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  1. notin
    Even if he gets selected, it seems like at least half of all Rule 5 selections get returned. I say that with no supporting data…
  2. notin
    Out of curiosity, what do you consider competitive vs mediocrity?
  3. notin
    I think too many GMs make weird Rule 5 pickups, because it typically isn’t a good way to add a player. It combines the disadvantage of losing a year of control with a year of development simultaneously. But since we all saw DD try to grab Noah Song after a multiyear absence from organized baseball, a questionable call that ended predictably, I don’t think anyone can anticipate who will get picked anymore…
  4. notin
    Did I say Devers was? Just commenting that larger folks can have baby faces. I doubt hes 260lbs either…
  5. notin
    We’re you suggesting timid childlike innocence with the baby face commentary?
  6. notin
    If Casas is healthy, it’s not a horrible solution. Although Casas has shown he doesn’t need to be platooned. If the Sox are going to platoon Romy with anyone, there are going to be less capable LHH vs LHP that might make more sense. Yoshida leaps to mind if he is still with the Sox…
  7. notin
    A 6’4” 260lb man with a baby face is still 6’4” and 260lbs…
  8. notin
    He certainly commented about it. In the whiniest way possible. “Are they going to ask me to play every position?” No, you selfish SOB. They just want you to pitch in and fill for an injured teammate. Stop whining because you lost the job you wanted for no other reason than the fact that you couldn’t play it…
  9. notin
    We don’t get a say even then. We just get to pretend all of our screaming into the void was finally heard. I’ve made multiple suggestions over the years that the Sox did make. Did they do it because of my posts? Or was it all just a series of unrelated coincidences? Of course, it was the latter. No FO ever has even known I exist, let alone taken my rantings seriously. I was nothing more than the the proverbial blind squirrel…
  10. notin
    Williams becomes a Closer Lifeboat. I mean, if you can’t count on the Titanic, how can you count on the lifeboats?
  11. notin
    I think they protect Sandlin and nobody else, and they usually protect fewer people than I think they will. I do wonder if they protect Noah Song, who pitched at 5 levels last year, ending in AAA…
  12. notin
    Seattle isn’t trading Gilbert or Woo or Kirby for anyone, not after they just commited all that coin to Josh Naylor. Maybe they deal Miller, who, as I often said, really isnt all that good. Or Castillo, who is good but makes more money than the rest of the staff combined. (Or maybe he doesn’t. I don’t know.)
  13. notin
    $180/7 for Alonso is not happening. No team has ever offered 7 years to a 31yo 1b. Freddie Freeman only got 6 years, granted at 32. But Freeman is a future Hall of Famer whereas Alonso probably falls off the ballot after his first vote…
  14. notin
    From a top five payroll? And a GM who hates upper spending limits?
  15. notin
    Letting them off the hook? They’ll do what they do without input from this forum no one in the Sox FO even knows exists. If they don’t meet the demands of TalkSox, how exactly do we hold them accountable? I love 1000 miles away, so boycotting attending games is hardly a threat. Per Google, it’s actually 1000.7 miles from my house to Fenway. So I’m even further than I thought!
  16. notin
    Sounds like a riot. Do you really think Schwarber leaves Philly?
  17. notin
    I drank my ten best hitters differently, using 3 year sample sizes and prefer wOBA or wRC. On those rankings, one name in the top ten is Ketel Marte, whom I’ve been mentioning as a good target since before reports Arizona would make him available. Also he can play a position of need, unlike Schwarber. And Yoshida is already here and likely isn’t going anywhere, so it’s hardly a stretch to assume he’s the DH again…
  18. notin
    A top ten hitter? This year in FA, that limits you to Kyle Tucker. We can all aim where we want, or aim where we think “reasonable” resides. It impacts nothing either way. But some of us are more likely to be disappointed than others…
  19. notin
    I mentioned 2024. At some point in that season, he tore a shoulder muscle. I am theorizing it was around 8/19, after which he fell off a cliff and started hitting like someone with a torn shoulder muscle. Obviously the date is a theory; it probably didn’t all happen in one day and Yoshida himself might not know exactly when. But it certainly fits as a cause for his slump the rest of the way…
  20. notin
    Absolutely plausible. The only part I question is Bregman for 5 years when literally everyone on Earth - including tribal members from North Sentinel Island - is predicting he gets 6 years. You can argue with me, but you can’t argue with the North Sentinelese. They’re very passionate. Alonso for 5 and acquiring the very available Alec Bohm (for Kyle Harrison? Or part of a larger Duran trade?) and Duran or Abreu dealt for a SP or prospects flipped for a SP would be my prediction. Better fit for the tight-fisted…
  21. notin
    But it’s never slowed anyone down…
  22. notin
    And neither is the last to blaze that trail. KC will be back. His biggest obstacle right now is that he is 5th or 6th on the OF depth chart, depending on how they rank him compared to Password…
  23. notin
    And you think they will never learn from that? They could simply fill 3b, which then fills second by default. And they did trade Chris Sale in an attempt to fill 2b once upon a time. They could have dumped even more salary by not trying to fill it…
  24. notin
    If only he had sucked at one level. His rapid ascent is not uncommon for players with Division I college backgrounds.
  25. notin
    And the pluses were his performances and extreme athleticism…
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