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And the Sox were passing Price until this year. In fact, the Sale/Price/Eovaldi combo was costing the Sox $58mill in AAV through the end of the 2022 season. And people say we didn’t spend on pitching…
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I think OBP caught on because people started noticing the Yankees were winning titles by weaponizing the base on balls…
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With the Marlins, it’s the arbitration-eligible pitchers you target. Not the prospects. The Sox hopefully will see what any and all small market teams have eligible for arbitration that they might deal. The final arb guys are riskiest, since one injury ruins the whole trade…
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Well his last year is arb, so figures need to be exchanged. The extension will be for ALOT, but Boston needs a marketable star with a Mookie gone. Chapman will just have to settle for less or I use my Plan B pivot of Gold Glover Isiah Kiner-Falefa. If nothing else then at least Sox pitchers benefit a little by not facing him…
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Management let him spend a quarter of a billion dollars on payroll twice. That he did that without locking up Betts is completely on him…
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Your argument Henry/Bloom decided not to pay him. That decision was made long before Bloom came on board during his extension talks with Dombrowski (which Mookie now denies ever happened). The whole Betts situation should have been wrapped up long before Bloom was hired. And that even includes the decision to trade him. Even the Nationals knew that in their similar situation with Juan Soto…
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Don’t confuse living with surviving…
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Living abroad in 2021?
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Of course I will say it before anyone else - you can’t live in a foundation…
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Wrong. For the millionth time, relief pitchers are not inconsistent. Inconsistent pitchers are relievers. If you don’t like bullpen variance, get better relief pitchers…
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I think Bloom took far too long to promote Hamilton and Rafaela, whom I was told would most definitely NOT be a shortstop upon his promotion, despite the fact that he clearly played shortstop. That’s more of Bloom’s far too passive approach that I didn’t like. I get giving a proper chance to a waiver claim pitcher or to Kike at shortstop. But you gotta know when to pull the plug. Give Cora another option so Kike bring out there is his fault, not yours. Also I know the Sox have no front office right now. But someone needs to log on and DFA Ort, Jacques, Garza, Barraclaugh, and, what the heck, Kluber and Mondesi. (I’m shocked at myself, too, for holding Llovera. But he might not be horrible.) Just because it needs to happen…
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Back then, we all glossed over OBP and focused solely on BA. We need the OBP back. That’s why I like Yoshida and wanted Nimmo until I saw the absolutely insane contract he got - possibly the most massive overpay in MLB history…
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They need me. My plan is simple. Extend Verdugo. Trade for Juan Soto. (Yorke plus Yoshida is a massive overpay on BTV). Then tackle pitching. 1SP free agent (Gray?). 1RP free agent ( No names yet). Explore small market teams for arb-eligible pitchers via trade. And Matt Chapman. Almost forgot. Unless negotiations get all Nimmo-y…
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You can’t argue Mookie was a generational talent and a Hall of Famer and then also argue leaving him unextended for 5 years was acceptable. You’re doing just that…
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Why couldn’t he get anything more out of a better team in 2019?
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At the very least I don’t think either of us will care if he isn’t fired.
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A crashing halt? Like he was just 28 years old? Pearce was 36 years old and kind of mediocre, to be kind. He played for 13 MLB seasons and only once topped 100 games played, which is a ridiculous accomplishment for a non-pitcher - to last that long while not being good enough to start…
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Yeah this board in the Wild West. Not for the lack of rules but rather the prevalence of horse s***. (J/K)
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It’s also possible the players like it. Not everything is driven by data and metrics. Obviously they all like playing baseball and want to play every day. But 162 games a year is a lot and maybe there are players who appreciate an occasional day off…
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He absolutely did build an 84 win team. His 4 years, the team won 93, 93, 108 and 84 games. Which of those numbers strikes you as the outlier? Two of his titles came with 93 win teams and came during a 3 year stretch in which no AL East team won 94 games. In 2018, the Sox went off and won 108 games. But Tampa and NY surged, too, and both continued that success in 2019 while the Sox found them selves plummeting out of competition, middling the postseason by an dozen games, and leading the East in payroll alone. And they didn’t have anyone in the farm system to provide immediate help while a completely f***ed up payroll bogged them down. This is why it’s odd Dombrowski didn’t know why he was fired. He did basically the same thing in Detroit. But, hey, 2018! Right?
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I’m sure he was hired to win. But he wasn’t hired to build an 84 win team for$240 mill and tie up $300mill with off-injured pitchers while team budding stars like a Betts remained unsigned. Heck even the contract he gave Bogaerts was pretty stupid. If he was just hired for that brief summary you stated, why not oversimplify Bloom’s tenure? He was hired to rebuild the farm and build the MLB team on a budget. Done and done…
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Basically he kept quitting midseason. The Sox were less than 4 games out of the post season at the last two trading deadlines, and in both cases really needed any healthy pitchers they could get. And instead would up with Eric Hosmer - a player no one wanted even for free - and Luis Urias. At least Urias might be useful next year. But the obvious issue is neither can pitch. Really not sure what baseball abilities Hosmer still had that point…
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Classy or not, 2019 was a big mess that was not going to clean irself up for a long time. Even if you don’t like the 2023 team, it could be tutt try Ned around relatively quickly since there aren’t nearly as many albatross contracts…
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Continued to get base at a respectable .348 clip…
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Cora is nothing great, but the Sox could do much worse. We did suffer through a full year of Bobby Valentine…
