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  1. 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…
  2. notin
    He does know Berrios wasn’t a free agent and was acquired for two very very good prospects, right?
  3. notin
    While Cespedes did get Porcello, I think that was not exactly the plan all along. But my point was - you’re dealing your 1 and 2 SP. Quit pretending you’re reloading. Cherington was collecting bullets for the belt when the chamber was still empty…
  4. notin
    Tampa’s plan was always to sign players to reasonable extensions insanely early in their careers. Evan Longoria had less than 2 weeks when he extended. Matt Moore had 2 starts under his belt. And these deals were so team-friendly, there was almost no risk if these players struggled, since Moore was effectively paid like an expensive middle reliever anyway. The Sox have yet to really try anything like that, with Whitlock being the closest…
  5. notin
    The problem is, you have to keep spending for top talent long after it stops producing. And it prevents bringing in new top talent or retaining existing top talent. Per sportrac, the Sox have a payroll of $203 million. But well over half of that is on contracts from Dombrowski. Some (Bogaerts, Eovaldi, Martinez) are producing. Some (Sale, Price) are not. And Vazquez has been lately but overall isn’t much… But having to pay all these deals does limit keeping and bringing in other talent..
  6. notin
    Ben made some nice moves and win a ring, but he made two thoroughly bizarre moves that I never understood. 1. Trading Lester for Yoenis Cespedes. Trading the best SP should be an indication of a rebuild. So acquiring a veteran OF who contractually prohibited from being offered arbitration made very little sense. 2. Trading Lackey for Joe Kelly and Allen Craig. Again, clearly dismantling the rotation and getting back an overpaid injured infielder and a relief pitcher? He might have had some reasoning for these moves. I’ll probably never understand it…
  7. notin
    I’m sure there is something similar in mind. However, before 2003 the Sox nearly hired Billy Beane, and even if the intention was to operate more similarly to the surprisingly successful A’s of the early 2000’s, it’s not like Henry then have the team a limited operating cost with an Oakland budget. Henry actually appears to be cyclical with this team. He brings in free-spending GMs who drop tons and tons of cash and make crazy long term commitments like Duquette and Dombrowski, but then replaced them with GMs who focus on building back the farm system and provide cheaper talent while those contracts run down. Epstein was the perfect GM. He was able to maintain the winning while rebuilding the farm. He spent a lot but he won a lot and kept the farm producing minimum wage players to keep everything in line. He probably wants Bloom to be Epstein 2.0. It’s a tall order but certainly an understandable plan…
  8. notin
    Baseball had playoffs before the World Series, too. That was my point.
  9. notin
    Maybe for the same reason fans only count World Series titles as if there were no playoffs in the first 30 seasons of MLB?
  10. notin
    So you don’t know either…
  11. notin
    Did Bloom force Cora to use arguably his best RP solely to piggyback one SP? Did Bloom force Cora to use Barnes in extra inning games multiple times while other options were available?
  12. notin
    Because Cora…
  13. notin
    Did you (of all people) miss that I was clearly talking about Frank German?
  14. notin
    Yes and we traded for that guy last year, and ate Adam Ottavino’s salary in the deal…
  15. notin
    His 105th pitch was like 98mph. He’ll be fine…
  16. notin
    With the bullpen burned out a bit after getting lit up last night and another game today and more tomorrow, this was so necessary…
  17. notin
    Is it a fad? Is anyone else doing it?
  18. notin
    That they acquired Wacha and Hill this off-season to go with Sale, Eovaldi and Pivetta does certainly indicate they planned to start the season with both Houck and Whitlock in the bullpen. By the time they learned Sale was hurt, there wasn’t much left on the free agent market for SP. Not sure if they talked to Oakland about Manaea or Montas and what if anything happened there. But at the very least, they needed to do better work backfilling the bullpen when relievers got bumped to the rotation. But Cora’s use of Houck has been beyond stupid. Not sure if this is his idea, some sort of stupid developmental plan (which seems incredibly stupid with its specificity if it is one) or what the (complete absence of) logic is…
  19. notin
    I do think Cora deserves a huge chunk of blame for how he’s using it…
  20. notin
    I think a big part of it was a lot of scouts just didn’t see that level of talent in the 18yo kid from Tennessee. Some players just get a lot better after that age…
  21. notin
    It’s interesting that Betts would have been a star anywhere. Betts was drafted in the fifth round and was the 172nd player chosen in 2011. If he was such a obvious star talent who was going to succeed anywhere, why did he get passed over 171 times?
  22. notin
    One of the reasons the Sox failed to develop any young pitchers is that it’s a myth based on double standards. Fans who repeat this myth only count pitchers drafted/signed by Boston and pitch for Boston. And they always ignore the ones traded away, like Masterson, Hagadone, Kopech, Presey, etc. I suppose if they also counted the ones the Sox acquired like ERod, I could see the point. And the notion that Sox coaching/development ruined Chavis and Dalbec and (before them) Middlebrooks ignores a really obvious flaw - all these players made the majors, something that is not the given that many fans seem to think…
  23. notin
    From the same people who brought you “See”!!
  24. notin
    The original bullpen had 3 experienced closers in Barnes, Robles, and Diekman. Barnes just can’t get it together. Robles is the lucky version of Brasier. And Diekman is subject to bouts of wildness and a ridiculously predictable over-dependence on his slider. To me, that leaves Houck…
  25. notin
    Over Whitlock and/or Houck? Don’t forget until the new CBA agreement, Sale was still assumed to be an active pitcher and a member of the rotation with Eovaldi, Pivetta, Wacha and Hill. And once they learned Sale broke himself again, that only bumps one of the two into the rotation…
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