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  1. notin
    The Sox have shown a willingness to pay. They have had a top 5 payroll every year for a couple of decades now. The problem is they (or any team) just can’t pay everyone. And when you pay Player A, it can sometimes make it difficult to pay Player B. Other teams do this quite often as well. Didn’t you notice the roster juggling the Dodgers did to replace Kelsey Jansen with Craig Kimbrel?
  2. notin
    Not re-signing Devers has PR Nightmare written all over it. Even if they could get Julio Rodriguez and George Kirby back in return…
  3. notin
    I hope at least Devers. The signing of Story has taken away some of Bogaerts’ aforementioned leverage, and his demands probably exceed the Sox’ desired budget. But we have seen Whitlock extended. I imagine if they ever give Houck a role and he excels in it, he’s another candidate…
  4. notin
    fWAR does depend on opportunities and playing time. Would he be used the same in Boston, where he might be the high leverage guy? Now I know his physical raised a bunch of red flags. Not sure if that could or should be argued with, even though all that came out publicly was he wouldn’t be a starting pitcher…
  5. notin
    And what’s wrong with Whitlock as a starter? And really, as #5 starters go, what’s wrong with Hill? I mean, bedsides the age discrimination thing…
  6. notin
    And I was ok with that. You need arms in the bullpen, too. But the Sox we’re dealing one year of Betts. They weren’t going to get Dustin May or Josiah Gray in that deal. Look what it took to pry Gray out of LA as it is..
  7. notin
    True, unless you extend them before they can declare free agency. But even then, as long as free agency is still an option, the player and his agent have all the leverage …
  8. notin
    I’ve been pretty vocal about my preference for Graterol over Downs and Wong. But then that Minnesota got involved just shows how hard it can be to pry pitching prospects from Andrew Friedman. As for Downs and Wong, it’s still too early to give up on them. Wong has a low ceiling, but Downs does not and his numbers/play took a huge hit with COVID and the Sox subsequent plan for him…
  9. notin
    If he didn’t trade Mookie, we would have had him for one more 60 game season on a team that had Ryan Weber as the #3 starter…
  10. notin
    That depends. I see nothing wrong with signing only value guys if you extend your star players at market value…
  11. notin
    That implies Cora lets him see the lineup two full times first…
  12. notin
    No one on this board can explain it. But since Hill is starting today, Houck will pitch. The only question is when. The stupidest part of the incredibly stupid piggyback strategy is Cora seems to completely ignore if Hill is doing well and tries to force reasons to bring in Houck. Hill can throw 5 no hit inning, but an infield single that rolls 30 feet down the baseline will enough to knock him out of the game…
  13. notin
    Not likely to be an external move, since most teams are not sellers yet. And even the ones that know they are will wait until all offers are on the table. So they will wait until the deadline anyway. And why wouldn’t they?
  14. notin
    And until he stops being injured this year, he won’t even get a chance to prove his control issues have been addressed. The problem with D Hernandez is the Sox can’t DFA him until they’ve just given up on him. 25yo pitchers with options and fastballs in excess of 102mph do not last long on the waiver wire…
  15. notin
    To be fair, he never mentioned starting pitchers - or pitchers at all - in the post about journeyman….
  16. notin
    Especially since he is currently injured…
  17. notin
    And many insisted he should retire and free up that $13.75mill AAV for the Sox to give to someone else…
  18. notin
    His current AAV is $20mill. $220mill over 9 has an AAV of $24.4mill. And for 9 years, until Bogaerts turns 29. I could see offering that to Devers. But I’d be very surprised if he accepted. Now if they did offer that to Devers, reportedly he said the Sox were about $100mill off. So if Devers wants about $320mill, over how many years? $320mill over 9 years is an AAV of $35.5mill. That destroys the contract Mookie got. Is Devers going to get Beyond Mookie Money from Boston? From anyone? Pedroia’s contact was $110mill for 8. AAV of $13.75 mill. Not in the same category at all. Heck, the Bogaerts offer of $90mill over 4 is approaching double the AAV of Pedroia’s deal…
  19. notin
    That’s exactly what SS said they did. Possible the name in the report was wrong. All I’m saying is it would be a dumb offer to make…
  20. notin
    Much more impressive than my high school’s alumni of Chris Colabello…
  21. notin
    Not the point. I’m just saying they shouldn’t give 30yo Bogaerts a 9 year contract at a $25mill AAV…
  22. notin
    I’m not entirely sure they should…
  23. notin
    Well, Kopech is just getting going now…
  24. notin
    It’s not that Lester/Cespedes wasn’t fair. It just looked like a complete lack of direction. The Sox were heading to last place that year, and Cespedes was just not the guy to get them out of that in two months…
  25. notin
    He does know Berrios wasn’t a free agent and was acquired for two very very good prospects, right?
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