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  1. notin
    For Toronto? Because if it isn’t, why bother? The Jays would save a lot, as his $12.8mill salary bumps to $17.5mill next season. But I doubt they think of Hamilton any different than we do - that’s he’s more of a “sell high” player right now. I’m sure the Jays would love to move Bichette. Not sure for what? Also with Bichette in Boston - where would he play? He is a s***** shortstop, but he still might be the best one they have while Story is out. Of course, when Stiry comes back, then what?
  2. notin
    Exactly, but it was also how Cooper got to go to two games…
  3. notin
    I don't think we need to bring Cooperstown into it. Despite the similarity in their names, Scott's career wasn't even long enough to qualify getting on the ballot. He was a below-league average hitter with an absolute cannon for an arm - he easily threw harder than every pitcher in MLB. I'd put money on it. But despite that, he was not really a good defensive player. At least, unlike Boggs, he willingly moved to 1b for the 1992 season. It negated his best talent (throwing), but he probably just wanted to get on the field. Free agency was unkind to Cooper, who managed to turn his glorious All Star seasons into contracts with the Seibu Lions and a minor league deal with the Texas Rangers. After the latter, he retired at age 29. Cooper's career lasted about 5 seasons with an OPS+ of 91. Finding a player with multiple All Star appearances with a lesser career would be really difficult...
  4. notin
    Then they would never know what a great deal they were being offered, according to BTV. Per that site, Bo Bichette (21.8) isn’t enough to get Wilyer Abreu (29.8) alone, let alone with David Hamilton (11.8)…
  5. notin
    No Boggs, who left after 1992. But the Sox did still roster Clemens, Mo Vaughn, and Mike Greenwell…
  6. notin
    He was the lone team rep twice. Still he went to multiple All Star games and might be the worst ever player to do so…
  7. notin
    Tim Salmon retired after 2006. I assume you mean Mike Trout as the other piscine Angel. But Trout is owed some $228mil over the next 6 years and has only played 237 games from 2021 through 2023…
  8. notin
    Yes, and it’s not good for the Red Sox by any measure. Unless you enjoy watching the team flounder and hope it continues…
  9. notin
    But that helps Henry maintain his spendthrift ways. He doesn’t care if opposing fans come; in fact, he appears to be counting on it…
  10. notin
    This was a “trickle down promotion.” They happen all the time and mean very little…
  11. notin
    Dalbec can be demoted. Cooper could not. That’s probably a bigger factor than we realize…
  12. notin
    I stand by my longstanding view that Scott Cooper is the worst player in MLB history with multiple All Star appearances…
  13. notin
    That’s fair. Those “bad years” for the Phillies were actually loaded with serious HOF talent. But somehow the failures of this team got ignored. Growing up we all heard about the futility of the Cubs and Red Sox with their long WS droughts. And everyone ignored the Phillies - an original team on the Senior Circuit - didn’t win a World Series until 1980. The White Sox - whose title drought started the year before Boston’s and ended the year after - are the other team whose long history of failure largely gets ignored. Including in your analysis. How did you forget that team?
  14. notin
    Why? It doesn’t matter to Henry who buys the tickets. As long as someone does…
  15. notin
    Just ahead of Criswell? And where does Scott rank on this list?
  16. notin
    I didn’t bring up 2008 originally. Keep up with the conversation…
  17. notin
    DH is still the position with the least risk of injury. And one injury to Yoshida doesn’t change that at all.n “Not playing” is NOT a position. Please show me one baseball card ever where the player’s position was listed as “not playing”. Not to mention, the notion of telling a healthy baseball player to shut down completely for a prolonged period because the team isn’t going to compete for a title is flat out wrong on multiple levels…
  18. notin
    No, you tried to make that the discussion. The quote you responded to clearly mentioned 2008. And I will take my Red Sox in the entirety over some piece of s*** franchise that took nearly a century to win their first title. I’m not the kind of fan who starts crying i over a couple bad seasons…
  19. notin
    Maybe, but I’d take the overall history of the Red Sox over that of the Phillies, who might be the least successful franchise in MLB history. I’ll take Boston’s 2022 and 2023 if I also get 2004 thru 2018…
  20. notin
    Maybe, but you don’t tell a healthy baseball player to avoid risk and sit the rest of the year. These guys have short enough careers as it is. If Devers was willing to sit for a month or two to avoid injury while the team tanked, I would hope the Sox ship him out this offseason. Why would any team want a baseball player who didn’t want to play baseball?
  21. notin
    Point? What position has the smallest risk of injury?
  22. notin
    What’s the difference? Have we reached the point where a 78 win season is a complete failure but an 81 win season is some sort of moral victory?
  23. notin
    Much less often. Unless you’re counting hemorrhoids caused by all that bench time…
  24. notin
    With 8 players making $20mill AAV or more, that leash might be short, but a least it’s bedazzled with diamonds…
  25. notin
    Just DH him…
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