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  1. notin
    But the conventional baseball wisdom still says 1b is the easiest defensive position. If you disagree with this, what position is easier?
  2. notin
    Someone had a big bowl of Contrarian Flakes for breakfast...
  3. notin
    It’s not DD’s fault Betts turned down an offer, or is all about money, but the contract situation they have is certainly his doing, as is the depleted farm. These were my main gripes about Dombrowski when the Sox hired him - he signs players to absurd contracts, and he empties farm systems. Also, the albatross situation after 2020 is the same - the Sox will still have 4 (Price, Eovaldi, Sale, Pedroia). Castillo doesn’t matter
  4. notin
    Create a market? JD Martinez is a baseball player. Not a vape flavor...
  5. notin
    Are you kidding? Reasons like this are exactly why I didn’t like Dombrowski. Why do you think people complained about his depletion of the farm?? No one was complaining about that because they care more about the Sea Dogs than the Red Sox. Think about what the Sox are going to have to spend money on this off-season. Starting pitchers? Like Logan Allen or Kopech or Beeks. CF? Like Margot, maybe? 2b? Moncada would fit nicely. Or Dubon, so we can still get Sale. But as it stands now, if they reset it’s near impossible to fill those positions from within and not spend. Now some of DD’s trades were certainly worthwhile, but the whole stack together left the cupboard pretty bare at a time when the Sox need it not to be. At least if they want to keep Betts...
  6. notin
    But if the Sox had kept Lynn only to watch him leave one year later, they still would have been a bad team from them until Clemens. The problem wasn’t that they traded Lynn, it was that they traded him for an aging Frank Tanana, an even older Joe Rudi, and a non-prospect borderline major league talent named Jim Dorsey...
  7. notin
    Except that the point was it was not unforeseeable, meaning it was foreseeable, and not even by pessimists alone. The Sox had 3 pitchers with either recent or significant injury history. Really we knew someone was going to get hurt. But what happened was the worst case scenario where they all did...
  8. notin
    But then the overwhelming majority of players made by a 1b are on throws that the thrower intended him to catch. No other position has this advantage to this degree. Most first baseman don’t come up playing the position; they end up there. As slasher said, 1b is where oldmajor leaguers go to die..,
  9. notin
    They mean different things. “Unlikely” means “not likely to happen,” and relates to probability of an occurrence being low. But “unforeseeable” means “cannot have been predicted.” The latter does not take probability into account at all like the former does...
  10. notin
    While true, there re two other factors. 1) Bad attitude or not, the White sox chose to move Sale. He wasn't the first malcontent in team history, and won't be the last. 2) The White Sox still chose the Red Sox package for Sale. They weren't the only team in on him...
  11. notin
    It is entirely possible the story and rumors about the Sox resetting are overblown, and i's exactly like Kennedy said - a goal but not a mandate. Especally when you consider the luxury tax payments the Sox are trying to avoid are typically about $10-15 mill,or less than the Sox spent on Pablo Sandoval last year. If paying that extra $10-15mill allows Henry to earn, say, an extra $20-25 mill, certainly no reason he would want to avoid it, right? I certainly think he'd like to earn more without paying it, but that isn't the same as insisting on resetting. Unless his real issue is with the draft pick penalties and their long term impact on the club...
  12. notin
    Very possible. If taxes are a factor, he is not coming to Illinois...
  13. notin
    And while we might have seen an unlikely worst case scenario, I still wouldn't say the whole situation was unforseeable. The Sox extended one pitcher coming off an injury, and signed a long term deal to another very injury prone pitcher. All this two years after giving one of the biggest pitching contracts in MLB history out to another pitcher who had been having injury problems.
  14. notin
    If that suits you, that's fine. But while JH might have approved the deals, he didn't write them and execute them. I mean, by that logic, shouldn't Cherington be exonerated for Sandoval, Ramirez and Castillo?
  15. notin
    What would be a good record?
  16. notin
    Well, if we trade Mookie this offseason, it will be be because of the contracts left behind by Dombrowski, specifically the contracts of Price, Sale and Eovaldi. If they do not trade him and he leaves via free agency, it will be because the Sox did not make the best offer (or made no offer). But the Sox offer might be limited by a budget that includes those same 3 deals. Especially if they are still paying luxury tax against Henry's wishes. While Mookie might want a change of scenery, nothing about him so far says he would reject a better Boston offer just to change teams...
  17. notin
    I guess it was 4. And in those 4 years, he drafted 21 pitchers who reached the majors...
  18. notin
    He was GM for 3 years and drafted 3 MLB starting pitchers (if you count Beeks as a starter). How often do you think other GMs draft MLB starting pitchers? He was not great at it, but he was not pathetic. The only reason it did not work out for Boston is Dombrowski traded away all three SPs before they reached the majors. Are you actually holding that against him? You want to argue someone got a betetr pitcher later than Kopech? Itr's worth pointint out, another GM thought enough of Kopech to deal Chris Sale for him. Look at it this way. No Kopech? No Sale. No Allen? No Kimbrel. No Beeks? No Eovaldi. Also, likely no 2018 title. He drafted good pitching and has that in his track record. His big problem was he refused to trade any of it away. He was a prospect hoarder. Other than saying "well he didn't draft this guy" that numerous other MLB GMs also passed on, do you have anything to support your claim?
  19. notin
    Starling Marte should probably contact his realtor...
  20. notin
    Cherngton also took Logan Allen with the 231st overall pick (8th round) of the 2015 draft. Five picks later, the Padres selected Chris Paddack. Apparently he has no idea how to draft pitchers. (sarcasm)
  21. notin
    25 teams passed on Mike Trout, including the Angels once. Does this mean none of them know how to scout players? Saying he doesn't know pitching because he passed on a high school pitcher who worked out better is pretty weak evidence. Especially since Kopech might work out better in the long run. There was a time when Kason Gabbard looked like he was going to work out better than Jon Lester, too. But those are the kind of evaluations one makes when they're made too early...
  22. notin
    I'm sure he can figure it out. The past two seasons the Red Sox had a 1B they liked, which was probably a big factor in why JD didn't play there. This offseason, maybe the want to see who will be at 1B before moving Martinez there.
  23. notin
    Yes it could very easily be painful. But this is the price for Dombrowski's actions. DD did win a title, but he left behind a very expensive team that has a few missing pieces and no minimum wage replacements. We all enjoyed winning in 2018, but losing Betts this offseason could easily be part of that price of that title...
  24. notin
    Well he did play 1b. But later on he also wound up training velociraptors in a Cretaceous-themed zoo. So maybe his career path is best not duplicated...
  25. notin
    Except Henry. The only one matters...
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