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I don’t mind him gone because he’s simply shown he cannot make moves at the deadline to help the team. Both the 2022 and 2023 teams were in the playoff hunt at the deadline. And both years he did essentially nothing. The team didn’t need Eric Hosmer. Not even remotely. Off the plan is to buy, then buy. If the plan is to sell, sad but at least trade some players off. Want to try both at once? I’m all for the challenge! Make it happen. But the one thing you simply cannot do is nothing, which Bloom did twice…
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I didn’t ask about Bloom. I simply asked when was the last time the Red Sox spent money on the right free agent starting pitcher. As in the last time in Red Sox history the team did so.
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None? But the Sox have been spending on starting pitching for decades.
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ERod was a good pitcher (albeit lousy at converting 1b), but he signed with Detroit on November 16. He didn’t even see what his market was. Signing that early means just leaping at the first offer…
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It depends. If I’m buying, I turn it down. If I’m selling, I take it. The problem was, Bloom wasn’t either buying or selling. He talked about doing both. That didn’t happen either. He dealt away Kike and acquired Urias. That was the extent of his deadline. I don’t call that buying or selling. More like napping…
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It doesn’t say who turned those down…
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Arb-eligibles have 1-3 years…
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Suzuki also only played 111 games last year and only once played more than 22 in a month
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No surprises. Joey Gallo put one on me last year, too…
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If DD was not allowed to sign Betts, why did he hold on to him up to the final year of Betts’ deal? You yourself have said the decision to trade Betts was made before Bloom and that Bloom was just the hatchet man (your exact woods). I agree, but that also means if they really wanted to get something for a Mookie, the time to move him was clearly the 2019 trading deadline, when they were clearly out of it and DD didn’t exactly try to turn the team around by only trading for Andrew Cashner. That half-ass indecisive trade deadline was completely Bloom-esque…
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Devers signs 11 year $331 million extension
notin replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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Really the only good news there is half those guys are off the books next month. Story and Yoshida still have time to justify their deals. All a Sale can do is at best end on a high note…
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Who was the last “right guy” the Sox spent on as a starting pitcher?
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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…
