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  1. harmony
    The Red Sox are scheduled to play April 9-12 in Seattle, where the Mariners today announced that the scheduled March home games will be moved to another location amid coronavirus concerns: https://www.mlb.com/mariners/team/statement This Oregon resident has tickets to the home opener March 26 (and had hoped to see my San Diego-based daughter in an athletic competition 90 miles north of Seattle on March 27-28). I attended a baseball game Saturday at Stanford, which has moved most classes online for the foreseeable future. The Sunken Diamond was nearly empty after the university had limited attendance at all athletic events to one-third capacity to promote "social distancing." It was unsettling this morning to read that three TSA security workers at the San Jose airport have tested positive for the coronavirus after my wife and I passed through security there late Monday afternoon.
  2. harmony
    The Red Sox may go with an opener:
  3. harmony
    From the New York Post: https://nypost.com/2020/02/28/were-dead-the-ominous-alcs-meeting-that-foretold-astros-cheating-doom/ .. citing an ESPN podcast.
  4. harmony
    On the other hand, Wil Myers could be the Mike Lowell who in 2007 joined the Red Sox with his underwater contract. Or not.
  5. harmony
    And the Red Sox can go forward with a shaky rotation and lowly ranked farm system.
  6. harmony
    On the flip side, the Padres may be pushing for less cash from their side knowing that the Red Sox have few options to bolster their thin pitching ranks and lowly rated farm system. Or not.
  7. harmony
    Overblown is the narrative that a general manager will make desperation moves "to save his job." The general manager is likely to make prudent moves with the knowledge his job is in jeopardy if the team continues to lose.
  8. harmony
    FWIW the early ZiPS projections give the Red Sox a 29.3 percent chance of advancing to the postseason and the San Diego Padres a 51.6 percent chance of advancing to the postseason: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-obscenely-early-zips-projected-standings/
  9. harmony
    "Desperate" may be the most overused word of the baseball offseason. The closest thing to desperation may have been the Red Sox trade of Mookie Betts (perhaps to get under the luxury tax threshold ... or not). The attachment of a top prospect or two to a salary dump of Wil Myers would not appear to be a move to yield immediate results for the San Diego Padres.
  10. harmony
    Red Sox marketing does not belong in the 20th century. It's a simple, prudent business decision. Things could be worse. In a five-day sale announced Tuesday, the Seattle Mariners slashed some ticket prices in half for their Season Opener on March 26. Reeled me in.
  11. harmony
    My condolences, moon.
  12. harmony
    Over the past three seasons at Triple A, Rusney Castillo's wRC+ has dropped from 138 in 369 plate appearances in 2017 to 120 in 511 plate appearances in 2018 to 93 in 493 plate appearances in 2019. https://www.fangraphs.com/players/rusney-castillo/17016/stats?position=OF Past a player's 30th birthday, skills can deteriorate in the minors as well.
  13. harmony
    In 19 relief appearances with the Red Sox last year, Andrew Cashner posted an ERA of 3.86 in 23.1 innings with 12 walks and 21 strikeouts, holding opponents to a .210/.309/.358/.667 line: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=cashnan01&t=p&year=2019
  14. harmony
    The drug dealer and the drug buyer should share responsibility. We've created this market for here-first information (and resulting misinformation).
  15. harmony
    Taijuan Walker reportedly is headed back to Seattle: https://twitter.com/tai_walker/status/1227662734755393536
  16. harmony
    Not to mention softlaw's promotion of Will Middlebrooks.
  17. harmony
    Free agent starters, according to MLB Trade Rumors: Starting Pitchers Cody Anderson (29) Chad Bettis (31) Clay Buchholz (35) Andrew Cashner (33) Marco Estrada (36) Matt Harvey (31) Jeremy Hellickson (33) JC Ramirez (31) Clayton Richard (36) Danny Salazar (30) Aaron Sanchez (27) Jason Vargas (37) Taijuan Walker (27) https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2018/08/2019-20-mlb-free-agents.html
  18. harmony
    Do you have a different report? https://highheelsonthefield.typepad.com/all_heels_on_deck/2019/02/dodgers-after-dark-the-sexual-assaults-mlb-never-investigated-a-teams-culture-unexamined.html Reports indicate that Alex Verdugo's action and/or inaction was appalling but the linked report lacks the specificity of your allegations.
  19. harmony
    Steamer projects 2020 WAR of 0.8 in 136 games for Mike Yastrzemski and 2.0 in 147 games for Jackie Bradley Jr. (who is four months older than Yastrzemski).
  20. harmony
    Jackie Bradley Jr. for San Francisco righthander Jeff Samardzija: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/samarje01.shtml Or not.
  21. harmony
    The Red Sox reportedly are interested in free agent center fielder Kevin Pillar: The Sox reportedly could cut Jackie Bradley Jr. within the first 16 days of Spring Training and owe him only one month's pay of less than $2 million.
  22. harmony
    Guarantees work both ways. Should the entire system -- the draft, the team control, the salary structure before free agency -- be abolished to grant baseball players the freedoms most individuals enjoy in the employment marketplace?
  23. harmony
    I've shared this before, but nearly four years ago I went out to the University of Portland to see Saint Mary's College of California ace Corbin Burnes, who pitched a gem: https://portlandpilots.com/sports/baseball/stats/2016/saint-marys-game-1-/boxscore/8024 I don't even remember Gael outfielder Anthony Gonsolin going 3-for-4 with a homer and three RBI.
  24. harmony
    Why should the Dodgers throw in a prospect (unless they're getting back a prospect such as Brusdar Graterol)? Going back to the original tentative deal, what if the Red Sox were OK with Graterol's medicals but the Twins had problems with Kenta Maeda's medicals? Would the Twins be justified in asking the Red Sox to add a prospect to the deal?
  25. harmony
    And the Dodgers could ask the Red Sox to pay more of David Price's salary. The Dodgers apparently did not veto the tentative deal.
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