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  1. notin
    See I think saying “Kluber was older” is lazy and unjustified. Kluber was coming off a season with 160 IP and worth 3 fWAR. For Burnes or Flaherty, the Sox should re-arrange the rotation. But I’d rather bulk up the bullpen with options like Tanner Scott or Jeff Hoffman over signing Buehler. The Sox have enough physically questionable starting pitchers already. If we need IP, keep Kutter in the rotation. And it’s more of a bullpen game today anyway. Fewer starters throw 200 IP anymore. Today, teams need about 1450 IP for a season, but starting rotations often only pitch 700-800 of them. The bullpen obviously gets the rest, meaning you need a lot more than just a closer out there. Fifteen years ago, you needed just 3 reliable RPs. Now, having 5 makes your pen a question mark…
  2. notin
    Manaea? Pivetta? Flaherty isn’t really all that reliable, but I take him over Buehler. Quintana makes more sense than Buehler. And we still have Fulmer just recovered from his second TJ.
  3. notin
    I’m not sold on Buehler yet either. 75 largely ineffective IP in the regular season with a great HR/9 than Kutter Crawford shouldn’t be ignored because of 10 good innings in the postseason. Buehler is as big of a question mark as Paxton was, and I don’t understand how people can hope they avoid contracts like Kluber in favor of deals like Buehler. I’d much prefer Manaea or the return of Pivetta, and neither of them make my nipples explode with delight. Crochet is risky enough…
  4. notin
    LA would trade Rendon before you finished his name in the request. Breslow: So I was wondering about a trade involving Anthony Ren… Minasian: Done! He’s all yours!
  5. notin
    He was called up multiple times. Even played in 99 games from 2014-2016, and put up crazy good DRS numbers for that stretch. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/castiru02.shtml After DD DFAd him and left him to rot in Worcester, THEN he was removed from the 40 man roster. But he was certainly on it for quite a while…
  6. notin
    Having two is a big deal, and fro every Eovaldi that does fine afterwards there’s a Brandon Beachy or Chris Capuano who saw it effectively end their career. And a third one is the end based on history. Multiple TJs is a big deal, and this doesn’t change because Eovaldi did fine after his second…
  7. notin
    More worried about the tear than the wear…
  8. notin
    Buehler has ace caliber ability, but he’s also a tweak away from never pitching again…
  9. notin
    Plus Whitlock, too…
  10. notin
    And it was a long shot at best, given the Union preference that players take the largest offer…
  11. notin
    I’m sure they say worse. But not to his face or when he’s in the room…
  12. notin
    I had to check out the opponents, since a lot of times you get some AAAA lineups from September non-contenders. And two of them were against the Angels and Rockies. But the other two were against the Braves and Padres, which gives him some legitimacy…
  13. notin
    Fitts was in the Dugo trade. We got Sandlin for John Schreiber…
  14. notin
    None. The only pitcher to return after his third TJS was Johnny Venters, and his return was brief and ineffective. If Buehler has another procedure, his career is likely over…
  15. notin
    I’d agree but for the potential of Roman Anthony. The Sox could accommodate both if they dealt/benched Rafaela, but that just makes them even more left-handed…
  16. notin
    I think this is a myth. For any team, you have 4 other teams in the division and 25 teams outside of it. So trades outside are 6 times more likely, but only based on quantity of teams and not on anything inherent to divisional play. If pressed, I can think of young stars traded within a division. JT Realmuto, for example. Also Matt Kemp, Mike Piazza, Cliff Lee, Jose Canseco, Gary Carter, etc.
  17. notin
    The Sox only made this trade so Henry wouldn’t have to pay Valdez!!
  18. notin
    Not to mention, he’s coming off of back surgery. TJ is one thing; everyone has an idea how long recovery is and how a pitcher can fare afterwards. But back surgery for a pitcher is comparatively uncharted waters…
  19. notin
    I think you’re too focused on Henry’s wallet and starting to believe some of the Internet Idiocy. Ive seen lots of “but Fried only cost money” out there and on this board. They seem to always forget the part about outbidding the Yankees, a team that did outbid us for Soto and wasn’t going to get beaten for Fried. The Yankees do have better financial resources, but their farm is comparatively weak. THIS was the way to outbid them, was with prospect talent. We played yo our strength…
  20. notin
    Yes he was for nearly 3 years…
  21. notin
    Buehler? At worst, he’s a 3 time Tommy John victim that does nothing but collect fat paychecks for not pitching. Probably a more likely outcome than that #2 thingy you said…
  22. notin
    I think you undervalue Abreu, who was a 3 WAR Gold Glove-winning outfielder who makes minimum wage. A good match is the Pirates, who have made Mitch Keller available and who Roster Resource lists with 29yo Rule 5 (2023) draft pick Joshua Palacios as their starting RF. Abreu definitely fits a need, and more important, is in their price range. Of course BTV doesn’t like this trade. Their model says Pittsburgh needs to add about $10mill in surplus value. I would do it straight up. But I wouldn’t be averse to helping their salary limitation by taking back Pudgy David Bednar (who was awful last year) in hopes of a rebound. I’d even throw in Zack Kelly…
  23. notin
    So you're not excited about the announcement that Fulmer might be returning to SP? (I assume they mean in Worcester.)
  24. notin
    Buehler is the solution for people who don't think Flaherty gets injured often enough...
  25. notin
    Is this really a good complaint? "Sure we got a young high upside pitcher, but we didn't PAY ENOUGH for one!!" You spent half the off-season talking about getting cheap, young controllable pitching. The Sox got a 25yo very high upside starter with multiple years left and an expressed desire to sign an extension. You got EXACTLY what you wanted. At some point, can you at least be happy about it? Carson Kelly is definitely a step up, but he is hardly the only option. And with Teel gone, the Sox can/should now explore catchers with multiple years of control. Since the FA market is just stopgaps and backups, they will probably need to look elsewhere. One possibility might be Sean Murphy. Atlanta has a good catcher in AAA named Drake Baldwin they could turn to (although I only can speak for his offensive skillset.) With Murphy missing most of last year and being owed $60mill over the next 4 years, I can see them moving on to Baldwin...
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