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  1. notin
    Just once I’d like to see you type “I think I’ll get some data on that.” https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/rankings/player/_/year/2025/sort/cap_total Per sportrac, there are 174 active contracts in MLB of $10,000,000 AAV or more. Think all 174 are starting? I got as far as number 4 and found that not to be true. There are multiple players out of action for multiple reasons, including benched, injured, “injured”, suspended, being Marcus Stroman, etc. Frankly I’d rather the Sox bench the expensive non-performer than play him and hope he justifies his salary one day…
  2. notin
    They are and always have been opinions. In fact, the MLB rule book defines them as opinions. Not to mention, plenty of “obvious errors” are and have always been ruled as hits. Take your standard pop up that lands between 3 fielders untouched, an almost daily occurs in MLB. Fielding percentage calls this a hit. But is it harder to catch a pop fly than make a throw to first base from 10 feet behind the third base bag without sailing it or bouncing it?
  3. notin
    Cora is the analytics department. Figuratively speaking. Houston originally hired him because of his expertise in those matters, and Boston lured him away from Houston for that same reason. He’s been a big part of educating both organizations on how to use analytics…
  4. notin
    Way too early? Since 2018, the Sox are 435-421 under Cora, despite having a payroll in the upper half (and in most seasons, upper third) of MLB. John Farrell was 432-378 as Boston manager, won more AL East pennants than any manager in team history, and was coming off back-to-back pennants when he got fired…
  5. notin
    But comparing the fielding percentage of a SS to a 1b or even a 3b to determine the better fielder will always be misguided, which is what was being done. The Sox do muffle simple plays, but would they be a better fielding team if players didn’t move at all to make plays? Or didn’t throw the ball at all? They’d have fewer errors and a much better fielding percentage. One of, if not the biggest problem with fielding percentage is they’re always some misconception that all errors are obviously errors. In the end, they’re just some guy’s opinion. These are generic statements not directly applicable solely to the 2025 Red Sox. Safe bet most metrics would corroborate the sentiment that they’re not a good fueling team…
  6. notin
    Campbell is hitting under .200 now? Actually locking up younger players early is an excellent strategy (and not one done by the White Sox as often as other teams). If Campbell becomes a good player, you have him cheap. But if he doesn’t work out or is just average, his contract actually isn’t prohibitive. Hes paid like a league average to bad player already. Where in Chicago? I’m out here too…
  7. notin
    Sitting/benching/ignoring contracts is becoming a common situation in MLB these days. Most teams that have players on 8 digit AAVs have at least one either benched or in a reduced role…
  8. notin
    Yeah fielding percentage! The most useless stat in MLB! It’s so bad it makes batting average look good!
  9. notin
    They could have signed some Rowdy Tellez type to a minor league deal. It might have been better, but players like that aren’t much of an upgrade over Romy Gonzalez. Most MLB first basemen are players who move there because they can hit but not field another position. Actual first base prospects are usually players learning that role as well and many fall into this category.
  10. notin
    Story is 10 for his last 82 with 31 strikeouts. It might be Mayer Time without moving Campbell…
  11. notin
    Overmatched or not, he won’t learn to hit MLB pitching in AAA. For a guy who likes to ignore points and cling to painfully obvious conclusions, not sure why you think he will…
  12. notin
    61 more mentions and I will have posted him out of existence…
  13. notin
    Exactly, which is why I keep mentioning 5’1” Andrew Vaughn…
  14. notin
    I could see Mayer replacing Story, who has fallen off a Cliff recently. I doubt they bring up Anthony without an outfielder injury or Devers actually moving to 1b…
  15. notin
    I would never make those trades, even if Brewers GM Pat Murphy kidnapped my family and made them ransom demands. Hoskins seems likely to acquire on his own. BTV gives him a negative trade value, which makes him a straight salary dump for Milwaukee. Of course the Brewers, like the Sox, are only 4 GB and might not start unloading players so readily…
  16. notin
    I think an unexciting 1b option might be in the near future. Reportedly they inquired about some surging AAA hitters on the older side of prospect status, like Phillies 3b Otto Kemp and White Sox 1b Tim Elko (since called up)…
  17. notin
    I didn’t expect Sandoval this year. But I did/do expect Crawford back at some point…
  18. notin
    That was never the argument…
  19. notin
    I’d call it a group effort that includes the pitchers themselves. Whats with the blame stuff? I think and I’ve been on this since spring training, if the Sox kept Whitlock, Slaton, Fitts, and Guerrero as the core of that bullpen, they’d be fine. I think thats still true. (For a long time I wanted Houck in there, but that was before Guerrero, Slaton and Fitts.) Of course I also advocated for cutting Justin Wilson minutes after he signed. So there is that..
  20. notin
    Not sure why the quotes. Chapman has been their best reliever this year…
  21. notin
    They did spend nearly $12mill on Chapman. Even if they expected Hendriks to close, they had a Plan B…
  22. notin
    Yes, but that’s hindsight. The big issue to me appears that they’re counting too much on Slaten and Whitlock in key situations. Also any time they get a promising young reliever, they push him into the rotation until he gets injured…
  23. notin
    Campbell just needs to learn to adjust to MLB pitching. There’s only one place he can do that. He’s not going to do that in AAA any more than he is at Dave and Buster’s…
  24. notin
    Can’t it be both?
  25. notin
    Well, I wouldn’t say the pen wasn’t addressed. They did add Aroldis Chapman and Justin Wilson, plus expected the return of Liam Hendriks…
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