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Everything posted by notin
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The “thread the needle” strategy itself was ok. Bloom just sort of stopped halfway through it…
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There is a $20mill vesting option for 2025. Eovaldi would need to pitch 156 IP next season for the option to vest. That’s not a given considering he has only reached that total twice in his 12 year career…
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And yet it was reportedly higher than the Texas offer…
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He didn’t even get Comeback Player of the Year!
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Soto for Yorke, Duran and Whitlock?
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Two of the three remaining AL teams were clearly all in at the deadline. Texas all but crawled in to the post season but did so with Scherzer and Montgomery on their roster, and the Astros did with Verlander, who was acquired with an offer the Orioles could have easily topped…
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It’s also never been reported what that initial offer was…
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I think San Diego should get to make that choice. Probably won’t be Alexander as his trade value plummeted in 1803…
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And that $10mill was spent on Justin Turner, Kenley Jansen, Chris Martin, Adam Duvall and Corey Kluber. Or, crazy thought here, your source’s story has some holes…
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Again, not sure. The offer has never been reported. Eovaldi signed in December, so no idea who his money was spent on…
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Obviously not going to happen. But the Sox just need to add on their equivalents of Verdugo and Wong. Maybe Yoshida, Yorke and Hamilton?
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If Bloom offered more than Texas did, what else was abloom supposed to do? Make sweet love to Eovaldi?
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Spent on who?
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I don’t know how that all really went down. The Texas offer also has lots of incentives that made it look good…
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For one year of Soto at $30mil, offers might not be as numerous as you expect…
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Technically it was Mayer or Anthony, plus Bello. That’sa crazy price for one year $30mill of Soto…
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Orioles trailing tonight 6-0, and the AL East facing a collective 0-7 in the postseason. I don’t buy that this means the AL East was overrated. Those 7 games are not a better sample than the 810 games the division played in the regular season. But it did highlight the collective nap the division took at the trade deadline. As much as I’ve been down on Bloom for giving up in early August, the entire AL East that day added the following: Luis Urias, Aaron Civale, Jordan Hicks, Paul DeJeong, Jack Flaherty, and Keynan Middleton. I guess by getting Civale, Tampa was the “all in” team. Granted, most organizations are down on the Toronto and NY farm systems. But Tampa and Baltimore are universally in the top ten. Baltimore is number one and only came out of the deadline with their 7th best starting pitcher. Seriously, what the $&?@;/!?
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As Soto is only 24, they’re a lot of good hitting left in him. Even a 14 year extension only takes him to the same age the Sox signed 31yo David Price to. Heck Soto could take a 5 year extension and still be one of the youngest and best free agents on the market when that expires…
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It happens. And sometimes misunderstanding is on the poster and not the reader. Essentially I was saying you do not avoid a hitter like Soto because of what side he hits from. He’s going to be a great one. Probably similar to what I said before. But it’s all I got…
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With hitters like Soto, you don’t get hung up on which side of the plate they hit from. When the Dodgers acquired Betts, they didn’t like balk and say “wait. Wouldn’t we be better off with a lefty?” And you sure as hell do not avoid Soto because you already have Verdugo, Yoshida, Duran and Abreu. That said, Soto would be awesome. But it’s not very likely…
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Check it out. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sotoju01.shtml That doesn’t mean he will become the next Frank Robinson, but even the mention is lofty praise…
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A lefty bat whose similar hitter on baseball reference are Bryce Harper and Frank Robinson. Not all lefties are Eric Hosmer…
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Some team should just hire Alfonso Soriano. The man is fluent in English, Spanish and Japanese. There are very few plates he cannot talk to…
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Actually BTV has proven to accurately assess trade value well over 50% of the time. I wouldn’t dismiss their system so hastily. Not like either of us could do better…
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Despite the Sox long history of trading with the Padres and hiring their front office folks, any trade for Tatis will be open to 28 other teams. Granted he is too pricey for several already. But it only takes one to beat the Sox offer…
