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Everything posted by notin
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This is true. But when a team is already near it's budget and has no farm system producing those quality players, where are they supposed to come from? I know spending is a key to success, but at some point, the spending limit has been reached. Even after 2 years of putting next to nothing into free agency, the Sox still have the 7th highest payroll in the league (per sportrac) at $175 million. Last year's abysmal team had the 4th highest payroll in the league. After 2018, there was a piper to be paid...
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A superficial comp at best, especially since one is the byproduct of being fought for while the other is frequently fought against...
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I am not buying into a comparison between free agency and outsourcing...
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Hey don't forget Mookie was not exactly some top tier prospect. He was drafted in the fifth round with the 172nd overall pick, and was not even ranked by every scouting bureau, and the ones who did rank him did not exactly place him near the top. He was only ranked in the top 100 before the 2014 season (his 4th minor league season), and came in at 62 on MLB.com and at 75 on Baseball America, and was behind former Sox prospect and career minor leaguer Garin Cecchini on both lists. Not exactly rankings or a draft status indicative of his future...
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The Sox would have to go 4-5 in their next 9 games for this to happen. I think you can find a taker...
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He was absolutely an asset in LA. But they have a budget, too, and spent their allowance on Betts and will have to deal with a Bellinger contract situation shortly. And figure out what to do about Corey Seager. No way they were going to spend that kind of cash on Hernandez...
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People who were predicting the cliff cited that as one of the exact causes. The team had a hefty budget and no cheap farm system replacements to fill the gaps, which is not a formula for sustainable success. What you said was an inevitable cause of the cliff, not a coincidental happenstance...
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The problem with the "C" word is that in order to avoid falling off one, you have to build a "B" word...
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Soft-tossing lefty Jeff Ballard went 18-8 3.43 the following season. Harmony will eventually tell is Ballard was part of a rotation at Stanford than included Jack McDowell and Mike Mussina...
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He's also only thrown 32 pitches so far this year, all of them against the Pirates. I'll hold off on naming him to the All Star team just yet... -
But it also doesn't really matter if fans "care" where the budget is. It's a cold hard reality. At some point, the team just cannot spend anymore, much lie every business ever. Even Amazon has some sort of spending cap for their expenses. They may be nowhere near it right now, but that doesn't man it does not exist. The Sox have spent a lot. They are still spending a lot. Casual fan or not, the notion that this team was too cheap to bring back Betts or anyone else is not based in anything realisitic...
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If they kept Betts, they wouldn’t be able to afford any pitching. Including the ones they have now, which might seem like a blessing until you remember last year’s staff and that it can get worse. So keeping Betts might mean a rotation headed by Mazza and Weber. Would it make you happy to watch Mookie lose?
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What’s disconcerting is in the losses, they stuggled hitting. We knew pitching would be rough. We knew fielding could be. But we hoped hitting was going to work. It didn’t. They probably pitched better than they hit...
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Taylor is making me miss Austin Brice...
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Except the NBA. And the NHL. And probably a few others. Oh yeah. The NFL, too...
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I can’t call this a save that worked...
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Oh please. You plan one every off-season...
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Jose Iglesias’ contract was not a deal breaker...
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Team offense isn’t a strength right now either...
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This is the theme of the majority of my posts about free agency. Typically the response is something “they print money” or “why are you trying to save Henry’s money?” I’m not convinced a lot of fans believe this team has a budget or spending limit...
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No s***. The Yankees were in last place after game one. Was it time for them to white flag the season and start the sell off?
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They clearly drew it too low. The question is - was the line they drew unreasonable? Like it was for Lester...
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So are we now pretending Mookie had no offers from the Sox?
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It seems odd to suggest they shouldn’t have passed on Brantley and Rosario in a thread that started out discussing the importance of defense. Brantley in particular is such a poor defender, he couldn’t catch a cold if he was naked in Norway...
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1b Devers 2b Chavis 3b Dalbec SS Bogaerts LF Cordero/Renfroe CF Hernandez RF Verdugo C Vazquez
