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  1. notin
    And Mayer has 320 career PA over 2 seasons and does risk getting sent down at some point. Boston clearly showed with Campbell they are not opposed to the idea. And you did say other 1) orgs demote struggling players 2) that the Sox didn’t have that in their plans, and 3) they need to pay attention to how struggling orgs handle their prospects. So that can be interpreted in you saying that Boston clearly doesn’t intend to demote players and act like other orgs…
  2. notin
    Yeah, nobody f***ing does that. But people who don’t like them like to pretend that so they get to label folks they disagree with as irrational and stubborn. They do get cited because they exist and actually do have value as they are a quick summary of the opinions of professionals that many of us acknowledge know more than we do…
  3. notin
    Do you really think the Orioles brought up Holliday wuth the intent of demoting him later? Ditto the Cubs with Shaw and the Yankees with Dominguez? Or the DBacks with Jordan “How The f*** Did I Become A Hot Topic On A Red Sox Message Board?” Lawlar? Marcelo might be demoted at some point, too. Just because it didn’t happen by June 1 doesn’t mean it’s too late…
  4. notin
    Lawlar is a stupid option anyway. ”Mayer is taking too long to become a productive hitter!! We need to shake things up by getting another SS with less success and less experience! Thats the fastest way!”
  5. notin
    Not if the response is always to blame the messenger and avoid the folks crafting the message.
  6. notin
    Most people don’t know what BA ranking criteria is, either. Myself included…
  7. notin
    So… not the Sox overhyping him?
  8. notin
    It’s conjecture. It’s a theory that can never be proven or disproven. Might as well say if Devers had stayed, he’d win a Gold Glove for his defense and a Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating through potential civil war conflicts in Indonesia. Also he’d get an Oscar nomination for something…
  9. notin
    But Whats the point of swapping Mayer for Lawlar? ”Our SS only has an OPS+ of 74 after 320 career PA. We should improve on the position by acquiring a SS with an OPS+ of 54 after 130 career PA!” The Sox preferred Mayer over Lawlar on draft day and should stick with that assessment…
  10. notin
    https://www.mlb.com/news/jordan-lawlar-ready-to-take-over-in-center-field-for-d-backs?
  11. notin
    If the only role of the GM is to make public statements, don’t blame the GM if he has to be sleazy; blame the person(s) creating the message content…
  12. notin
    Theo is a sort of baseball hero in two different cities. Making him CBO would be a major upgrade over Breslow and a huge PR move for the franchise. I find it hard to believe Epstein wants the job, otherwise there is absolutely no reason that tjis hasn’t already happened…
  13. notin
    Well, at some point they did also expect Casas to come back…
  14. notin
    How much hype actually came from the Sox organization?
  15. notin
    And on one hard hit ball both times?
  16. notin
    It means the RHH bat will be controllable beyond this year…
  17. notin
    And file away bad games forever. “Slaten sucks! First there was that game in Arizona last September! And now THIS!!”
  18. notin
    Why? Schlitter wasn’t even the best pitcher on his team at Northeastern, which isn’t a school that pumps out athletes. Plus after being drafted in the 7th round, Schlitter made exactly ZERO Top 100 prospect lists. Never ranked by BA, MLB.com or Baseball Prospectus. He came out of nowhere, sort of like Bello did in Boston…
  19. notin
    I mean, the same thing happened to Hideki Okajima. Hopefully LaSorsa has a similar career for Boston…
  20. notin
    A stat that gets more impressive when you realize they did it without facing the Sox offense…
  21. notin
    Kahnle has had a pretty good career…
  22. notin
    Or maybe Trout’s goal is to drag the Angels to the postseason rather than move on and hitch a ride there in the company of other high-priced players who only serve the purpose in that instance to diminish his legacy…
  23. notin
    He never had to say anything. And he certainly could say “I want out” and not be among the first 10,000 players to do so. Is that really a negotiating tool for Trout? That sounds like what Trout should be offering Boston in the negotiations. If Trout had an option to be picked up or anything similar, THAT would be Boston’s negotiating tool. Or an extension, which would be insane as Trout still has 4 years and about $145mill left on his contract already.
  24. notin
    Devers is going to hit, and Boston misses his bat today. Maybe April and May we’re just two bad months, but if they’re any indication of his future, that contract will look horrible FAST and Boston will be better off without him. Especially if he maintains his selfish d-bag attitude every time he gets asked to help his team…
  25. notin
    Mike Trout has 10/5 rights and openly expressed a desire to stay with Anaheim…
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