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  1. notin
    The Sox could also try to work out deals for the players they lost in the Rule 5 draft, thus enabling the drafting teams to demote those players to the minors if they needed to. For example, Washington left 25yo catching prospect Drew Millas unprotected. And Philly left 24yo LHP Erik Miller unprotected. Both don’t seem particularly enamored with these players as much as many scouts (most orgs put Miller in the Phillies top ten). Washington does have a clear path for Ward, so they might be reluctant. Philly would be stupid not to make a deal that would allow them to keep Song, whose career to date consists of 17 IP in low A ball 4 years ago. Those moves won’t make the Sox immediate contenders, but that doesn’t mean either is a bad move…
  2. notin
    If the Sox had signed Correa, I could see trading Mayer. But right now he’s the biggest glimmer of hope on the horizon and trading him to salvage 2023 right now seems unwise. Unless Romero turns into an equally impressive stud (which does seem possible with his impressive start). Just upgrade the defense with players at SS and RF and recognize that 2023 rests largely on the shoulders and elbows of Sale and Paxton. If both are healthy, that is definitely a true upgrade to the rotation over the whopping 7 IP they combined for last year. Of course, the chances both are healthy are very, very low…
  3. notin
    He was last year. I wouldn’t mind if they got a catcher above him, and was disappointed William Contreras went so cheaply. I give up Rafaela in that scenario…
  4. notin
    Once again you missed the point.
  5. notin
    I didn’t mind them going for it. And the tone player they did deal, they sitting up upgrading the position…
  6. notin
    Sadly that contract doesn’t qualify “that amount of money” anymore. Not in Steve Cohen’s MLB…
  7. notin
    Yet first in line to criticize!!
  8. notin
    I wanted that one THEN…
  9. notin
    Go back one decade when we saw Miguel Cabrera traded for Andrew Miller and Cameron Maybin. Certainly Miller eventually got good, but it didn’t help the Marlins. And Maybin had a long career as a borderline starter. Yippy. Detroit still has Cabrera. It did suck, and I was the loudest of the Keep Brusdar bandwagon, but it’s not unique and it will happen again…
  10. notin
    1. Downs’ struggles in AAA the past two years already accomplished this 2. If you think a DFA makes the deal worse, bear in mind they very likely get to keep him. Getting Downs through waivers isn’t going to be a struggle. The struggle was watching him fall behind Hoy Park on the depth chart…
  11. notin
    They were never c going to get an adequate haul. How many superstar players traded in their final year got back a haul? I’m sure there are some, but not as many as you think…
  12. notin
    So now he’s Swihart’s Ghost’s Ghost?
  13. notin
    Swanson is basically post-elbow Story…
  14. notin
    And me!
  15. notin
    I don’t recall that. Other than citing the Sox really needing a good OBP atop the lineup. I do stand by that and hope Yoshida fits the bill…
  16. notin
    Is it? I don’t know. I mean, if you’re the Red Sox and you want to keep negotiating, do you call out the other side? Or just ignore the media games? I don’t know, but I can see reasons to do both…
  17. notin
    He’s meh. OPS is a much, much better yardstick than OBP, which is a much better yardstick than the borderline useless BA…
  18. notin
    Did you mean the Padres? If you’re talking about them, I’d be more inclined to agree. But even then, why stop the bidding?
  19. notin
    Sounds like Communism!!
  20. notin
    How would we know it? Who would leak that?
  21. notin
    Exactly. Too many stories about “intense negotiations with Boston” were the fluff Boras needed to make SD desperate. Was there even a third team involved after Boston bowed out?
  22. notin
    That doesn’t even make sense. Why would Boras (or any agent ever) stop any team from continually bidding against themselves? For an agent, that’s hits be the brass ring…
  23. notin
    And at the time, before the season or early in it, $200mill over 8 for a 30yo SS looked unreasonable. Six months later, it looks like a steal…
  24. notin
    Maybe they did? Certainly if they did, Camp Boras wouldn’t reveal that for obvious reasons. The Sox can’t and definitely shouldn’t if they want to keep the negotiations open. The Sox side of it was they did talk and Bloom (or whoever) realized the numbers were getting out of hand and they were not going to be competitive. That the 11 year/$280 mill deal came together so quickly certainly showed there were other teams involved. In the past, that has always been where Boras wants to be in his negotiating. I didn’t like the result either, but I just can’t pretend I know everything that went down…
  25. notin
    Ok but what was the initial offer to Story? Was he offered 4 years/$80 mill and worked up to a better deal? He had the option to walk away, too. But maybe - and I don’t know - he didn’t and worked something out. Maybe Bogaerts did counter, got rebuffed, and decided for PR purposes to only make public the initial offer as well. This is a lot like what happened with Correa and Houston. They made an initial offer of 6/$170 (?) and loyal company man Correa - with a resume similar to Bogaerts - decided to move on as well. Of course, Correa is not a Bogaerts guy…
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