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  1. notin
    For any team. For all the love and mention Judge gets, he isn’t the Yankees best hitter so far this year. That honor goes to Ben Rice, a man who made exactly zero Top 100 Prospects lists….
  2. notin
    If the Sox made that deal, if nothing else it is a good PR move for a franchise rapidly gaining a reputation for being frugal. If the goal is to avoid bad contracts altogether, that leaves you only in the shallow end of the free agent pool, surrounded by fans speculating that if you had just avoided Sandoval ($18mill) and IKF ($6mill), you could have afforded Schwarber ($150mill)…
  3. notin
    It actually does tell a lot, unlike RBIs, which on their own tell very little…
  4. notin
    f***ing up team stats?
  5. notin
    So Bello’s rotation numbers bring that grade down while his bullpen numbers bring that grade up? Interesting…
  6. notin
    His 2023 was better than his current season. Bogaerts is a little ahead of his pace from the last two seasons. Big deal…
  7. notin
    They’d probably be thrilled to save over $200 million…
  8. notin
    Rotation and bullpen botj got a B-. That seems odd. Like they’ve both pitched equally well and one isn’t blowing leads for the other…
  9. notin
    Teams unloading 10 or more players like Minnesota last year are extremely rare. If two months from now, nothing has changed or at least changed enough, Gray and Chapman are likely to be the only pieces moved. Maybe Duran and/or Bello, but I have my doubts. The fantasy that the Sox are going to unload 10 or 12 members of the current roster and then suddenly become competitive is a pipe dream built on frustration. Sure the Sox could unload Weissert and Kelly, snd then replace them with? Two pitchers who couldn’t beat out Weissert and Kelly? That sounds like improvement. The idea of addition by subtraction doesn’t work if you’re subtracting nothing. And if the Sox unload Story, Yoshida, Bello, Gray, Chapman, Campbell, Sandoval, etc. for salary relief, do people still believe the Sox are going to turn around and pump that money back into one superstar free agent? How many times can you watch that not happen before it sinks in?
  10. notin
    What makes you think they would have signed both Alonso and Bregman?
  11. notin
    It’s Kansas. A tornado only gets you 30 minutes…
  12. notin
    Did Breslow praise his flyballs? I recall defense, contact skills and pull tendencies as the things Breslow highlighted…
  13. notin
    Oh yeah. They’re going to age and possibly accrue injuries. At that point, we deal them to another struggling team with an expensive contract. Rangers? Mets?
  14. notin
    Point?
  15. notin
    Those 4 never played a game together…
  16. notin
    The Washington Generals vs the New York Jets…
  17. notin
    So…. The ball will be carrying?
  18. notin
    The Phillies high priced DH wasn’t hitting so well with his .792 OPS when the team was 22-29 in 2022. I expect more from Yoshida, who has been slumping, but he’s not exactly the guy dragging this team down wuth his underperformance. And this Sox team is better than those Phillies teams at some aspects of baseball, primarily defense. If the Sox can start hitting like they did last year, which wasn’t a career year for any non-rookie, they can get back in it…
  19. notin
    A lot of the Phillies’ resurgence has been an unreal hot streak from Schwarber. The Sox need some of their underperforming hitters to get moderately hot. The 2022 Phillies started out 22-29, replaced Girardi with rookie manager Rob Thomson, and made it to the World Series. It’s not over yet
  20. notin
    So.. get rid of Story, Durbin, the bench and the bullpen?
  21. notin
    Ward plays LF or maybe just ghost runner. Youre asking who plays SS and 3b in response to a conversation about acquiring Matt Chapman and Willie Adames?
  22. notin
    If I could get both for a combined commitment of $210million, I’m ok with that. Adames’ remaining $155mill over 5 does actually seem reasonable for a 30yo SS…
  23. notin
    There are also more Sox fans who think they know how to run a Major League Baseball team than actually can, too. And you’re being very selective with Fred’s predictions, excluding the blatantly wrong stuff as well has the needs. Plenty of people call the Sox flops every off-season, regardless of what the Sox actually do. That makes them cynics, not prophets…
  24. notin
    Is there? As fans we don’t know the difference and as players they can’t compare. The reality is, fans just want players to perform. Schilling gets immortalized for pitching with his bloody sock, because it’s manly to not let injuries stop you.. But Anthony elects to sit out games with a wrist injury that most definitely will impact his hitting, and he’s labeled soft and injury-prone. Sale was considered injury-prone and frail until he was traded away and started pitching well. Then people acted like he’d never been hurt ever. If a player can’t play, he really shouldn’t try. And that doesn’t make him soft. He does have a teammate that is also among the best 780 players in the world that is ready to step in. Let him do so and the ESPNitwits can stop using Wally Pipp as a verb…
  25. notin
    But I’d still put him in the bullpen when Crochet returns. Not so much for his performance but rather for the bullpen’s. They need help…
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