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  1. notin
    I think a lot of people just want him signed for whatever. The problem is, with Boston now, he can ask for an exorbitant sum to re-sign because free agency is still there as a fallback. If/when he gets to free agency, offers of his exorbitant magnitude may or may not come. The PR problem for Boston is in this strategy. If Bogaerts asks for 10 years /$300 mill and they let him test the market, his best offer might be 6/$150mill. He’ll sign that and many Sox fans will think “they let him walk over THAT?”
  2. notin
    But both sides are open to talk. The thing is, no one seems to say what Bogaerts wants. Should the Sox just re-sign him at any cost? What if he wants Seager money?
  3. notin
    Mookie wasn’t just traded “over money.” He asked for an exorbitant sum, which very likely means he didn’t want to be here anyway. And so far everything with Bogaerts and Devers is speculation. They both still play for the Red Sox…
  4. notin
    It really comes down to whether or not Bogaerts wants to be paid like Lindor and Seager. He’s older, but Seager gets hurt a lot more. (Or has so far.) Now if Bogaerts/Boras price him closer to, say, Semien, that seems more realistic to me…
  5. notin
    They can be enshrined in the Joe West Wing…
  6. notin
    I suppose JD is more likely to return than Bogaerts. JD is in a place in his career where he can’t really make crazy contract demands. Bogaerts is in a place in his career where it’s the last time he can…
  7. notin
    Well we really don’t know if they were. Not every offer makes it to the press. Heck no one really knows how willing they were to talk then. I would think Devers would prefer to wait as long as possible to sign anything, since his price tag is only going to go up…
  8. notin
    Do fans actually think a season in which a team wins 92 games but misses the postseason is a failed season?
  9. notin
    Contracts have to expire, and trying to time contracts with other contracts is a bad idea. Ever look up who was in the last year of their deals for the 2004 Red Sox? Imagine if that team didn’t win…
  10. notin
    How many actual years of rebuilding have there been to date?
  11. notin
    Fewer rings, however…
  12. notin
    He needs to figure out how to get that 1.7mph back on his fastball…
  13. notin
    I think too many people are volunteered for missions to the sun on this board. A simple DFA is fine with me. Maybe Barnes can be moved in a bad contract swap for a 1b? I have no candidates in mind just yet. (But Eric Hosmer and his complete outlier of a 175 OPS+ and his 3 years $39mill probably shouldn’t be one.)
  14. notin
    27 points at halftime might be a record for a game seven…
  15. notin
    Houck’s track record as a starter isn’t so great I want him in the rotation. He really does belong in the bullpen. Now why they use him to piggyback starters who have a short leash is a mystery to me. Just throw him in the back end and make him a closer/high leverage guy and leave him there. And DFA Brasier. He is in the bottom 2% in exit velocity against, hard hit%, and average batted ball distance. He’s fooling nobody…
  16. notin
    And throwing rocks at old people is such frivolous behavior…
  17. notin
    Totally assuming. But it is a very common practice. Like happened with Lindor one year before. It makes sense to know what their budget would be as early as possible since they didn’t know there would be a pandemic and probably wanted to make other moves that they needed to know whether or not they could afford..
  18. notin
    Word got out that Correa spends his winters throwing rocks at old people?
  19. notin
    I suppose it’s very possible Mookie had no intention of signing with LA. But after some 50 games of his option year were cancelled and there was no end in sight, he reconsidered his position. Did that happen? We’ll never know. Possible? Certainly…
  20. notin
    No. I would assume negotiations began shortly after the trade because I doubt the Dodgers viewed Mookie as a one season rental.
  21. notin
    Tough to say. We were two months of cancelled games into the season when he finally signed. If the Dodgers were the goal, he certainly strung them along for a while…
  22. notin
    Well, you never studied law. (Frequent Bugs Bunny joke.)
  23. notin
    DFA Brasier and bring up a starter. Coming into the game, Brasier was in the bottom 2% in MLB in exit velocity allowed. He’s not good and hasn’t been for a long time now…
  24. notin
    An absolute favorite in the Notin household…
  25. notin
    Why does it matter if the results justify my opinion? Whether I’m right or wrong, no one is going to hold me accountable or give me credit. Bloom does have on trait he shares with Dombrowski, Cherington and Epstein and probably even Heywood Sullivan before him; he doesn’t care what I think. I do think Lou Gorman cared. Not much. Just a little. But it mattered to me…
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