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  1. notin
    He gets less exciting once you realize his first name is James…
  2. notin
    At over $177 mill?
  3. notin
    That was a weird transaction year for Schwarber. At age 28, he was: 1. non-tendered by the Cubs, 2. only able to get a 1 year $7mill deal with the Nationals 3. missed time with injuries 4. Got traded to Boston in July for some guy named Aldo Ramirez and then signed his first multiyear deal with Philly and took off from there…
  4. notin
    Buckner was acquired in late May. Sort of a gray area here. Not at the deadline, but certainly not in the off-season either. We need a ruling!
  5. notin
    I updated my post while you were typing. Yes he was already exposed to get away for nothing after 2024, and anyone (including Boston) could have selected him from St. Louis this past off-season. Drohan l got selected and returned and yet he was a mistake to trade…
  6. notin
    Jordan was also Rule 5 eligible after last season (also 2024, when he went unselected), so unless the Sox planned to keep him on the 40 man roster, he was going to be exposed to the draft again…
  7. notin
    Bill Buckner? I mean, the Sox did give up a Hall of Famer to get him…
  8. notin
    Run differential is probably still a pretty accurate predictor most of the time. But the Sox have a better different than the Padres, who have the same good staff and impotent offense and a much better record…
  9. notin
    Worst? Probably not. Most disappointing? Easily…
  10. notin
    Non-tendering is not an option. At lest not a smart one. The options are: 1. Trade in July 2. Trade in Dec/Jan 3. Keep.
  11. notin
    The question now with Duran - is this the nadir? Do you keep him and hope he looks like a better target in December/January?
  12. notin
    The Tyler Thornburg trade is eerily reminiscent of Breslow’s recent trades. Send a guy to Milwaukee (Travis Shaw) and watch him excel while the player you got back contributes very little…
  13. notin
    True, but Dalbec also debuted with a .959 OPS in 2020 after only 92 PAs. It didn’t last, obviously…
  14. notin
    If he settles in hitting .275-.300 with 15-20 HRs and questionable defense, he probably winds up being a lesser player than Durbin…
  15. notin
    If Harrison was here, he’d probably be mediocre at best. Not like he showed this kind of potential in 3 years at Oracle. I do think Harrison falls back a little bit and that trade winds up being fairly equal. (I assumed the swap of middle infielders - Hamilton for Monasterio - was due to Romy’s injury coupled with Monasterio’s numbers vs LHP last year.) I do agree dumping all of Dobbins, Fitts and Harrison felt like a depth killer, especially since i didn’t have the faith in Tyler Uberstine the Sox apparently had. I still don’t have any, either…
  16. notin
    Well, if they’re messing with his swing, I would expect that to impact him negatively. It seems like the obvious solution is to let him use the swing that got him to be a Minor League Player of the Year and AL Rookie of the Month. And to not panic over the occasional slump…
  17. notin
    So after one good month followed by one bad month, they decided “enough is enough” and made the call to tear the whole thing down? Sadly, thats very believable…
  18. notin
    No idea. I assume they were probably doing their usual “one size fits all” approach and someone said “hey, Jackie Bradley got much much better when we got him to stop tapping his toe! We should do that with Campbell, too!”
  19. notin
    The National guys that rank prospects didn’t mention it as a hole per se. They said, yes, his mechanics are unorthodox and much like Hunter Pence, but his batspeed, etc. made up for it. If the internal Sox people didn't like his swing, why extend him?
  20. notin
    I think that’s fair. Every MLB team uses Driveline, but not every MLB team sees their prospects struggle in the majors like Boston has…
  21. notin
    All I’m saying is after a handful of of PA and IP, guys like Buttrey, Moncada, Kopech, Beeks all looked good, too. But over time a lot of luster wore off most of them. Maybe the same happens to Jordan…
  22. notin
    I’m assuming that any player who gets sent down to “work on something” usually gets put into some kind of regimen that actually works on it. Otherwise, why bother sending him down and just let him learn in MLB? Campbell was demoted pretty quickly and players on the team now have been allowed to play through much longer slumps without being demoted, so it’s not some automatic thing. The only one here assuming anything is you, and you clearly don’t know the answer I’m looking for and won’t stop answering anyway. Not the behavior of an intelligent man…
  23. notin
    Doubtful Breslow gets fired and if he does, the position likely stays internal with some Sam Kennedy underling, which is NOT better. Has Breslow really spent unwisely? The extension contracts to Campbell and Bello aren’t really that crazy. Not working out yet, but there’s time on both. Rafaela’s didn’t look great right away either. And the real worst contracts on the MLB roster (Story and Yoshida) were inherited. He did go too young with the lineup and ignored the bullpen…
  24. notin
    It might be time to change your name to Senile Red…
  25. notin
    Well, not really fair comp. Dave D traded quite a few players that would have been considered successful after only 32PA or a handful of IP. Remember when Ty Buttrey silted into the closer role for the Angels? It was like “damnit!!” Interestingly, DD did deal away an All Star (Santiago Espinal) in a deadline deal and no one blinked. But Breslow is being held to some insane scrutiny where players performing the same or worse as they did in Boston are considered to have gotten away. Plus DD might have gotten some help from Sale forcing his way out of Chicago. Crochet was less immature about the situation there.
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