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  1. notin
    Other than saving money, there was no logic to trading Mookie. Not sure what you mean with the last one. The Sox suck defensively at 1b and especially 3b. Those are facts and easily supported ones. Yet I keep getting told it would bad to fix it. Apparently lots of fans like bad defense.
  2. notin
    Well, we agree on not taking huge risks on Burnes. A young, cost-controlled starting pitcher? The Sox have a few already, and the ones they don’t have are difficult to get. I stand by my choice of the underrated Nick Martinez, although the reality is plenty of MLB teams have evaluated him and I don’t know if they value him or not. But I will say - build that bullpen!! Tanner Scott - top priority. Look into Camilo Doval. Is he available? (As cheaply as BTV suggests?) Does his former pitching coach Andy Bailey think he’s a good target? If not, is Devin Williams really as cheap as BTV suggests?
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  4. notin
    That seals it. No Seattle pitchers.
  5. notin
    To some, yes. But not to everyone…
  6. notin
    Yes, you’re a prophet who clearly thought Sale was cured and didn’t say so out of sarcastic spite. So naturally when giving up a fully cured Sale, your first reaction was “but why pay money?” No one disputes how it unfolded. The only dispute is the logic beforehand. No one gives Boston a good grade here. But that doesn’t mean in December of 2023 that Sale was a reliable pitching option for the upcoming season. Even Atlanta knew that. Heck one can argue even Sale didn’t expect those results. But the point here is, if you were so heavily in favor of keeping oft-injured Sale around, why are you down on other pitchers coming off injury?
  7. notin
    I can admit that weakness…
  8. notin
    First, pleasetell me this isn’t the graph of the years 2020 through 2023 on one axis and his IP on the other. Talk about an oversimplification of a small sample size. Second, even that last total of 100 IP was interrupted by a shoulder injury and a trip to the 60 day IL. If he instead ended the year with an uninterrupted 100 IP stretch, that’s different. Or if it was interrupted by getting hit by the comebacker or by the bike accident, that’s also different. But it was a pitching injury. After 60 IP. His longest injury-free stretch in 4 seasons…
  9. notin
    True, but what do you do when it’s two teams you want to root against? I find myself is the extremely unfavorable position of rooting FOR the Mets. The most unwatchable (and sadly, most likely) World Series right now stands to be Yankees vs Dodgers, or as FOX will undoubtedly remind us ad nauseum, Judge vs Ohtani. And I don’t even want to think about the intensity of the Foxgasms should the rumors ever come true and Ohtani take the mound. Because we all know if he does, it will be to face Judge. And for the record, I’m never indifferent when watching two random teams play in the series. I find myself vacillating between the two a lot, but the more exciting team often wins out in my heart. Last year, I rooted for Arizona eventually, despite Texas, as a team seeking their first title, is usually something I would root for…
  10. notin
    Yes it’s an obvious fact that many choose to suddenly ignore because hindsight showed that against all odds and every historical precedent, trying to learn something from it didn’t work out as planned…
  11. notin
    Not all injured mid-30s pitchers are the same. Hendriks pitches in a role that requires less durability yet still managed three times as many IP as Sale from 2020-2022. Also, coming off the first TJ has historically been fairly clean for most pitchers, for at least the first 3 years. I know fans get disgruntled with these injury contract reclaimation projects. But they’re not always a bad thing, and they’re certainly not new for Boston. (Lou Gorman had an outstanding track record with them, and even the original DD - Dan Duquette- had successes.)
  12. notin
    I’ve been saying that about the pitching all season. But I’m always in favor of better pitching. If I was coaching the Braves in the mid 1990’s, I’d be thinking “Maddux, Glavine and Smoltz are all fine. But when can we add Randy Johnson?”
  13. notin
    I hate the Yankees and Mets as well as this version of the Dodgers (except Mookie). Not enjoying this postseason. My last rooting hope is for the Guardians to snap the longest active title drought in MLB…
  14. notin
    Again. 3 innng between May 26 and August 11. Injured shoulder. Clearly injured in 2023, and just because he was on the active roster on the last day of the year doesn’t change that. On the heels of pitching only 50 IP total the 3 previous years, this was a concern. And it should have been one.
  15. notin
    He pitched 3 innings between May 26and August 11. Was that PTO?
  16. notin
    Right. All season while Sale was cruising through NL lineups, there was all of this “but past injuries blah blah blah” and “you don’t trade pitching when you need pitching” (despite Sale’s frequent absences being the number one reason the Sox needing pitching). But now after not counting on a pitcher coming back from injury being the wrong thing, apparently counting on one coming back is, too. Hey, you set yourself up for another year of complaining, which was your goal. Please take it to SAWXHEADS…
  17. notin
    Danny Jansen is an outstanding blocking catcher as well..
  18. notin
    So now the Sox AREN’T supposed to count on pitchers coming off injury?
  19. notin
    Why? Are the Sox moving next season? Or does this mean maybe or pitching is pretty good after all?
  20. notin
    I don’t think anyone is going to trade Duran this off-season, barring the usual caveat. O’Neill will be somewhere else. But not Duran. Story will (hopefully) be back, which may or may not bolster the offense. But he represents improvement at two defensive positions, which in theory could reduce how much offense is needed. ..
  21. notin
    Since OPS is scaled from 0 to 5.000, wouldn’t a .300 difference really be 6%? Not that it matters much, because no one knows what it’s 6% of…
  22. notin
    I actually thought you might get that blatant Phineas and Ferb reference…
  23. notin
    So far, the only rumor is Adames, who will require something large and long. Not in the same neighborhood as Soto, but maybe close to Alonso. I’d be surprised if the Sox get even close to an offer for Adames. I think most everyone on the planet, including most of the bushmen on the Kulwahari, expect Adames to sign with the Dodgers. The Sox are not outbidding the Dodgers. I don’t expect Fried or Burnes, either.
  24. notin
    I agree. I think they’re very vincible…
  25. notin
    I didn’t like Judge in CF either, but the Yankees are also clearly willing to live with it in order to bat Soto and Judge back-to-back. Their appearance in the ALCS this year probably already trumps Judge’s negative dWAR…
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