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  1. notin
    You've got to stop listening to Natick and Mad Stork about what this team needs. If Dombrowski actually took their advice and made those deals, they would both complain about what he did to the team and tell you how it was weaker and still not built for the post-season...
  2. notin
    Soxprospects.com ranked Espinal 19th in a weak farm system and said he profiled as a future utility infielder He was 23 years old and still in A-ball, granted due to a late start from playing JuCo ball. But I really doubt the Sox miss him...
  3. notin
    Only other player to do so was Kelly Johnson...
  4. notin
    They will demote Tzu Wei-Lin..
  5. notin
    No it won't. But it will postpone it until his next slump...
  6. notin
    It probably won'y get their attention. Groome might not have as much trade value as you think right now...
  7. notin
    Obviously Mookie Hugh. For multiple reasons...
  8. notin
    My belly button is puckering and unpuckering with this news!!!
  9. notin
    I think Kyle Gibson might be harder to get than DeGrom. That extra year of control has proven to be very pricey with pitching. The Red Sox can probably get Shields for next to nothing and might even be able to get the White Sox to pick up some salary. This still doesn't necessarily make it a good deal.
  10. notin
    Someone clearly hacked his account and is using it for actual journalism...
  11. notin
    Why? If you're not going to be able to keep him anyway. It's not like we awould ever blame a guy for taking a lot of money and then going on the DL..
  12. notin
    Or maybe the going rate for it. Maybe I'm alone in this regard, but I worry more about the years thsn the money. I don't have to pay any of the latter but I have to watch all of the former. .
  13. notin
    The organization may have also felt that even with his decline they weren't going to get a better pitcher for that kind of money on a one year deal. ..
  14. notin
    And from a fifth/sixth starter, isn't that acceptable?
  15. notin
    You didn't put that notion forth, but the post I originally responded to appeared to. Whether or not Cora mishandled Wright in that one game shouldn't be an indictment of his abilities to handle a knuckle baller. He does have more insights on the matter than many give him credit for. And he very likely takes more matters into account as well...
  16. notin
    The deal did wind up not working out, but it was a worthwhile gamble given thst it was only one year and not an outrageous price for a declining pitcher given the contracts given to other free agent pitchers at the time like Yovanni Gallardo and Mike Pelfrey, both of whom signed multi year deals. Given that $13mill want really elite pitcher money at the time, I would just as well assume only take the risk on the one year deal in that case, rather than saddle the team with a declining pitcher for multiple seasons....
  17. notin
    I believe it is the only professional all star game to still receive network coverage, so they must think it has some value...
  18. notin
    When you consider this game was originally started to create a retirement fund for aging and former players, the reasons for still having it become less and less. Especially given the current salaries and the MLBPA. It's not like any former players are struggling financially as there were in 1935. The only reason it continues is tradition. I'm fine with that and I'm fine with fan voting for players. As long as no one ever tries to attach any significance to this game again. The whole "home field in the World Series" was about the dumbest idea ever in MLB history...
  19. notin
    Makes we wonder about how it went on as the year progressed. Earlier in the year, he was facing more team aces. but as the year goes on, he plays a lot more games against the next guy in the opposing rotation however that plays out with off-days, injuries, days off and rain outs....
  20. notin
    When they acquired him, I figured he would be useless. He has actually been a pleasant surprise the past few seasons. Plenty of other more traditional pitchers also turn into pumpkins at times, but with non-knuckleballers, that does seem to be more acceptable...
  21. notin
    It's a Chicago thing. Those 12" leagues also wear gloves, but all men's softball out here involves 16", bare hands, and mangled fingers..
  22. notin
    There has been a few injuries to contribute. But then Hanley turns 35 this year and isn't likely to get healthier and certainly not back to what he was 5 or 6 years ago...
  23. notin
    What is men's softball like in NC? In Chicago, it becomes slow pitch game with a 16" softball and the players do not wear gloves; it's all bare-handed. Male softball players typically have very gnarled fingers if they have been playing for any length of time. Women's softball is always a faster pitch game with a smaller ball and the players wear gloves...
  24. notin
    It may have been a situation where Cora basically decided not to burn out he bullpen chasing a win. In this case, it worked out. Usually it doesn't. But if a manager decides to sacrifice one game to make the next 2 or 3 a little easier, that isn't always a bad idea...
  25. notin
    I do need to verify these things about Flores; he is a RHH. He isn't a bad player, but I wonder if the Mets would prefer to move the older and more expensive Asdrubal Cabrera. As both players have the same control remaining, they might be open to moving Flores, but which one would be more difficult to acquire? Even with Flores being only 27, he isn't a long-term solution, which might be what the Sox want at the position. No one is really sure if Dombrowski is targeting 2b, although I think he should be. If he is, it seems like, given our trade fodder, a pending free agent to finish out this year would be the target...
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