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The alternate theory is that if a team doesn’t win a postseason game, that team was overrated. In fact, it means the entire division was overrated. Possibly the entire league!! Heck maybe it means all of MLB is watered down!!
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Post 1071…
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Yamamoto scares me. I know nothing about this guy. Snell is certainly a good target. I’ve repeatedly expressed my thoughts on Gray. Nola is a hard pass for me, although I am anticipating him wanting a deal in the neighborhood of 8 years $240 mill. Certainly there is some TBD figure I’d find him acceptable at, but that’s obvious. Snell and even Gray might prove ridiculously costly. And there are figures where I hope the Sox hard pass as well…
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One of my points!!!
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Let’s start with a basic - how do you define “good starting pitching”?
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Craig Breslow hired as Head Of Baseball Operations
notin replied to Tedballgame's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
It could. If you’re one of those believes a GM prefers “his guys”, none of them are linked to Breslow. Yorke, Mayer and Story are also all trade candidates in that scenario… -
Not sure what your point is…
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Especially with an 80-82 Pythagorean…
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We get that. It it really didn’t change that the DBacks are in the World Series with a pitching staff that isn’t any better than Boston’s. And a pitching staff isn’t the top two pitchers…
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Maybe he’s a Flat Earther. Or a Trekkie. Or a ferroequinologist (N-scale). Or a Scientologist. There are lots of possibilities…
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Probably just had one bad year. Renfroe is Duvall workout the defense, but I can see him being a candidate if the Sox think they need a RHH outfielder…
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Next time quote the post you want me to respond to, not the post you want me to respond to the response of. Assuming that makes sense. No one said the Sox pitching was good enough and they should stand pat. I’ve thrown around names for pitching and defensive upgrades. Here’s some facts The DBacks gave up more runs than they scored. The DBacks only won 84 games, a total would not have made the postseason in the AL and would have been 4th place in the AL East…
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It bothers 5Gold that statistically the DBacks pitching isn’t any different than the Sox pitching. Now if Bloom had brought in KBO veteran Merrill Kelly, who before the season was a 3.96 ERA/4.01FIP/107ERA+ pitcher, what label would we apply to that acquisition - ace caliber or dumpster dive? And Kelly, who was already 31 when the DBacks signed him, didn’t even have those qualifications yet. Also why do we judge the AL East solely by their postseason record but Zac Gallen gets judged solely by his regular season? People who have been following the postseason might have noticed Gallen has been getting hit hard. I’m really not sure why there is a struggle to believe the DBacks pitching is not much better than Boston’s. Not like their W-L record was all that much better. And their run differential was actually worse. You’d think a team with two “ace caliber” pitchers could at least get a better Pythagorean W-L record than 80-82. Even the ace-less Red Sox did…
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That premise is loaded with assumptions. And no support. I do doubt the Sox sign Chapman, but that didn’t mean the defense is fine. Do you think of Team ERA as a measure of pitching? Or does it really look at pitching plus defense?
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Can you define “ace” or “ace quality”? And you can omit any effects from the weather…
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Pitching to Corey Seager isn’t easy…
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Costs nothing? This right-handed bat the Sox need, where will he play and is he free?
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Yoshida was worth -9 OAA. Devers was worth -9 OAA Casas was worth -10 OAA Why is everyone screaming about this urgent need to move Yoshida to DH but thinks Devers and Casas are just fine? To me, the smart move is to hopefully fix two positions. But on this board consensus is Casas and Devers will just have to “get better” like it’s just a matter of 10 more minutes per day of grounders until they magically unlock some secret they never knew before. (“Ohhhh !! I can SQUEEZE the glove!!”) Hey let’s use the “just get better” logic on pitchers. Screw Nola and Yamamoto. Why not have Whitlock just “get better” at starting pitching? Not so sure the Sox outfield needs bolstering. If anything, it’s overcrowded out there…
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Urias is probably more likely than dropping $150mill plus on Chapman. But most likely we see the clumsy status quo at the corners and have neither Chapman nor Urias. I mean, why is a right had need such a high need? Wouldn’t adding Story and Chapman fill that void?
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The main problem against your argument is that it worked…
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Defensively they are. In fact, using OAA and RAA, Guerrero is the only 1b worse than Casas. And on those same metrics, no third basemen is worse than Devers. So yes, not only is the Sox defense at these positions a weakness, it’s a league worst weakness. That both players can hit doesn’t change this…
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Third and first base defense are position of strength? We have guys at those positions who couldn’t catch VD at the Kardashian compound!!
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It’s a bold statement. You are blatantly stating “I don’t see how this team was able to compete so therefore an Ivy League educated baseball career professional obviously did not expect them to as well and was only able to achieve success through luck.” Maybe, just maybe, the handful of people capable of getting these jobs actually do know more about what they are doing than we do. I am not basing that success on anything (except maybe the huge roster overlap with 2018). The difference is I thought maybe he knew what he was doing. And let’s face it, going from winning 40% to winning 60% - all that MLB requires to go from Worst to first, simply is not a big jump…
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Also I don’t think I’ve mentioned Ahmed in years. Maybe in passing. Maybe he was an option of the Sox move Astor’s to 2b, but it make sense to move Story for such a lackluster player, especially at this stage of his career…
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Don’t lump my hypothetical examples in with my ideas on areas of improvement. Hader was a hypothetical example. I doubt he’s on the radar. And he probably shouldn’t be. But several times I mentioned Jansen as a potential trade candidate, and for some reason that always brings you to the conclusion that means punting the season. It doesn’t. It can, but not always. And how you or I would handle it is immaterial. Breslow is on charge now, and I’ve often mentioned him in the Jansen trade posts…
