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  1. notin
    True, unless you extend them before they can declare free agency. But even then, as long as free agency is still an option, the player and his agent have all the leverage …
  2. notin
    I’ve been pretty vocal about my preference for Graterol over Downs and Wong. But then that Minnesota got involved just shows how hard it can be to pry pitching prospects from Andrew Friedman. As for Downs and Wong, it’s still too early to give up on them. Wong has a low ceiling, but Downs does not and his numbers/play took a huge hit with COVID and the Sox subsequent plan for him…
  3. notin
    If he didn’t trade Mookie, we would have had him for one more 60 game season on a team that had Ryan Weber as the #3 starter…
  4. notin
    That depends. I see nothing wrong with signing only value guys if you extend your star players at market value…
  5. notin
    That implies Cora lets him see the lineup two full times first…
  6. notin
    No one on this board can explain it. But since Hill is starting today, Houck will pitch. The only question is when. The stupidest part of the incredibly stupid piggyback strategy is Cora seems to completely ignore if Hill is doing well and tries to force reasons to bring in Houck. Hill can throw 5 no hit inning, but an infield single that rolls 30 feet down the baseline will enough to knock him out of the game…
  7. notin
    Not likely to be an external move, since most teams are not sellers yet. And even the ones that know they are will wait until all offers are on the table. So they will wait until the deadline anyway. And why wouldn’t they?
  8. notin
    And until he stops being injured this year, he won’t even get a chance to prove his control issues have been addressed. The problem with D Hernandez is the Sox can’t DFA him until they’ve just given up on him. 25yo pitchers with options and fastballs in excess of 102mph do not last long on the waiver wire…
  9. notin
    To be fair, he never mentioned starting pitchers - or pitchers at all - in the post about journeyman….
  10. notin
    Especially since he is currently injured…
  11. notin
    And many insisted he should retire and free up that $13.75mill AAV for the Sox to give to someone else…
  12. notin
    His current AAV is $20mill. $220mill over 9 has an AAV of $24.4mill. And for 9 years, until Bogaerts turns 29. I could see offering that to Devers. But I’d be very surprised if he accepted. Now if they did offer that to Devers, reportedly he said the Sox were about $100mill off. So if Devers wants about $320mill, over how many years? $320mill over 9 years is an AAV of $35.5mill. That destroys the contract Mookie got. Is Devers going to get Beyond Mookie Money from Boston? From anyone? Pedroia’s contact was $110mill for 8. AAV of $13.75 mill. Not in the same category at all. Heck, the Bogaerts offer of $90mill over 4 is approaching double the AAV of Pedroia’s deal…
  13. notin
    That’s exactly what SS said they did. Possible the name in the report was wrong. All I’m saying is it would be a dumb offer to make…
  14. notin
    Much more impressive than my high school’s alumni of Chris Colabello…
  15. notin
    Not the point. I’m just saying they shouldn’t give 30yo Bogaerts a 9 year contract at a $25mill AAV…
  16. notin
    I’m not entirely sure they should…
  17. notin
    Well, Kopech is just getting going now…
  18. notin
    It’s not that Lester/Cespedes wasn’t fair. It just looked like a complete lack of direction. The Sox were heading to last place that year, and Cespedes was just not the guy to get them out of that in two months…
  19. notin
    He does know Berrios wasn’t a free agent and was acquired for two very very good prospects, right?
  20. notin
    While Cespedes did get Porcello, I think that was not exactly the plan all along. But my point was - you’re dealing your 1 and 2 SP. Quit pretending you’re reloading. Cherington was collecting bullets for the belt when the chamber was still empty…
  21. notin
    Tampa’s plan was always to sign players to reasonable extensions insanely early in their careers. Evan Longoria had less than 2 weeks when he extended. Matt Moore had 2 starts under his belt. And these deals were so team-friendly, there was almost no risk if these players struggled, since Moore was effectively paid like an expensive middle reliever anyway. The Sox have yet to really try anything like that, with Whitlock being the closest…
  22. notin
    The problem is, you have to keep spending for top talent long after it stops producing. And it prevents bringing in new top talent or retaining existing top talent. Per sportrac, the Sox have a payroll of $203 million. But well over half of that is on contracts from Dombrowski. Some (Bogaerts, Eovaldi, Martinez) are producing. Some (Sale, Price) are not. And Vazquez has been lately but overall isn’t much… But having to pay all these deals does limit keeping and bringing in other talent..
  23. notin
    Ben made some nice moves and win a ring, but he made two thoroughly bizarre moves that I never understood. 1. Trading Lester for Yoenis Cespedes. Trading the best SP should be an indication of a rebuild. So acquiring a veteran OF who contractually prohibited from being offered arbitration made very little sense. 2. Trading Lackey for Joe Kelly and Allen Craig. Again, clearly dismantling the rotation and getting back an overpaid injured infielder and a relief pitcher? He might have had some reasoning for these moves. I’ll probably never understand it…
  24. notin
    I’m sure there is something similar in mind. However, before 2003 the Sox nearly hired Billy Beane, and even if the intention was to operate more similarly to the surprisingly successful A’s of the early 2000’s, it’s not like Henry then have the team a limited operating cost with an Oakland budget. Henry actually appears to be cyclical with this team. He brings in free-spending GMs who drop tons and tons of cash and make crazy long term commitments like Duquette and Dombrowski, but then replaced them with GMs who focus on building back the farm system and provide cheaper talent while those contracts run down. Epstein was the perfect GM. He was able to maintain the winning while rebuilding the farm. He spent a lot but he won a lot and kept the farm producing minimum wage players to keep everything in line. He probably wants Bloom to be Epstein 2.0. It’s a tall order but certainly an understandable plan…
  25. notin
    Baseball had playoffs before the World Series, too. That was my point.
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