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  1. notin
    The question is very limited - opening day. I wouldn’t look too deep into it. Last year, our opening day second basemen were Enmanuel Valdez and Pablo Reyes. Neither won the job based on their upside or potential…
  2. notin
    Not only a small sample size, but there is more to being a 2b than just hitting…
  3. notin
    Not sure why he wouldn’t be eligible, but I will say you won’t find pictures of him without his bleached dreadlocks…
  4. notin
    Immaterial. The 30 players to achieve AAAA status or below could be ranked 1-30. Most likely, they’re scattered randomly across the list…
  5. notin
    The Sox had a long stretch where they didn’t develop a lot of pitchers. But the expectation that every high draft pick has to pan out, and every ranked prospect has to succeed. Or else the future is doomed and it’s all the organization’s flawed development teams and processes. There are only 780 MLB roster spots available. That guy who “failed” didn’t screw up anything. He’s still an amazing player who’s better at baseball than most of the word is at anything. He’s just not in the top 780…
  6. notin
    Shame on Breslow for not getting ranked prospects when dealing unranked prospects. Picking on the Yorke trade is silly. How often do you see prospect-for-prospect deals like that? And right Now, the Sox need Priester more than they need Yorke…
  7. notin
    Apparently Yoshida will be unable to play OF on opening day, due to only throwing from 60 feet. He does look like a candidate to start on the IL…
  8. notin
    Oh I don’t know we are counting prospects who have never even debuted in MLB as top to mid rotation starters in the majors. After all, these are ranked prospects, and those never fail. I was saying that just the other day to Henry Owens. As you were never at the other site that I know of, I will introduce you to something I spent years (and by “years”, I mean “dozens of minutes”) developing - the Notin 10-30-30-30 Law of Prospects. Basically this law, and it is a law, says on average, lists of 100 prospects break down as follows: 10 All Stars 30 Starters, starting pitchers, and closers 30 Bench players, middle relievers 30 AAAA players and below. And rank is immaterial. Which group are Chandler and Harrington in?
  9. notin
    They do? When healthy, both teams have 3 starters in the rotation that they drafted or signed. Pitt has Skenes, Jared Jones, and Mitch Keller. Boston has Houck, Crawford and Bello. Skenes is a big deal, but he isn’t the product of superior scouting and, given his limited time in the minors, not really a product of superior development. Jones might be. Only 1.8 bWAR last year, but also only 22. A bit early to tell, but so far it looks promising.. Keller is basically Kutter Crawford. Or Brayan Bello. If our pitchers are backend starters, why aren’t theirs? Houck’s bWAR over the last two seasons is comparable to that of Keller, Crawford, Bello. But his IP are not. Rank him second or third on this list of pitchers, ahead of the Keller/Crawford/Bello crowd.
  10. notin
    Maybe Hansen and Meredith just sucked. I’m not so sure the Sox overrated Meredith; he was a sixth round pick, after all. And are you really comparing the Sox to the Pirates here? Do the Pirates call up the Nick Yorke’s of the world due to greater faith in their superior evaluations? Or due to the accompanying paycheck players like Yorke come with?
  11. notin
    Frankly, this 40 man roster has too many mediocre infielders and not enough mediocre outfielders. If the Sox go forward with Yoshida and Abreu to the IL, Devers at DH, that leave Hamilton/Grissom/Romy at 2b (if Campbell doesn’t surprise) and who in LF? Or RF? Thompson and Eaton are fine for short term, but what if Abreu lingers like Grissom did last year? Roman Anthony is an option. Or maybe move a backup infielder for a backup outfielder? Refsnyder is the only backup OF, and he can’t play OF very well. On many teams, that’s the only requirement to be a backup OF…
  12. notin
    Why would Cora do that? Let’s get Romy on the mound while we’re at it. And maybe see how Whitlock is behind the plate…
  13. notin
    Have to wonder how that promise went down. Their original offer to Devers was closer to Matt Olson money, and it was explained that this was because the Sox felt Devers’ future was as a 1b. Obviously the extension paid him substantially more, and at some point, maybe position came up?
  14. notin
    I hope so. I’m starting to take his non-responses personally…
  15. notin
    Bregman said he’d play 2b early in free agency, before he signed anywhere. He came to Boston and maybe it was an option, but Devers hasn’t really been ready to field regularly. Playing Bregman at 3b feels like the only option there. Plus if Devers is not ready to field, this left 2b open for a handful of players to take. No one has except maybe Mayer. The Sox have also said they want Yoshida in the OF, but he hasn’t spent much time if any out there this spring…
  16. notin
    I know if the prospects fail, the Sox will be blamed for making the wrong calls on them…
  17. notin
    My point. This is not their first time. Maybe McAdam’s first time, but he’s singing a song we all know by heart here…
  18. notin
    About Lackey being traded for his refusal to play. Yes it can get convoluted…
  19. notin
    And the team sucked and Cherington wasn’t good at trading. You’d have a better argument if Cherington’s Lester/Cespedes trade wasn’t a complete flop. (Relevant Yet Irrelevant Trivia: Jon Lester was traded by Boston for Yoenis Cespedes. Which current member of the Red Sox was Cespedes once traded for?)
  20. notin
    Really? They also traded Lester that same week. Certainly he wasn’t threatening by retirement too. The Lackey thing was made up by Masarotti. The week before, Ken Rosenthal (who never talked to Lackey) put in his Sporting News column that Lackey’s only leverage was to retire, but ultimately he felt Lackey and the Sox would agree on a two year extension. Then Massarotti states in his article “According to Ken Rosenthal, Lackey has threatened to retire rather than play for league minimum.” Huh? Not what Rosenthal said. Also, Lackey did play for the league minimum that year for St. Louis. The Sox traded him because Cherington was bad at midseason trades. As for Devers, this whole thing has been a nothing story. “Devers thought about asking for a trade but didn’t”. Is that really our new controversial headline?
  21. notin
    He normally does. And normally he is defensible. Simple question - do you think Lackey threatened to retire rather than honoring his year at minimum wage?
  22. notin
    But is he? We’re seeing articles about how he feels written by guys who don’t even talk to him. Did Devers get mad when he was told about Bregman? Maybe. Did anything else happen as a result? Doesn’t appear so…
  23. notin
    I already did that!!
  24. notin
    They didn’t like those paychecks in Euros, however…
  25. notin
    Ok normally I agree but it’s hard to defend McAdam here. The article, right down to the headline, was clearly written not to inform but to collect web hits. Especially after reading the article. The article is what was Devers was CONSIDERING, not doing. It says he never asked for a trade. So exactly how far did this consideration go? Did he tell ANYONE? Clearly not Boston. Why didn’t he go through with this? It’s purely useless information. Might as well have an article about how Devers can’t decide between Coke and Pepsi. And not tell us who he chose. And still - even you have gone on to decide on assigning blame. For what? Is this entire episode really worth the coverage it’s gotten? Before we go defending the media’s role in these scandals and pretending their job isnt to imply nuance to create controversy out of noting, I have two words for you. Chicken. Beer.
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