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  1. notin
    Trade Story and have the other team eat salary? Looking better..
  2. notin
    One year for 4 years would be bad. One for two is not ideal, but not horrible. The reduction in years is the biggest incentive for the Mets to make such a swap..
  3. notin
    Well, I think the Mets would take it. Semien’s longer deal is an issue, but he rarely misses time and has an excellent swing for Fenway. More important, that deal was prefaced as a “bad contract swap.” That does mean taking back a different bad contract. Not sure why that part of it surprised you
  4. notin
    And really, the bad FA class does have a couple intriguing starting pitchers even after Skubal. King, Peralta, Imanaga, Rogers…
  5. notin
    Maybe Duran. I still think a DFA is more likely than a trade for Yoshida and Story. Unless it’s a bad contract swap, like Story for Semien…
  6. notin
    When the Sox had injuries, you were all “injuries are no excuse, everyone has injuries.” The Brewers had injuries, too. But only thr Dodgers get hampered by injuries I guess. And when were the Dodgers coasting?
  7. notin
    Why not get a 2b with serious OBP skills to stick a top the lineup and let Gold Glover Durbin stay where he plays best?
  8. notin
    The Dodgers were the best team? The Brewers did win an MLB-best 103 games. That series started in Milwaukee for a reason. The budget point is immaterial to the rest of the the post….
  9. notin
    Anthony in RF. Houck, Crawford and Oviedo replace Bennett…
  10. notin
    Jake Bauers = Mickey Gasper
  11. notin
    That 4-0 lead didn’t last long…
  12. notin
    Rejection from lots of better free agents? Bauers is a free agent after the postseason. And no, he will not be getting a Qualifying Offer. But you have to remember, Bauers is exactly the type of player no one wants. A 30 yo minor league journeyman platoon 1b/DH with a career .670 OPS entering the season. Bauers actually retired 2 years ago because he was frustrated about his inability to play at the MLB-level, but then he learned he knocked up his wife and came back on a minor league deal. (True story.)
  13. notin
    Not if you fill the lineup in front of him with runners that get on base all the time…
  14. notin
    Some, yes. Schwarber, for example, was drawing tons of walks before he became a topflight hitter. He’s a patient hitter with a good eye who is willing to strike out while he waits for his pitch. Happ does similar, but strikes out less than Schwarber. Also he swears loud enough to be heard on TV every time he pops up. (Random, unrelated fact.) Soto always had a good eye, but yes, I think pitchers prefer walking him to letting him swing.
  15. notin
    It means he overpays despite being too cheap to pay, I guess…
  16. notin
    And at the hands of the $6.39 Brewers
  17. notin
    With the Stolen Base managing the team! To be fair, the Sox didn’t just come back from 0-3; they came back from being down 0-3 while trailing in the 9th inning of game 4 and facing the greatest closer in MLB history and facing further extension of their 86 year drought at the hands of their historic rivals. Other teams will eventually replicate that comeback; no team ever will replicate that fairy tale…
  18. notin
    “They” meaning notable Hall of Famers. How hard was Orville Overall throwing?
  19. notin
    They weren’t. I guarantee it. They calculated it. They had probably run all kinds of computer simulations and analyzed years of data and trends to see exactly what they were spending $150mill on. And that’s probably a light take. It’s probably worse watching the sausage get made…
  20. notin
    He also set the single season home run his first season not pitching and had the career record 3 years later. Of course it also helped that he played in a league comprised of 5’9” white guys named Jocko that threw 75mph “fast”balls and then spent their offseasons as morticians and haberdashers… But hey, spitball was legal!
  21. notin
    No but fans want and judge players based on RBIs and HRs in different scenarios. Don’t say they don’t…
  22. notin
    The BCS? Doesn’t that stand for “Bitchin’ about Computer Seeding”? I get why the NCAA has to do weird stuff. There are over 280 division 1 football programs. MLB has 30 teams. No need to overcomplicate…
  23. notin
    And I don’t care if they care. I’m not out here pushing my baseball podcast (which doesn’t exist). I will say, teams break things down far, far more than I do with my cursory research. No team in MLB signs a player based on RBI totals on the hope they translate. They used to go all in on EV and launch angle, but they’ve probably moved past that now and are on to scouting using DNA Sequencing Predispositions or something even freakier…
  24. notin
    Yeah- computer-based seeding. Simplest way to- just stop giving preference to teams for winning bad divisions. Was anyone less impressed with the Yankees winning 93 games while playing a division schedule that included the two other best AL teams than they were with Houston, who basically won the AL West by default? Seed by record and be done with it. Other sports should consider this as well…
  25. notin
    It is worth noting, of course Ruth had other advantages over Aaron as well. But these breakdowns happen. I didn’t invent any of them (to my knowledge). I do think in baseball it’s probably the worst sport to take some stats a player got on one team and assume they translate to other teams (arguments accepted for football, especially running backs). I mean, we haven’t even gotten the differences in parks and fields and into Alonso’s super-hard line drive home runs in Camden that, being lower than 37 feet off the ground at the 310 foot marker, might just be wall ball singles at Fenway. Now Alonso does hit with power to all fields, and the RF wall at Fenway doesn’t stop many home runs. So there is debate. I don’t considered missing out on Alonso to be as big as not getting Isaac Paredes, who was just built for Fenway. And unlike other Fenway-potential monsters (notably Junior Caminero and Miguel Vargas), Paredes was reportedly somewhat available last off-season. Weirdly, Marcus Semien seems like a good Fenway fit, but it is so understandable to pass on him at that age and contract…
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