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And yet players leave World Series champions every year. Pearce has a ring, and a MVP award to remind him forever how instrumental he was in getting it. Ted Williams has neither of those things. And while salaries were extremely different in those days, did Ted ever say anything about taking less money to win one? (Of course, it still wouldn’t be the same, since Pearce has one.) Pearce might be back, but the Sox are going to have to be in the same neighborhood as any and all other offers
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As former players go, it’s easier to find a worse analyst than ARod than it is to find a better one. Just be thankful FOX didn’t bring back Eric Byrnes...
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It’s not a point about counter-offering; that’s always an option. Pearce will have a set list of priorities. He easily could take the most money. At 35, he might want more years. But he isn’t going to come back to Boston just to win or because of his childhood fandom. Those might be tie-breaking factors for two or more similarl offers at best. Now if he does sign in Boston, he is definitely going to say those were the primary factors. But he didn’t hire an agent to help him live out his childhood fantasies. If he did, he would have come to Boston long before now and by his own choice. I’m sure they would have given him a minor league deal if he approached them...
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That’s essentially the same offer. If Boston offers 2 years for $15mill and Baltimore offered 3 years $18mill, Pearce is probably an Oriole again. With ballplayers, the safest assumption is money and years matter. Playing time can be a factor for a lot of players, too. We’ve all seen the occasional player sign for family reasons. But joining a winning team never seems to be the priority we think it is as fans. If being on a winning team was the big factor fans think it is, why did those San Francisco teams in the early 2010’s that were winning every other year struggle to get free agents? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen a player sign with a bad team only to say he “liked their chances to win.” I’m at home thinking “he likes having nearly no chance?” But then a lot of players probably think that they are a huge factor in making this a winning team...
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Not really the same. If the other options are worse, that means all other evaluations were poor for all other options, but they were done on some level...
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Alot of pitchers start looking better when you don’t count their bad outings...
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Gomes got $12millfor for 2years 5 years ago...
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Well earlier this month Nick suggested trading Betts, Bogaerts, Bradley, Devers, ERod, and anyone else of value . So cut him some slack. This is his reeled-in version...
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That’s going to be the sales pitch, and it’s going to end with something like “and all of that can be yours for only $14 million over the next two years.” And if the Sox can ft him in the budget, done deal. But he isn’t going to give the Sox a cheap hometown discount. He didn’t hire an agent to get him less money than he deserves...
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Of course Pearce is going to take what he can get. That’s the exact reason he hired an agent in the first place. This is his job. More people make decisions about where they work for money than for any other reason. And as ballplayers go, Pearce has been a relative pauper in a clubhouse full of financial princes. I’d be very surprised if money (and/or years) wasn’t his biggest factor in making a decision...
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But that hasn’t happened yet. While the early rumors are it’s going to take $60mill to sign Eovaldi for 4 years, last year it was supposed to take $200mill over 6 years to sign JD Martinez. I do really doubt GMs put as much stock in the small sizes as you say. World Series MVPsinclude the Steve Pearce’s and Luis Sojo’s and David Freese’s of the world always seem to get paid the same as their non-WS MVP equivalents...
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PLenty of teams have reasons to sign him, including the Yankees, where 1B isn't really locked up by anyone. Do you really think Greg "Wounded" Bird and Luke "Empty" Voit are the answer?
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I hear there paying him in mofongo... and wasakaka con queso frito... and
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Does JD Martinez own a first baseman's glove?
notin replied to radatz17's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Actually Babe Ruth spent mot of his career as a thin athlete. Most of the pictures and footage of him you see if from the latter part of his career. It also doesn’t help that actors like John Goodman are cast to portray him... -
The “bridge year” quote was way too often misinterpreted. Fans screamed like Epstein was taking a year off from the MLB club to wait on the development of the minor leaguers, despite that very off-season Epstein signed John Lackey to the biggest contract the organization ever gave to a pitcher. Epstein was referring to a change in their approach to minor league drafting, going from lower ceiling/ higher success rate college players to higher ceiling high school players, and went on to discuss the long term impact on the farm. I believe this was the offseason of drafting Jason Place, a high ceiling high schooler who flopped...
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Exactly, yet everyone likes to dump bad moves on the guy and blame him for meddling in baseball operations like a Scooby Doo villain. I’m fairly certain most people have mischaraterized the guy...
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So you liked Moncada’s contact rate? Out of the other three, Dalbec does seem like the most likely to stick at 3b, which does count for something...
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Right. And your fan base told us all Jesus Montero was the next Miguel Cabrera (exact comparison, btw). Must have been referring to another Miguel Cabrera, right?
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Does JD Martinez own a first baseman's glove?
notin replied to radatz17's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Listed heights weights mean nothing. I’ve seen Pedroia listed st 5’10”... -
Does JD Martinez own a first baseman's glove?
notin replied to radatz17's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Actually Mientkiewicz was a much better player before the Sox killed his career by putting him in a part time role. I agree Moreland is not the future at 1b, but I don't know if they view him as a placeholder for Devers... -
Everyone liked to state Lucchino was not a baseball guy and knew nothing about the sport. But he certainly spent a huge chunk of his adult life around baseball front offices employed by MLB franchises (who did hire him for some reason besides being the front office scapegoat). Most likely he knew more about the sport than any of us, but a lot of people don't want to admit that for some reason...
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Does JD Martinez own a first baseman's glove?
notin replied to radatz17's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
JD became the first player to win the Silver Slugger in two different positions (OF,DH) in the same season. Maybe next year he can win it for three... -
If the Sox try to stick to the CBA limits, Pearce isn’t likely to come back. If he doesn’t and they need a dirt cheap bench bat with some versatility, Swihartis already onboard. He really is a backend piece in any deal, but at least one the acquiring team might not object to since the risk is zero...
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I’m not so high on Johnson. ERod struggles to stay healthy, but certainly has a spot in the rotation when he is...
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Rumor has it Eovaldi is top priority this off-season. But if he doesn’t sign, I’m not sure there is a PlanB for starting . It may actually open the door to bring Kimbrel back...
