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Technically it happened when someone called it “devastating.” It was, at worst, disappointing…
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No even remotely true. The same year the Sox took Ball at #7, the Astros selected RHP Mark Appel at #1 overall. It’s hard to argue that a team that has been in the last 5 ALCS was devastated by a single flubbed pick. Unless this is one of those devastations with no devastating effects. Fans get far too worked up over drafts in any sport, as evidenced by the NFL and NBA actually televising them. While they do absolutely matter, teams don’t get devastated when something goes wrong with a single pick…
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Not to mention, the entire point with Ball is he was #7 overall and how horrible and “devastating” it was to fail with a pick that high. Houck was 24th. Is missing with tthe 24th pick supposed to be equally devastating?
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First, the 40 man roster is the only eligible players. Second, many like for ERod, involved giving up a player with only 2 months left anyway…
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So how many pitchers will the Sox open the season with? I’m assuming 15, at least while the 28 man roster is in effect. However, right now I still only see 2 obvious bench players (Arroyo, Plawecki). Travis Shaw might be able to snag a third spot. But if not, who? And who for the other spot? A 16th pitcher? Is that even legal?
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Financially, sure. Arausz probably wouldn’t even be making the MLBminimum if not for Rule 5. At least not for parts of the last 2 years. But it rarely works out for teams selecting, and probably hinders more players than it helps at the actual baseball aspect of it all…
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But the Ball pick in the grand scheme was meaningless, and there was no need to take a “sure thing”. The same process that decided Ball was a good draft pick also identified Mookie Betts, Travis Shaw, Jarren Duran and Thad Ward in later rounds
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Despite the success of Whitlock, the Rule 5 draft is still really not a good way to acquire players. In most cases, it gives the dual disadvantage of losing both a year of development with a year of control…
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8 on the 40 man roster. It would have been nice if Ball had even been a middle reliever, but, again, we’re talking about one pick almost 10 years ago. And one failure in only one method of acquiring young pitching. The Sox have acquired numerous other young, cheap, controllable pitchers via other methods (trade, IFA, Rule 5 draft). Is there any difference between drafted pitchers and pitchers acquired by any other method? For years, Sox fans kept crying “we haven’t developed a starter since Lester”. Odd, as it forgets about Buchholz. And also, we had other equivalent (in terms of control, salary, service time, etc.) starters like ERod on the staff serving the exact same purpose. One could argue some of the arms traded away, like Montas, for example, were far more detrimental than not hitting the mark on a single draft pick…
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Heck the three pitchers drafted ahead of Ball were Mark Appel, Jon Gray and Kohl Stewart. I think Sox fans overreact to the flop that was the Trey Ball pick as it it was some short of shameful anomaly. It’s the kind of thing that happens multiple times every year…
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It is comical that they thought they could find this alleged treasure that people have been looking for for over 300 years…
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He was just being pissy about not getting his Famous Original Ray’s…
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There has been the racist aspect. I can agree with that. When Dee Brown was drafted by the Celtics, reportedly a lot of players told him he was going “up South”. Ironic as Brown played his college ball at Jacksonville University in Florida. The follow up was a story about Brown getting accosted by police as he house-hunted in Wellesley…
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For all the times I’ve seen someone ask that silly question “but can they play in Boston?”, I would guess somewhere between 99% and 101% of the inquiries were about on-field performance, and no one was concerned about whether or not they wanted to be the topic of an article by Dan Shaughnessy…
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So I should just set my default to green?
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I actually never heard anything about it before him…
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You are a pipe dream for the LSD-riddled program planners at the Discovery Channel family of networks…
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No. Tony LaRussa gave a massive backhanded compliment to Edgar Renteria as he left, saying he wouldn’t be able to handle Boston because he was too sweet. LaRussa very possibly meant “he’ll fail without me,” but when Renteria had a bad season (possibly due to injury), the myth about MLB players not being able to handle Boston was born…
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More mysterious than the NFL’s QBR, a stat that baffles both mathematicians and treasure hunters alike as they search for its meaning and (very well ) hidden value…
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The list of players who “couldn’t handle Boston” overlaps in a big way with the list of free agents who went and got injured. I mean, Price? His first season in Boston, he threw 230 innings and won 17 games. I’m pretty sure his downward trend after that was more due to aging, worn out ligaments and tendons than it was to anything Gerry Callahan had to say…
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Groome should make his debut at some point this year…
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If only Sale would just adopt Eovaldi’s healthy lifestyle…
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So you’re fully on board with the “he’s never getting injured again!!” bandwagon based on one season. And he’s clearly worth the $100 (or likely more) risk?
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I’ve theorized all along that the Sox would get a RHH outfielder to platoon with Bradley and to, well, just be an actual fourth outfielder on the bench. Pham signed with the Reds. The better remaining outfielders on the market (Conforto, Goodwin, Eaton) are all left-handed hitters. Certainly (with the exception of Conforto) they could be good backups, but not platoon partners. It looks like Bradley will start more than even I realized…
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He didn’t commit 4 years to Paxton. He gave him one of those “2 years but we know you’re hurt for the first year” contracts…
