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  1. notin
    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...
  2. notin
    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. ..
  3. notin
    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...
  4. notin
    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...
  5. notin
    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...
  6. notin
    And he is awesome at predicting yesterday's lottery numbers. He can nail them like 75% of the time!
  7. notin
    You keep patting yourself on the back for predicting that, but he did last as long as Dombrowski did.
  8. notin
    So who would the 1B be if the Cubs never DFAd Cooper and Smith did not opt out? Dalbec and his .377 OPS? Yippy!
  9. notin
    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)...
  10. notin
    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...
  11. notin
    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?
  12. notin
    We only really know what he did. And that he was not a decisive fellow...
  13. notin
    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…
  14. notin
    Well, no one really knows what he tried. Just because he didn’t complete a deal didn’t mean he ignored the issue…
  15. notin
    Because if Bloom had resolved first base with two players whose OPSs were .523 and .433, you would have been praising his efforts, right?
  16. notin
    If this keeps up, we might need to pass the hat to get you to more games…
  17. notin
    Teams absolutely game plan for better hitters…
  18. notin
    I actually think many pitchers are worse with men on base if they switch to pitching from the stretch…
  19. notin
    First inning pitches…
  20. notin
    Grissom did have success against MLB pitching before (.746 OPS with Atlanta). Right now it’s just 37 PA. Not everyone starts out hot..
  21. notin
    And you get to yell about it on court. “I object!! That’s pure conjecture!!” In this case, it helps if you’re a lawyer. And know whether or not it is conjecture. Also, if they’re a witness against your client…
  22. notin
    I’m not asking for research, but I suspect hitting on 1 out of 4 first pitchers is probably fairly average…
  23. notin
    The guy is such a punchline. I was pitching to my daughter the other day, and she avoided a pitch way outside, which I told her was a strike. She disagreed. But when I then called it an “Angel Hernandez Strike,” she did agree to that…
  24. notin
    Straight up conjecture on whether or not a first baseman who went on the game would have caught that throw. All we know is none of their FOUR major league first basemen were in the game and the utility infielder manning first didn’t catch it…
  25. notin
    True as he was a compensatory pick. But that’s just a happy eventual outcome. The Sox obviously wanted to sign Fabian
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