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Lots of love for a guy playing in his first 162 game season in a new country where he doesn’t speak the language. Let’s review what we saw today Masataka Yoshida - .640 OPS in August/September. His subtraction would be a positive Justin Turner - .712 OPS in August/September. TEAM MVP!!!
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When you look at it that way, every team has a bunch of them. I mean, you’re counting bench guys who rarely play. Bottom line is this isn’t a team sucked with DH only types. If they keep Yoshida, he’s probably the DH and they continue with the weak corner infield defense. And they build an OF, probably with Duran-Rafaela-Verdugo or maybe Abreu. Really depends who the new boss is; he might be a big Verdugo fan and extend him immediately…
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Refsnyder isn’t a DH. He’s a role player with a singular solid driving skill. Valdez is only a DH on a small market team. In Boston, he’s a bench bat at best. If the Sox ignore my plan - very likely, although who knows since we don’t know who will be in charge - and leave Casas and Devers as is, then really Yoshida is the only DH on this roster. The Sox have a very likely CF in Rafaela, a couple guys capable of handling RF at Fenway passably in Verdugo and Abreu. And a decision to make on Gold Glover Duvall. And Duran, who can be an adventure in CF and is probably a risk in LF at Fenway. But if they keep him, he’ll play one of those spots…
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Other than the corner infield duo, who else do the Sox have best suited to be a DH?
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It does seem like he will be tough to move, but after this season when he has 4 years / $74.4 mill left, his deal might look favorable over what free agency has to offer…
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What’s even less wise is keeping players in positions they clearly cannot handle just because of their salary…
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What’s even worse is arguing over what slot a pitcher fits into. Especially since there’s no definition or anything so it’sa Bunch of people arguing about how their opinion is definitive…
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Scott Boras isn’t a big fan of pre-emotive strikes. If that was the case, why not just give him a real contract with no opt out back in 2019?
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Highlights…
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Also the most expensive…
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The corner OF slots figure to have some combination of Duran, Verdugo, Yoshida (if not DHing) and Abreu. Plus Refsnyder and potentially Duvall. If the Sox trade, say, Yoshida and Verdugo they can hopefully get back a good defensive 3b and/or 2b and have a good defensive team out there. (Or sign Chapman and trade for the 2b.) The new CBO might not be so enamored with Urias. I’m ok with Urias, who is sort of a blah 2b but does have some right-handed pop. But he was also on his way to being non-tendered by Milwaukee, was available for an A ball pitcher eligible for Rule 5 and already with one TJ surgery to his credit, and still lasted until the 11th hour and 59th minute at the trade deadline when you know the cash-strapped Brewers were trying to clear out his salary. So he might just not be in the new guy’s plans…
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While true, Smyly did walk two runners who both scored, threw two wild pitches, saw 3 or 4 other wild pitches prevented by a beleaguered Yan Gomes, and bounced roughly 1 out of every 4 pitches. He pitched poorly and should never have been brought in…
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I think 2 SPs isn’t an unreasonable request. It won’t be two from the set of Nola/Snell/Yamamoto; it’s possible one of them might not be so appealing to us, hopefully just at first. I also hope the new CBO plans to shore up the infield defense and preferably pares down the corner OF options. Both these moves can overlap…
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Watching the Cubs/Braves last night. Cubs up 7-6 in the 8th with Braves sending up the 4-5-6 hitters. Cubs’ manager David Ross (a serious bonehead as a manager) sends in starting rotation banishment victim Drew Smyly to pitch. Smiley gets 2 strikeouts, but also walks 2, gives up a huge stolen base, and watches Seiya Suzuki misplay a routine flyball that allows 2 runs to score. So I’m watching this thinking, why is Smyly the guy here? The Cubs have a good closer in Julian Merryweather who is just sitting on the bench, apparently preparing to use his skills as the best reliever in that bulllen to take on the 7-8-9 hitters in the 9th. High leverage > closer
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The Sox also has the disadvantage that Bogaerts’ opt out was the year after all the equal and better options hit the market, like Seager, Correa, Semien, Lindor (who extended early). They made a pre-emotive strike with Story, who was still unsigned. And they also did mine know Correa was going to be available every 2-3 weeks.
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They had a closer. All Star closer, in fact. He just imploded in August of that year and never bounced back…
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Teams usually line up 7-10 SP every year. But often those last spots are guys either from the farm or on MiLB contracts, so they’re not reliable. But every team does this and no team just uses 5 SP all year, where’ whether they have Chris Sale or not…
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It seems like Bello, Crawford, Pivetta and Sale will fill the back 3 rotation spots. One of them is likely to be injured at any point in time. (Guess which one.)
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Trevor fired his agent for his own questionable decisions…
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They need to have some honor. The advantage to playing the kids is at least they are trying like hell to make an impression…
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And clearly that version makes it Trevor’s fault…
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Houck and Whitlock shouldn’t. Crawford has been improving as a starter despite moving past career high limits in IP. The Sox E also very unlikely to add 3 starting pitchers this off-season…
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I do wonder why no counter. Unlike you, I don’t speak for the players. But you really can’t call the original offer to Devers a lowball when other equal or better players are accepting it…
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That sounds silly. It’s not his agent’s fault he accepted the deal, and not his agent’s fault whatever team he wanted to play for wasn’t interested…
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At best it showed a previously unseen willingness to spend…
