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Who is the greatest under-the-radar player in Sox history?
notin replied to Northern Star's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Agree. (Stop making sense!!) Fisk is a Hall of Famer who spent his best years in Boston. Varitek is not going to Cooperstown... -
It’s a blurb on Rotoworld...
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Who is the greatest under-the-radar player in Sox history?
notin replied to Northern Star's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
L I wouldn’t want him on my team today. He’s like 45 years old... -
At the very least, you’re the only one willing to admit it...
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Hopefully the Sox ignore the minor league bullpen options right now. They’re going to use maybe 12-15 relievers this year, which means they will be calling up 5-7 minor league relief pitchers as it is. Let’s save Durban, Lakins, etc. for that list...
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It makes sense until Syndergaard gets dealt for our prospects for a team trying to rebuild its farm. The Sox aren’t getting Syndergaard. Oh yeah,and the other part that doesn’t make sense is the Mets trying to dominate the New York media from the Yankees. Not only are all those pages printed on pinstriped paper, but exactly how newsworthy are the Mets going to be without Thor?
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But they’d still have Cano, which does appear to have something to do with their motives here..
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The Mariners have actually made 4 postseason appearances since 1977. The only team with fewer in their history is the Miami Marlins, who have two. But bear in mind, the Marlins are 16 years younger as a franchise, and they won the World Series in both appearances...
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Who is the greatest under-the-radar player in Sox history?
notin replied to Northern Star's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Didn’t the Sox win that game on a home run in the ninth off Mariano Rivera by ... Bill Mueller? I do still think he was the best suggestion on this thread... -
Most likely scenario is he called and asked and decided the price, whatever it was, wasn’t worth it for Colome...
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Entirely possible Dombrowski never liked Colome much. This is the second time in 7 months he’s been traded for beatable offers with no action or mention from DD...
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Well with Seattle reportedly kicking in $60mill and taking two bad contracts, the Mets essentially get Cano for 5 years for only $26mill. THAT is why they gave up the prospects. And they get Diaz as well. If they do decide to recoup the prospects and rebuild, they could flip Diaz and get better ones back...
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U If Thornburg can return to form, he has one. But Kevlly and Kimbrel gave the team about 125 IP so further help is needed. I expect an experienced closer to be added. If the Sox add two relievers (and everyone is healthy), someone has to go. Soxprospects.com seems to think Workman is on the bubble...
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But Dombrowski did try and get that elusive “diamond in the rough” with his signings of fringe Major League talent like Marcus Walden and Chris Smith. He did strike gold with Ryan Brasier using this same tactic. The guys you named were all farm system products he inherited. The irony is, every time I suggest signing minor league free agent pitchers, someone always suggests giving those chances to farm system products like Maddox and Poyner and Workman. My biggest gripe with Dombrowski is he doesn’t take enough chances with risk-free minor league contracts. He dabbles and it occasionally works out, but it is a numbers game...
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So you think Dombrowski is hoping to get lucky?
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Plymton’s finest work. The biggest legend based on a real pitcher was Steve Dalkowski, a minor leaguer in the 1950’s and 1960’s who fastball was estimated at an absurd 120mph (there were no radar guns at the time). Dalkowski could not have had less control, however, with multiple seasons exceeding 15BB/9. That’s FIFTEEN. Not a typo. Dalkowski was the inspiration for Tim Robbins’ Nuke LaLoosh character in Bull Durham and Brendan Fraser’sSteve Nebraska in The Scout. Oh, and 120mph fastball or not, Dalkowski did not pitch in the majors at any point...
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... avoided arbitration and settled for $1.75 mill. So he’s back in the bullpen with Barnes, Brasier, Hembree and Workman and possibly Johnson. One spot left? Will the Sox take advantage of Thornburg’s closing experience at some point?
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True . That’s why many are gambles. And not every gamble pays off. Kopech threw even harder and he was traded. Anyone regret that? Bautista’s control was probably a big reason he never made anyone’s top100 prospect list. The Orioles once had a prospect named Kris Foster who was supposedly throwing 104mph in the minors. Ever heard of him? Probably not. His MLB career consisted of 10 walk-filled innings and he’s been out of baseball for like 15 years. Some gambles don’t pay off. Dombrowski probably figured Bautista to be one of those...
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There are plenty of pitchers with 100 mph fastballs who don’t amount to much and the reason is almost always the same - control. Bautista is a mass producer of walks. Since Rookie Ball, he’s always averaged at least 4BB/9 in any season in which he’s had more than 15IP. He might get some control one day, but that was why he was a high upside gamble for the Mets. A high upside gamble, however, is still a gamble...
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Gerson Bautista was not one of those minor leaguers. Nor will he be missed as badly as the post implies. The Sox farm system doesn’t suffer from a lack of pitchers and players who might be mediocre major leaguers one day. And apparently to get some decent prospects, the Mariners are willing to pay $60mill of Cano’s deal and take on some bad Mets’ contracts. The end result is the Mets will get Cano for 5 years and only pay about a $26mill increase in that timeframe. And they get Diaz as well. That new GM they hired is off to an interesting start to his career...
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I never heard of any serious suicide attempts by Buckner, although there were jokes about his trying. “Did you hear Bill Buckner tried to commit suicide? He stepped in front of a bus but it went through his legs.” But Buckner’s legend always seemed larger than deserved. He came back to the Red Sox in 1990 and hit that memorable inside-the-park home run and was welcomed by many fans despite the ignominy. He stuck around baseball as a coach for another several years before moving to Idaho and working as a real estate developer. And he named his first development “Fenway Park.” True story. I’d say he coped well...
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But that article represents a largely theoretical argument. Sure there is a limited amount of money to go around, but it’s not like teams also don’t target specific players. For example, did Boras really misrepresent JDM last year by telling the Dodgers and Yankees to hold out for Harper and Machado? Or did those teams make that decision on their own and Boras did his best to get the best offer possible for JD? And given the lack of league wide interest in JD, did he get him a good offer despite falling well below expectations?
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The simplified approach is to think Familia will be the free agent target. Dombrowski has a reputation for liking harder throwers and Famili is the hardest throwing closer available in free agency. But I know he’ll look at more than just radar gun readings. Ottavino has minimal closing experience, which might make him the cheapest option of these (as well as the most questionable if no one else is acquired). If money is the issue, sign a starter (Eovaldi? Pomeranz? Sanchez?), sign Ottavino or Kelly, and trade for a closer (Colome? LeClerc? Kela? Knebel? Yates?) using either Chavis or Dalbec, and Johnson as the starter package of trade bait...
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No. It’s a coincidence of interest. It would be a conflict if he had some vested interest in teams as well. I might imagine he would influence a player to take a lesser offer from a team in a market where there were other marketing opportunities (TV commercials, etc), but this isn’t typically a big deal for baseball players. Generally he tries to get them more money and/or more years and he gets paid better for doing so. Now if he was a part owner of a team and had interest in getting them better players for less money, that would be a conflict. But as he only seems interested in getting more money for players, there is none...
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Has he ever done that? He doesn’t seem to care who signs where....
