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Everything posted by notin
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I think you will see Pivetta, Brasier and Taylor in MLB. Hopefully we have seen the last of Weber, Mazza, Kickham, Covey, Spings, Hall, Triggs, Leyer and Brice as Red Sox at any level after this season. I’d add Hart, but he does have options...
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B-R actually has the Sox in 4th in MLB with a payroll of $171mill. But I believe just add up the salaries of the roster and take into account players on other teams the Sox are still paying (like Sandoval) And of course none of the websites detailing Sox payroll include Castillo...
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Heck we’re still spending this year. While we have small market names and small market results, this team has a non-pro-rated payroll north of $180 million....
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That the Rays “refuse to spend money” is a big difference. I would think you’ve seen Henry spend money by now. The Rays being competitive in their crappy isolated ballpark in a region of the country dominated by Yankee fans is a nice story, but no one thinks Henry hires Bloom to emulate that. More likely, Henry realized that succeeding in that culture requires a certain degree of baseball acumen and he wants to someone with that pedigree to bring that to Boston...
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True, but the farm system was another type of currency that was used to pay off that debt. And one of those choking debt contracts did win a Cy Young award...
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Not sure many teams do. Maybe Oakland...
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Friedman made it evident he was not parting with top tier pitching prospects, which was one of the reasons Minnesota got involved at all. To me it looks like Bloom isn’t taking chances with “high risk” younger pitchers with health concerns, which is why he passed on Graterol. Now the Dodgers were in a better position to take on that risk, and it’s been working out for them. Hey, another advantage of having a good farm; you don’t have to be as careful on younger players...
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But if you’re not allowed to spend, shouldn’t that impact the final product? The Sox still have the third highest payroll in MLB, which should serve as a reminder that spending heavily does come with a potential risk in itself...
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It’s not debatable statistically. Price’s age, position and career length made him a higher risk period. As for Mookie’s pre-pandemic price tag, that is a fair point...
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Ben was also the antecedent to DD. Had Cherington been capable of signing even a reasonable free agent instead of Ramirez, Sandoval and Castillo (although to be fair, Castillo barely had a chance), things might have been much different. I really don’t blame Henry for the personnel decisions. Whether or not he approves of them is a secondary part at best. After all, he does hire a GM to make baseball decisions. Is he supposed to then second-guess everything?
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Because it’s less insane than 7 years $217 mill for an older, inferior, higher risk player...
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Yes he did. He wanted a spend-heavy winner, especially after Cherington proved to be a tad less than King Midas in free agency ( But even the heavy spending wouldn’t have been so bad if not coupled with the emptying of the farm system, leaving no minimum wage players to help keep the payroll sustainable....
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Neither is Tanner Houck’s
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It would cripple a small market team. A larger market can take that risk, but not too often apparently...
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I agree with that. I just saw it as an inevitability a while back based on other decisions.
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He did, but playing the game where the impact of a GM starts the day he is hired and ends the day he departs and no predecessor ever impacts his role feels incomplete. And as long as I don’t get over critical of the crowd that says that, I feel ok in criticizing the notion itself...
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Also, depending on who says them
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I’m going to say they did not. Brady Breeze was likely born (and named) in 1997 or 1998. At that time, Tom Brady was still at University of Michigan, battling either Brian Griese or Drew Henson for the starting QB job.
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I’d be surprised if Peraza was tendered a contract at all. And part of me thinks Bloom would lean more towards Muniz and Arroyo - basically, his guys - over Lin, who might also be non-tendered, or Chatham, who has options left...
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He did much better with actual resources at his disposal. No GM from Tampa can give Mookie that contract...
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Well, I have been very vocal in wishing he kept Graterol. Whatever he didn’t like, Friedman certainly did...
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You’re not even making sense any more, cpl....
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Dalbec is more capable defensively...
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So... Dombrowski didn’t leave the team with a bunch of heavy contracts and no farm system? Or do you only chime in when someone denigrates Dombrowski? Why not say something when dgalehouse makes critical commentary about Bloom?
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So the Sox should put everything on Downs? I don't like the idea of the Red Sox depending on a guy named "Jeter". Seriously, so what happen if you "bridge to Downs" and he just plain sucks? I know he is a ranked prospect (BA #86), but you know who else was a ranked prospect at one time? Jose Peraza. (BA #54 in 2015 and BA#66 in 2016). They don't all work out as planned. Get a real 2B and worry about Downs when he makes it an issue. Let's not pretend he is Joe Morgan-in-the-wings...
