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  1. notin
    Jordan Montgomery went for Harrison Bader alone…
  2. notin
    He hasn’t done a lot of things yet. Like turn 21, for instance…
  3. notin
    Neither Story nor Baez has 5 years left on their current contract. Story has 4 years plus a team option/buyout. Baez has 4 years assuming he does not opt out this off-season…
  4. notin
    Agreed. Why does MLB keep letting the Mariner’s draft?
  5. notin
    I got caught up in the rhetoric…
  6. notin
    When the Sox signed Story, he was coming off a 3 year run where he posted 11.1 fWAR and Bogaerts posted 11.8 fWAR. Story hasn’t helped his value much since, but given what Bogaerts got in free agency, Story’s 4 yr / $92 mill contract could be a potential steal if the Sox make him available. Not like free agency has much in the way of game-changing shortstops. And if Javier Baez opts out, he still doesn’t represent a better option than Story…
  7. notin
    Also very true. Take the outs they give you…
  8. notin
    The alternate theory is that if a team doesn’t win a postseason game, that team was overrated. In fact, it means the entire division was overrated. Possibly the entire league!! Heck maybe it means all of MLB is watered down!!
  9. notin
    Post 1071…
  10. notin
    Yamamoto scares me. I know nothing about this guy. Snell is certainly a good target. I’ve repeatedly expressed my thoughts on Gray. Nola is a hard pass for me, although I am anticipating him wanting a deal in the neighborhood of 8 years $240 mill. Certainly there is some TBD figure I’d find him acceptable at, but that’s obvious. Snell and even Gray might prove ridiculously costly. And there are figures where I hope the Sox hard pass as well…
  11. notin
    One of my points!!!
  12. notin
    Let’s start with a basic - how do you define “good starting pitching”?
  13. notin
    It could. If you’re one of those believes a GM prefers “his guys”, none of them are linked to Breslow. Yorke, Mayer and Story are also all trade candidates in that scenario…
  14. notin
    Not sure what your point is…
  15. notin
    Especially with an 80-82 Pythagorean…
  16. notin
    We get that. It it really didn’t change that the DBacks are in the World Series with a pitching staff that isn’t any better than Boston’s. And a pitching staff isn’t the top two pitchers…
  17. notin
    Maybe he’s a Flat Earther. Or a Trekkie. Or a ferroequinologist (N-scale). Or a Scientologist. There are lots of possibilities…
  18. notin
    Probably just had one bad year. Renfroe is Duvall workout the defense, but I can see him being a candidate if the Sox think they need a RHH outfielder…
  19. notin
    Next time quote the post you want me to respond to, not the post you want me to respond to the response of. Assuming that makes sense. No one said the Sox pitching was good enough and they should stand pat. I’ve thrown around names for pitching and defensive upgrades. Here’s some facts The DBacks gave up more runs than they scored. The DBacks only won 84 games, a total would not have made the postseason in the AL and would have been 4th place in the AL East…
  20. notin
    It bothers 5Gold that statistically the DBacks pitching isn’t any different than the Sox pitching. Now if Bloom had brought in KBO veteran Merrill Kelly, who before the season was a 3.96 ERA/4.01FIP/107ERA+ pitcher, what label would we apply to that acquisition - ace caliber or dumpster dive? And Kelly, who was already 31 when the DBacks signed him, didn’t even have those qualifications yet. Also why do we judge the AL East solely by their postseason record but Zac Gallen gets judged solely by his regular season? People who have been following the postseason might have noticed Gallen has been getting hit hard. I’m really not sure why there is a struggle to believe the DBacks pitching is not much better than Boston’s. Not like their W-L record was all that much better. And their run differential was actually worse. You’d think a team with two “ace caliber” pitchers could at least get a better Pythagorean W-L record than 80-82. Even the ace-less Red Sox did…
  21. notin
    That premise is loaded with assumptions. And no support. I do doubt the Sox sign Chapman, but that didn’t mean the defense is fine. Do you think of Team ERA as a measure of pitching? Or does it really look at pitching plus defense?
  22. notin
    Can you define “ace” or “ace quality”? And you can omit any effects from the weather…
  23. notin
    Pitching to Corey Seager isn’t easy…
  24. notin
    Costs nothing? This right-handed bat the Sox need, where will he play and is he free?
  25. notin
    Yoshida was worth -9 OAA. Devers was worth -9 OAA Casas was worth -10 OAA Why is everyone screaming about this urgent need to move Yoshida to DH but thinks Devers and Casas are just fine? To me, the smart move is to hopefully fix two positions. But on this board consensus is Casas and Devers will just have to “get better” like it’s just a matter of 10 more minutes per day of grounders until they magically unlock some secret they never knew before. (“Ohhhh !! I can SQUEEZE the glove!!”) Hey let’s use the “just get better” logic on pitchers. Screw Nola and Yamamoto. Why not have Whitlock just “get better” at starting pitching? Not so sure the Sox outfield needs bolstering. If anything, it’s overcrowded out there…
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