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Everything posted by notin
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I'd just assume have Eovaldi and Martinez...
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And it cannot obviously incorporate any intangible values a player has. I believe it basically assigns a value based up project fWAR (in dollars) minus project salary...
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Passed away 12 years ago, from falling down a flight of stairs...
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So do you think the Sox would have been better off with Betts and a draft pick this year only, followed by a big question mark in RF instead of Verdugo for the next five?
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I know nothing about him except he played catcher, never made the Majors, managed in the minors, and is currently Tampa's bench coach, a position for which he was hired by Bloom... -
But Vaughn Eshelman is no longer with us...
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Today? Everybody. Especially who ever is getting Zombie John Marzano...
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The Sox were doomed for a bad season when they lost Sale and Rodriguez for the year. Would finishing 4th in the AL East with Mookie and then watching him go for a draft pick be any better?
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And that is why I am sticking with my original prediction it will be Matt Quatraro. And it makes sense that he is among the top choices but there has been no progress. Unlike a lot of the candidates mentioned, Quatraro is still working...
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Cash just had a year as a scout and a year as a bullpen coach when Bloom hired him and he worked out. We might not be getting a "name" manager...
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Ummm... no.
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Absolutely true. Obviously bad trades will still happen. But BTV has given a clearer picture of what players can be worth in trades...
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Graterol. That wipeout slider is one of the nastiest pitches in MLB...
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We have no chance of re-signing him since Henry had mandated resetting the tax and there was no practical way to get under it without moving Betts. Unless you wanted to move Bogaerts instead, but that would have been unwise given that he clearly wanted to be in Boston. The only chance the Sox had to bring Mookie back was to trade him away, reset, and then hope he reached free agency...
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No. Watching any player celebrate over beating the Yankees is sweet, regardless of the uniform...
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Now what BTV cannot do is tell you whether or not a GM wants to deal or acquire any specific player. Just because a deal is equal doesn't mean either GM wants to give up or acquire those specific pieces. But I think it does at least quash some of the absolutely lopsided trade proposals that every baseball internet site has been littered with since the dawn of the Cyber Age...
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They did. They actually do analysis of every trade in MLB. In the Mookie trade, the Sox received more value at the time, as Alex Verdugo alone was roughly equal to Mookie due to years of control remaining (along with, you know, Verdugo being pretty good). But what that site also made obvious was that, despite columns from the MLB.con and Boston Sprotswriter crew, the Sox were absolutely not going to get Dustin May or Gavin Lux. never mind both. Which I believe one of them suggested would be fair. From what I saw at the deadline this year, every trade I saw the analysis for was actually very close using their simulator...
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Actually they have done a pretty good job fine tuning it in the 1 year plus it's been around, and a lot of actual trades that real life GMs have obviously deemed fair have been valued as being roughly equal using their system...
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If Cora is waiting for anything, it's probably to see who gives him the most lucrative offer...
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Jimy's bullpen management skills were simplistically brilliant. Basically, you got either Hipolito Pichardo and Rich Garces (and rarely just one of them) or you got Rheal Cormier and Tim Wakefield. The idea of having the middle relievers work in pairs to guarantee adequate rest was so simple, but it worked so well. And yet we really have not seen it since...
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So no second chance at Morgan Magic? Also, cut Grady Little some slack. Yes, he left Pedro in too long in one game on a team that had a bullpen that couldn't struggled to get outs for 6 months. But Little had a .580 winning percentage in his two season with the Sox. That doesn't count for anything? That's the second highest percentage of all Sox managers since the Korean War, behind only Cora. And Little comes without Cheating Scandal Baggage...
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Jimy Williams over Zombie Dick Williams?
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Or animating Peter Cushing's face over that of some unknown actor to make a Star Wars prequel...
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Absolutely. It does come down to what you think is the greater risk - 12 years and $400 mill for a 25/26 yo outfielder on a HOF track, of 7 years $217 mill for an excellent starting pitcher heading into his declining years (with degree of decline unknown).
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Yes and while he was not as effective as in yeas past, he was hardly ineffective. WHIP is a good measure for number of people getting on base, which is the would-be deathnail of a closer. And while Uehar was clearly allowing more hitters to reach base, likely due to a combination of the stats you pointed out, he was still just as effective as many of the league-leading closers in MLB. Sure, he was no longer Chapman/Jansen. And while it would have been better if he still was, the premise that he could not close any more - which was your question - seems like the answer is "Yes, he could"...
