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He’s only 20 or so and would normally be a sophomore in college, but a lot of people gave up on him kinda fast…
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4-7 years is a pretty crazy range to broadcast considering players who will be 23 seven years from now are just learning to drive. Casas and Bello can hopefully contribute next year. Rafaela, Mata and Ward are not far behind. Wong and Valdez on the bench. That’s a decent amount of r rookies for one season. The following year, maybe Mayer and Abreu or whoever. It’s only going a few per year, assuming they’re not traded…
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He definitely did, but not by trading starts just by sending away any minimum wage talent that would have made it possible to retain a lot of the more expensive players, something that probably gets overlooked, because it leaves the team in a position to spend to fill more holes than necessary. And it creates a situation where the team has very little support for when the highly paid players start to age and decline. Not to mention the players he added to the farm haven’t provided much outside of Houck, although Casas and Bello both certainly look promising so far…
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Not to mention his normal habit of missing substantial time with injuries. He’s not likely to have fewer in his 30s…
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Yes .. hardly a rarity. The Sox have had one season turnarounds in 3 of their last 4 previous last place finishes. No reason to think they can’t do it again…
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In the last 5 years, Verlander has made 3 postseason starts against the Sox and 1 relief appearance. In those games he was the pitcher of record all 4 times with a 3-1 record and 3.92 ERA. His best postseason outing against Boston was back in 2013 when he was outdueled by John Lackey in a 1-0 Sox win decided by a solo home run off the bat of current Cubs first baseman coach Mike Napoli…
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2013? 2016? 2021? Three of the previous 4 last place finishes for the Sox have been followed up by a postseason appearance. One of those was a World Series title…
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Exactly. In MLB, the worst teams win about 40% of their games and the best teams win about 60% of them. A major turnaround in one season is nearly a rarity…
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So … any of the Miami guys not named Sixto?
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As for pitching: Sign Wacha, Fulmer and Montero. I do think the Sox will still need another SP, however. Paxton is certainly an option. If the Padres do make Snell available, go for it. Or one of the Miami starters like Lopez, Rogers, Luzardo, Cabrera, Garrett, or Sanchez…
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If the Sox go against my advice and keep Hosmer in the DH mix from the left side, Dalbec is certainly a viable RHH option. But a much better choice is Miami’s Garrett Cooper. A moderately down season combined with an expected arbitration raise certainly makes him available. If Bogaerts doesn’t come back, which I suspect, I like the idea of targeting Ha-Seong Kim from San Diego. If Tatis returns, he moves to the bench and should also become available, since teams looking to extend Juan Soto printable cannot afford $7mill utility infielders. I do hope Bloom avoids Miami’s Miguel Rojas as a starting shortstop option. I mention him because, much like Reese McGuire and Jacob Stallings before him, the defensive metrics this past year for Rojas are just flat out spectacular. Like Andreltin Simmons good. However his offending numbers are just a as equally unimpressive, and he’s like 34 years old, so he’s much more likely to lose a step defensively than he is to have any sort of offensive epiphany. Haniger is the brew Rocco Baldelli. The guy can pull a quad while brushing his teeth…
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You’re coming up with your own definitions here. The Sox did promote the marquee talent prior to DD being hired, but he dealt away all the fringe talent that the team still needs because of their minimum wage…
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It’s not that none of them have planned out. Margot, Moncada, Espinal, and Beeks are all major leaguers with multiple seasons each. The bar was recently raised to “none of them are stars”…
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I’d take Seabold over Downs. But solely because he’s a pitcher…
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I was just mentioning farmhand from that time frame…
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It was a good trade. His last contract is pretty much a bust. 3 years and $85mill spent on 48 IP. Hopefully he can salvage back something in the final two years….
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Most important thing about Easton McGee - he’s from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, a town known by UFO enthusiasts and home of the Little Green Man Days festival…
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A gap that includes Margot, Kopech, Moncada and Espinal, not to mention Benintendi…
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Webster was quite sought after, but as I said “in hindsight”. Jeter Downs also came with a good prospect rep, and he hasn’t even washed out yet, but nearly everyone has worn him off…
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Maybe he wasn’t or maybe he had more influence on the situation than we realize. “I got a pile of injured garbage for $217mill and now they want me to pay $400mill?!?” I’d always heard Mookie was adamant about testing the market. And maybe he was at the time. Or maybe someone in the press just felt like he was. That he reportedly asked for $420mill over however many years certainly didn’t make out look like starting in Boston was anywhere on his priority list. The trade was really just a salary dump and it looked to me like the Sox has little other recourse. And if it was k just a salary dump (which is supported by including Price). what kind of value does any team get in return on those? The Sox dealt Anthony Rizzo (with others ) to get Adrian Gonzalez. Less than two years later, they dumped Gonzalez and his contract and a few other for a nondescript pile of prospects that in hindsight could be described as “headlined by James Loney.” THAT is what dumping salary gets you…
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More often than not those deals go sour before they expire. Scherzer is a rare example that didn’t, as is Manny Ramirez. And when they do, a team not only loses that star player’s production, but also the money it would take to replace him. And that’s where the Sox are now. And it’s not the first time…
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Heathen!!
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What exactly would it take for Cashman to get fired?
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I don’t think the “average fan” comes to this forum for all 12 months of the year, either. That means going from the Fanatic Level to the Obsessive Level, and in some cases, the Addicted Level. I have a parking pass for that last one…
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No but it was a waste for the Sox to give the largest contract in franchise history to David Price, making it that much more difficult to pay Betts. And it was certainly a waste to take half the money just offered to Betts and give it to an injured pitcher. No one wanted to see abetted go, just like no one wants to see Devers go. And they don’t have to if the Sox can stop thinking that overpaying players in their 30s for what they did in their 20s is a good idea and that the Boston market can even remotely support these kind of mistakes like anew York or Los Angeles can…
