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  1. notin
    I get passing on Wacha. He’s 32 years old and hasn’t reached 130 IP since 2018. And he got a FOUR YEAR contract. I’d just assume let Chris Sale get lonely on the IL. Kluber actually pitched 164 IP last year, which is one inning shy of Wacha’s career high. Plus which of these two has the better resume?
  2. notin
    And a month ago you said this team would be -and I’m quoting you here - “luck to win 70 games.” Still think they finish out going 1-31?
  3. notin
    Martin came in with the game on the line in the eighth and did his job. Not using your best reliever when the bases are loaded and the cleanup hitter is up in a 2 run game because you want him to face the 5-6-7 hitters in the ninth is how games get lost…
  4. notin
    So… what the f*** is Cora thinking here? Urias to 3b and Devers to SS? Why not Urias to SS, where he played 200 innings last year? Why move Wong to 2b? Why not Turner to 2b and Casas to 1b? Is he unaware of the Sox defensive issues?
  5. notin
    Those Devers/Matt Olson comps look more true every day…
  6. notin
    And his hard line drives are getting caught, like that one too Peralta last night…
  7. notin
    Oh he absolutely likes overpaying. But if you can find the Sox Sign David Price in these board archives and waste precious life moments re-reading it, you’ll find one poster wishing he’d extended Betts instead of signing Price (and also hoping at a minimum, Price stayed healthy for 3 years and opted out)…
  8. notin
    Also it’s a very salient one. After the 2019 84-win, missed the postseason by a dozen games season, what was your outlook at the Sox future back then?
  9. notin
    Not to mention counting the arbitration salaries of Betts, Bradley, etc. as “not from DD” just because the players were already there is really not true…
  10. notin
    But the $300mill in future commitments covering 11 seasons to 3 oft-injured pitchers (whom totaled exactly 1 season of 110 IP to date) are all on DD…
  11. notin
    Oh good. More Coffee Boy jokes.
  12. notin
    If research like this can be done by the amateurs on this board, Tomase has no excuse. He’s as bad as that blatant liar Massarotti…
  13. notin
    I’m not putting it solely on Henry’s hands. I think Dombrowski is somewhat accountable for building a $240mill 84-win team that seemed to put the brakes on spending and for not locking Betts up much earlier…
  14. notin
    When multiple people interpret your post the same way, the fault is likely not with the audience…
  15. notin
    So you’re saying you meant “Bloom was just trying to do his best” during the call that he traded Betts to put his stamp in the organization. Because I have to tell hou , when I read it felt like accusing the guy of putting his ego ahead of the team…
  16. notin
    His bWAR is 1.3. I thought you were down on fWAR…
  17. notin
    Once the 2019 season ended without Betts signed, he was hitting the market. No player even a tier or two less than his caliber extends after 5 years. Juan Soto wouldn’t extend during the fifth year. Manny Machado - not at all. Not for the Orioles. Not go out the Dodgers. I would argue the crime was not having Betts locked up by then end of 2017 season. Once he absolutely destroyed MLB pitching throughout 2018 and ticked away some MVP hardware and was only two seasons from free agency and still young for that service time, he became very tough to sign…
  18. notin
    My theory is they left room to add at the deadline (when you know what your needs are). But when the deadline came, they felt the line odds of making the postseason (or winning it all?) made any further investment risky. And I think part of Henry’s goal was not to have a top tier baseline payroll…
  19. notin
    Or making him 119, which is actually more impressive…
  20. notin
    Not sure why any GM would want to reduce payroll…
  21. notin
    Blaming Bloom is like blaming the Union privates for the Civil War. They didn’t send the orders. They weren’t even surround when it all started. But hey, they had guns with triggers…
  22. notin
    If Pivetta was being Good Pivetta, I let him get Muncy. But as he wasn’t, I think Bernardino makes sense given Muncy’s .615 OPS vs LHP. Of course, what we fans almost never consider is thst Chris Taylor (.807 vs LHP) hasn’t played yet and very likely comes in to face Bernardino…
  23. notin
    Errors - that’s on the players. But baserunning - the Sox do have two coaches on the field supplying help. Granted there isn’t one at second base for Wong Turn, but he should know by not to look to the third base coach and runner and see what McGuire is being told to do…
  24. notin
    1. Please name one MLB executive you know. 2. If Betts was a generational talent and a future Hall of Famer (which he is), he should have been extended before he had FIVE YEARS of service time. A player like that is extremely unlikely to sign anything with only one season left…
  25. notin
    What did Crawford have to do with that trade? Or were you referring to Crawford retiring Betts first two times?
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