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Everything posted by notin
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So much for Plan B if Bloom can’t get Correa…
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I think he’ll be looking for a contract in between Corey Seager and Francisco Lindor. And so will Bogaerts next year…
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A Destitute Man’s replacement. Gordon had a 4 year stretch where he was worth 21.6 fWAR. In 5 full seasons, Benintendi has been worth less than half of that…
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Even the Rays opened up for star talent once in a while. They signed Longoria to a 6 year $100mill contract back in 2016. Adjusting for inflation and converting Ray Bucks to USD, that deal would be equivalent to a 6 year $45,000,000,000,000 today…
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And I was very worried about that…
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Kevin Mitchell
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The Sox farm definitely got deeper, but that doesn’t mean it improved past anyone else’s just yet…
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Most of them were replaceable types, except an argument can be made for Benintendi…
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It doesn’t appear to make sense, but that’s because we only use comparative methods of evaluating it. Let’s say the Sox farm had 100 future fWAR in it. And that total was good for the 20th best future fWAR from any farm. Then after the draft and a couple trades (and some player development), the Sox are able to add 15 more fWAR. But then after the draft and the trade deadline last year, so are the 19 teams in front of Boston. So now it’s still 20th. But did the farm improve?
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I suppose other farms may have also improved…
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True, but other than Betts, the Sox haven’t done much selling off of veterans for prospects lately. At least not veterans anyone cared about. (Sorry, Mr. Hembree.)
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So should the Sox have retained Jon Lester and foregone the acquisition of Rick Porcello, who was a big part of the 2016-18 run?
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I never said anything about whether or not the evaluators were including Whitlock. I just said he was never part of the Red Sox farm. And to date, he hasn’t been…
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I was exciting that as you typed, but the idea is Arauz and Whitlock were never part of the Sox state that scouts were ranking and evaluating…
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MLB Properties appears to be run similar to many other private corporate giants. For example, Cargill has a board of directors largely comprised of the Cargill and MacMillan families, who appoint a CEO (in this case, David MacLennon) to run the company. The MLB owners largely act like the BOD family members, and Manfred is the MLB doppelgänger for MacLennon…
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Yes, if you keep trading your MLB starters to bulk it up. Maybe there’s a reason Baltimore, Detroit and Miami are among the league’s best farm on just about every ranking…
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Nor was Whitlock ever in the Sox farm system. (Ditto Arauz prio to his MLB debut.)
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Also because Vern Stephens played shortstop for Boston more often than Pesky…
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Exactly, and just like in MLB, Dairy Queen franchise owners can’t sell the company property for private gain i.e. owning a DQ franchise doesn’t give someone the legal right to make Dairy Queen tee shirts and sell them on Etsy. (Dairy Queen probably wouldn’t waste their time pursuing legal action in this case, but they would certainly be able to.)
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I don’t think it’s the anti trust exemption that denies the owners the ability to market their brands. It’s because the teams and their logos are property of MLB, not Henry, Steinbrenner and company
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I was just trying to de-Italian him (and with a French spin for Mr. Monbouquette). Now you’ve gone and put him in the mafia!!
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It’s also not true to call the owners “individual business owners.” MLB is a singular business, not a group of businesses. The “owners” are really just majority shareholders in different divisions of the same company. They don’t really own anything, and are not free to license their brand individually…
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Agreed. We don’t call it collusion when the players get together to set their demands…
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No. No one did. Not even Tony Conigliere…
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They either guess or do something really boring like 3 year averages…
