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Everything posted by notin
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Montas.
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Not following that logic. The Sox pitching prospects are putrid, so the team should protect more of them? I get the idea that you need a good amount of manure to grow a rose. But at some point, you also need a rose bulb…
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The Sox have dealt away a few pitchers, too…
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Even though most of those pitchers flame out? Perhaps so many Sox pitchers get selected because so few Sox pitchers are worth protecting. For all the questions about why the Sox kept Kaleb Ort over Thad Ward last year (many of which were asked by me), at the end of the day, Ort was pretty much equal to Ward on some metrics and slightly better on others. Sure the much younger Ward theoretically has more potential to be better. But he also had much more potential to have his career shortened by a series of arm surgeries…
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That’s still bad. You’re potentially passing on better players to accommodate a timeline with the draft. If you’re pressed for time, you need to prioritize trade market over drafts…
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Ok. Seattle and Cleveland seem solid. That third team in the AL is less clear. NL?
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Not true. For example, a player can be selected from the Sox by another team in Rule 5 and it’s catastrophic…
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They did win it last year. And then added a former Cy Young winner…
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They were trying to compete in a budget. Now they’re just on a budget…
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In 1978, those tie breaker games (this was the second one in MLB history) were considered regular season games. Statistics accrued went on the players’ regular season stats. And the results were reflected in the teams’ records…
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Zimmer was clearly a double agent. He really didn’t get enough mention as the worst Sox manager, given his people management skills that forced out players he simply couldn’t handle. Grady Little gets ripped much more for not using a bullpen that was largely ineffective all season, but Zimmer whined apart one of the best teams in Sox history..
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So will TB, Min and Texas be out? And replaced by whom?
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Yeah it was obviously going to be much tougher when just division winners went. The 1978 Red Sox had the second best record in all of MLB, but they missed the postseason…
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I’m ok with that. Trying and failing isn’t the same as not trying…
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I’m the 54 years since divisional play started, the Sox have gone to the postseason 18 times…
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I never mentioned the Sox. I made a very specific prediction based on current events and off-season spending trends. And a bold one becaus it’s extremely unlikely. Predicting Montgomery to the Sox would be bold, but it’s actually not the only potential bold prediction. If the weatherman in Houston predicted it to be partially cloudy with a chance of zombie apocalypse later today, bold or not bold? And while zombies were devouring every living brain in and around Galveston Bay, would you call him out for not being bold enough to predict Armageddon?
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Vesting option question. Per baseball-reference, Sale makes $27mill this year, and has a vesting option for $20mill if he finishes in the top ten for Cy Young voting in 2024. So a great year gives him a $7mill paycut. But if that had happened, Sale already agreed to it. There is probably more to this option but let’s pretend there isn’t for now. (And that he wasn’t traded.) But what if he just misses? What if Sale is 11th in Cy Young voting? The option doesn’t vest. But can the Sox exercise that option? If so, can Sale decline it? Because presumably he would get a much better deal in free agency than 1yr/$20mill…
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Haven’t they been doing that with Sale for the past 4 seasons? And all those guys were signed by a different front office.
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Not bold?? Of course it was bold, just based on timing alone. The Ohtani investigation could go on all season!!
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If he bet on games he is involved in, he is banned for life per Rule 21. (Betting on baseball games he is not involved in gets him banned for one year per the same rule.) This is the rule Rose violated. And it is posted in every MLB clubhouse…
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Bold Prediction: Once it is revealed Shohei Ohtani has been betting on baseball games (including his) and is banned, the Dodgers use the money from his voided contract to sign Montgomery…
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Or, they looked at his baseball-reference page and noticed he was due $27million this year and had only pitched a total of 151 innings in the past four seasons. They possibly also noticed that he hasn’t been the same pitcher since 2018…
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It was complete BS. It made fans think nothing was going to be an obstacle for putting together a winning team, especially not money. The reality was money was clearly going to be an obstacle…
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It’s easy to understand, but is it likely?
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Never been into memorabilia. I do remember going to games as a youngster and players would just stand by the fence and sign whatever (usually my program). I got a few Sox players autographs that way. My only other autograph was a baseball signed by journeyman catcher Mike Heath, given to my dad to give to me by one of his former colleagues who pitched in the Yankees minor league system. The man gave it to me upon hearing of a serious beaning I had taken in a game…
