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Everything posted by notin
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I have repeatedly said it never should have gone on that long without an extension. But I can't pretend I know how everything went down because I don't even know how these teams negotiate, so I keep open to all possibilities. Hell, I don't even know the negotiation process. How much of it is Mookie even involved in? Is it possible some informal numbers get thrown around and he is unaware? He can't be on every phone call with his agent and the Sox, can he? Is it actually possible everyone is telling the truth here? And since I don't know, I can't simply blame one side or another, but rather simply acknowledge that both sides never came to an agreement and that can be on either side or both...
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Per MLBTR, the Sox have also added 28yo utility infielder Joe Dunand and 29yo RHP Melvin Adon on minor league deals. These should both be about as impactful as Guthrie. Fulmer might be acceptable in 2025, but there are plenty of reasons to doubt that as well...
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The Colorado Rockies West are another team that might consider Valdez. Of course, whatever he fetches in a trade will very likely not be a major piece..
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And that is on the Red Sox? I mean, if there was even a "We asked O'Halloran and/or Kennedy and they said 'no comment'", it would at least lend a little more credence to Mookie's story...
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Or a guy who simply acknowledges that I'm not an insider and the picture that gets painted for us might not always be the whole truth. I think players can be just as incomplete and dishonest with reporters as team officers can be...
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I was referring to the people who answer questions, not ask them...
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Valdez is likely best served as trade bait for a small budget team in need of a DH. Oakland, Milwaukee or Pittsburgh, for example...
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Guthrie is Worcester depth. He's inconsequential. Teams make moves like this every year. In 2018, Dombrowski signed guys like Ivan DeJesus Jr, Mike Olt and Bill Selsky. We just didn't care because he made other far bigger moves that buried these deep into the crevasses where they belonged...
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In both cases, it simply comes down to which side you want to believe...
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Sale. He had not been one for a while, but maybe Bloom still thought he had something left in him. It looks like Atlanta still feels that way...
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Why bother? It changes nothing, except maybe message board banter. And I don't know why Mookie asked to talk to Bloom when that offer was reportedly in 2020 when Dombrowski was still running the show...
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Compensation draft picks are more valuable than multiple years of an ace?
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That's my point - negotiations have to go both ways. It makes no sense for Mookie to negotiate against himself, but the Sox were wrong for not doing so with Bogaerts?
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Some stories actually have the Sox offering him $300mill...
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The original Sale trade rumor was reportedly nothing more than a salary dump. If Bloom still felt Sale had something left and could be a useful pitcher, I can understand not making that deal. The story I read was he tried to get an actual prospect (quality unknown) for Sale and was rebuffed. All of this was supposedly before Sale showed us that the axiom about bike reading lessons landing permanent knowledge might be a tad overblown...
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After watching Fulmer with the Cubs last year, I assume he will be used primarily for batting practice?
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He looked like a genius after 2021. He looked overmatched for the next two seasons...
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There was a lot of press about him wanting to test free agency. Only Mookie really knows how dedicated he was to it. I mean, it was obviously his best negotiation ploy, even if it wasn't his wish. (I still say he never should have made it through year five without an extension and it really should have been wrapped up much earlier, maybe in after his second or third year, the way teams like Atlanta and Tampa do it.) But the general attitude is that "the player is always right" in these negotiations is simply not true. With Bogaerts and Lester, both received lowball offers and fan perception was they were insulted and correct to walk away. With Betts, he reportedly made extremely high demands, but the Sox were wrong to not negotiate? It has to work both ways...
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I was one of Bloom's biggest supporters, but he did deserve to get canned...
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Eddy Alvarez is also on the short list of athletes that have medaled in both the winter and summer Olympics, and one of only 3 Americans to do so. Right now, his biggest contribution is as part of a trivia answer...
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He was DFAd three times but he was also claimed two times. He's one of those organizational fillers teams want to have, probably due to his versatility, but no one wants to dedicate a 40 man roster spot to him. And so far the Sox have not given him one, either. As he was signed on a minor league deal, he really is not in position to be a factor on the 2024 Red Sox one way or the other. He is also clearly behind Hamilton right now, because Hamilton is on the 40 man. Of the two, Hamilton is actually eligible to open the season in Boston whereas Guthrie currently is not. That Guthrie has garnered this much attention on this board speaks louder volumes about the Sox inactivity this off-season than anything else we have talked about to date...
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I know he didn’t. But I do also acknowledge it wasn’t a normal off-season…
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Guthrie’s AAA numbers overall were tolerable, and better than his A and AA stuff. But he’s barely 40 man roster material, let alone utility infielder stuff. Unless his defense is good, but that’s unknown to me. Hamilton is a light-hitting pinch runner with questionable defense himself. I wouldn’t care if either were DFAd…
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And those possibilities absolutely include the one I mentioned, right? Am I the first one to suggest Betts wanted to test free agency? https://nesn.com/2020/01/mlb-rumors-this-might-explain-why-mookie-betts-wants-to-test-free-agency/
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All of which is 100% irrelevant on why it took LA so long to extend Betts. They signed both Ohtani and Yamamoto in less time this off-season. Do you suppose maybe they just didn’t realize how good Mookie was?
