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  1. notin
    Financially, the only savings the Sox have would be on his actual luxury tax payments, which right now would be $0. But Castillo would take up valuable financial headroom, and he has yet to do anything on a baseball field to show that is the right move...
  2. notin
    I’m actually the rarest of the rare - a Rusney Castillo fan. But no, it’s Pawtucket. The Red Sox absolutely do need a fourth outfielder (and have yet to sign Notin recommendation and potential gem Cesar Puello), but I doubt it’s Rusney, strictly for financial reasons. I’d take Lin over Holt. Same logic, plus Lin is good. I think he’s a better defender than Holt. And Holt might be slightly more versatile, but on a roster with Lin, Peraza and Chavis, this might not matter as much...
  3. notin
    Frankly I don’t get the choice of Weber as the opener, unless the goal is to fall behind 4-0 after the first. Weber is the guy you bring in after the opener and hope to get 2-3 IP out of, hopefully by kickstarting his appearance by having him face the 7-8-9 or 8-9-1 hitters...
  4. notin
    Yes!! In a traditional reliever role, he is completely worthless on the tail end of back-to-back games, and as he is a late inning pitcher, he occasionally faces bottom-of-the-order hitters. The whole idea of the opener is to use a better reliever in a role where he is ALWAYS facing better hitters in the opposing lineup...
  5. notin
    The revision looks like another player going to Boston and not the complete dissolution of the deal. Whether that player replaces Graterol or is in addition is not known yet...
  6. notin
    I’d choose Barnes, since he is so rest-dependent anyway
  7. notin
    Maybe the Red Sox shouldn't be emulating them, but it is hard to say this team was moving like a well-oiled machine when they spent nearly a quarter of a billion dollars and left no room to accommodate their own homegrown superstar. The Expos never had money; losing Martinez was understandable and inevitable. The Red Sox made their own mess that only had two possible solutions. Trade Betts, or lose him one year later for nothing but a draft pick...
  8. notin
    Considering my oldest is 12, I should hope not...
  9. notin
    I would disagree there. But I think Graterol will be pretty good. If you did this entire trade on baseballtradevalues.com without Graterol, and just traded Betts, Price and $48 million for Alex Verdugo, it comes up with the Sox having a slight advantage. Add in Graterol and the Sox come out well ahead...
  10. notin
    Considering the second best offer for Betts involved keeping Price and taking on most of Wil Myers’ contract, I think Bloom did OK...
  11. notin
    Mookie also makes $27 million this season. Believe it or not, the right to pay Mookie that kind of cash for one season wasn’t worth what many seem to think...
  12. notin
    No. I forgot after I turned 9...
  13. notin
    If you break it down For one year of Betts, the Sox got 5 years of Alex Verdugo For David Price plus $48million, the Sox got Brusdar Graterol The second trade, even with the money, actually looks lopsided in the Sox favor...
  14. notin
    “Yeah!! We’re not Complaining State!!!”
  15. notin
    I’m confident the Sox will be in the running. But I can never tell what some other crazy GM might do...
  16. notin
    You really did. But come on. I'd have to dig back 2 years ago on this board. Anyway, I cited my reasons why Boston will be in the running for Betts next off-season. I'm not sure who else fits that same description. Certainly someone else will step up and try to outbid the Sox, but they are well positioned to stay in the bidding if not win it outright...
  17. notin
    And that is the motto of Complaining State U...
  18. notin
    Well the options were 1) deal him for what you can get or 2) keep him, hope to make up the 18 game division deficit somewhere else, and then lose him for a draft pick.
  19. notin
    Yes, there weather reports convey that thought. "Today will be sunny with only a 40% chance of bombs raining down from the sky."
  20. notin
    Lots of places? Two years ago, I suggested the only possibility of Price opting out would be if he wanted to leave Boston and was willig to take less money. Your response was "It's Boston. not Beirut." (We did both know Prie was not opting out. Even if he wanted out of Boston, his agent would have tied him up and kept him in the closet until the deadline passed.) But NOW, lots of places are better than Boston to play in? The Red Sox do have a chance to bring Betts back, simply because they are notorious big spenders who should have plenty of available budget and are freshly reset payroll. If Mookie is all about the money - and it seems like he is, which I don't fault him for being - Boston is absolutely in the running for his next contract. What also helps Boston is the weak farm system hs produced only one other player fighting for chunks of the same pie. And once the Sox accommodate Devers, who else do they have who would ever approach $20mill any time soon?
  21. notin
    Well Diaz was the best in his game at his position and he was tossed into a salary dump...
  22. notin
    Now THERE is a distinction without a difference....
  23. notin
    Like who will pay him more? and where are all these better places to play? This is Boston, not Beirut...
  24. notin
    Edwin Diaz?
  25. notin
    And sign Puig?
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