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  1. notin
    It's all a typo. Verdugo was not seen with the rapist.; he was seeing a therapist...
  2. notin
    He wanted to, but he was puzzled by the nature of the game...
  3. notin
    It is worth pointing out that Betts still takes reps at 2B and SS, per Gammons. When Gammons asked him about this, pointing out he already had a position and was not going to be moved around, Betts just replied "You never know what will happen in extra innings."
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    Also not on Atlanta's wish list. Albies is pretty damn good and his contract also helps makes Betts less afforable. The main reason I would see Atlanta avoiding this is because they, like the Dodgers with Bellinger, will have their own superstar whose free agency they would like to avoid, and it will cost them handsomely as they are aware. The notion of losing the prime years of Acuna because they paid Betts deep into his 30s makes very little baseball sense. The Red Sox and the Mets, on the other hand, could easily position themselves at the front of the line in a battle to see who closes their checkbook first...
  5. notin
    Jagger leaves tips bigger than that.
  6. notin
    OK. Thank you.
  7. notin
    Except that with Acuna, Pache, Waters, Riley, and Inciarte, OF might not be their most pressing need. Betts is a clear upgrade over all of them, except possibly Acuna, but outfield might also not be where they chose to spend their allowance...
  8. notin
    Who says he even likes Tennessee? He might love Southern California. At least until he has to drive somewhere. In some respects, Boston has a big advantage. He knows the place and what it is like to play there. And per Peter Gammons, he was happy with the Red Sox. The Sox will be positioned to bring him back, butt here has to be mutual interest as measured in US dollars...
  9. notin
    Exactly my point. He was just less involved. Metrics don't catch that up front, but analysis of metrics does...
  10. notin
    It's not like John Henry is on Youtube with a puppy saying "Buy Red Sox tickets or I will do a Facebook Live where I drown little Happy here!! So do you want tickets or do you hate Happy?"
  11. notin
    Oh no! Marketing! In a social media world, they'd be fools not to. Do you think the Yankees don't do similar things?!
  12. notin
    The $1 was more symbolic. The point is that if the Sox are interested in Betts, they’re on a level playing field with 28 other teams (Dodgers will have a slight advantage in an exclusive negotiating window), and not starting off with some form of penalty or disadvantage...
  13. notin
    I think a big reason for the decline is that his per inning chances are among the worst in MLB. UZR and DRS and, well, any defensive metric rely heavily on having plays to make. It is possible Betts, whose opportunities are noticeably higher, has been taking some opportunities away from Bradley. I don’t think the skills are declining. Not that much. Put Myers in RF (hypothetically) and JBJ will have a “miraculous” return to defensive form...
  14. notin
    He should be doing both, since they are for different reasons...
  15. notin
    Unless teams don’t quite meet them. If that’s the case, expect a prolonged free agency for Betts that drags into February...
  16. notin
    As far as we know, Betts’ price to every team is one dollar more than the next highest. Not sure why you’re singling out the Red Sox here or what Bradley and Martinez have to do with it...
  17. notin
    Based on what? Mookie wanting revenge? The amount the Red Sox have to pay is based on what other teams are willing to pay, not based on their record from the previous year. If no team is willing to pay him 12 years $360 million, they the price for the Red Sox doesn't increase over the original 12yr / $420mill demand. It goes down. Unless Mookie is willing to leave a ton of money on the table, which is the one thing he seems to have any reluctance to do....
  18. notin
    Agree on Kimbrel Not on Sale. No way to get a player of Sale's ability on that dirt cheap contract without giving up quality and quantity. If the Sox did not give up Moncada and Kopech plus, another team would have acquired Sale...
  19. notin
    THere's no such thing as a bad minor league contract. I stand by that. I would just like some minor league pitching contracts...
  20. notin
    As many other have said - "print the playoff tickets!"
  21. notin
    Assuming another 2B made the play. While it looked like an easy play, let's not forget Kinsler won a Gold Glove that year...
  22. notin
    Weren't they willing to pay 50% last time arpund, but Boston wanted them to pay more?
  23. notin
    Thee will likely be a decline in attendance if the team does not win immediately. But Mookie was not the difference between winning and not winning this year. The Sox had Mookie last year and it equaled 85 wins. Fans will come back when the team wins. And some will stick throughout. Most of us started following this ballclub at some point between 1918 and 2004. A rough season or two is not exactly a novelty for us...
  24. notin
    They had no choice...
  25. notin
    He’s run Tampa. Declining attendance is a given. The whole “Boston media is voracious” probably doesn’t have the impact you think it has. Too many Boston sportswriters did nothing but whine about each and every move regardless of how good it is. And for some of them, Chaim Bloom could singlehandedly extinguish a burning kindergarten classroom full of kids using nothing more than the contents of the sandbox, and all they would write about is how he destroyed one of their toys. As the saying goes on sports management, “don’t listen to the fans, or you’ll wind up sitting with them.” The loss of ticket sales is probably expected, but Henry is letting Bloom do the long term thing. We’ll see if Henry learned anything from the way he cut Cherington’s long term vision off in favor of a quick fix..,
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