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Ok but unless we know the Sox offer, this is all academic. Reportedly they offered more guaranteed money. Was the issue the years? Or was it the potential money Texas offered (that Eovaldi will likely never see)?
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Nowadays we have viewers who are growing up with the white box on TV and are more critical of umpires on borderline calls. Couldn’t the ump see it wasn’t in the box?
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Tapia DFAd. Arroyo is back, but they didn’t need to DFA anyone to activate him. Valdez could have been demoted. I suppose this opens a 40 man roster spot for Duvall…
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So the Sox offered more money but Eovaldi still signed elsewhere? This doesn’t sound like the Sox FO just ignored the situation and let him walk…
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I might have misunderstood. When you said it couldn’t be one-for-one and then added Rafaela, I thought you meant with Casas, not in place of him. Of course the Marlins have gaps at both positions (1b and CF), so either option makes sense…
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Would you have gone three? Texas has a third year player option (that kicks in if Eovaldi pitches 300IP in the first two years) that, with other incentives, can bring the deal to $63mill over 3 years. Should the Sox have gone 3 guaranteed years to top that? And at what AAV?
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No idea. What were the details?
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No. That team better have 60 foot high walls in the outfield. We know 37 feet high isn’t enough…
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So Casas and Rafaela for Lopez? Was Lopez was under contract through 2024 at the time? (Minnesota has extended him since.) I like Lopez, but he does seem to struggle as the year goes on…
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Maybe he thinks it’s time. He’s a commodities guy - his first words as a baby were probably “Sell high! Buy low!”
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The Marlins dealt an increasingly costly pitcher for a reigning batting champ. Not sure we could top that. BTV had Lopez and Casas as roughly equal. Should Bloom have pulled the trigger? ( Assuming Miami was interested in Casas.)
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Then Cora is a/the problem…
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Even if they weren’t the problem, they were both leaving and created room for new players by doing so. And while I wanted Bogaerts back for 2023, I’m a lot less confident of his play in 2033. And given his contract, you can’t have one without the other…
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But the calls to trade JD weren’t because of his hitting. He did exercise two options to stay in Boston, most likely because he knew he wouldn’t do better elsewhere given his performance…
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I think this was a case of simply mitigating the risk. You can’t take on too many fragile arms and Sale and Paxton are already on board…
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I assume that’s just a theory as we don’t really see it…
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The sad part with the defensive flaws has been the reluctance to change anything. Again, I’m fine with Kike getting a shot as a makeshift shortstop, but what does he have to do to lose that role? Hit poorly? Apparently not. Field poorly? That’s not it either. Maybe his lackluster baserunning will be the difference maker…
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Not one of whom gets to make that call…
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The Sox didn’t have 2023 to go by when they made the call. Where was Eovaldi’s upside in 2022 compared to Kluber? Eovaldi also came with a lot more risk, especially given that he wanted multiple years…
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I was with you until that last line. Bloom’s job isn’t to solely focus on this year, and this has always been true of every GM ever…
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In August, 2022: “Why didn’t Bloom trade JD?” In June, 2023: “Why didn’t Bloom keep JD?”
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Since they passed on Andrus and apparently had some faith in Mondesi, I didn’t mind giving Kike a shot. But it should have ended a while ago. Hamilton, for all his defensive shortcomings, deserves a shot at being an upgrade. (That’s on Bloom.). And Reyes could be penciled in any time. (That’s on Cora.)
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Not sure. I wasn’t a huge Hill fan, but it seems like I liked Hill a lot more than Cora apparently did. If I was Hill, I wouldn’t have wanted to come back. Of course, there’sa good chance Hill felt differently. Not a 100% chance, of course…
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This debate largely started over the failure to return two more oft-injured pitchers to a staff that’s short-handed due to injury. With Sale and Paxton already here, should the Sox have gambled on Wacha and/or Eovaldi as well? This staff is already loaded with pitchers who cannot withstand a full season to the point where Nick Pivetta is actually considered sn “innings eater” because he can reach 150IP in a year. Kluber was never going to be anything more than a one year stopgap (unless he dazzled). But why do people want all these injury-prone atms on the rotation on multiyear deals? Not happy with the low total of starter IP just from Sale?
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Perez did nothing in his first two chances in Boston to merit a third chance. Heck many (myself included) felt he didn’t deserve a second one. Even Texas hasn’t been all that keen on him as shown by their repeated one year deals. Perez left, and the Sox pitching was better for it. Hill deserved a second chance more than Perez deserved a third one…
