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That RF in San Fran is pretty immense, too. Have to wonder if it suppresses his home run power much like it does to Brandon Belt. (Belt has hit 274 of hi 502 career HRs on the road.) Mike Yaz has 17 of his 31 HRs on the road. Not a ridiculous split, but we are talking about only one full season worth of data. If the Sox are taking a bad contract from the Giants, I would prefer Belt (1 yr / $17.2mill) over Longoria. There are legitimate durability concerns with Belt and his propensity for concussions, but it's only for one year...
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The Sox have only developed a handful of pitchers since Aaron Sele in 1991. Whatever the problem is, it goes well beyond just personnel. They've had scores of people simply not doing this for a long time. Part of the problem is trading arms away, but even then it doesn't create n impressive total...
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Mike Yastrzmeski would be a nice PR coup, but as a player his future is pretty undetermined. He's 30 years old with 161 games (or one full season) under his belt...
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The Dodgers?!! That's not Trout Country. They're all about Pollocks over there!
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I think you missed his joke About 30 years ago, Chamberlain wrote a book in which he claimed he slept with 20,000 women, hence "more love than he deserved." Ir'a ridiculous statement, as it meant he slept with one woman a day for nearly 55 years. He was about 54 or so at the time he made the claim. Ignoring the 0 he had to have had for the first few years of his life, I also think he took a few days off to squeeze in some basketball...
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He just had a baby, so he does get a little love...
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That might be taking the "get more love than you deserve" more literally than intended...
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Until you replace Eovaldi...
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There are a lot of them now, but I don't care. It's not some high end Red Lobster. And damn, that is some good clam chowder... -
Do NOT denigrate the Legal Seafood clam chowder. Those words are borderline blasphemous. I've seen people crucified on a giant clam shucker for less...
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"Overrated" doesn't mean "bad." It just means you get more love than you deserve...
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If the Sox want good, young talent, Mike Yastrzemski is 30. He has been great the last two years, but it getting him going to make getting Longoria worth while? Evan Longoria is going to make $43 million over the next 2 seasons. The Sox could probably sign Michael Brantley for a lot less and watch him hit similarly if not better than Yastrzemski. Yastrzemski would be a good get for the Sox, but not for $43 million. So unless Longoria can actually contribute himself in some way, I wouldn't make that deal. Plus... pitching?
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Or maybe he just went and popped into Legal Seafood for the clam chowder, which is the most wonderful and delicious liquid on the planet and certainly worthy of a 2 hour plane flight. And after a bowl (because cups of Legal Seafood clam chowder are for self-loathers) or two, he went home and fired off tweets to other teams. I could get behind a day like that...
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Sunday doubleheaders used to be the norm for every team in MLB. Bringing them back will reduce the likelihood of WS games being snowed out. Keep baseball out of November!
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So you're saying the Rays were satisfied with two prospects on their way down the ladder? Again, this shows their declining faith in the "jewel of baseball's pitching trade market". Hence, my point about Archer being overrated...
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As opposed to spending $26 million for 2 years on an oft-injured glove-only CF?
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BTV thinks the Sox get hosed in that trade. The Rays would need to add Shane McClanahan, Yonny Chirinos or Joe Ryan to even it out. Getting both Shane's feels very anti-Ray. With Chironos entering his final pre-arb year, he might be more available. But he is not exactly a SP, having topped 89 IP just one time. And his FIP numbers tell the world his ERA might not be as sustainable as one might like. He feels like a "sell high" candidate, but Bloom might like him and if the Sox are getting Baz, it might lessen the blow if Chirinos pumpkins out on us... .
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Well, it is the only thing he can do. Other than fly drones that drag banners bearing his name over every city. I wonder if he only bought that airline ticket to Boston just so he could post the picture on Twitter. And then he never followed up by going on an actual flight...
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When I talk dirty, I also get into double headers every Sunday...
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And they believed that combination was better because Archer was overrated. At some point, you have to acknowledge that Pittsburgh believed there to be at least equal value in this trade, which means they had more faith on Archer than he deserved. Which is the very definition of the word "overrated."
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Well, when the universal DH is adopted in 2022, this will no longer be the case...
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I think in many cases, such pressure already exists...
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I don't think so. The year-to-year strategy during his arbitration years was one thing, as the ony other option was to sign a multi-year deal that is often referred to as being "team friendly," and Bauer appears to be against anything that is "team friendly." I think someone throws a 7 year deal in excess of $230 million at him, and his agent runs a few numbers by him that shows this offer is about as far from "team friendly" as it gets...
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Is he worried people will forget about him?
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He has been trolling a few teams on Twitter, which is just him being silly. He's actually not allowed to even engage teams yet and when he does, it won't be him dong it via Twitter. His agent (Rachel Luba) will be handling the actual contact. He certainly has a price that will make any team palatable, including one that employs Cole. He has also publicly denounced the Astros as cheaters, but I am sure he has a price to pitch in Houston. So if he is willing to go to NY, it will come down to how willing they are to meet his demands and exceed everyone else's offers...
