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  1. notin
    That deal could work on BTV, meaning it’s fair by their standards. Clearly, Breslow is aiming higher than “fair.” Duran has a surplus value of $47mill. Salas has a surplus value of $32mill. Cease has a surplus value of $10mill. RHP Kash Mayfield ($4.5mill) makes it about as even as could be. But as Breslow has plenty of time to figure out what to do with Duran, he clearly has no plans to just take best offer…
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    Even if the next hitter up strikes out 35% of the time?
  3. notin
    If the other manager walks the leadoff hitter to set up the double play. the proper response here is a sac bunt…
  4. notin
    I assume that was when Will Smith’s name was attached…
  5. notin
    I’m going on record as predicting Clase to Chicago (NL) for RHP Ben Brown, OF Owen Caissie, and 2b/3b James Triantos…
  6. notin
    Was that with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan?
  7. notin
    Crochet pitched 13 innings, Hendriks pitched 5, and Giolito pitched pretty well…
  8. notin
    It’s just one method of evaluating players and trades. And it cannot account for teams’ willingness to overpay or whether or not they even want certain players. Really it’s goal is to determine if trades are fair, but not every team wants their trades to be fair…
  9. notin
    BTV gives Cease a surplus value of $10mill. That suggests he could be had for any one of David Sandlin $9.8mill), James Tibbs, Mikey Romero , or Yoelin Cespedes. I doubt he can, but if he could, would you do it? I expect competition to drive his price up. But if his value held, I could see moving Cespedes Orin him…
  10. notin
    Was Clevinger a wife beater? I thought he was just a baby beater…
  11. notin
    Neither Giolito nor Cease were part of that team. If we’re discounting anyone who EVER pitched for the White Sox, aren’t we thankful for unloading Sale?
  12. notin
    Mookie was most definitely not traded at the deadline. Devers really wasn’t either but at least the season started…
  13. notin
    Any team that strikes out as much as the Sox should absolutely NOT bunt in extra innings of road games. A sac bunt plus a strikeout leaves them needing only a hit or a gift from the defense to score…
  14. notin
    Not sure how possible moving Youkilis back to third was. He was OK there before, but the move back in 2011 proved disastrous defensively. We built that team around the wrong Adrián…
  15. notin
    LaRoche got 19 at bats for Boston in 2+ weeks because they were set at 1b (Youkilis) and DH (Ortiz) and LaRoche made a lot ($7mill back in 2009). They dealt him for the cheaper Kotchman. LaRoche also had career long battles with ADHD, which made him difficult to keep in as an unegaged bench player. That affliction was a big part in his career ending prematurely and ultimately lead to the Sox acquiring Chris Sale…
  16. notin
    Acquiring Hosmer didn’t annoy me nearly as much as Bloom’s attempt to sell to the world that it solved anything…
  17. notin
    … which starts at a much younger age than it used to…
  18. notin
    Everything was better? What about prices? Back in 1975, you could take a family of 4 to Fenway, pay for parking, have everyone gorge themselves hot dogs and drinks and still have enough money left over to get their stomachs pumped. And all for less money than a parking on the green line and buying a single ticket just to ride the train. Today if you tried to do all that, it would cost the 1975 equivalent of 4 years tuition plus room and board at Harvard for students whose names do not end in a Roman numeral…
  19. notin
    Lackey for Kelly and Craig was a stupid trade. I’m not giving Cherington credit because Kelly had a good stretch several years later. The Sox were out of it, so they dealt Lackey (who had a full season at minimum wage left) for two veteran players? And then Cherington dealt Lester for Yoenes Cespedes (whose contract made him ineligible for arbitration and went directly to free agency). What was Cherington thinking? Possibly the worst mismanagement of trade deadline assets in MLB history. Even Bloom’s inactivity made more sense…
  20. notin
    It’s really hard to think of actual bad deadline moves made by the Sox recently. Moyer for Bragg back in 1996 was the last bad one. Since then we have what? Santiago Espinal for Steve Pearce? Was it really a bad trade? Espinal has had a good career, but we did deal him for a WS MVP, which is kind of the whole point with deadline deals. Beyond that, maybe the worst one was Ty Buttrey for Ian Kinsler, but at worst that one grades out as “inconsequential“…
  21. notin
    July 30, 1996
  22. notin
    Why? The Sox gave up two players who turned out good, but Boddicker was 39-22 for Boston with 11.4 bWAR in 2+ seasons. Anderson WS worth 1.7 bWAR over the next 3 seasons and Schilling was worth 0.2 bWAR over the next 4…
  23. notin
    Never understood that trade…
  24. notin
    Every team that makes trades makes bad trades at some point. The trading deadline hasn’t been too bad for Boston. Bagwell for Andersen was 35 years ago. What’s the worst one since?
  25. notin
    The reason the Sox are waiting is the selling teams are waiting until all offers are in so they make sure they get the best deal. It takes two to trade…
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