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Everything posted by notin
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Nope. But you can read the boards to get values of players...
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BTV says it’s possible for Anthony and Fitts. No idea if the White Sox like those posers or just view Crochet better than the neutral BTV…
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If he sells off Jansen, Martin, Pivetta, etc. I’m (begrudgingly) on board. And if he simultaneously buys Garret Crochet, I’m excited …
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I peaked ahead. The lead guitarist who formed the band was born in London, England. Also possible they wanted to be separated from the FOX sketch comedy show “In Living Color,” which was still popular the time…
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I get what you’re saying, but you’re not correct. You’re trying to discount better first place teams as part of the overall strength of the division. “The 2021 Rays could have won the division with 93 wins.” But they won 100, and their presence as a 100 win team did make the AL East stronger that year. There was no such team in 2016 and 2017…
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I never want the team to sell. But I do understand that is the right horse sometimes. I just hope Breslow does something…
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And that’s why no one liked them…
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Booser is like a low cal version of Randy Myers. He brings the heat, follows it up with more heat, and then changes speeds by throwing even harder…
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He was not. 2022 NL Cy Young winner Sandy Alcantara was also on that team…
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A 2-2 split. We can call it the best completely unacceptable series outcome…
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Heresy!!!
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5Gold corrected me on my edit. Either way, a 93-win division champ is not exactly a sign of a strong division. Are you implying there were champs with less? Not since the AL split into 3 divisions…
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Not judging global spelling variations. Just noticed the UK style and assumed a different country of origin. It’s just another reason I rarely judge people on awful typos. Besides my own horrible propensity for them, I’m trying to be cognizant of the possibility I am correcting the English on someone who could be anywhere in the world and typing in their third language…
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Revenue-sharing is in the CBA; they do both about every time negotiations start up again…
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I originally typed out “since the split to 3 divisions”, so slightly further back than just this century. Not sure why I changed it, but good catch. And we can discount the 1995 team that only played 144 games.
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They rely heavily on revenue-sharing money…
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Would you trade Roman Anthony and Richard Fitts for Garrett Crochet? Given the Sox outfield depth and likely upgrade Crochet provides over Fitts, there is an argument to make this deal…
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The spelling of “favorite” was distinctly un-American. I gambled on Canada over the UK, Australia, NZ and Jamaica…
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Especially our early judgments You can’t (re:shouldn’t) just a 5 year contract after 2 months…
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It would not have been a bad trade off in any of the previous four seasons, when Giolito was healthy and Sale wasn’t…
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Are you Canadian?
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It’s also the lowest total ever to win the AL East pennant. It’s been done three times. 2016 (Red Sox), 2017 (Red Sox), and 2015 (Blue Jays)…
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No. Sale was part of an increase in spending. If they keep Sale, do you think they still sign Giolito? I do think it’s reasonable to think if Sale actually pitched from 2020-2023, he would not have been traded. If the Sox were all about cost reduction as their top priority, they would have dealt Chris Martin ($8mill-ish) while he was coming off a career year instead of Sale. Heck if it was all about money, why insist on Grissom? Why not trade Sale in 2022 when some team wanted the entire contract?
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I look at the end of the 2019 season in which the Sox fell 24 games in the standings, still owed about $300mill to three pitchers in Price, Eovaldi and Sale who either had a long history of physical injuries or had plenty of injury troubles just beginning at that time, and the Sox never successfully locked up Mookie. On top of it all, the farm system had nothing in the way of immediate help. And while the Sox were coming off the most successful run in team history, two of those seasons the team only won 93 games, not exactly a commanding total and more of a statement about the AL East at the time. If Henry didn’t decide to change direction at that point, he probably because he did it somewhat earlier. The problem is, he just got too extreme. Tampa North certainly can work, but is better with a built up farm. Or in this case, even a mediocre one. But the issue isn’t that model, it’s how quickly the Sox thought they could implement it. And why they decided to start the “extend our star players” after letting Betts walk. It should have started there…
