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Everything posted by notin
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The one plus to the whole Barnes situation is for once, Cora didn’t use him in a close game…
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If soxprospects.com has any credibility, Barnes has two options left. Is THIS true?
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Matt Carpenter hasn’t been an All Star since 2016. Other All Stars that year include David Ortiz, Carlos Beltran and Mark Trumbo…
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I believe he’s been hitting in the 6 slot more lately. I wouldn’t be surprised if his “promotion” to the fifth spot was more to push lefty-hitting Verdugo down.
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Yes. Carpenter has a .605 OPS (70 OPS+) since 2020 and has no MLB plate appearances this season before tonight. Cordero has a modest 98 OPS+…
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Or … it’s not broken so don’t fix it…
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Watching the White Sox broadcast. Best line of the night from Jason Benetti “in this series the Red Sox have stranded more people than a discount cruise line”.
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Nothing at this stage is early for 39yo Robinson Cano…
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We know they anticipated paying him $125 mill over 5 years…
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I said the Sox had 4 players who would command money in a specific range. Sale got money in that range, injury or not. That he isn’t working out is a negative scenario, but very a possibility for any of those 4. The point is - trying to retain all 4, or even the other 3, was always going to be difficult if not impossible. Especially on a team that clearly does not want to operate with a budget over $240mill. But let’s leave Sale out and live in a hypothetical world where the Sox keep Bogaets, Betts and Devers at a realistic AAV of $90mill for the three. So next year, who pitches?
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Even last night when he came up with the bases loaded, he hit the ball hard. Just right at the 2b. Maybe 10 feet to either side, that game is tied…
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And so far, the Sox did commit to one of those superstars. And even with the discounted price, how is Sale working out?
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And it would work closer to that if the Sox never brought in highly paid free agents from the outside. But at some point, it gets difficult for any team to afford it. Especially since it turns into a long term commitment…
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They may not think of it that way, but those salaries count toward luxury tax limits and are therefore part of the budget…
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Fans may want continuity, but players prefer money. The 2018 Red Sox had 4 players clearly earmarked for salaries in the $25-40mill range AAV (Betts, Devers, Sale, Bogaerts). Do fans honestly expect any team to shell out some $100mill to $140mill on 10% of the roster? How are the other 36 players going to get paid? Some of them might prefer a tad over the league minimum?
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That’s why home runs are so important. No one gets tired from trotting…
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Manfred is working on a plan to use baseballs where the seam height gets higher as the score differential increases…
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Apparently Cora needs to convince LaRussa to hold back the bullpen pitchers we can hit so they can be used in subsequent games. Back to reality - there is a strategic reason to pile on runs, especially in the first game of a series. It can force a team to burn through their bullpen, which actually can help in later games…
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This type of thing gets said a lot. Do people really believe this type of thing is possible?
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The last out in this game featured 2 players who could have made a food list on Bellhorn’s Fun With Baseball Names thread - Burger and Danish…
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Probably. But as Bogaerts was one year from free agency at the time, I’m surprised he signed anything at all…
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Disagree. If not for the opt out, perhaps Bogaerts leavers after 2019 as a free agent instead of playing here for the last 2+ seasons at $20mill. Without the opt out, it might have taken a lot more to sign Bogaerts. Perhaps more than the Sox we’re willing/able to spend…
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Not so sure. Yore telling me that guy playing LF for the Red Sox in 2020, the guy who batted .103 with a 42 OPS+? So your story is that guy was not only a Major League ball player, but that he was the Andrew Benintendi? A guy often compared to Wade Boggs by people with less than 12 brain cells? Sorry. I don’t believe it. That was some random imposter…
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I don’t think Bloom had much choice. Trade him or keep him around for one more 60 game season in which the Sox ace was already out. Betts was going to extend for anything less than the GNP of Canada. Even the Sox most free-spending GM of all time was unable to satisfy him. I’m not even sure how willing he was to extend with LA. By the time he signed, he’d been part of their organization for 5 months, and MLB had already cancelled spring training and the first third of the season and there was no end in sight. It’s a really safe bet Friedman spent all of those 5 months trying to talk extension. It’s an equally safe bet he also spent them all sweating profusely. You come out here and you’d think Bloom traded Betts with the same whimsy with which the Dodgers dealt Pedro to the Expos, and all Betts wanted was any extension at all…
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Pivetta, too…
