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Everything posted by notin
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They will have to make some sort of a decision fairly soon...
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Think JD opts out and gets a huge raise at age 32?
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Maybe he can get a counterpoint from Dan Clark...
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Not only Kimbrel. The Sox had little to no involvement in half a dozen available closers...
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The NBA isn’t fixed. People say that about every league they don’t like. NCAA football does have severe issues with hypocrisy when it comes to punishing players, especially SEC players...
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That’s very true. It’s weird to think the professional leagues filled with drug use, gun arrests, and criminal violence are the honest leagues...
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For a lot of people, they went to college and get excited for their alma mater. None of us are alums of the Boston Red Sox. I also see my alma mater was overloooked AGAIN!! Oh NCAA Committee, when will you acknowledge the basketball prowess of Worcester Polytechnic Institute?
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Absolutely. Fewer years is always king...
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So why did we let Kimbrel walk and bypass all the other closers? If free agency has taught any lessons, it’s that closers are the safest signings. (Mostly because they take fewer years.) But instead, you’re saying our limit-free budget ignored the bullpen while simultaneously backing up right against the highest spending limit and that’s purely a coincidence...
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I still like Brock Dyckshoorn the best...
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As long as Betts, Benintendi, Bogaerts and Martinez are the top four in almost any order, I’m good...
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5 years $170mill ($34mill AAV). Does he bite?
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So two free agent pitchers have gotten 7 year contracts and no one got 8? Scherzer is probably the best comparison. But even his contract was when teams were doling out bigger deals. Sale isn’t going to be cheap. He’ll get a better AAV than anyone listed. But I don’t think he necessarily gets 6 or 7 years. Especially with all the buzz that has been around forever about the risks associated with his throwing motion...
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I’ll take the under. Who was the last free agent pitcher to receive an 8 year contract?
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I said that. I also thought he would be a massive bargain for someone this off-season. And he might be...
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Craig Kimbrel might feel differently. No one should accuse the Sox of penny-pinching, but just because they do spend doesn’t mean there are no limits. For example, look at the current bullpen. Our priciest reliever is Tyler Thornburg who isn’t even a lock to make the team. The Sox bullpen will make up 28% of the active roster but make less than 3% of the total payroll. This is because we have spending limits...
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It’s interesting that Colorado s becoming a popular “out” choice while the Dodgers are not (except for by me). I think the latest Kershaw injury, the loss of Puig, Kemp and Wood, and only Pollock as a replacement might not offset the Rockies, who were just as good for 162 games last year...
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The problem wasn’t just that he bombed out, but that he did so in Boston nd we all watched. But that doesn’t change that Sandoval was actually an exceptional player for a long time...
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I also think most fans set the bar WAAAAAAY too high for younger prospects. If the parallel for Devers is Sandoval, we are talking about a player who, at age 25, was worth 15 fWAR with an OPS+ of 128 and 2 All Star appearances. Devers just finished his age 21 season and is worth 1.8 fWAR with an OPS + of 100 and no All Starvappearances. Why is Sandoval such a bad wish here? No one is saying that Devers is going to copy Sandoval’s fitn SS regime and apparent apathy. That can’t be determined through stat comparisons. But if the comp says that in the next 4 years, Devers is going to be worth 13.2 fWAR with 2 All Star appearances while surpassing 28% of the league offensively, would you take it or not?
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High K guys in the majors are a bit different than high K guys in the minors. A big part of the reason I’m wary about Dalbec...
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Joe B and myself were all over that with Middlebrooks...
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Let’s b fair. Back on BDC, he used Mark Reynolds as a good comparison for the future of Will Middlebrooks. I think I was the lone holdout that wished that would happen. Middlebrooks is out of baseball. Reynolds, despite being 5 years older, played last season. Now in hindsight, don’t we all wish Middlebrooks turned out to be as good as Mark Reynolds?
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Some prospects are worth getting excited about, even with mediocre ceilings. The ability to play competently at the Major League level while making minimum wage is an undervalued skill in itself...
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I’d rather he spent heavy right now and re- offered the QO to Kimbrel. 1 yr $17.9mill...
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One more year could be a lot. If Sandoval didn’t sign for “one more year,” we might have Craig Kimbrel in the bullpen. (Or another closer fresh off free agency.) How many good years do you think Sale has left? Comparisons are tough, since most of his equals or close matches are not much older. But Johan Santana is a great comp through age 29. And how were Santana’s next 5 seasons after that? Well for starters, he only pitched in three of them. If something like that happens to Sale in three years, you think those first 3 years will be good enough to justify a 3 year $105mill deadweight commitment with a $35mill AAV clogging up the tax situation?
