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Everything posted by notin
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Fair point. I wasn’t referring to the staff and bullpen yet. But Bello feels like a lock for the rotation, along with Pivetta. Sale certainly has a spot if he’s healthy. The bullpen? Beyond Houck and Schreiber I don’t know. Whitlock could be in it, but probably won’t. Zack Kelly will be. And Barnes, unless he’s dealt in a bad contract swap…
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And Kike in either CF or SS. I’m actually not all that confident Verdugo returns. And speculation about Devers is rampant. I suppose if Verdugo does stay, it might only be because the Sox wouldn’t be selling high. But then they didn’t with Benintendi…
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The Sox did win 78 games and the stays made the postseason with only 86 wins. So the climb to the postseason shouldn’t be too daunting. But then the roster is in real flux right now. Really outside of 2b, how confident are you to name the starter at any position?
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I don’t think fans really care how much most players make as long as they put together a team. Mookie was offered $300mill and most people are still critical of that trade…
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It is not dying, it is not dying…
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And that was 12 years ago
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Last year, Oakland gave MLB the Arbitration Fire Sale. They dealt Chapman, Olson, Bassitt, Manaea and (eventually) Montas. This year, I suspect will see something similar, although maybe not quite at that scale, from Milwaukee, who has the following players eligible for arbitration: Brandon Woodruff, Corban Burnes, Hunter Renfroe, Willy Adames, Eric Lauer, Adrian Houser, and Luis Urias. And probably a couple more. This might be where the Sox grab some help…
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They traded Lance Berkman!!!
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The draft picks are nice, but only Bregman and Tucker remain from that mixed bag streak of high draft picks. What has carried the Astros has been the international free agent signings like Valdez, Javier, Garcia and Urquidy. It’s been mentioned their rotation after Verlander is all homegrown. But really, of the other 5 starters, only McCullers was drafted. And he’s been their most inconsistent one attendance-wise…
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That’s why I can’t get too worked up about missed draft picks. That round the Sox selected “MLB-ready” Durban Feltman, who still isn’t as MLB-ready as he was that day…
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If the Sox do spend at SS, I'm still holding that it will be Correa. Bogaerts? I will predict Philly. DD has signed him before...
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No way. The Sox have to re-add all of the 60 day IL players and then protect the "draftables" like Rafaela...
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Old and injured isn’t Dombrowski’s type? He is the one who signed Eovaldi and Sale. Ort will be DFAd before the Rule 5 draft. Book it…
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You would enjoy being a Tigers’ fan. Sure the team only won 66 games. BUT THEY DIDN’T FINISH IN LAST!! And isn’t that all that matters?
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Ort is 30. He doesn’t need more AAA; he needs to get used to living as a career minor leaguer…
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Not even remotely true. Not sure why you think free agency - where players can set their own prices and negotiate with multiple teams - is cheaper than arbitration, where players have to justify their raises to a third party and do better than the team justifying a lesser raise. And you really can’t go dumpster diving in the arbitration process as that involves the cheaper players that the cheaper trans want to keep. Now I’m free agency…
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Have you seen the Astros? What pitcher did they acquire via free agency? Even Verlander was acquired via trade. And free agency is probably the worst way to try to acquire pitching. Too often it involves paying pitchers in their 30s heavy salaries for what they did in their 20s. I’d rather explore the trade markets. There are always quality pitchers out there whose arbitration prices are exceeding their team’s budgets…
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The Sox would have nearly $90mill in AAV tied up at second, short, and third…
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Correa is represented by WME Baseball per his b-r.com page. They’re not necessarily any easier and he could fire them and hire Boras any second now…
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This statement could apply to 90% of the teams in MLB, if not all of them…
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Or - crazy thought - maybe they’ll just try to stay under and never have to reset…
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But he does look like Sideshow Bob if he let himself go, and that has to count for something…
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From that lot, I go with Manaea…
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Unless he gets fully automated…
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I mentioned this a while back, almost verbatim. As for his dropping value, that applies to nearly every arb-eligible player that loses a year of control while simultaneously getting a raise…
