Jump to content
Talk Sox
  • Create Account

notin

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    52,117

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    45

 Content Type 

Profiles

Boston Red Sox Videos

2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking

Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker

News

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by notin

  1. notin
    And yet you incessantly complain about CBOs who buck the system to avoid paying these huge contracts…
  2. notin
    No one is even saying Montgomery is a great pitcher. He’s a (I hate this undefined terminology) #2 pitcher. But nowadays, the #2 guy does often command a $100mill contract…
  3. notin
    You clearly didn’t…
  4. notin
    And if they could get Trout for $30mill over 3, everyone would love it as well. But they can’t. Montgomery is going to top $100mill. It’s just a question of who is paying.
  5. notin
    Montgomery was only compared to them in terms of frequent team changes, which seems to be one of only two things you hold against him. This was very evident from the context of both statements…
  6. notin
    Atlanta just signed Reynaldo Lopez for $30mill over 3 years. Lopez pitched for 3 teams last year alone. That pushes him past “journeyman” straight into “slut”…
  7. notin
    Doesn’t matter what any of us think. He’s getting $100mill from someone…
  8. notin
    Playing on 3 teams in two years is pretty common. If Team A trades an option year pitcher at the deadline to Team B, something that happens every year - and that pitcher signs with Team C after the season, there you go. Now we see more pitchers dealt at the deadline with 1.5 seasons left, meaning they could be dealt at consecutive deadlines if the first acquiring team is floundering the next year…
  9. notin
    Exactly. Team plus pitcher. Not just pitcher. Bartolo Colon won the 2005 Cy Young over Johan Santana, despite Santana clearly out-pitching in every conceivable way. But Colon pitched on a good team - the AL runner up Angels - and consequently had more wins. And wins was the only category Colon beat Santana in. Did it make him a better pitcher?
  10. notin
    Montgomery also spent most of this season pitching on a last place team. That alone can impact win totals over a 3 year stretch…
  11. notin
    I do like Gray over Montgomery, but I think that’s just a personal preference. I can see arguments the other way as well…
  12. notin
    He probably wasn’t looking at that type payday then. To me, he’s a Plan B option if you can’t get Snell, Yamamoto, or Gray…
  13. notin
    All true. The thing is, the early buzz on Montgomery is he might be paid closer to ace money. ..
  14. notin
    Hernandez and deGrom had good numbers all around. If W-L record is such a tell-all, do you think Wade Miley is a better pitcher than Montgomery?
  15. notin
    $100mill would be fine. But I don’t think you will get Montgomery for that price…
  16. notin
    His W-L record didn’t bother me; it’sa bad way to evaluate pitchers. That he’s been on 3 teams in 3 years doesn’t and shouldn’t. You could say the same thing about Schrerzer. (Oh wait, Scherzer has been on FOUR teams in the last three years. AVOID THAT HALL OF FAMER!!) Montgomery is a good pitcher who stands to get overpaid due solely to his postseason starts (according to the talking heads at MLB Network). Not sure that’s a good way to evaluate a pitcher..
  17. notin
    No one said every team did it on every player at every opportunity. Tell you what - name the ethical question mark Bloom acquired at a discount first and we’ll start from there…
  18. notin
    Every team in the league does that…
  19. notin
    Montgomery is the hot name for an overpay after his postseason run. Nola’s deal was pretty reasonable…
  20. notin
    Yeah but the Mets aren’t really a NY team. I mean, they play games there and use the name. But, like their rhyming counterparts the Jets and Nets (and the poorly named Islanders), no one cares about them unless they force the issue…
  21. notin
    Because one pitcher went back to his old team? Didn’t take much to deflate this room…
  22. notin
    No. But it’s not DD’s choice. But this deal is a pretty good price for the 30yo Nola. Not surprised he stayed in Philly, and he wasn’t as expensive as many expected…
  23. notin
    It’s a conditional/hypothetical statement. No one knows what went down…
  24. notin
    Going 11 years $280mill looks like it might have worked. Bogaerts has the final say, but he does pay Boras to advise him. It’s not hard to believe that deal cannot happen with no opt out. But a 6-7 year deal worth, say, $150-180 mill ? Not answerable anymore, but it is a different matter…
  25. notin
    When dealing with these contracts that worth hundreds of millions, you don’t think erring on the side of caution happens? Enough can go wrong with the healthy players, trying to get an injured one at a multiyear discount “just in case” he heals just seems like a bad idea from day one
×
×
  • Create New...