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Everything posted by notin
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Like when the Yankees signed Aroldis Chapman to the largest contract ever for a close after the 2016 season (when the Yankees had the same record as the 2019 Red Sox)....
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Exactly
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Think that happens if 1) the Sox have Sale and/or ERod or 2) Baltimore is without their 2 best starting pitchers?
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In both cases, the Sox decided to trim payroll. (In Ruth’s case, it was also to raise money.)
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Only if you’re JD Drew or Santa Claus...
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Yeah. Stupid Bloom couldn’t win after inheriting a $240 million dollar team with no farm system and it’s best two pitchers out for the year while he was not only not allowed to spend, but actually ordered to cut payroll. We need a genius like Dombrowski to take this team to the next level by upping payroll to a quarter of a billion dollars while emptying the farm system. Because those older expensive players never age or decline....
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A lot of [people make a big deal out of Pedro telling them to sign Papi. But my understanding is players do make those type of recommendations all the time, and a lot of them never happen. The front office still had to make the decision to go through with it...
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And the season was hardly his fault. The Sox had a payroll over $190 mill (for a 162 game season) and he had only spent what? $10 mill?
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+1 on both counts
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And the 2008 Red Sox were down 1-3 to Tampa in the ALCS and trailing 7-0 in the seventh inning of potential elimination game 5, and they rallied and took that game 5 and won game 6 and then... Oh wait...
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I think two of them were in "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"...
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As does any employer with any job...
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To-MAY-toe, to-MAH-toe
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He handled 29 plays in his zone, per fangraphs, and 22 OOZ plays. But when he played LF this year, he saw only 11 plays in zone and handled 8 of them, with only 3 OOZ plays made. So either his range increased dramatically in the smaller RF, or he lined up closer to the fringes of his zone a lot in RF, which he might have done at any time when there was a second baseman standing in shallow RF. I'm saying he might be a Shift Benefactor...
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I heard the original plan was to release them all in front of the bulls in Pamplona, but, damnit, pandemic...
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He has a lot of that in common with Nick Anderson. Of course, he has more of it in common with Robert Stock...
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So much for my prediction, which was clearly so accurate Tampa took steps to prevent it from happening... -
They also seemed to prefer better hitters...
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And seeing "Daniel Bard" probably didn't change that...
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Well thank you. but I am ineligible for any sort of comeback award, as I never left...
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Oh I don't think I am
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C'mon. Get real. Bard has been out of MLB since 2013, and he only threw one inning then. During his last full season before this one, his teammates included Will Middlebrooks, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Scott Posednik, and the Sox had just hired a new GM named Ben Cherington...
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Just bring back Ellsbury
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Who deserved it more?
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Well, if you want expensive players, you need cheap ones to offset them. Normally, these come from the farm system. But the Sox farm system might not have anyone ready to step in just yet. So it does turn into "Pillar or Marisnick" type players...
