Jump to content
Talk Sox
  • Create Account

notin

Old-Timey Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    52,260

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    45

 Content Type 

Profiles

Boston Red Sox Videos

2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking

Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits

Guides & Resources

2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker

News

Forums

Blogs

Events

Store

Downloads

Gallery

Everything posted by notin

  1. notin
    Souza has like 330 plate appearances since 2017. He’s more likely to sprain his wrist signing the contract than to play a season in a platoon role. Pham had very little experience in RF, but he’s a league average CF defender. He’s not a bad call…
  2. notin
    Souza has like 330 plate appearances since 2017. He’s more likely to sprain his wrist signing the contract than to play a season in a platoon role…
  3. notin
    He does the best foot on the free agent market, although his offense is pretty much random…
  4. notin
    Good. I was worried we had the wrong Chad Tracy…
  5. notin
    If the players got such a raw deal on the last CBA, it does make zero sense for the owners to enforce a lockout…
  6. notin
    I’ve been suggesting McCutchen, but if the goal is to find a RHH bat to platoon with Bradley, whom I am assuming will play RF, is he a good option defensively? And if not, is there a better option available via free agency?
  7. notin
    What about Archie Bradley, Oliver Drake, or Wander Suero for RP targets?
  8. notin
    If Iglesias is the backup 2b/SS, who’s the starter? Arroyo?
  9. notin
    Yeah, they’re just living in shacks…
  10. notin
    It’s really very frustrating. Baseball is the one sport where the off-season is still pretty exciting most years. All it has me wondering now is, was the old CBA really so unfair? And to whom?
  11. notin
    Exactly, which is why when I made my post about Keller after he was drafted I said it would probably be his only mention on this forum. Which has now turned out to be incorrect…
  12. notin
    Also I suppose I should be considered accurate on some level, since I’m usually in the neighborhood of being 100% incorrect…
  13. notin
    I still trust them. I don’t expect 100% accuracy from any sort, but I give them credit because they put the word “rumors” right there in their title…
  14. notin
    Whitlock was from the major league portion of the Rule 5 draft. Very different altogether. The minor league portion of the Rule 5 draft typically just lets career minor leaguers continue their careers with different minor league teams…
  15. notin
    Ok, so they were right. He did report it…
  16. notin
    The bigger question to me o is why are the Yankees pursuing OF at all. Now that they have (questionably) tendered Sanchez, they have Gallo, Judge, Stanton and Sanchez and only 4 positions to play them in. Unless they think Suzuki - who has considerable infielder experience - can handle shortstop, he’s not filling their primary need. And the overwhelming bulk of his infield experience is not at shortstop, with only 67 games there out of over 1,000 games in his career to date. I think the Yankee interest in Suzuki is probably nothing more than due diligence, and they are far more likely to pursue Correa or Story to round out their lineup…
  17. notin
    Did they say that out did they report MLB saying it?
  18. notin
    mlbtr
  19. notin
    It’s very rare. Usually when articles are written about the minor league portion of the Rule 5 draft, they have to go all the way back to Alexi Ogando to name an example that mattered. Keller had a good fastball, but no control. He’s like 27 or 28. Nothing there I am excited about, except that we pried him out of the Yankees organization…
  20. notin
    Minor league portion of the Rule 5 draft. Chances are good neither ever sees Worcester…
  21. notin
    He also has a history for not being a good teammate. It’s certainly possible they bring him back, but he’s far from my first choice and is getting towards the end of good career. If he was a placeholder for some stud prospect who we could expect to see come July, that’s one thing. But I don’t think Jeter Downs is that guy, and Yorke is off on the distant horizon…
  22. notin
    If they were talking against some sort of legal agreement, it would hardly be the first time. They’ve all skirted around the rules to gain advantages in the past…
  23. notin
    So you’re saying it’s definitive that Iglesias was better in Boston because he prefers East Coast teams and not because he only had 64 player appearances in Boston as opposed to 447 in Anaheim? His stretch in Baltimore was only 150 PA, giving him all of 214 PA on the East Coadt over multiple seasons, still far less than he had in Anaheim…
  24. notin
    You are going to have to be willing to accept that the Jose Iglesias you get for 2022 will very likely not be the one from late last season. It took a .915 OPS just to get him up to a 90OPS+. So if he’s not hitting - and the Angels didn’t release him because he was hitting too much - what have you got? His defense has declined and defense is needed less and less at 2b anyway, since shifts usually work the other way. Mentoring is fine, but probably a bit overrated. Should the ALCS runner up be taking on washed up players to mentor people in A ball in place of actual MLB talent that can help get them to the next level? And if they should, why do we have coaches in A ball?
  25. notin
    Apparently Suzuki was a SS/3B in Japan. A move to 2b wouldn’t surprise me. If the Sox do want Hernandez in the OF, then Suzuki is the only decent free agent option for 2b. The rest are all mediocre. The Sox could try to make an deal for a 2b. The Guardians have a surplus of MIF and a shortage of outfielders. The Sox are in the opposite position. A Jarren Duran/Tyler Freeman swap works on BTV. But I think the Sox might prefer a lesser target like Andres Gimenez…
×
×
  • Create New...