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Everything posted by notin
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The Sox had a stellar bullpen until some doppelgänger kidnapped Barnes and took his place on the team…
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I also don’t see anyone saying what was the better option for Betts. Dodger trade? Padres trade? Keep him for one more year and Price at full cost for 3? There were no other options…
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The $22mill AAV was not ridiculously low. But coupled with the years it wasn’t a good offer, and no surprise he didn’t accept it. 5 years/$125 to 6/$150 mill should be enough
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Pivetta? Schwarber?
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It’s funny how that works such that the Sox are always wrong. Sox make a big offer. Betts counters with a preposterous one. Sox stop. Sox are wrong. Or Sox make a weak offer to Bogaerts. Bogaerts doesn’t counter. Sox are wrong. Signing free agents/extensions takes two sides to work together. But fans view it as one-sided no matter what…
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I got the impression Betts wasn’t all that interested. Sox offered him $300 million. He countered with $400mill+. I get aiming high as a negotiating strategy, but aiming into a different atmosphere is a polite way of saying “not f***ing happening”…
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How did you get Talksox Weekend Duty?
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So probably out for several weeks, if not the season…
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It’s much better. Less offensive and with corporate undertones…
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How many bad trades did he make? I know Renfroe/Bradley was unpopular. Betts is considered a bad trade, but it was still the best of all possibilities. Workman/Hembree for Pivetta? You’d undo that? Benintendi for Winckowski? Alex Scherff for Kyle Schwarber? Chavis for Davis? According to you, these are ALL bad trades?
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He was offered the same AAV but for two fewer seasons and rejected it. I don’t know if Mookie countered and said “I want 12 years!” I would doubt that, because the Dombrowski I’ve seen meets those terms before Betts finishes the word “years.” Betts said he would have taken that deal from Boston, but took 5 months and a pandemic to take it from LA? I don’t believe him in this case. I don’t fault the guy for wanting to go to free agency. I don’t even blame him for letting the pandemic change his mind. But if he would have accepted that contract in Boston, Dombrowski would have drawn it up in front of him…
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I don’t think it is. It is reflected in OPS+, but it’s not really eliminated anywhere…
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I questioned why Verdugo at the time, but it made sense for LA since he was clearly being replaced by Betts. But the real dreamers were the pundits at MLB.com and other various publications who seemed to think 1 season of a $25mill OF would get us Gavin Lux, Dustin May, and others…
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Fair, although my point was largely sarcastic as Story’s offense did have an unfair advantage. And the pay discrepancy is far greater than 183%. Probably closer to 500%…
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Probably. He could have gotten better prospects and still had an overall worse team. But those pundits might have given him a C+, and that’s all that matters to some people. And we all know that what this team needed was more David Price these last 3 years. (Also if he didn’t move Price, he would have had to move Bogaerts. This trade was all about money, not prospects.)
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Wait a second. I compared and still compare a nine-figure contract to a player who spent almost all of this season in AAA, and that ISNT ENOUGH INVECTIVE??!?
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Ok, but I also don’t redefine what success is just because I like a certain GM..
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I think Mookie himself is a prime candidate. There was plenty of buzz that he was adamant in his desire to test free agency, and turning down a 10 year $300mill contract certainly lends support…
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Bloom gets criticized even by his supporters. Dgalehouse lives in a fantasy world. The only thing I liked about the Story contract was it dispelled (or should have) the Tampa North rhetoric. Beyond that, I stand by my assessment that Story is an expensive Paul DeJong…
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How many people remember the name of the GM who traded Miguel Cabrera to Detroit?
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The problem with all these grading websites is they live in a world where there were other options. I’m all for believing there were discussions involving better players no one published, but I also believe for obvious reasons they didn’t get very far. There were 3 options I mentioned above. So option 1 is a D in your opinion. But which of options 2 or 3 represented a better grade?
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That’s because dgalehouse thinks MLB is a redraft fantasy league with no long term repercussions beyond the current calendar year…
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Actually he did pretty well when you look at the history of these superstar deals. He had three options. 1. The Dodgers package headlined by Verdugo 2. The Padres package that included Wil Myers, Joey Lucchesi and (I think) Cal Quantrill 3. Hold Mookie for one 60 game season on a team that eventually lost Chris Sale and would not have had Price on the mound, but would still be paying him $31million today. What was the right choice?
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Nobody patted Bloom on the back for dealing Mookie. But it was the right move. Mookie already turned down $300milliom and wasn’t going to save that awful 2020 team that would later lose Chris Sale for the season anyway…
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At least he stopped justifying emptying the farm based on the prospects’ performance. I’m sure Kopech’s emergence and Espinal’s All Star appearance has nothing to do with that. There’s nothing wrong with supporting the 2018 victory in defense of these deals. But pretending they aren’t still debts, bad contracts and less farm left over from that spending binge is flat out ignorant. 2018 was great. But the Sox are still paying some of the bills. Not the GMs fault…
