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I don't think it was a agreed as you say. It looked like many teams were willing to get involved on Eovaldi, hoping he could be the steal of the class and allowing them to avoid overpaying for the older (by 2 years), better, healthier Keuchel. And by the end of the off-season, Keuchel might be slightly older, better, healthier and cheaper and locked up for the same years or less...
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Mostly because it's a great theory that in real life, is incredibly impractical...
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Guilty as charged. I did all that and don’t deny it...
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. While possible, they must have been very unimpressive offers. The Sox offer fell insanely short of his demands as it is. These others must have been so low, they’re hardly worth mentioning...
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Well we were also told all off-season the big players were waiting out last year’s market to reset in anticipation of this off-season’s free agent bonanza. Were the Yankees really resetting to get Adam Ottavino, DJ LaMahieu and Troy Tulowitzki? I don’t believe there is no market for Kimbrel, but I do think his agent needs to and is waiting out the upper echelon freeagents so he can see who still has money...
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On the other hand, how many JD Martinez rumors were there last off-season? Or Dallas Keuchel? Can the same be said about him? If so, Dombrowski really jumped the gun signing Eovaldi...
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Trying to make a point about the PR aspect of a Kimbrel signing for one of the Machado/Harpers losers....
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February 26
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Both leagues played with the same set of rules for about 70 years and didn’t do any of that...
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Evan Longoria - 10 years $135mill
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Fangraphs does disagree with this velocity loss and place it close to a half a mile per hour...
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I’m well under 70 and live kind of far away in Chicago...
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Well, it was a trade, not a signing. But a lot of people were excited, like really excited. Way too excited considering the Sox were still a last place team whose best starter was Rick Porcello....
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If a team is “given” forty percent winning percentage, that is an inherent parity that isn’t found in any other sport. The economic disparity becomes a matter of efficiency in obtaining the rest of the wins...
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No matter what the sport, fans cannot handle it when the score is tied. Why is that? Is the uncertainty of when it ends so stressful?
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Players worth only two or three more wins than a minimum wage jabroni are NOT elite players, salary noneithstanding. The only difference in this case is closers, where the best are only 2-3 wins more than the average players. But then how many more wind does a great closer give you?
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But not as much PR. Remember what this site was like when we acquired Kimbrel?
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See, so he’s done with no more knees left to operate on. Machado at 26 can play SS or 3b. Eventually he might have to move to 1b or DH, but he has the bat to handle the production associated with those roles....
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Going by results to date - Sandoval. But those 8 figure contracts that go into a player’s 40s like Pujols and Cabrera looked like bad ideas from day one. I do think Joey Votto, whose deal is similar, will become as burdensome, but to his credit, hasn’t yet...
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Which is why Kimbrel was Consolation Prize B...
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Of course none of them were 26 either. I agree there is risk. Evan Longoria was roughly the same age as Machado when he signed a 10 year deal. But 8 years for a 26yo player isn’t the worst contract we will see this off season...
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The bottom line is, a bunch of teams have publicly declared interest in Machado and/or Harper, which tells their fan base they are willing to spend. As only two at most can land Harper and/or Machado, teams will look at Keuchel and/or Kimbrel. At some point, if you are the White Sox or Padres or Phillies, you need something like this to save your off-season. Keuchel more so than Kimbrel....
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I do so want to go to your team’s games...
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Absolutely true. Last year for the Sox, the bullpen threw 587 innings, of which Kimbrel only pitched 62. I have faith that Barnes can handle the closer role; he has improved every year and he is certainly capoable lready. But it's the handling of the other 525 IP that bother me. I lack the faith in Braiser that many have. (He was in Japan for a reason, folks.) Hembree is OK. Thornburg and Smith need to recover. Workman is about the bottom of acceptability. Johnson is barely a major leaguer. On the bright side, apparently there is something to this Colten Brewer fellow. Domingo Tapia had one of the most dominant pitches in the minors not too long ago. Meijia was a former Met top prospect and good closer. And Lakins, Feltman and Poyner are available. And there are still penty of free agent pitchers besides Kimbrel. Nick Vincent, Aaron Loup, Tyler Clippard, Jake Diekman, and Ryan Madson would all be potential improvements for the Sox...
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Kimbrel is going to be Consolation Prize B for one of the teams budgeting for Harper and Machado.
