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Everything posted by notin
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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?
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Maybe. Hernandez had a negative UZR/150 in CF for the first time in his career. Of course, playing only 20 innings out there probably also did not help. That he has never played more than 372 innings in a season in CF is a bigger factor for me. Makes his metrics suspect...
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There's actually more than that. I have heard Chaz Roe rumors for example, but he is not on anyone's list of free agents...
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I think it helps if you remember the analytics measure accomplishments, not ability. If Bradley got to fewer flyballs because Betts was already in position to take them, it did not help his analytics. It also did not mean JBJ was not going to get to them with a lesser RF out there...
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Dalbec at 1b, but is he a step up or down from Moreland? Interesting they "sucked" in 2019 with Bradley and Betts in CF and RF respectively...
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Yoan Moncada is claiming he is back at full strength after feeling fatigued pretty much all of last season...
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Things can change as the injuries pile up. The number of injured CF's around MLB right now is at a season-low...
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OK. They do have one...
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Porcello having talks with the Tigers...
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Bradley at 12/2 is also worth it because, if the Sox are out of it in July, he can be flipped to a contender in need of OF help. History does indicate that position players get lesser returns mid-season than pitchers. But that is no reason to not pursue him. He would be good for fans, as he is a known commodity. And, let's face it, Boston has a bad reputation in some certain regards, and right now Bloom has purged this team of all it's African American players except Marcus Wilson, who might be next. While I have my doubts this is anything except a coincidence, it doesn't do much to help the reputation of the city and team...
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Trey Ball was a long time ago. They hit with Benintendi since then, but for some reason, people like to cling that one failure as if is now the only possible outcome. And that was a really bad draft overall for pitching, with 4 of the 5 pitchers taken in the top 10 combining for 63 IP in the majors, with 62 of them coming from a below average Kohl Stewart. (And the other IP coming from Phil Bickford, who showcased his talent by surrendering 4 ER in it.) Whoever they draft this year - and the latest rankings would have it as Miami catcher Adrian Del Castillo - it might not be anyone who will make any sort of impact for a while anyway...
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He's only topped that one time in his career. Now it was in the season when he had his career high in PA, but as it was only 2 PA higher than his second highest, and he only had 88 wRC+ then, it is not a given...
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But that problem is not limited to the Sox...
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The Sox were actually lucky it all happened at once. (Although since they all went down with COVID except for Sale, it was not really a coincidence.)
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That's such a big part of the 2020 season. How do people think the 2018 season would have gone if the team got 0 IP from Sale and Price? Do people think ERod and Porcello were going to lead this team to the best record in MLB and a World Series title? Would they have even made the playoffs?
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Once Sale went down, it was no longer a choice anyway...
