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  1. notin
    I still don't think they got a catcher. The Dodgers were moving Wang around the infield most of last year to see if he stuck anywhere. He'll probably be an OF himself at some point, assuming he keeps hitting...
  2. notin
    OK. What team was going to give up a bona fide pitching prospect for Betts? Did they turn down offers for all these elite young pitchers to take Verdugo? Or was he the best player available without taking Wil Myers contract back and keeping Price?
  3. notin
    He was ranked by BA one year, like #96 or around there. That's no "sure thing" either, but it's not much worse than Casas. My point is there is just no such thing as a "sure thing" in A ball, when the vast majority of your competition will never play another level. The real attrition starts in AA, and to me, that is the most predictive level. I don't take any prospect seriously until he gets to AA. (That doesn't mean i think all A ball players can and should be traded. But in many cases, it actually winds up being the right time to do so.)
  4. notin
    Yeah this place really went into the shitter then...
  5. notin
    Sorta my point
  6. notin
    Yeah it makes me miss the old days when we ll just mailed VHS cassettes to each other. So much more efficient...
  7. notin
    Nah. Just a crappy spell checker...
  8. notin
    Well, they did try to get a pitching prospect. That did not work out and either the Dodgers were not amenable to including on of their pitchers or the Sox did not like any of the ones they would make available. This was a salary dump. Everyone gets that. If it wasn't, David Price would still be in Boston. But I think a lot of people seriously overvalue what one year of Betts at $27mill was going to get in a trade. The Sox were NEVER going to raid the top of the Dodger or Padre farm systems for the right to pay Mookie $27mill for a single season and then collect a draft pick. The Sox actually got more than I thought they would even if they hadn't included half of Price. And I think that is the point that YOU are missing in your deep hunt to find the inner truth behind exactly how nefarious this deal was...
  9. notin
    The really sad part of the Sox death of outfield talent is that the only outfielders even remotely of note that Dombrowski only traded away were Manny Margot and Luis Basabe....
  10. notin
    Maybe I am his agent...
  11. notin
    And also somewhat mitigated by the fact that they went after Pillar, a player likely to settle in to a fourth outfielder role. If t hey were really worried about Verdugo for all of 2020, they might have gone after Puig for one year. This is clearly not the case. Even if Verdugo misses April, they have him for FIVE YEARS. If they did not make the deal, they had Betts for one year. This deal was not just about 2020, and, as mvp said, they clearly wanted Verdugo and did not think the back injury was serious enough to jeopardize his career for five years. With Graterol, there was concerns about him long term. With Verdugo, apparently not so much.
  12. notin
    Per soxprosepcts.com, the Red Sox only have 4 outfielders in their top 37 prospects. They have 5 shortstops in that range...
  13. notin
    I didn't want to trade him, either. But I think it was absolutely necessary...
  14. notin
    The Sox outfield depth in the minors is criminally shallow...
  15. notin
    Let's ask Trey Ball and Mauricio Dubon...
  16. notin
    Lars was drafted in the days when players fell due to (perceived?) signability issues. BA #17 vs BA #80. Which one is the safer bet?
  17. notin
    But calling proof because Altuve would not let anyone rip off his jersey is like accusing Adrian Beltre of having a buzzer under his cap...
  18. notin
    Really, Cook was hardly the problem. He threw 94 IP and was worth -0.4 fWAR. But look at the other non-Lester starters. Buchholz (189 IP 0.8 fWAR), Doubront (161 IP 1.2 fWAR) and Beckett (127 IP, 1.4 fWAR) were not all significantly better in larger roles. And Daniel Bard and Daisuke Matsuzaka made fewer starts but were equally ineffective or worse than Cook. THe Sox were not loaded with better options that year...
  19. notin
    Wel, it's not like the minor league system was throwing out a bunch of pitchers above replacement level that year. Did the Sox have a better internal option?
  20. notin
    How different is that from the consensus about Lars Anderson?
  21. notin
    Part of the reason has been the lower volume. MiLB contracts can be a volume game, where the more you sign, the greater the chances of one succeeding. Just because Jenrry Mejia did not pan out doesn't mean that successes like Derek Holland, Anibal Sanchez, and Francisco Liriano did not happen in recent years...
  22. notin
    Cashner was acquired via trade. not an MiLB contract. Cook had a poor record, and when he was off, he was very off. But 8 of his 18 starts were Quality Starts, highlighted by a 9 inning 2-hit shutout against the Mariners. That's not so horrible for a minor league deal...
  23. notin
    Yes I found it despite you being a complete ass about WHERE he said it. Speier does have multiple outlets. And thanks for telling me about how to diagnose a lower back. I had an accident many years ago where I shattered several vertebrae and the x-Rays of my spine looked like a map of a winding country road giving a scenic tour of my torso. One major back surgery and two Harrington rods later, and I’m fine now. In fact, I’m better than before because they fixed my scoliosis. (This is a true story.) And yet with all of this history of back issues, I won’t diagnose Alex Verdugo. Not sure what Kevin Kennedy’s credentials are, but probably not much better than mine if at all. Kennedy should stick to what he does best, which is promoting himself for successes, blaming others for his failures, and getting fired...
  24. notin
    Epstein used to hand them out like he was working a corner on the Vegas Strip. Dombrowski didn’t seem to care about minor leaguers or depth...
  25. notin
    If either of those two guys was taking steroids, I don’t think Puig would be my first choice...
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