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  1. notin
    Is it just me or would “Boomer Talk” be a good name for a cover band playing songs from the ‘60s and ‘70s?
  2. notin
    I dunno. I hear he’s immune to injury for the next 10 years…
  3. notin
    Only 10? Rookie!! Do you even have one with Henry Godbout in CF?
  4. notin
    I didn’t know it was obviously not the case last year despite the same age gap…
  5. notin
    Fair. But the Sox do need an infielder, have an abundance of SP, and have to trade someone good to get someone good…
  6. notin
    And yet Gray was 10 years older than Bello last year and still threw more IP..
  7. notin
    Not to mention if you think Gray is a clear injury risk and a number 4 starter at best, why would Houston trade an All Star 3b for him? After an entire offseason of complaining the Sox are cheapskates that miss out on the best players because they are not willing to do what it takes, thats now exactly what you’re recommending…
  8. notin
    While age discrimination is justifiable to an extent in MLB, it’s not always accurate. Gray has managed a relatively healthy career because he doesn’t throw hard and strain his tendons. There is no reason to think Gray will instantaneously collapse at 36 when he didn’t at 35 or 34….
  9. notin
    I put Bello behind not only Gray but also Early. In 166 IP last year, Bello posted a paltry 1.9 fWAR. In 14 IP, Early was worth 1.1…
  10. notin
    Maybe if we expanded it to “The Acquisitionator”?
  11. notin
    I’m sure it matters to some players, and others just don’t care. The “players need to know their roles” is just a veiled management criticism. Sure, some absolutely do. But you cannot paint all 780 major leaguers wuth the same broad brush…
  12. notin
    Some players are great at dominating lesser competition but not so good against their own talent level. Happens in every sport and always has…
  13. notin
    I don’t think shattered confidence is an issue for most players. You get this close to MLB without having an overabundance of confidence and still have enough leftover to sell on eBay at a tidy profit…
  14. notin
    Is that the guy Soxprospects is calling Acquisition?
  15. notin
    There’s been much more buzz about Campbell in LF all off-season. The Sox dont have a 2b right now and Campbell still rarely gets mentioned…
  16. notin
    You probably like Bello more than I do, but with some 12-14 SPs on the 40 man, that does make it the position to move someone from. And a young controllable arm like Bello, who is honestly maybe the fifth best SP on the Sox right now, and could be passed by Tolle soon, is as good a candidate as any to move,…
  17. notin
    Does he get how jokes trade?
  18. notin
    Not to mention, positions changeup. As recently as 12 months ago, who was penciling Mayer for 3b and Campbell for LF?
  19. notin
    I don’t think you get how trades work…
  20. notin
    Really? Seems to me thats how teams would shoot themselves in the foot, among other places. Fortunately MLB teams clearly don’t do that, which is why we see them do things like spend a first round pick on SS Mikey Romero one year after spending a first round pick on his former teammate SS Marcelo Mayer…
  21. notin
    I have noticed fans like clean lineups. Know who plays here. Who pitches. Who’s the DH. Platooning is acceptable, as long as the lineup is definitive. Yoshida is far from a problem on this roster. If he makes a run at the starting DH, not sure why that’s bad. If he gets buried on the bench or in Worcester until needed, not sure why that’s bad either. Not sure if he likes those options, but it’s his job to make them look questionable, not Cora’s job to hand him a role based on his salary…
  22. notin
    Slight hyperbole. Yoshida can hit, but right now he probably isn’t the best option to start. He has options. He can be benched. If Duran or Abreu are not traded, that doesn’t mean he has to go. Especially since unloading him probably won’t create much budget wiggle room…
  23. notin
    What mattered was Devers failed to live up to his part. He spent the last 3 years as the worst - not among the worst, the worst - defensive third basemen in MLB. Every player whose metrics were in his neighborhood was shifted off to another position. It’s not Bloom’s or Breslow’s job to make Devers happy; they gave him over 300 million reasons already. Promise or not, his defense was not helping, and was a hindrance. Regardless, the “promise” was a dead issue anyway, because Devers had been moved off third a few months earlier anyway. The problem was he refused to help out his team when a teammate went down with a season-ending injury. Not sure why any “promise” that was already a dead issue is supposed to supersede that level of selfishness…
  24. notin
    He was a sad panda…
  25. notin
    So who is balking at Bello for Paredes straight up?
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