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Aren't jersey sales property of MLB anyway?
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He’s not going to DH. If he plays, it will be 2b. He won’t be the Laser Show anymore, but all he has to be is better than Marco Hernandez, Tzu-Wei Lin and Michael Chavis. He may or may not be able to do even that...
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Ever know anyone who got the moon?
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I wouldn’t say Trout is the greatest ever, but I have said many times he will be among them. At some point in the future, anyone talking about Ruth, Mays and Aaron will find themselves saying “ Ruth, Mays, Aaron and Trout”...
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It’s taken from the last line of the Muller Report.
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While Larry cannot prove Pedroia fractured the clubhouse that year, he does not exonerate him either...
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Mostly because White Sox GM Rick Hahn wouldn’t trade Kopech and Jimenez for one year of Betts even if you kidnapped his children and put it in the ransom demands. I think that while the Sox can get a good package for Betts, the right to pay Mookie nearly $30mill for one season only might not be the insanely attractive carrot many think it is (including whoever reported a lot of the offers above)...
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I won't go that far. Trout is 28 years old and has been worth 73.4 fWAR in his career. Betts is 27 years old and has been worth 37.4 fWAR in his career. I'm doubtful Betts can bridge the 36 fWAR gap in a single season, even if it is his option year...
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Just wondering if you disliked Kershaw and Bigbie for violating that code. Especially Bigbie. Definite code violation, but if you dislike steroids in the game, the guy gave up his career to do what he could to get rid of them....
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Well, there is that...
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Completely unrelated, but I always though this was fascinating JD Drew ages 31-34 with Boston: .270/.377/.476 (.853 OPS) Dwight Evans ages 31-34 with Boston: .266/.372/.477 (.850 OPS) Is it possible to find two more similar hitters at the same ages who played the same position for the same team for a four year stretch?
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No idea what else would have to be included, if anything. FWIW, baseballtradevalues.com gives Devers a trade value surplus of $129million and Soto a surplus value of $132million, meaning a 1 for 1 swap is actually close enough to equal. But Soto has that whole "World Series Hero" thing going on, and trading him away, even for Devers, would make Nats GM Mike Rizzo the second most unpopular man in DC...
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Of course he will. He’s 36 years old. He doesn’t need to be as good as the 2007 version of Pedroia. He just needs to be better than the 2020 versions of Marco Hernandez, Tzu-Wei Lin and Michael Chavis...
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Except that the Sox have better 3b prospects than OF prospects...
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Are we counting pinch-hitting appearances as a game played?
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Cherrington leading candidate for Pirates Job
notin replied to Elktonnick's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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Small list of players I would deal Devers for. But a Devers/Juan Soto deal would be nice. Nationals replace Rendon and the Red Sox replace Betts (assuming he is getting dealt, of course)
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Just so you know, he does like you
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No, but you made comments about snitches and player code being a real thing...
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Well, having 6 years of MLB experience at an age where the majority of the league has less than 3 is worth something. Edgar Martinez is a deserving Hall of Famer in the eyes of many, but he didn't get even 200 plate appearances in a single season until he was older than Machado and Harper were when they became free agents. If Machado and/or Harper have careers from age 27 forward like Martinez did, we might feel differently about how overvalued they were...
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Tomase wrote an article about Lackey before the surgery and missed season about how loved he was by all his teammates. He was just an intense competitor on the field. There are scores pf pitchers like him. Brad "The Animal" Lesley was nothing but a blip in MLB history, but his reputation for being animated and shouting all over the field was so well known, it landed him a role in the movie "Little Big League" where he played a fictional version of himself...
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So you don't like Kershaw, who, along with teammate Scott Van Slyke, publicly aired gripes about Yasiel Puig? What about Larry Bigbie, who voluntarily ended his own career by naming names in the Mitchell Report? What he did was actually probably good for baseball, and it was a total case of self-sacrifice. Is he a villain too?
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It also turns out more of the ire from fans directed at Lackey was possibly influenced by his poor performance the first 2 seasons. A player can get away with more in our eyes if he is actually producing. No one disliked Orlando Cabrera when he stepped in and helped salvage the 2004 season, but the man has a litany of stories around him centered around being an extremely selfish player and a terrible teammate...
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True, but so did the deals for Machado and Harper last year, but I doubt wither one holds up as well..
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I think the logic behind any long deal is a team is paying for the production of the early years. I don’t think the Reds and Tigers expect Votto and Cabrera to be contributors earning their salary at age 40. I think that’s the logic behind the backloading of long term deals we used to see all the time. Pay the player less when he’s good so the team can afford a better supporting cast. Deals like ARod (first deal with Texas) and Manny Ramirez - where the player was good for the entire span of the long term deal - are incredibly rare...
