cora. Abreu and Casas were platoon players “under Cora”…
  18. notin
    Thats fair. When free agency offers a choice between Ryan Mountcastle, Alec Bohm, and an aging Yandy Diaz, I could see keeping Contreras for another year. I would rather roll the dice with Casas than bring in Mountcastle or Bohm…
  19. notin
    I have heard he’s a complete tool as well. But he’s really not their starting catcher; he’s only starting because Will Smith has a boo boo. And since Smith is the better catcher, less tradable, and not dead, Rushing’s time is short. Not sure if they want Mayer, but if they move Rushing, thats around where I expect the price to be. I’d try to push Atlanta on a Story/Murphy swap first…
  20. notin
    Yes MLB lockouts are when a few hundred people cannot agree on how to divide up several billion dollars…
  21. notin
    Contreras is their scariest player. How often does anyone have a career year at 34? Maybe his offense was surpressed by playing catcher all those years. Maybe. But counting on him to be this good going forward is disappointment material. Especially for 2027. Contreras feels like a serious “sell high” candidate. Although not sure how many teams will be looking for RHH slugging 1b/DH types…
  22. notin
    Why such the low opinion? He had a few injuries, but he was also pretty good. MLB and BA and Baseball Prospectus are not 100% accurate - no one whose job involves predicting the future is - but what about him didn’t you like? And when did you start not liking him? And yes the Sox have seen too many bench players creep into the starting lineup. Even Yoshida wasn’t expected to start given the roster on opening day. But they’re without Antjony, Story, and Casas and even the bench players (Sogard) are starting to go down with injuries. It doesn’t help that another third of their starters are serving year players (Durbin, Narvaez, Mayer) and for many second year players, sophomore slumps are real. It’s taken over 2 full seasons for Rafaela to turn into a contributing starter (and a major contributor at that), but it’s been worth it…
  23. notin
    They may not be the foundation, but what building is all foundation?
  24. notin
    So you think it’s time to give up on them?
  25. notin
    Most definitely explore the options, barring playing .750 baseball between now and August…
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