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Everything posted by notin
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Boras is 65 with a reported net worth of $100million. He might retire before then ::fingers crossed::
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Bravo on the Game of Thrones references...
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But outside of Peavy, how did you think the other four would do in 2014? After all, Lackey did pitch well after 2013. And runs of crazy success were nothing new for Buchholz..
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His track record, for one..,
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Jim Hendry and I disagree. So does Chuck LaMar...
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Well we had Ruben Amaro Jr as a first base coach. That is a big step down. VP of Baseball Ops isn’t so bad
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Ever seen Dombrowski’s first 4 years in Detroit? The team averaged about 60 wins per season. Does that mean he did a horrible job too? Or should we take into account what he was taking over? Cherington took over a team that quit on the manager and owner. He had talent but he also had a lot of attitude problems. His first season was a last place one, but isn’t his reset button trade a huge factor there? He managed to unload some horrific contracts, one of which I believe is still current. Then he won a World Series one year later. In 2014, the same team that won the Series came in last. While expecting a repeat was probably too much, did anyone expect last place? I expected at the very least that that team should have been competitive.
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And per some reports, Dombrowski wanted to keep Cherington, very possibly in that same capacity...
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Well, suspected peak value, anyway.
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Speculation? Or real story? I hope you’re out teasing me here...
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Was that due to having weak pitching or good pitchers underperforming? The 2014 staff won a World Series one year previous and still had Lester and Lackey...
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It’s revisionist history that Cherington was fired and revisionist that he is a coffee boy. He’s a VP of Baseball Operations, a job neither of us is qualified for. And speculative that he couldn’t get another GM job because no team would trust him with their payroll. However, it is unfair of me to reply this way without acknowledging that this particular post is your most even-handed and fair assessment of the entire situation...
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What was wrong with the 2014 rotation? Or the 2012 rotation, for that matter?
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That's not what Dombrowski is building. When you go all in on a win now, it makes it very tough to keep up competitive level of play EVERY year...
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I'm one of Beeks' biggest detractors. But he does need more of a shot in MLB...
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Sort of unfair. The Mariners AAA squad pitches in the Pacific Coast League, a league notorious for its small ballparks and unfavorable pitching conditions. I consider PCL batting averages to be like SAT scores - you get 200 points just for showing up.
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And there remains the quandary. Certainly most of the experts feel they represent a lot of potential. But then, in any job that involves predicting the future, people are wrong quite often. These are the same people who threw Byron Buxton to the top of all prospect rankings, and he can barely stay in MLB, and then went on to ignore Max Muncy, who is looking like Jimmie Foxx 2.0 with 21 HRs in 200 ABs this year. Still, when the future is uncertain, it feels like the safer move to stick with the better potential. 3 years ago, if Minnesota was offered Muncy for Buxton, they would have declined and possibly felt insulted.. Today, the Dodgers - who signed Muncy as a free agent after Oakland released him - would be the ones hanging up on that offer...
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But you'd lose all that valuable recovery time sitting in his waiting room while your injuries nearly fully healed on their own...
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Only from Henry's bank account and not where it matters to Dombrowski and us fans...
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Using just ERA mighr be unfair, asDetroit is an easier ballpark for a pitcher. His ERA+ went from 97 in Detroit to 109 in Boston. That's actually a pretty nice improvement. He got better than an additional 1/8 of the pitchers in the league in the past 3 years on ERA alone...
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Some of us still think the jury is still out on Castillo. Not that he will ever be an All Star, but I think he can be a positive contributor at the MLB level. And I can keep that faith forever, knowing he will more than likely never get the chance to prove me wrong...
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Maybe not, maybe both sets are horrible. But I have more faith in Betts and the first set than Betts and the second one...
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Possible. But like I pointed out, the value in many pf the players comes with their ability to play MLB level ball for no money. Moncada, Kopech and Margot might not be Pedroia, Kimbrel and Bradley. But by playing well enough for a combined $1.2mill, they make keeping Betts around easier. If the Sox have to spend $10mill or $20mill replacing some of the departing players, keeping Betts and company gets more difficult. And simply using other minor leaguers in their place does keep the money down, but would you rather have Moncada, Kopech and Margot? Or Tony Renda, Aneury Tavares, and Willaim Cuevas?
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Also when being supported
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Diagnosing injuries on people he's never seen?
