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  1. notin
    Preference at 4 / $60mill: Porcello or Bumgarner? (I do assume Bumgarner will be asking for more. But that’s not the question.)
  2. notin
    That’s one quarter of his starts. If you take out his 3 best starts, he also looks a lot worse. I’m ok with taking out an outlier bad start, but the season is too young to ignore such a significant chunk of his sample size to date...
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    I think it’s odd to criticize Cora for his strategy in a game we won like this. Can you imagine if he didn’t use Barnes and the Dox lost?
  4. notin
    Think he can still get 4yr / $60mill?
  5. notin
    It wasn’t all that much of a reach. They took him at 7 and every mock draft had him going between 8 and 14. They basically took him the only time they could have. Sometimes the high draft picks just don’t pan out...
  6. notin
    And when they do, they’ll do it on horseback...
  7. notin
    And the Dave Winfield’s, Joe Mauer’s, and Aaron Judge’s
  8. notin
    Las Vegas gets a football team in 2020. And then there is the Maloof brothers - owners of Vegas casinos who used to own the Sacramento Kings (although they did not allow betting on NBA games in their casinos)...
  9. notin
    These stories aren’t new. If Leiter gets drafted by Team X and they unload the draft budget on him, he’ll get reconsider. In fact, a lot of times I think that’s the plan all along for some of the high profile high schoolers who can use their college as a negotiation ploy...
  10. notin
    These types of rumors usually spawn from NY media creating this image that everyone wants the Yankees and the Yankees only. Like anyone else, Leiter will forego his Vanderbilt commitment if he is offered enough money from anyone. With the Yankees not having any picks in the top 30, their overall draft budget might not be enough to accommodate him. Ditto Boston...
  11. notin
    It’s actually also arguable that Bradley’s offense is better than that of anyone on the bench. If the Sox moved Chavis to a DH/OF role and had a good defensive 2b who could outhit Bradley, then it might be worth considering...
  12. notin
    Because Barnes wasn’t effective. Duh...
  13. notin
    But JBJ’s defense > offense of any bench player you pop in to replace Martinez at DH...
  14. notin
    MLB avoided the NPB league’s gimmick in Japan of having the WC team start their first best of 5 series down 0-1, meaning the WC team has to win 3 games before losing 2...
  15. notin
    The Sox have resisted trading Benintendi in multiple trades, including the deal for Sale. I doubt they unload in any deal unless it’s some sort of blockbuster. And even then, they’ll be pushing Chavis first...
  16. notin
    The Sox have resisted trading Benintendi in multiple trades, including the deal for Sale. I doubt they unload in any deal unless it’s some sort of blockbuster. And even then, they’ll be pushing Chavis first...
  17. notin
    The Sox have resisted trading Benintendi in multiple trades, including the deal for Sale. I doubt they unload in any deal unless it’s some sort of blockbuster. And even then, they’ll be pushing Chavis first...
  18. notin
    It’s funny how we think the Hall of Famers carry more valid opinions than even non-HOF players. But if anything, most of them are in the Hall because their level of skill was at s level even unrelatable for most major leaguers
  19. notin
    How many starter losses have their been because Cora had to leave the starter in too long due to a tired or flat out ineffective bullpen?
  20. notin
    For every “expert” like Palmer or Eckersley who say one thing, there’s another “expert” who contradicts it. The bottom like is Cora believes in testing his players. Have you seen how Sale has been in the postseason in 2016 and 2017? Granted, an injury certainly made the decision for Cora, but the idea was to keep his IP in the lower range. Price, for example, was terrific last postseason. Before last season, he was a reputed “choker” in the postseason. Except one “expert” named Notin tried pointing out he already had well over 200 IP every time he pitched in the postseason. Last year - 176 regular season IP, terrific postseason. Did Jim Palmer miss that empirical data?
  21. notin
    On the other hand, if this was just one of those “vent in frustration” posts and not to be taken too seriously, they happen. I get it
  22. notin
    The “deadweight” is not the problem. The players who are supposed to be carrying this team are. Betts has become an LOB machine. Ditto Martinez. Benintendi is off to a weak start. If the Sox deal Moreland (who is deadweight why?), Nunez, Bradley, who replaces them? More deadweight? It’s not like we have any recent outfielders above A ball, unless you count Castillo. And Dombrowski doesn’t...
  23. notin
    And in 1995 and 2012 and 2013, also more recent. Point being, teams come back from 10 games out to make the postseason a lot. And by the way, you don’t get to say “in MLB history” if you don’t plan on actual counting all of MLB history. Especially if you plan on accusing other people of wordsmithing. Your OP didn’t even mention the World Series, let alone winning it. That’s an awful specific interpretation of “made it.” Either way, not only would “blowing the team up” in early June be stupid, but it’s even dumber to do it half ass by not even trading the pieces that will bring back anything useful...
  24. notin
    Also not really fair, since there are more playoff opportunities now than there were even in 1995
  25. notin
    Maybe we need to cut the Yankee fan some slack. They haven’t won a title in 10 years. As Red Sox fans, we’ve only had one drought that long in team history...
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