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Everything posted by notin
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2-3 years earlier = different team
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Right. That was all on Cora. And a severe dismantling of that team after one underachieving season…
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Bottom line is no individual in Boston passed on Scherzer and waited a year for Price…
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They didn’t just learn that in the last two years. It’s been reality for many. He k I’ve been saying it on message boards for years. The problem is it’s just not always easy to have that level of depth. Hard to find 5 guys that are good enough to have in your MLB rotation but who are also willing to sign minor league contracts…
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It wasn’t just a good team; the team he inherited was arguably great. But to argue Cora was the one who ran it into the ground is more than a little bit presumptuous…
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You’re a horrible manager!
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And apparently he’s expressed interest in Boston, which I’m guessing is due to 1) Giolito and (more importantly) 2) a lack of interest from other teams…
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Well, DD couldn’t sign Max for the Red Sox because he’s wasn’t here at the time. It’s not fair to ask why he waited a year to sign Price instead of Scherzer when he wasn’t heard at the time. And as both of them are pitchers he traded for at one point, we can’t even use his history to highlight a preference for one over the other…
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To be fair, those off-season involved different administrations. The guy who signed Price didn’t have the same chance to sign Scherzer…
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I bet if I scroll back to 2015 on this message board, the reception for signing Price was heavy, if not universal…
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If we go to fWAR, Eovaldi is essentially Kutter Crawford (2.4 fWAR). Now our “equivalent” guy is considered at best a #5 starter.
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Is this where we attach a label and reputation to a player based on salary? Once deGrom went down, Eovaldi was the #1 starter for the Rangers on their way to a title. No one called him a #3 starter, or even a #2 starter. Bello is called a #3 at best on this site, despite his 3.1 bWAR equaling that of Eovaldi. Why is our guy a mid-rotation starter but the guy who signed elsewhere an ace of a WS team? Certainly Bello lacks a track record. But then Eovaldi’s track record isn’t exactly clean either. Some quality seasons interspersed with injury-shortened ones with the occasional completely absent year. But hey, Eovaldi made more money so he must be better. Or maybe the grass is simply greener in Arlington…
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That’s just the obvious part up front that we KNOW will happen. How did you look at the Price contract when it was signed?
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And you’re looking at short term reality on long term contracts. Free agency certainly helped teams get new players, but signing a player for 10 years? How many good years do the Rangers anticipate there? Think all ten? When Seager turns 35, they will still owe him $93million on that deal. But if you think that 2023 justifies it all, great. Think Ranger fans still think that way in 2030?
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There is that aspect as willl, although that’s a more recent addition to the process…
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It really is. Far too often it turns into management showing a willingness to spend go their audience. The entire process involves overpaying a player in his 30s for what he did in his 20s, usually for another team. That’s more PR than sound team-building strategy…
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Well, Epstein was all about Moneyball, but with money. He exploited the underexploited stats, abilities and rules. And did so at a premium…
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Economics doesn’t work that way? No idea what you do for a living but I’m not comfortable telling a billionaire commodities trader how finance works. The Rays’ Way absolutely can work when done properly, but so far the Red Sox aren’t doing it that way. And it’s nota sure with a huge margin for error. The Sox so far missed put on the part where you identify your star players and extend them ridiculously early. Anyone remember how far into his career Evan Longoria was when the the Rays extended him? EIGHT GAMES!! And they didn’t even wait that long with Matt Moore (2 games!!), a contract that showed just how risk-free these deals can be. The Sox started doing this with Whitlock, but waiting 5 years on Betts and Bogaerts was just flat out ignorant. Personally I don’t care if they win with a cheap team. As long as they put together a good team. Free agency is largely just for PR anyway. But Henry has to start treating his younger star players like he treats his trophy wives - lock ‘em up in their early 20s, use them for all you got, and then cut ‘em loose at 30 to be someone else’s problem…
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Or maybe he’s saying his prescription is outdated…
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For Dave Roberts? He’s already stolen a base and our hearts. Let him steal our loyalty as well…
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Depends on who they replaced him with…
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You mean all those conversations between Brad Pitt and Phillip Seymour Hoffman aren’t happening in the Sox front office? I use the names of the actors because they actually had those conversations, unlike the people they are portraying…
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Craig Breslow hired as Head Of Baseball Operations
notin replied to Tedballgame's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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I don’t think that’s possible…
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If Bloom didn’t get fired for mishandling the last two deadlines, then the Sox should fire whoever didn’t fite him for that and instead appears to have fired Bloom for something else…
