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Everything posted by notin
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They were disappointing, which can be worse than being flat out bad in some cases...
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Which one had performance issues? They were all good pitchers, but all had major health issues. Unlke ERod, their issues were all related to their arms and not due to infectious disease...
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Well that hardline stance had some serious implications... -
My point exactly!!
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To do what?
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And you don't think the presence of Kimbrel had any impact on the amount of saves for Uehara? And really, who pitched better between the two in 2016? Kimbrel was a lot younger and Uehara was clearly winding down a brilliant MLB career. But closer was not the Sox top need...
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They had already move Moncada off second. Yoan did have an abysmal debut in Boston, but I doubt that was why he was traded; Pedroia had a rough start his first call up, too. Moncada and Kopech were traded simply because Sale was not coming cheap...
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Someone didn't, although stories seem to vary about what numbers it would have taken to lock Mookie up...
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I think they were willing to overlook that part of his methodology..
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Sign and trade? That's the NBA where they do that. ERod will likely be tendered a contract if he passes a physical of some sort. If he doesn't pass whatever the criteria, no point in signing him. If he does, he helps fill the biggest need on the team...
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Kopech is off to a start that makes me think he will be Eovaldi 2.0. That's fine for a while. Just don't go signing him to a 4 year $68mill extension and hope he is going to actually be able to pitch...
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I was much more OK with Sale, as he was younger and on an insanely good deal and an elite SP. Kimbrel I felt was an overpay for taking that contract from the Padres, and while the Sox biggest pitching weakness in 2015 was actually the bullpen more so than the rotation, the one role in the bullpen that still looked solid was closer, as they still had Uehara, who was coming off a stellar season even at age 40...
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I think the difference thee was 1) JBJ was here and a known commodity and 2) for one year, the money did not make a difference with resetting since they had clear plans to not sign anyone else and to move Mookie and as much of Price as possible. It is possible that before JBJ was tendered, conversations with the Dodgers had already started. Those kinds of deals just don't happen on one phone call...
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He was dealt to get Kimbrel, which was a clear attempt to fill a void on the Sox. And a rare one to be addressed by Dombrowski. But let's not pretend the impact of departing players begins and ends with their stats on other teams...
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Yes. That's been my point for several years!! It really makes very little sense to value some of the players the way the Sox did - with Eovaldi being number 1 on that list - and not do the same for Mookie...
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Why the mystery? What other options did they have for CF?
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Maybe. But I would think they hired Dombrowski to do things his way and were completely aware of what "his way" was...
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Thinking more likely to replace the $30mill spent on Bradley the past few seasons. At some point, we have to start thinking of $30 mill as real money...
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That feels so unlike Dombrowski. The man signs 31yo Miguel Cabrera for 8 guaranteed years (with two options) for roughly $300 mill, but won't go above that number or years for Mookie in his mid-20s?
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I would expect Benintendi to be better going forward, But Margot was clearly better in 2020, which was the premise. Really, what Margot represetnted for the Sox was the minimum wage guy the Sox could have used in CF if they wanted to help keep their more expensive players on board. That was his role regardless of OPS...
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He struggled to get something palatable last off-season. He represents the clear best potential bargain on the market from a Baseball Only standpoint. Emphasis on that last prepositional phrase...
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So you're selling high on Brentz' head, too? One thing about Brentz. Has any other player ever taken figurative language and turned in to the literal truth so explicitly as when Bryce shot himself in the foot?
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On August 10, Benintendi had accumulated 2 hits for the season. the same number that DFA candidate Tzu-Wei Lin had by that date. There is no wrong answer for when it would have been a good time to make that substitution...
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No aspect of Bryce Brentz' game is worth a million dollars. Obviously I was referring to the Bubonic Puig, a guy who would be a great fit for the Sox but would also make all the sense in the world to pass on.
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He has stated many times his eyes have been failing him. I kept trying to turn him on to Zoom Text, but for all I know, he was already using it...
