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But then it's also easy to forget that, despite his long career, Rick Porcello is still only 28 years old (and turning 29 tomorrow). He's 3 days older than Brentz, a guy who many feel has finally earned a chance...
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To the point of bad business. The Sox really did need and probably would have liked a big splash before tickets went on sale. But that did not happen. And who here bought tickets anyway?
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If that's the case, should the far more valuable Benintendi be the one who gets traded?
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But at least it on't be a wash in payroll...
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Or fans value him properly because they put more emphasis on defense rather than focusing solely or heavily on the offensive contributions of a player who only bats 4-5 times per game....
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Unless the Sox acquire say, Darvish or Arrieta instead of Martinez. Or unless the Yankees have injuries. Or unless the Red Sox just get a couple players to have bounce back or career years. The Sox won 93 games without him last year. Since the Yankees aren't going to improve up to winning 110 games or so, exactly how much better do the Sox really need to get? 7 more games? 8 more? Simply saying "[the Sox] won't survive" this injury or that injury is being overly dramatic about the whole thing. Maybe the Yankees can't survive a season where Sonny Gray doesn't get hurt...
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Of course it's ********. But so is Boras' "Mystery Team" tactic that he has employed for years. Saying "my client wants the Sox but prefer not being a DH unless you compensate him for pidgeon-holing his career" is just business as usual for him....
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Funny. That's exactly what I think he's doing. What other leverage does he have?
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I think they sign Martinez and trade Bradley. I don't like that plan but I can't think of another realistic one I like better...
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If Martinez only signs if he can play the outfield, then dealing Bradley becomes a very likely option. Unless you think dealing Betts or Benintendi makes more sense. Or the Sox could tell Martinez he'll be playing the outfield, but NEVER actually put him there. Which should go over really well....
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But then Dave Cameron is not a GM charged with upgrading a pitching staff. ..
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JD Martinez is NOT the reason starting pitcher depth and 2b and minor league free agents and Braves' farm refugees are being ignored. Maybe the fifth starter hinges on the JD Martinez contract. Maybe...
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While I totally get what you're saying about big move withdrawal, I'm at the point of hoping for any move. Its Christmas Eve and so far the biggest actual addition to the organization is Esteban Quiroz, a guy none of us baseball junkies even heard of 8 weeks ago. I get why a big bat hasn't been added. But is it so necessary to pretend EVERYTHING hinges on that one puzzle piece?
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I think "regression" has far and away supplanted "overrated" as the most misunderstood word. And easily the the most misused. The word means "to revert to a less developed state." So is positive regression returning to a less developed state? Is negative regression growth?
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Boone came from a three generation baseball family that supposedly did nothing but talk about baseball. As for Cora, if you're one of those"pressures of Boston" people, then who really knows what happens to him or how he will react, etc?
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That might be the worst news of the off-season. ..
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The Sox, like every team, needs to have 7-10 starters ready for the season. Much like power hitting, second base, rotation pitchers, and bench players who don't suck, DD is getting around to this.
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First of all, college basketball is about player development for 18 and 19yo kids. They don't recruit by needs becausethey want the best aathletes and are willing to adjust the system to the players as opposed to the other wsy around. I actually think 5 or even 6 years for Martinez is fine given how his career seems to be paralleling that of Edwin Encarnacion at similar ages. If you think DD missed out on 34you Encarnacion through age 37 last year, what the argument for not signing Martinez at 4 years younger to a deal that takes him to 35 or 36?
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So why is unknown Aaron Boone a potential liability in NY but unknown Alex Cora such a strength for Boston?
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Would the Sox have been better off with Hanley and Sandoval or Gonzalez and Crawford?
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MLB also operated using a list of banned substances, and several players circumvented that rule by having new substances developed that were not banned. While one can argue it violated the spirit of the law, it did not violate the letter of the law. Bonds is a prime example of this. It's also a viable argument that it did not even violate the spirit of the law, since baseball's drug policy at the time was geared to removing cocaine from the game, not steroids. This policy, which included illegal steroids and all illegal drugs, was created to clean up the image of a game tainted by the Pittsburgh Drug Trials, by Steve Howe and his seven lifetime suspensions, by Darryl Strawberry and Doc Gooden, and by the four KC Royals who spent an off-season in prison, among other notable instances. Preventing home runs was not the goal...
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Auto correct sucks and is not in tune with MLB players from Worcester. You should see how it butchers Tanyon Sturtze...
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They might not add a top of the rotation pitcher. They are running into the biggest problem with having lots of good prospects - teams (especially small market teams like Pittsburgh who cannot afford to make mistakes) only want the guys at the top, Clint Frazier is maybe worth slightly more that Chavis in a trade. Maybe. The Pirates are rightly holding out for the guy they want (Torres), and any team offering a pitcher equal to or better than Cole will probably do the same, unless that pitcher has one year of control left.
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Not to mention it isn't going to be easy to replace Bradley and Bogaerts. Most of the criticisms from them seems to be based solely on 2017. Even Pomeranz has been terrific and won't be easy to replace. And if you look at his 2016, you might notice 2017 was NOT a one-season wonder. (Unless you only look at W-L record). Really the easiest guy to replace will probably be Kimbrel...
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If Thornburg is healthy, he could probably replace Kimbrel now and no one would notice the difference...
