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So that puts the Sox over the $246mill threshold, right?

My cringing started at 6 years, so I’m doing ok. Thank you for your concern...

And Stanton, you know, since he decided to eliminate all teams but the 4 LCS participants when choosing a trade destination. That worked out really well. For Boston...

I hope you let Marco Hernandez down gently while embracing your new crush on Lin...

Gee two Yankee fans for sources. And one of them likes to let his graphs stand alone while omitting crucial information...

Which is why the deal makes sense for both sides. The Sox have open spots on the 40 man roster but also have no outfielders in the occupied spots, unless you count Sam Travis’ limited experience out there. The move gives the Sox a little depth in the outfield just in case for a catcher who was never going to bring back a reliever that would be of any help to the Sox anyway...

Yes I mentioned that...

They were the top of the list - and possibly the whole list - last time. And failing to bring him back just increased the likelihood Bogaerts returns. Or the Sox sign Rendon. I know you want to live in a world where players leave the Sox and they can only replace them from their farm, but that simply isn’t the case despite this one outlier off-season....

It’s engrained in my awesomeness. And because JD had a limited market 2 years ago when he was the premier free agent available while coming off a second half that in itself was a great season. At 2 years older and in a market that has been heavily favoring sub-30 free agents, you think his market is expanding? If JD opts out, Boston certainly steps to the top of the list of large market teams that need him. Wouldn’t you agree?

Even if he does, he’s still more likely to come back to Boston, possibly at a lower AAV but with an extra year..

That’s 165 starts

Sandy Leon to Seattle for Eric Filia? Dombrowski acquired Filia before so he must like something about him and presumably his physical issues have healed. As Filia is getting a bit older, I doubt he fits in the Mariners’ plans

But the Sox released Bellhorn mid-season. Didn’t he have to work too?

I can forgive Stanley and Carl Pavano. Stanley because the Sox traded him to the Yankees for Tony Armas Jr. Pavano because the Sox paired him with Armas to get Pedro...

Unless some team needing a catcher has a small contract they prefer to unload...

Bard let some passed balls get by, but maybe he needed more than FIVE GAMES to learn to catch a knuckleball. It was a stupid panic move. Also, Wakefield’s ERA with Mirabelli behind the plate was a run higher than it was with Bard back there...

Wade Boggs Hey he was a LONG TIME favorite of mine going back to the stroke of 1981 when WSBK was airing PawSox games. Chico Walker was another. So I know Boggs sold his soul to wear pinstripes, but he didn’t retire there, didn’t get his 3,000th hit there, and I let it go.

Though honestly, I’m surprised he didn’t go after Wilson the first time. DD has been loading up on ex-Tigers for a few years now...

I’ve been less disappointed in DD since I learned he has T Mobile. They’ll give you more drops than the Chicago Bears receiving corps...

No. Replacement level. Basically an AAAA player. Now there was a metric WAA for wins above average, which referred to league average players. And I am reminded a while back there was also WAFL, or Wins Above Felipe Lopez, which was created by some crackpot with too much time on his hands...

Actually a lot of players and managers are deep into analytics, far more so than most fans...

That was so stupid. Wakefield was losing games due to poor run support. When your issue is run support, Mirabelli is not the solution...

Per Rotoworld, the Sox are actively discussing Leon trades. No mention of other teams or return...

Like when they assume we don’t remember Roberts’ stolen base? Or Kevin Miller working the walk to set it up? Or Mueller driving him home? Probably because they think stat geeks are too busy calculating the effect on his fWAR and why it’s a better or worse measure than his bWAR...

Do you think this is a new development in baseball? The game was played professionally for 30 years before anyone even thought of ERA and batting average. Before 1900, pitchers were evaluated solely by wins and losses. Of course they were also expected to throw complete games and ERA was created to measure a bold new strategy called “relief pitching.” It wasn’t until the 1940’s that Branch Rickey devised “slugging percentage.” And probably to a slew of complaints of “what’s wrong with just batting average? It was good enough for Rogers Hornsby!!” In the 1960’s, a whole new stat called the “save” was invented. And it was redefined multiple times. In the 1980s, OPS came about. It took over a decade to catch on. But it did catch on faster than SLG, which became an official stat in 1984. This is all nothing new. There were fans turned off by every stat I mentioned. Yet baseball survived. The biggest mistake people can make is assuming the way they’ve always known something is the way it always was....