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To get Betts. They also clearly liked Graterol and revised the deal to keep him once Boston bowed out on that iteration. (Wait!! Is this a trade where the Dodgers dealt a pitcher and not for prospects or a salary dump?!)
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As much as I think the Sox were right to trade Betts, I live in a world where that became a foregone conclusion with DD's reckless spending on starting pitching. Betts was on my very short list of players I wanted signed to a mega-extension...
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Kenta Maeda? The guy who was on he short list of free agent pitchers I said were better options than Price? That Kenta Maeda?
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And how many of those pitchers are established upgrades over Eovaldi? Some of them have the same durability issues he has, like Reyes and Canning. And Syndergaard can probably be had for less, given that he is likely to miss half of next season and then he reaches free agency a year from now...
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But there are plenty of them with his career .308 OBP that prevents him from hitting there...
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Even then, I think you're minimizing a return for Vazquez in order to dump Eovaldi, which is the exact opposite of the strategy we've seen Bloom try to employ...
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And any time he got there, there was already another man on second How much lower can I take this?
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I assumed that when the Twins and Graterol got involved at all, it spoke volumes about exactly how available some of the Dodger pitching prospects like Dustin May and Josiah Gray were...
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The premise that the Sox could add Chavis and Vazquez to Eovaldi to upgrade over Eovaldi seems like a longshot to me. Teams would have to be very desperate to get hold of Chavis and Vazquez. Now Vazquez might have some appeal, but I don't think a one-dimensional role player like Chavis is enough of a difference maker to convince another team to downgrade their pitching. Detroit And Cleveland are the best bets here, as both have serious pitching depth and not really much in the way of offenive players in the pipeline. But I do not think either is all that excited by Vazquez and Chavis to the point where the Sox get an upgrade over Eovaldi. Although if the upgrade is in durability only, maybe it can happen. But I don't see with whom. The best option on these teams might be Carrasco, who is better than Eovaldi, but really not any more durable...
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For the record, no one is ok with Billy Hamilton. Except maybe Mrs Hamilton. And even she had complaints about something being too fast...
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Lin Manuel Miranda arguably had more hits, and very likely has more going forward...
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I think Eovaldi is ours. Any trade of him is not likely to bring back a useful piece, just an expensive one. And then the Sox have to replace Eovaldi. I say move him to the bullpen and make him a high leverage reliever. Maybe the reduced workload will work out better for his durability. And let's face it, if the Sox have one area that needs more attention than starting rotation, it's the bullpen...
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Sure. The Sox can get Billy Hamilton for a lot less. But should they?
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He's a good prospect and off to a nice start, but any comparison to just about any MLB pitcher is probably based on nothing but hope. We've seen Yankee prospects come up with more hype, like when Manny Banuelos was the next Johan Santana and Jesus Motero was the next Miguel Cabrera. Perhaps those fans were thinking of some other Johan Santana and Miguel Cabrera? Like not the ones who were immensely successful baseball players?
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I think it as his final year, but I think it was also Cabrera's...
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Define “salary relief”. In 2007, the White Sox traded Jon Garland for Orlando Cabrera. It did save them a few million, but not nearly what they could have saved by dealing Garland for prospects...
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I’m a good example. I wanted a pitcher back, but there is probably a good reason why I wasn’t invited to the negotiations....
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Thinking Henry is not concerned what he spends on the Sox is just flat out ignoring history. And in this case, some extremely recent history...
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Voit had a minor league OPS of .827 and Tauchman had a minor league OPS of .823. Mashed? Hardly. In fact, not really even notably better than Arroyo (.775)...
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Tauchman couldn’t hit in Colorado...
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I like the idea of taking back the contract of Kevin Kiermaier so as to increase the haul from dealing Vazquez...
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I am going to assume he needs a few more at bats in AA before they view him as a "top of the anything" hitter...
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Even one with fewer fWAR than Ryan Brasier. But will Downs make the substitution worth it?
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He should get an opportunity, but the best idea is proably not to make him Plan A in April. If he fails, then what? Whereas if the Sox bring in some Bradley/Pillar/Taylor type player to start the season in CF and then give Duran a shot, they always have the otpion of demoting Duran and going back to Bradley/Pillar/Taylor. Remember, even Mike Trout was not just handed the job, and struggled in his first call up before being demoted. So expecting more immediately from Duran is probably (re: definitely) a bad idea...
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True. Price actually got hurt the second year, which all but guaranteed he would not be opting out after the third. But the bottom line is he did his best work early and I would expect the same from Bauer. The only advantage Bauer has might be his use of analytics. While some on this board think analytics are solely used to the front office nerds and are competently ignored by baseball payers, Trevor Bauer is the biggest, fattest monkey wrench in that theory. Bauer has apparently hired his own team of analysts to break down his game and improve himself wherever possible, including a former program to boost his velocity. Despite all that, I still wouldn't give him 7 or 8 years. He might be able to optimize his performance at age 38, but that doesn't mean it will still be any good...
