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  1. notin
    Well, what was the benefit to keeping Mookie in 2020 and then losing him for a fourth round pick? In 2020, the Sox season hinged 100% on the health of Price, Sale and Eovaldi. Not Betts. The Sox offense was top four in MLB using any metric you like. Pitching? Not so much. And their Big Three are all expensive and oft-injured. If the Sox kept Betts, then Price, Sale and Eovaldi are all still here next year. Betts is not. Martinez is not. Bradley is not. And a few other lesser players. Price, Sale and Eovaldi May or may not continue to get injured. But they all definitely get older. The farm system gives maybe a little relief? The payroll is still in the $190-200 mill range. The lineup (C:Vasquez, 1b: Dalbec?, 2b: Chavis, 3b: Devers, LF: Benintendi, CF: Duran?, RF: ??, DH:??) can certainly no longer be called a strength and borders on Marlins-like production. And the rotation is as described. That team would finish above Baltimore. But if you enjoyed 2014 and 2015, you might not mind so much..,
  2. notin
    Liar. I remember seeing your scrawls in the sand about how cheap Jean Yawkey was and how Heywood Sullivan was such a bad GM...
  3. notin
    I’m sure he does like the guys he acquired. But then a volume-based approach on MiLB arms never hurt anyone. But more important, at one point he clearly wanted a pitcher in the Betts trade, going so far as to get Minnesota involved. Downs and Wong were, at best, Plan B. So the question is, will Bloom do something to replace Graterol?
  4. notin
    People keep trying to compare Betts leaving to other players, but the Sox whole financial picture is different since then. Both payrolls and salaries have skyrocketed. No one wanted this to happen, but something drastic did need to be done to avoid becoming the Tigers...
  5. notin
    It is a minor league deal. Just not exactly the position the Sox need...
  6. notin
    At some point, he might have to get beyond the “don’t like that one. Or that one” phase and realize it’s last call...
  7. notin
    And the only way to get that puck back out of the fourth round is to reset. Which was next to impossible to do without trading Betts and using him to drag another contract along...
  8. notin
    I don’t think Bogaerts has an opt out...
  9. notin
    Unless Lucroy has converted to pitcher, not sure why here? I could see maybe a 2b, but beyond that - pitching, pitching and relief pitching...
  10. notin
    Now as for Bloom I at least understand why the Mookie trade was made. But his lack of low level activity is disheartening. Get some guys on MiLB contracts!! So far, Aaron Loup, Trevor Rosenthal, Dan Otero, Blake Parker, Nick Vincent, Luis Avilan, Greg Bird, Matt Adams, Derek Dietrich, Joe Panik, Jared Hughes, Chad Bettis, Tommy Milone, AJ Cole, Brad Boxberger, Juan Minaya, Yimi Garcia, Jacob Burnes, Yolmer Sanchez, Derek Law, Dylan Covey, Nick Tropeano, Jared Eickoff, Justin Bour, Kyle Barraclaugh, Zack Godley, and Greg Holland and others have signed MiLB contracts, none of them with Boston. I'm sure the Sox could have used at least one of these guys, most likely more. If for no other reason than depth...
  11. notin
    The problem with the Pomeranz trade was the whole medical file switcheroo pulled by Preller, and the Sox did nothing about it. They knowingly accepted damaged goods, and he pitched like it the remainder of the year. A healthy Pomeranz was a deserving All Star that season and normally well worth the A ball prospect. I consider it charma that Espinoza has barely thrown a pitch since that trade. The Kimbrel trade was a massive overpay IMO. Sale costs was about right. But that doesn't mean it didn't deplete the farm and that the prospects dealt away had no potential future in Boston. It was the cost of doing business. But there was a hidden cost the Sox are paying now. Now Sale's extension raised some questions. The fact that he signed a deal that cheap for that short of a period absolutely raised questions about his health, at least to me. But he certainly showed elite talent last year when healthy after a slow Cora-induced start... Eovaldi was a good trade but a stupid extension...
  12. notin
    Well, they are. That's like saying that if you deplete your bank account to buy your dream home, it really isn't depleted because it's, well, your dream home. It's a good thing when you decimate the farm and are happy with the return. but that doesn't make the famr any better. And the Sox have reached a point where the big contracts have prohibited MLB acquisitions and the farm can do very little or them. Also, I think you meant Moncada...
  13. notin
    Maybe, but he has also shown that he can spend $240 million on this team and make a profit. If the team wins, the fans will be there. Mookie or no Mookie..
  14. notin
    No one used the term All Star. Usually the point is “none of them would have made the Red Sox.” Which is stupid, because 1) only Manny Margot is 25. And 2) that means fans think we have 5 starters better than Kopech and also believe this is still true even if we never acquired Sale. Someone name me those five starters...
  15. notin
    Great. Because Weber is the Sox fifth starter right now...
  16. notin
    You wouldn’t? Then why are you countering me on this? That was exactly the point I was responding to..
  17. notin
    Yeah but that looks deceitful...
  18. notin
    So therefore the Sox have never drafted any starters that made the majors?
  19. notin
    Maybe that message was meant for other GMs to interpret “Not giving away Mookie.”
  20. notin
    And Ryan Weber might be positioned to back me up here...
  21. notin
    Michael Kopech, Logan Allen, Jalen Beeks, Ty Buttrey
  22. notin
    The Sox can and do draft starting pitchers. What they need to do is stop trading them away...
  23. notin
    Let’s go with the classics. When he takes a shower, he has to jump around to get wet...
  24. notin
    That’s why I added the line about summing it better than I was capable of...
  25. notin
    I’d bet they try to, but I am not going to bet on some insane GM from a team that rhymes with Blue Pork Vets throwing around ungodly sums of money that pay Mookie well into the next ice age...
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