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  1. notin
    No! Spend recklessly and wantonly!!
  2. notin
    $🐍
  3. notin
    I hope they don’t waste money on Max Friend. Is he even a minor leaguer?
  4. notin
    There’s times when they’re good for fans. Price had an opt out after year three when he would have been 34 (with 4 years $123mill left). It looked like one he might have taken had he just stayed healthy for 3 years, especially since Zack Greinke signed a mega deal with Arizona around that time, and he was 4 years older than Price. But Price just couldn’t stay healthy for 3 years. Or even two years…
  5. notin
    <sigh> I mentioned earlier Harper and Soto reached free agency at the same age, in fact Harper was about two weeks younger…
  6. notin
    But trading them away from a team that was in the postseason hunt until the final week of the season does make less sense. Ober and Ryan might make a combined $8mill next season. Pablo Lopez makes a guaranteed $21.75 million per year for the next 3 seasons
  7. notin
    That depends - do you mean Pittsburgh or Seton Hall?
  8. notin
    Maybe if Harper had those two extra weeks…
  9. notin
    I can admit to bring harsh on him. But Seager racing free agency at 27 really isn’t the potential opportunity on the same level as Soto reaching out at 26. Of course they will have something in common when all is said and done. Seager didn’t sign with Boston either. But until pen hits paper, I’m allowed to dream on this one…
  10. notin
    As discussed before, most of the above average right-handed bats do not hit lefties as well as Soto does…
  11. notin
    This is true. But Boston desperately needs a superstar to get past Betts…
  12. notin
    Just finished his age 25 season, just like Soto. He was actually a couple weeks younger…
  13. notin
    And you only brought extrapolated data into because the regular data doesn’t put Seager within 10% of Soto. Do you consider Seager to be the same type of generational talent as Soto? Seager’s had a great career, and will very likely get votes for Cooperstown. But Soto is on a historic path. Since 1950, he ranks 9th in fWAR through age 25. Ahead of Betts, Bonds, Harper, Mays, Ripken and lots of other guys who have already posed for busts…
  14. notin
    So Semien was more useful during his peak years of ages 27-33 than Soto was during his ages 19-25? I guess that makes them equal…
  15. notin
    Extrapolated bWAR isn’t the same as earned bWAR. If so, why would the Sox pursue Fried (4.9 bWAR/162 games) when they already have Richard Fitts (5.1 bWAR/162 games)? Seager is a talented player, but he does miss a lot of time that you’re now giving him credit for. It takes a COVID shutdown to get Soto off the field…
  16. notin
    I suppose there is a difference between “potential” and “ceiling”, but it’s probably just semantics…
  17. notin
    No.
  18. notin
    Ohtani is certainly a talent, but I think his career as a pitcher is short-lived with two TJs already under his belt. Judge is a good case, but he was entering his age 32 season, not his age 26 season. The only way Semien and Seager rank near Soto is alphabetically. How did they even get in this post? Who’s watching the door here?
  19. notin
    Fitts and Priester both have mid-rotation ceilings, but are more likely to settle in to either the back of the rotation or the bullpen. And both fall behind a healthy Perales. But Boston really lacks the upper minors pitching depth to deal either one without getting significant pitching in return. I think the focus for Boston in any trade is the position player depth. I’ve often suggested Braden Montgomery, but really, his value more than goes up once he takes the field again. Hamilton? I like what he brings, and he should be in the 2b mix to start the season along with Vaughn Grissom, and eventually possibly Kristian Campbell, assuming he ever settles in at a singular position. I don’t see Meidroth as much more than a throw-in on a trade that could probably happen with or without him. Neither said will insist his inclusion or exclusion is a deal breaker…
  20. notin
    And yet the largest contract he’s ever given to a player coming from another team was the 4 year $78mill contract awarded to Starlin Marte. (Ok maybe those Verlander/Scherzer deals were higher, but they were also very short and traded away very quickly.) The Mets have gone bigger with internal contracts, like the ones for Francisco Lindor and Brandon Nimmo, But outside deals? They’ve all been short deals, with Kodak Senga’s 5 year pact topping the Longevity Meter..
  21. notin
    … or he’s injured…
  22. notin
    No. Max Fried type pitchers come and go and are available every off-season. You cannot say the same thing about Soto. Sign Soto and get your pitcher(s) another way…
  23. notin
    Fulmer and Wilson have salaries, too…
  24. notin
    I’d package either with Abreu for Crochet. Sure it would have been terrible to deal Betts for a RP, but what about dealing Moncada and Kopech - both of whom reached MLB - for a starter? Or throwing in Javier Guerra for a closer? There are examples to go both ways. Remember when the Sox pitching future was Rose/Pavano/Suppan? The best career of those three was the guy that got dealt, and no one (except maybe the then-GM of the Expos) would want to undo that trade…
  25. notin
    I don’t see him as a fit unless the Sox are listening to me and want to move Devers off third. Story to 2b certainly worked out before, but the Sox have better options (Hamilton, Campbell, Mayer, Grissom) for 2b at this point than they had in 2022. Moving Devers to 1b/DH with Casas means moving on from Yoshida, and that makes more sense to me - and I’m still the rare believer in Yoshida - than blocking the quartet I mentioned above. Unless the goal is to move Casas as well. But replacing Casas with Adames, while definitely helping the defense, will certainly hurt the offense…
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