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Stack away, Master Speculator...
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But that's the major criterion for the Hindsight Jury
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This is not a matter of a cultural shift of today vs yesterday. MLB is the only sport that openly and proudly celebrates breaking the color barrier, which they also openly and proudly enforced for decades. The NBA and the NFL allowed black athletes at some point, but just did it and moved on. That's not about yesterday vs today. Those are all events that happened in the same timeframe. If I asked you who was the first black player in the NFL, do you know off the top of your head? There certainly was one. And if you Google the first back player in the NBA, you actually can get multiple answers Don't you find it odd that MLB stands alone in that regard?
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It was an upgrade in that Bay was not a disruptive force who took games off and created a media firestorm, if you look at it that way. Nevertheless, they did not stay standing still all year...
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Speculation that 1) Espinoza wouldn't have gotten hurt and 2) that CWS would have taken him over Moncada is stacking speculation upon speculation. The only thing we know for certain is Moncada was the player the White Sox settled for. They wanted Benintendi. Both of your speculations are less likely then Espinoza simply never making it, like hundreds upon hundreds of top pitching prospects before him. What do you suppose the price for 2 1/2 seasons of an All Star starting pitcher should be if not a good prospect in low A-ball?
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I'm trying. Want to be my reference?
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He struiggled to get anything close to that last time, didn't he? and he was coming off a career year and 2 years younger. Martinez makes $23mill next season, after which he has another opt out opportunity, or he can take his last 2 years at $19mill. I think he opts out after 2020, since he can probably do better than 2/$38mill as a free agent...
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I don't think workouts are either the problem or the province of the GM...
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Hero killer
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I agree. A rebuild would be more costly than simply going for it. I believe Martinez' option is a player option, so the only decision the Sox have is, if he exercises it, do they decide to trade him?
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I always loved the integration of Alabama football story, which I hope is true. The one where USC visits Alabama and future Patriot Sam "The Bam" Cunningham rushes for 345 yards (or some absurd amount close to that) and 3 or 4 touchdowns. And the next year, Bear Bryant decides to admit black football players. Reportedly, the newspaper the next day said "Sam Cunningham did more to integrate Alabama in 4 quarters than anyone else has been able to do in 100 years." Please tell me that's true...
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I did expect them to be worse. Somewhere on this board, I repeatedly cited a former colleague of mine who used to say "If you stand still, you're road kill."
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Your evidence includes a team that made a fairly substantial mid-season trade and didn't stay the course of status quo. Jason Bay? I think that outranks the Andrew Cashner acquisition. (But we can call the mid-season acquisition of Paul Byrd as being equal to Cashner.)
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Yawkey was racist, but he was hardly alone. Doesn't excuse it, but no reason to isolate him either. There is a reason MLB is the only sport that makes a big deal out of breaking the color barrier. The NFL and NBA also had first black players at some point, but does anyone know who they are without first checking on Google?
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I assumed it was Pedro Borbon. Pedro Borbon Sr, of course...
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Pomeranz pitched in the All Star Game as a starter 4 days before we acquired him. His first full season in Boston, he was 17-6 with a 3.32ERA.
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Yes. If you learned anything from 2013-14. I expected it to be different because everyone around them was trying to get better, but the Sox stood still. What do you suppose next year will look like if the teams around the Sox continue to try and get better and the Sox still stand pat?
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The only deal I would definitively say was an overpay was for Kimbrel. The Sox gave up two BA top 100 prospects at the time, along with another pitching prospect in the top 10 of a deep farm, and took on the entire contract. Fans criticize the Thornburg deal because it didn't work out. But to give up a decent 1b/3b and an unranked INF prospect for 3 years of a pre-arbitration closer seems like the cost of doing business. Actually, compared to what other pre-arb closers like Ken Giles went for, it might even be a cheap deal. But it became a bad one because Thornburg got hurt and never recovered and Dubon panned out...
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Actually being popular among players might be detrimental to being GM. The arbitration process can get ugly at times, and, likable or not, Papi would have to make cases about why a player deserves less money than he asking for. That can absolutely destroy the very camaraderie you want him to bring...
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I nominate Kimmi
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I think a bit too much gets made of that. (And it was only 12 years, before Bellhorn gets to this thread.) It's not like Jackie broke the barrier and then every team but Boston had black players for 12 years. The Tigers brought up their first black player only one year before...
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That already started. See Post #7 of the thread below. https://www.talksox.com/forum/threads/19511-Red-Sox-have-fired-GM-Dave-Dombrowski
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The Sale deal was the cost of doing business. I would say the same about the Thornburg deal. The trade for Kimbrel was an overpay and the trade for Smith might have been a lack of homework. The trades for Nunez and Kinsler I can call the cost of doing business, but in both cases the Sox gave up an arm who is actually doing well in MLB...
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I think it’s unlikely, too. I think they will either trade Betts or non-tender Bradley or both. And if they trade Betts, whatever they get back hopefully jump starts the off-season...
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If you like reading off-season headlines and count on them for inspiration and hope for the upcoming season, it’s nothing but boredom and malaise, especially after this year. The message would be what - “we’ll just play better!”? I expect them to reset and still try to win. And those goals aren’t mutually exclusive. But I don’t expect them to trot out what clearly didn’t work this year and tell me to expect it to be different. Definition of insanity ring a bell?
