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Everything posted by notin
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Why would Bloom try to improve on 2018’s record?
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How were they going to improve? They couldn’t spend any money and had no prospects to deal. Extra practice? And as the Sox largely stood Pat after 2018, most of the rest of MLB spent two off-seasons closing the gap...
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Bloom took over a team that was the highest paid team in franchise history and was in third place with no hope to improve. Too many very heavy contracts tied up in aging and oft-injured players and no farm to replace anyone. You do like to focus solely on team place and not on circumstances. Bloom finished last because he - unlike Dombrowski - was not allowed to spend $240 million. And had no one to trade except Betts, whose $25 mill salary limited him to a handful of teams. Dombrowski had over $300 million tied up in Price, Sale and Eovaldi. Sale hasn’t pitched since 2019, Price hasn’t been the same since 2016 and Eovaldi hasn’t pitched a full season in years. Even John Henry saw this was a mess. Why don’t you?
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As the saying goes - if you stand still, you’re roadkill....
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But I recommend Thor. Plus bringing back ERod..,
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Haven’t you been touting Carlos Correa?
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So.... no progress? FWIW I think this was Dombrowski’s exact plan for 2019. “Let’s just stay here with what we have.” And it didn’t work so well...
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Or LHP. But he will be on the team doing something. Maybe Cordero/Renfroe in LF, Hernandez in CF, Verdugo in RF and Chavis and/or Arroyo at 2b?
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And who for 2b? What was a promising field of 2b is pretty much dried up by now...
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On the current roster, maybe Marwin Gonzalez. (But I’d just let Renfroe hit away on his own.) Also possible it’s Franchy Cordero. But the Sox would then need a CF. (Bradley? Pillar?). Or a RF (Puig?) with Verdugo in CF. Or maybe someone not yet on the roster. Brett Gardner? Josh Reddick? Corey Dickerson? Nick Markakis? Tyler Naquiin? Or maybe they just sign Yasiel Puig, plug him in LF and move Renfroe to the bench...
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Wait! They’re different people!?!!?
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I think you mean 318 wins. And were they better than the ‘72-74 Oakland A’s, a team that only won 277 games but actually won three World Series titles as opposed to going 1-2?
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I’d love Odorizzi and Gardner, but I’d settle for Porcello and Pillar. And I’ll probably get none...
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Well, Duquette wasn’t that bad with big signings, like Manny and Damon. And of course he traded for Pedro. And even Offerman - a signing I hated at the time - was not so bad. But DD just seemed to ignore South/Central American pitching in favor of Asian pitching. Not sure why given the repeated failures...
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OPS+ says there is not much difference between Benintendi (107) and Renfroe (106)...
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Maybe. The Rays, the Jays and the Sox are all pretty flawed teams. If the Yankees can stay reasonably healthy, they might be able to walk to the finish line...
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Well, as this is a team, I need multiple cars, So I can take this old, broken down F1 car, and blow my budget fixing it up, knowing it is going to decline in performance in it's 30's. Meanwhile I have no money left for any faster, younger, newer cars? Hmmm. And what do I do if the F1 breaks down faster than this analogy?
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Wily Mo Pena is certainly a possibility from Cordero. For the Sox, Pena had a .779 OPS (97 OPS+) with 16 HRS in 438 PA. Of course, those numbers also bear a striking similarity to what Benintendi gave the Sox in his last full season of 2019 (.774 OPS / 100 OPS+, 13 HRs in 615 PA). So how much of a step down from Benintendi will Cordero be, if one at all? (And will the 4 other players make up the difference or just be flat out bonuses?) Hassler only pitched 46 innings for the Sox. High 4.96 ERA but a 2.70 FIP. It helped that he gave up no home runs in a Sox uniform, something I would not expect from Pivetta if he holds a rotation spot...
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And yet he remains unsigned...
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The Jays strike me as being like the 2008 Tigers - a team everyone looked at the lineup that included a recent acquisition in Miguel Cabrera, and figured they'd easily score 1,000 runs and cruise to the AL Central title. And they promptly started out 0-7 on their way to finishing in last. My expectations of the Jays next year are tempered...
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No. Cordero was a starter who was injured twice, which is actually impressive to jump to the front of the line of a pretty good slew of young outfielders they had in SD at the time. Calling him a spare part is like calling JD Drew a spare part. The thing about Cordero is, right now the best comp I can think of is Nick Johnson - a very talented player who just could not keep it on the field...
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I'd settle for a Jays' one. Hey they took Payamps; they're more desperate for pitching than the Sox...
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So now what is he going to wear?
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Also the Orioles but I am not sure that counts...
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I’d be ok with that, despite that it might bump Nick Pivetta from the rotation and I am in the minority of fans who were excited to acquire Pivetta...
