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  1. notin
    I think you can count dgalehouse as a Ben Basher.
  2. notin
    Distinctly visible up to 4 times per year!!
  3. notin
    Keep Bogaerts. He shows up for work everyday. Even if Correa is better, who will play shortstop for the 60 to 100 games he misses with his annual injury?
  4. notin
    Correa is not a free agent. And probably a step down from Bogaerts, especialyl when you consider he cannot stay healthy anymore. He has not played as many as 111 games in a season since 2015. Hard, hard pass. Springer received a QO and I am operating on the assumption that makes him a hard pass. Ozuna plus a draft pick on a lesser contract > Springer and his contract minus the draft pick...
  5. notin
    Also possibly known as notin's "Vazquez for Inciarte/pitching prospects" trade idea. Atlanta has oodles (Yes, I saud ut again - oodles) of young pitching and a completely expendable Gold Glove caliber centerfielder on a one-year deal ($9mill deal).. There is also a Lorenzo Cain variation, but no idea what KC wants or would accept to shed the final deal of Cain's contract...
  6. notin
    Ozuna would be a splash. And in a non-pandemic offseason, he might be a 5 or 6 year splash. But in this cost-cutting, "$10mill is too much for an All Star closer" off-season, he might be available for a 3 year splash...
  7. notin
    La Stella is a good-hit, weak glove. Villar is a good glove but weak hitter. Cesar Hernandez is actually a really good player and just won a Gold Glove. He’s been a speedy leadoff hitter as well. But for some reason struggles every year to get a contract. And never gets a multi year one. No idea why a player who can hit, field and run struggles every season this way. Two possibilities I can think of are: 1) Hernandez is a phenomenal *******. 2) All the other teams’ GM’s think like I do and operate on the assumption Hernandez is a phenomenal *******.
  8. notin
    And not one of those guys will break the bank. Not one of them will make you say “Wow. Resetting in 2020 was worth it now that we have [insert random mediocre pitching veteran name here].” I’m not saying avoid those guys. But if the Sox are going to pass on QO free agents, fine. But you do need to make a splash. And it better be bigger than a Rick Porcello-sized splash...
  9. notin
    https://www.fangraphs.com/players/kenley-jansen/3096/graphs?statArr=6&legend=1,2&split=base&time=daily&ymin=&ymax=&start=2018&end=2020&rtype=mult&gt1=15&dStatArray=FC
  10. notin
    And not at 2B? I would not expect Tommy La Stella or Cesar Hernandez or Jonathan Villar to be that much pricier than Pillar. And i fact, I like all of them easily as much as Pillar. Maybe the Sox can get both Pillar and Villar! And only sign players with rhyming names!
  11. notin
    One could argue that since the Sox are one of the fe teams positioned to spend this off-season, and if there is any truth to avoiding players with Qualifying Offers, that the Sox are positioned to go after the best non-QO free agent out there in Marcell Ozuna, This does leave some tricky alignment in the OF, since none is really a true CF anymore. The biggest and most obvious need is pitching. But if the Sox are not going after any free agents with a QO, exactly who is there for them to sign? The top (re:most expensive) starters on the market without a QO are Masahio Tanaka and Jke Odirizzi. Tanaka figures to be available and Odirizzi is not exactly expected to break the bank, assuming he is worthy at all. But the Sox do have to spend. They made sure of that with the Reset Button tweet. And sicne the starting pitchers are not exactly worth going after and more of a case of "spending for the sake of spending", so should we all extend an early welcome to Marcell Ozuna? And Brad Hand?
  12. notin
    THe projections have Bradley going for 2 /$16 to Houston and Kolten Wong for for 2 / $16 to Boston. So per the projections, the Sox can afford him. But which player is the bigger need (in your eyes)? Both play vacated positions. Both are Gold Glove winning defensive wizards. Bradley plays a position of one of the better upper level prospects, but there is no guarantee with that player anyway. Wong plays a position currently manned by a couple utility infielders, albeit one with a really good pedigree. Bradley is a known commodity. Wong is a much better hitter. The age difference between the two is 6 months...
  13. notin
    More than any of us yet we all make recommendations And I am not so sure I'd say "pull", but he is probably part of the conversations. And since both of the starting CF's from the rings he has are available, I would expect a him to drop both names...
  14. notin
    I don't see the fuss. The Sox area bad team right now, and not a manager away The Tigers hired Hinch. No uproar there?
  15. notin
    So.. no graphng? THe big problem with analytics is it cannot account for a player being tired when not in routine. They plot data based on days rest for pitcher, etc. But this off-season was a whole new formula...
  16. notin
    In theory I'm ok with Instant Replay, but so far the primary use of it has been to overturn stolen bases because some of the rules of baseball are not real consistent with physics. So yeah, it can go...
  17. notin
    Brantley is not a guy you want in CF. Also, no. They were never teammates and Cora left Houston to manage Boston before Brantley arrived...
  18. notin
    And now that Cora is on board, I am guessing it will be either Bradley or Marisnick...
  19. notin
    But being unable to review in game footage might have been a factor...
  20. notin
    But again, that's saying what they expect him to be, not what he is. What he is right now is an unknown commodity. Bear in mind these same people making comparisons also thought Ben would be by far the lesser of the Gamel brothers...
  21. notin
    Let's hope it sticks. He'll get his shot st some point. Worst case scenario is the Sox have a new 4th outfielder/pinch runner...
  22. notin
    The problem with saying Duran is the Second Coming of Jake Fraley is no one knows what type of player Fraley is. His career right now is 70 plate appearances. He could fall anywhere in between Shane Victorino and Shane Robinson. This isn't like when you compared a young Will Middlebrooks to an established veteran in Mark Reynolds. So sure, I'll bite. Duran is the next Fraley. But what is Fraley?
  23. notin
    In both 2019 and 2020, Devers had 8 errors in his first 28 games. In 2019, he had a longer season after that to show his improvements. Yes, errors are hardly the best defensive metric, but in the shorter 60 game season, it's really tough to use anything else because he lacked any time to make up for his mistakes...
  24. notin
    Didn't he start 2019 with a slew of errors as well? Slow starter...
  25. notin
    They do, and I have been saying that. I think Duran tarts the season in the minors. And the Sox open the season with some stopgap CF type like Marisnick or Pillar and hope to finish the season with Duran. But Duran is going to have to improve dramatically on his .634 OPS in AA to make that happen. Worst case for Duran is the Sox acquire Kiermaier so that they can increase a pitching return from Tampa, since Kiermaier is signed for two very pricey seasons. But the Sox might also acquire someone like Ender Inciarte (1 yr / $9mill) from Atlanta or Lorenzo Cain (1 yr / $18 mill) from KC in the same type of trade and use him as the stopgap bridge to Duran....
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