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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…
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Devers signs 11 year $331 million extension
notin replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Baseball shape? Which one? LaMarr Hoyt, Greg Luzinski? Or Prince Fielder? -
If that’s true, it doesn’t say much for DD…
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They have 6 games against Texas (10-17 in the last 27) and the White Sox (56-91)…
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So you think the draft pick would have been better?
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Agreed…
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So now… https://sports.yahoo.com/report-nl-exec-believes-shohei-185715574.html
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But that doesn’t mean Bogaerts would have. Especially since Boston was only 3 games out at the time…
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Good thing. They’re all over 60 and none of them play baseball…
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Not true. We’ve got a BS post going around this morning that Bloom held off on unloading Sale plus his full contract. If nothing else, it’s a clear attempt to blame Bloom for Sale still being here…
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They had a $240 mill 84 win team with $300mill ties up in 3 oft-injured pitchers for 11 seasons. With 10 of those seasons in the books, only once did the pitcher to 110 IP. I can see a the logic behind a rebuild…
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That shows how bad Kike was.
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It’s been made. It’s over. I want to say “the defense rests,” but my case was more about defending the other 29 MLB front offices out there. Nothing to do with Bloom…
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DD was the finish painter who made the bedrooms look good. (Not sure who chose teal, but whatever.) Bloom was pouring a whole new foundation. Both are going to get to a livable house at different times…
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It’s simply not believable. Unless the offer was for a worse contract, why would any team take on Sale? Because he used to be good several years ago? Ok, so was Bumgarner but these same GMs let him clear waivers and still didn’t sign him when he cost the league minimum…
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No it isn’t. The story said after the bike accident. That puts it in late 2022. When was the last time Sale was pitching like a highly talented pitcher? 2018? Early 2019? At that time, Sale had pitched 47 IP in the last 3 years. He’s off the radar. On this board, Sale is considered “unreliable.” Why is it we assess him that way but think people who have to actually pay him don’t think he’s that way? Also - buying him for next to nothing? He will cost them $55mill. That’s not “next to nothing.” I’m not so sure GMs view deals for “only money” the same west fans do. I’m calling this whole thing ********. It’s not believable in any level…
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He didn’t have to trade Betts to stay under the CBT. But that still doesn’t change that Betts had one year left and refused to sign an extension. And some reports have those extensions up to a $30mill AAV…
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I have thought of a scenario where the rumor makes sense. What if the team willing to take Sale was the Nationals and the trade was for Strasburg and his whole contract? Or to the Tigers for Miguel Cabrera and his whole contract? Or for Bumgarner or Giancarlo Stanton? I suppose those scenarios are believable…
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Trading for Sale to take a chance on him isn’t the same as trading for Sale and taking his full contract. Not to mention the source being cited so far for this rumor is well beyond questionable…
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Future Hall of Famers get traded away often, usually for financial reasons. Exactly why would a team be dealing FOR Sale and his full contract?
