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Or put Arroyo in RF. Kike at SS should have never happened. Bloom should have simply signed Andrus…
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He also contributed in other ways that offset his defensive shortcomings. Schwarber at 1b was a net gain, at least in the short term. Maybe a full season of Schwarber at 1b would not be so enjoyable…
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And sometimes, players playing out of position is on the manager, not the GM/CBO. I’m reasonably sure Dombrowski never told Cora to use Christian Vazquez as a backup 2b…
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Yes and no. Playing Franchy Cordero out of position at 1b? Bad. Playing Kyle Schwarber out of position at 1b? Not bad at all…
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In Chicago, some Cubs fans are growing impatient. The Cubs have not added a single player via trade or MLB contract. (And only 4 players to minor league deals.) Not one. It has been so bad, my Diehard Cubbie Blue daughter got elated when the team signed Colten Brewer to a minor league deal last week. Colten Brewer! This is a team that didn’t get eliminated until game 161!! -
I do agree Baseball is more and more about the bullpen. Fujinami needs to be higher on the Sox radar…
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I like last 3 seasons an evaluation. But it makes using bWAR tough. But if you like bWAR, Nola has been worth 0.018 bWAR/IP over the last 3 years. Stroman has been worth 0.017 bWAR/IP over the last 3 years. Surprisingly close. Of course, Nola has pitched 125 more IP over that stretch…
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As I keep saying, the off-season isn’t over yet. And they’re more to baseball than just bringing in big names. Soxprospects still thinks the Sox will add two pitchers and a right fielder. So they’re more optimistic than even me. (But at least they stopped mentioning Paxton by name.) My sources (re: Google) tell me the Sox are still linked to Teoscar Hernandez and Marcus Stroman. Like these players or not, both do make the 2024 team upgraded over the 2023 team. I’m not big on Teoscar, whom I’ve always thought of as a question mark defensively, especially in RF. And DRS and OAA agree with me. But you know who doesn’t? UZR! UZR liked him as a RF. With Bloom, this might be a deal breaker. Bloom was a clear believer in DRS (when evaluating defense, which he did not do 100% of the time). But with Breslow? Clearly he’s not so dedicated to that one metric, if he is at all.
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This off-season is far too f***ed up if Old Red and I keep making multiple posts in which we agree with each other…
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Right. We should use our intellect for much greater purposes, like complaining about how a baseball team is run on an Internet forum completely separated from any audience that could react in a positive to such negativity. Catharsis is useful, but don’t confuse it with meaningful protest…
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Agreed.
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Snell has 21.1 career bWAR, 13.1 of which have come in TWO SEASONS. Are we basing everything solely on 2023 now? If so, Nola had 2.1 bWAR, which is less than Nick Pivetta and Kutter Crawford. Does that make them aces? (I’ve never called Nola s*****. I do think he is overrated. He’s had 2 seasons of 2.5 bWAR or less in the past 3 years. He’s might be gravitating towards being average.) Montgomery is still available, but his postseason performance was expected to jack up his price. If I bought into the “ace” label thing, I doubt I’d label Montgomery as one. But he’s certainly been a very underrated pitcher. It is Goldilocks stuff if you think Snell is “just right”…
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Gray was my entire off-season wish list…
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If it makes you angry, I know I’m doing the right thing…
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But that didn’t necessarily tablature to success. For example, while he was pitching for Seibu, Daisuke was frequently called “the best pitching prospect in the world.” I mean, he wasn’t horrible or anything. But was he an ace?
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We had their guy in charge the last 4 years. Also does Tampa have this pipeline of SP everyone thinks we need? They did draft McLanahan and Taj Bradley. But they don’t seem to draft and develop as many pitchers as people think…
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And who should the Sox have acquired for the top? Yamamoto, and his 0 MLB IP? Snell and his two Cy Youngs interspersed with several league-average seasons? Nola, the slightly more successful version of Rick Porcello? If you need an ace, what do you do when none are available?
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Of course the Red Sox couldn’t use his first two years in Boston as part of that assessment, which you are doing…
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And that needs to be the plan. As I have my doubts Snell and Bauer are anywhere near the radar…
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Then why has Tampa been in the postseason 5 years in a row (and counting)? Even during their heaviest spending days, the Sox never did that…
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Spending smart can also be interpreted as spending lucky. You can’t always predict injury. Look at Trevor Story. In Colorado, he never played fewer than 142 games. (Except 2020, obviously. And even then he played in 59 out of 60 games.) He did have the elbow injury, but that didn’t keep him out of any games in 2022. Not one. Story hasn’t worked out because he has been hurt a lot. Does he qualify as spending smart or spending poorly?
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And spending heavily works every time, right? If only you had told Steve Cohen last offseason. Or Hal Steinbrenner, whose team did finish ahead of Boston, but please don’t tell me you would have been satisfied with an 82-80 team. Not sure who the Sox ace is. Who was that guy on the Rangers last year?
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I don’t care if they keep payroll down. Spending heavily is not the only way to build a successful baseball team. And when it doesn’t work, it can be incredibly detrimental. But they do need to build a competitive team. I do think Henry’s goal is to be “good on a budget”. It’s not a popular philosophy, and not going to make him any friends. But it isn’t necessarily doomed, either…
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But this nothing new and doesn’t mean you take a 16yo and decide “ok we can’t compete until this kid of 24.” Hopefully not. I think this type of thing that I have seen before is more fan logic than team logic. Team front offices know they are in the business of selling entertainment to people through baseball games, and can’t decide to sit out 3-4 years of building competitive teams and actually expect to make any money. I mean, we’ve all acknowledged it’s a business. Well, businesses don’t operate that way. When was the last time Pepsi decided not to produce any soft drinks because Coca Cola had some new trendy flavor they needed to wait out?
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1. I’m confused with you say Ownership didn’t want a stronger competitor in one sentence and then state Ownership mandated the team be competitive in the next. 2. I don’t think you grasp the “look in the mirror” idiomatic expression. Now I realize this is an Internet forum and you could be posting from Norway and English is your fifth language. I’m which case, you’re doing well and I’m impressed…
