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Everything posted by notin
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The 2007 team has Jon Lester and Kason Gabbard waiting for their chances. Forget about Lester, right now the Sox don't even have the equal to Gabbard. ..
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Now that Vazquez has been extended and is the starter for a while, unless Blake does become a Swiss army knife, it does make him more expendable. I wouldn't keep him as a backup catcher of he could be dealt for a decent reliever. Bullpen pitching does have some priority over backup catching. .. Like I said, the offers DD was getting might not be worth it. As he is fielding calls on Swihart per MLBTR, he's probably not getting offered much just yet. ...
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Swihart can't go tp the minors without clearing waivers. If he is tradable (and he absolutely is), he won't clear waivers. I'd see what he was worth to other teams. Of course, they're is a good chance Dombrowski already has and maybe he just didn't like what was offered. ..
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Absolutely. I'll start with the team that brought in Bronson Arroyo on a minor league deal. Maybe not the most recent, but certainly the most significant. You never know at the start of the season who are going to be the best depth options. WHich is why every off-season, Epstein's very first move was to sign half a dozen our do pitchers to minor league deals. Most of these pitchers never saw MLB, but every now and then, he'd get a difference maker like Arroyo or someone who who be dealt for a significant difference maker, like Brandon Lyon (packaged for Schilling). But, hey, why explore rarely successful depth tactics when you've already got a rotaruon depletef to the point of using Hector Velasquez and Brian Johnson in the rotation?
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Its a very shallow rotation because the season hasn't even starred yet and we already have three injured starters. Velasquez is a nice story with the occasional good putting, but do you really want 180 innings from him? We all hope Rodriguez is bank mid-April, but he hasn't been very reliable so far. I actually don't mind Wright being out. Yes or depth is poor...
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I'm all for giving Swihart a chance, but at some point, now that Vazquez has been extended, he is about as blocked as he can get. Corner outfield it's out. Third base too. And of course now catcher is blocked. If he can be dealt for a worthwhile player, there really is no reason to hold on to him. ...
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No. I said every rotation is good when every pitcher is and pitching well. They are. The Sox 2015 rotation didn't accomplish the latter. May complaints were the"lack of an ace", but given that Porcello was one year away from a Cu Young, read that all that true? Compare the Sox 2015 top the Royals from that year. (Volsquez, Ventura, Duffy, Young, and Guthrie. Wad that rotation so much better? ("More potential" doesn't mean "better" at least not for 2015.) That KC rotation did won a World Series that year. ...
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I'd rather have Marrero and the $2mill. Should have dumped Holt. Nunez makes Holt expendable, but Marrero is a better option at shortstop than Nunez. ...
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Is that even close to what I said?
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At least I finally get why Dombrowski ignores pitching depth. In his last 6 seasons in Detroit, he rarely had any pitching injuries. He only had one season where more than 6 starters started add many as 5 games. It looked like he put 3 or 4 starting pitchers on the DL in that stretch, which is a crazy low number for a team that has Drew Smyly... l
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Every team has a good rotation if the pitchers are healthy and pitch well. But the issue is - what happens when everything doesn't go your way?
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Fister was 7 years younger at that time than Lackey will be this year.
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No options left. He can do a rehab outing and then a decision has to be made...
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While the Sox early schedule is nice, that is a pretty bad rotation to start the year. Because as the season wears on, more pitchers get hurt than get healthier...
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The weird thing about Bard is that his career was only 4 years long, but people talk about his collapse like it came after a long history of success and therefore was clearly some sort of management blunder. ..
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Not if he clears waivers, which he will do of he gets released...
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Is Cobb really worth that much more than Lynn? Cobb might be a better pitcher, but he loses alot of value because he has trouble showing up for work. ..
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The Yankees had multiple players leap frog from nowhere top superstardom. Severino. Judge. Gregorius. The only Sox players having their best season were the guys who never played a full season before. ..
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Coincidentally the score of the last UNC-BC game...
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We have a first baseman who hasn't played the field for 3 straight games since 2016, and people are worried about his option vesting? Raking or not, Hanley is 34 years old and not as durable as he used to be. Which was never all that durable...
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As pointed out, Bard was falling apart before he moved to the rotation. Brentz is turning 30 this year and has had his share of chances to impress (and is very likely to be DFAd by the Pirates). Swihart didn't work out but clearly it didn't end his career, but no reason to get worked up about him not having a backup catching role. He's going to get more time with increased versatility. Really his increased versatility probably means Holt is the most at risk, not Leon. Brock had an option left, but probably could be flat out cut. I would imagine the only reason he hasn't been is they don't want to cut him and see Nunez go down the next day. ...
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Bard always had control issues. But people loved his radar gun readings and strikeout totals.
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The Marlins were asking the Nationals for Victor Robles (BA top 5 prospect) for Realmuto. Groome and Chavis were both over 80....
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I'll make the boring prediction that none of those moves happen. I think the exciting left this off-season is demoting Holt to AAA
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Sox don't have any prospects the Marlins would want. Realmuto will cost a random. Compared too him, Swihart is worthless. ...
