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Everything posted by notin
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Given his injury history, it is really tough to sell O'Neill as a juicer. Steroids do promote the healing process of many tissues...
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I would imagine Cora is involved in most if not all roster decisions in some capacity...
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I go the other way, but at the end of the day citing preference for either one is like trying to decide if you'd rather have syphilis or chlamydia...
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I doubt the Sox put all that much faith in his brief hot streak and paid much more attention to how well he played CF. They didn't extend him until September, 2022, nearly a year after that post-season and after he was well on his way to a .630 OPS season. More likely, they simply valued his glove and overall play than his bat. They likely hoped for the 5.0 bWAR player from 2021, which is a massive discount at that price even if he only achieves half that total. And it's not like $10mill gets you a superstar player anymore. That off-season, $10mill gets you the remarkably unspectacular Eduardo Escobar or the equally bland Eddy Rosario. Boy, did the Sox miss out there...
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Kike looks like a much better signing if they leave him in CF, where he can make a positive difference in a game even without hitting...
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I can agree with that. Admittedly, I have more faith in Cooper than I do in Smith, but even Smith is better than this...
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Hard to make real trades in April/early May. A lot of teams have just not gone into Sell Mode yet. The A's started out about as hapless as any team and even they have shown that you just can't give up too early. They're still not likely to make the post-season, but they're probably doing a bit better at the gate at 18-19 in their last 37 games than we all thought they would do after that 1-7 start...
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He was an All Star. You do realize even the bench players on the All Star team are called All Stars, right? In fact, those are the players chosen to go based on performance and not popularity. So now a line of .278/.353/.441 is considered "not very good"? And it might not be in your best interest to bring up the Duvall Gold Glove thingy, which not an argument in which your displayed much beyond Olympic-caliber stubborness. You know, when you tried to argue Duvall was a former Gold Glove winner from two distant years previous, so therefore he was not a good defensive outfielder. Brief time passage aside, apparently you think the Gold Glove itself is the minimum bar for acceptable defense, as opposed to just admitting you were wrong. ..
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Right. So money isn't important. Yet folks still keep demanding Henry sell the team to another owner who wants to spend more. You need to remind them spending doesn't matter...
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I think he gave Bloom the far more difficult task of winning while cutting the budget, so the rope was longer. Dombrowski was given the relatively simpler task of winning with an open checkbook. And his rope ended when he spent too much and missed the post-season anyway...
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As much as I like the idea of grabbing them both, there is absolutely no denying they did fall into his lap. It's not often you lose a player for the bulk if not the entire year, and then someone DFAs a player at that same position who was an All Star two years ago and is on a very cheap contract. I still think Cooper can take over that position, as he at least has a better track record of success against MLB pitching, but he is not going to make anyone decide Casas is expendable...
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And he is awesome at predicting yesterday's lottery numbers. He can nail them like 75% of the time!
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You keep patting yourself on the back for predicting that, but he did last as long as Dombrowski did.
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So who would the 1B be if the Cubs never DFAd Cooper and Smith did not opt out? Dalbec and his .377 OPS? Yippy!
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Well, who was DFAd in April, 2022 that Bloom should have grabbed? The only 1B I can think of in that timeframe who was DFAd was Travis Shaw, and he was let go by Bloom (which in itself might have been a questionable move despite Shaw's slow start)...
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They can only acquire players that are available unless they go crazy and overpay. And all for a temporary replacement, since Casas is not dead...
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What if the other team wants Mayer or Anthony for a competent 1B? Should the Sox unload their best prospects for a temporary first baseman?
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We only really know what he did. And that he was not a decisive fellow...
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Refsnyder came up as an infielder and has around 400 innings at 1b in his career, which is more than Dalbec had before Boston starting use him at 1b…
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Well, no one really knows what he tried. Just because he didn’t complete a deal didn’t mean he ignored the issue…
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Because if Bloom had resolved first base with two players whose OPSs were .523 and .433, you would have been praising his efforts, right?
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If this keeps up, we might need to pass the hat to get you to more games…
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5/15 Tampa @ Boston 7:10 pm
notin replied to moonslav59's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Teams absolutely game plan for better hitters… -
5/15 Tampa @ Boston 7:10 pm
notin replied to moonslav59's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
I actually think many pitchers are worse with men on base if they switch to pitching from the stretch… -
First inning pitches…
