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But.. but.. but those trades NEVER HAPPEN!! That means that platform is useless. Or that you’re jinxing it! You jinx person! But in all honesty, that’s actually a pretty good trade… -
Early expectations were maybe 3-7 or 4-6 on this swing. The Sox have a chance to go 8-2 with a worst case now if 5-5. However, like Boston, the Angels are off to a surprising good start at 4-2. The last 3 might not be as easy as anticipated…
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Actually George Kirby was an All Star last year…
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Not sure why Cora leaves defensively questionable Enmanuel Valdez in a one-run game while Pablo Reyes sits on the bench…
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Possibly aided by playing 33% more games than everyone else? (Except the Dodgers)
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I believe DRS takes some plays into account…
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Not my fault the Padres chose to ignore the holes in their outfield…
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1. Sending Rafaela down for this year did have merit for thos e who thought 2024 was a lost year anyway, and the idea of him reaching free agency at age 28 doesn't help the sox at all. Of course, a lot of that rested on Abreu showing 2023 was slightly representative. 2. Knocking BTV because GMs do nt make exact trades we imagine is stupid. How many trades did people suggest before BTV that came to fruition? At least BTV trades avoid the common proposals of "hey let's dump our garbage for their all stars" propsals that get rampant when folks made trade suggestions. But if you need an example, I almost completely nailed the Dylan Cease trade before it happened; I only added a couple extra names that were left off since I thought maybe the Padres might also want to address their empty OF situation at the same time. https://www.baseballtradevalues.com/trades/165039 Take out Dillon Head and Oscar Colas, and I nailed it...
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Yes the list of players he kept was better. But what happened was he also let the sox with no minimum wage talent coming up from 2018 and 2019. With no minimum wage talent, it makes it harder to keep his existing players. For example, he could have dealt Bradley instad of paying him $25mill from 2017-2020 and kept Margot, who made about $1.6 mill in that stretch. Probably not enough to make sure the Sox kept Betts, but certainly gives them more to work with towards that goal. And before you go determine this means i think keeping Bradley was the sole reaon they let Betts go, I am not. But I am saying not having any minimum wage players come up at all during those years made it more difficult to keep Betts. Agree?
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Not what I asked for. And the notion that “he knew who to keep” list gets presumptuous when you include Bello, Crawford and Rafaela. Did he know to keep them or were these just 3 names that weren’t worth anything at the time. Unlike Devers and Benintendi, who were all over top 100 lists, none of these three were mentioned in Fangraphs top 29 prospects within the Sox system. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/evaluating-the-2016-prospects-boston-red-sox/ Not even in the quick hits below that list other notable omissions…
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I suppose a big reason is after the first round, the CBO doesn’t always know who will be available to him. Heck, he may not know it even for the first round…
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If the NFL wants to get more exciting, do the following. 1. No more PATs. Waste of time. Consider it automatic unless the team tries for a 2 pt conversion. (Failure to get two pts and the TD is only worth 6.) 2. Three downs instead of four. This is one thing the Canadians got right. 3. Get rid of all those useless time-wasting penalties, like illegal formation, illegal motion. You know, the ones that happen while no one is actually playing. If you’re on your side of the ball, it’s good. Start the play…
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Dan Duquette in 1997 with Brian Rose, Jeff Suppan and Robinson Checo…
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We’d be doing DD a favor to not give him credit for Dalbec…
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Baseball could go back to pre-1884 rules where the pitcher threw underhand to a location the batter specified. Back then, his role wasn’t to get hitters out but rather to get each player started. That would all but eliminate TJ surgery for pitchers…
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He did tear down the farm, but there was some replenishment. He did leave the Sox with a mess of bad contracts…
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Ben’s drafting was much to be desired. DD did draft/sign 5 major leaguers in his Boston tenure (Duran, Houck, Crawford, Bello, Rafaela, anyone else? I’m not counting Dalbec as a success story, although an argument does exist for it.). That’s not a bad amount for 4 years, but certainly not exemplary…
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Not what was asked. The talk was he decimated the highly-rated farm he inherited…
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But who were the top 20 DD inherited? That’s the farm he is accused of decimating…
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I am still not sold on him as a starter. I’m sold on him being a better option to start than any of the other available options. and he only has 2 years of service time, which helps. But so far he’s never thrown that many IP at this level. If the Sox had a more reliable bullpen, it would help Houck out immensely. Either way, this Oakland team is coming off a 50 win season and somehow managed to get even worse. They might not be the best barometer…
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It really wasn’t “keeping the right guys”; none of those guys were there to keep…
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You seem to like shooting people into the sun. What do you have against the sun?
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RIP Larry Lucchino
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Maybe he won’t get $42.4mil, but can he exceed $33mill?
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Control arb costs, which can exceed free agent prices for many players. Also you do need Casas to be amenable to any deal. If you were in Casas’ position, do you sign a 6 year $11mill AAV extension that delays free agency for two years and has you finally reaching free agency at age 30? Or 31 if the option vests or gets picked up?
