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  1. notin
    Rather than luck, maybe the Sox could try to add depth. They signed two starting pitcher last year that started as much as one game for them. Criswell and Chase Anderson, who started one game. They signed 0 starting pitchers with MLB experience to minor league contracts. They did themselves no favors on the pitching depth front. Until Fitts came up in September, not a single farm product started a game. Priester was their second prospect to get a start, and he started the last game of the year. They added a couple starters midseason - James “Broken Maple” Paxton and Rich “Over The” Hill. Results were as expected for the 4 combined starts. Get some depth, Breslow! You lost two SPs before the season was 3 weeks old last year!! And waited until mid-July to get a replacement that was released by another team..
  2. notin
    Story has played in roughly 33% of the Sox games over the past 3 years. Mayer has played in about 60%. Mayer gets injured too much, but he’s no Story…
  3. notin
    If Mayer’s issues are injuries, Romero is hardly the alternative. And Arias is 18 and in A ball…
  4. notin
    There was Mookie trade speculation in the press back as far as mid-2019…
  5. notin
    Mayer lost his Chosen One status to Roman Anthony. This didn’t mean he’s expendable, however. I think Story’s questionable attendance makes him more important than many other prospects…
  6. notin
    The counter argument is they might want to move him ASAP just in case he gets hurt again. Or sucks. Hes a 29yo Cy Young winner with multiple years of relatively cheap control. How much more value can he add?
  7. notin
    I’m not sure Chicago wants anyone with service time. They dug down to A ball when they moved Fedde. The White Sox do already have a top SS prospect in Colson Montgomery. Not sure if that tempers interest in Mayer, but it probably wouldn’t..,
  8. notin
    It’s Cesar CRESPO!! Caesar Puello? Now who’s being gross?
  9. notin
    Would anything be more annoying than a Judge vs Ohtani World Series? Announcers would get confused on whom to heap more praise…
  10. notin
    If Mookie has a downfall, it’s poor performance in the postseason. I won’t root for the Dodgers, but I’d like to see Mookie change that. id also like to see Ohtani flop. He’s had more than his share of press this year. I think I root for the Royals because they rarely even get to the postseason. Plus I’d like to see the Will Smith streak continue…
  11. notin
    Per MLB.com, the option vests at $22.5mill after 18!starts and $25mill after 23. Montgomery made 21 starts. He might file a grievance because he went to the bullpen for a month towards the end of the season. He could argue it was to prevent the better option from vesting, but his performance to that point did justify it. I saw no mention of what the option does in the event of a trade…
  12. notin
    I don’t equate bringing in a pitcher after one bad year as being the same as hoping a pitcher can rebound from injury.. Montgomery had a rough season, possibly impacted by missing ST. If he is healthy and not a TJ waiting to happen, he’s worth the risk…
  13. notin
    Abreu is a speed bump on the Road to the Roman Empire…
  14. notin
    Atlanta had pitching with or without Sale. Boston did not…
  15. notin
    Maybe. Its always a question when a pitcher struggles and then suddenly needs TJ…
  16. notin
    Texas was interested in Sale in 2022. When did Atlanta ask about Sale prior to December, 2023?
  17. notin
    As mvp suggested and others had before, they were better positioned if Sale went down. Boston had Cooper Criswell (eventually). Atlanta had a slew of MLB-ready pitching prospects to step in, one of whom was already an MLB All Star…
  18. notin
    I think the only thing the Sox knew was they had been paying Sale a lot of money to not pitch for a long time, and they saw an opportunity to shed that payroll and spend on a pitcher with a better track record of showing up for work. Filling their half-decade long void at 2b certainly factored in. The neutral third parties that do projections felt Sale was a lost cause as well. His -$11 mill surplus value at the time suggests he was projected to be a 1 fWAR pitcher paid like a 3 fWAR pitcher.
  19. notin
    A 35yo pitcher with a total of 150 IP in 4 years isn’t a risk?
  20. notin
    That’s been my viewpoint all along. But you said it more succinctly. The only team that I wonder if they should have “known something” is the Sox concerning Giolito. I don’t know when his problems started, but they certainly would explain his poor ending to 2023. Was that unrelated? Did they see something and decide it was inconsequential? Or “we see that tear all the time?”
  21. notin
    Hey Bellhorn, here’s another one who says the Braves knew something. Thanks for timing this post. Going through the archives in this format is difficult…
  22. notin
    If they weren’t tampering, very little more than any of us knew. I doubt anyone was dazzled by his post-shoulder injury 40 IP stretch to end the season. But for some, hindsight is adequate evidence…
  23. notin
    Others did throw that around, basically any time I said the Braves were rolling the dice. Some even thought the extension clinched it, and it wasn’tSale exercising his 10/5 rights. (No proof, but we all know how that works.) To me, saying the Braves “knew more” is an odd defense, because it means you’re accusing the Braves of tampering…
  24. notin
    $10 mill seems to be the standard Reclaimation Project price tag. In any deal for Montgomery, that’s the maximum I would want to pay. They pay $15mill min. Of course that number changes if they insist on a better prospect in return…
  25. notin
    If you asked me a year ago who was the lowest injury risk, i probably would have said Giolito. I prefer pitchers without recent significant injury issues. But at some point, nothing ruins a pitcher more than pitching. And the pitchers who rack up IP year after year can and will eventually have problems. That’s a big reason why I prefer trading for starters. Contracts (or remaining contracts) are often much less than what it takes to sign a player…
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