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This!!
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As I get older, that means absolutely nothing. I want World Series Championship teams. I wait anxiously as Bloom assembles next winning it all team. Starts with Casas and Bello. Hopefully Devers is in that equation.
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Why now? Why did we not keep him? Is he a better player now than when we let him go? Again, all these are minor movements. Signing multiple Beni types will NOT make Sox MUCH BETTER. I wait anxiously for difference maker/impact player signing(s).
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It's about winning the World Series. Right now specifically, fielding a team good enough to beat the Astros. It's about building the future around Bello, Casas and Devers. And we're talking about bringing back slow white dude in Beni? Pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase. (yeah, it's a bait to stimulate discussion!)
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Everything Must Be in Play https://nypost.com/2022/10/24/everything-must-be-in-play-as-yankees-prove-theyre-not-enough/ Where is my favorite Yankee poster? Not piling on but we discussed horrible situation that Yankees find themselves in......winning AL East is just not enough. They have set a high bar for themselves. It was a failure. 0-4 in American League Championship. They find themselves in similar situation with Judge as we do with Xander. It will cost us both more just to get same results in 2023 from their best players respectively.
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Yes, I'm on his side of the fence today. That could change in few weeks.
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It was a long shot but I wanted Sox to sign Schwarber last winter. I got it that there was an overlap with JD but looking back, we could have used him at DH, LF and 1B. A four year deal was not going to kill the Sox, who stupidly went over the luxury tax by mere $5M or so. IF you are going to go over the first time, you go over by $20M, everyone knows that. Acquiring JBJ was the biggest mistake. He added NOTHING. Defense? What did his defense get us? And please don't bring back Beni......he is not my idea of making the team 'much better in 2023'.
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Little surprised Guardians did not have a better starter for G5.
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Thanks for that, MVP.
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None of you have posted an acquisition that in my view says "we're much better in 2023". Yeah I get it that we will get worse maybe by not resigning Xander. But signing him does not make us "much better". He had a pretty good year and his signing gets us back to the starting gate. I will hold Bloom to what he said. And his mismanagement of luxury tax at the trade deadline this year will negatively impact us much greater the $900K penalty we paid. Many of you could have done better and I'm serious.
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Back to 2023 I will give JD credit. His OPS was 3rd among all the DH. Xander lead the shortstops. Devers I believe was in top 5. Let's hope Story can stay healthy and cut down on his strikeouts. Our outfield needs to give us better production. Would love to see starting pitcher #1 and starting pitcher #2 signed this offseason. That ought to do it.
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One world series title in last eight years for Dodgers who has made the playoffs every year. They are the Atlanta Braves of 1990's. I hope they never win another title as long as Betts is there. Yep, I said it. Hell we went further last year in the playoffs than the Dodgers who spent $302M to win 111 games. We spent measly $234M. Only one team will celebrate and as long as it's not the Yankees, I'm good.
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Luckily we don't have enough good relievers to implement this tactic any time soon. lol
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Dodgers with CBT payroll of $302M fail to reach NL championship series despite winning 111 games. They won the make belief 2020 championship.
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Well he's in the starting line up when it counts so he's a regular. Kike will start so let's not waste anymore time. There's not 9 better position players than him so he's a regular. Move on to stuff that matters. We have catchers, 1B, 2B (when he's not injured), 3B, LF, CF (Kike). We should be talking about RF, SS and DH. Bigger conversation should be Starting Pitching. I have NOT seen big upgrade that Bloom has promised. We wait.
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I will again sign up for the major league package next year. Best value buy in my opinion. I did not stop my subscription when Betts was traded. I won't stop if Xander doesn't come back. I'll enjoy watching Bello and Casas next year. I am a Red Sox fan and a fan of Sox players.
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But he and super agent Scott Boras will want fair market value in free agency this offseason after signing a team-friendly contract in 2019. Fair Market Value is what the willing buyer (Sox) and the willing seller (Xander) agrees to. You can get million data on real estate transaction for a neighborhood but if the buyer is unwilling to meet the relative value of sold homes, then you have no deal. Stop, putting up what other shortstops received in the last 12 months. Sox has a price range as do Xander. Let's hope they overlap.
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Nope, MVP is right......Dever's $16-$17M salary is already baked in through the arbitration raises. There's enough room to add another $13M to get him to $30M and stay under the cap. MVP's total is about $13M short of $95M that I suggested. MVP is a math genius.
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Based on MLBtraderumor's anticipated arbitrations raises of $17M for Red Sox, it appears we have around $95M to spend. Pitching, Pitching, Pitching....short term deals... Or we can go big.... Judge $40M Xander $30M Devers $20M on top of $16M (or wait until 2024 and sign a starting pitcher for $20M) Hill $5M C McGuire/Wong 1B Casas/Dalbec/Hosmer 2B Story SS Xander 3B Devers LF Verdugo CF Kike RF Judge DH Casas/Hosmer/Dalbec Utility Arroyo, Chang, Refsnyder SP $20M man SP Sale SP Pivetta SP Bello SP Whitlock SP Crawford SP Hill RP Barnes RP Houck RP Schrieber RP Winckowski RP Kelly RP Ort RP Brasier RP German Don't criticize....just tell me how YOU would spend $95M....I need some concrete suggestions....put it on the line
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I sure would be tempted to spend big on starters for short deals. Two or three years max.
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Yes, but their 2023 numbers should be correct. Obviously they missed on the mutual option number for Pham. I like to use the site for team control, service years, etc. You definitely lose track of luxury tax final payroll for the current year by removing players that were traded.
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No.... They are both under team control for another 6 years. I would extending both after the third year, before their first arbitration year. Buy out two years of arbitration. That gives the Sox 8 years of team control starting next year. We have Xander, Devers and starting pitchers to worry about.
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I doubt they will keep him if it 'costs' Sox $5.8M on luxury tax line.
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How to spend $118M? Devers....$10M raise Xander....say $30M That leaves us $78M for arbitration increases. Our infield is set, unless we upgrade our catching position. We'll need a right fielder assuming Verdugo in left and Kike in center. $10M guy? We'll need a DH unless we fill that with utility/starters. Another $10M guy? By miracle, Sale comes back to go along with Pivetta and Bello. We have approximately $50M left to address starters/bullpen. It could be $80M if we let Xander walk.
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Anyone know why Cot's Baseball has Hosmer at net cost of $5.8M? ($18M less $12.28M) I thought our cost was the league minimum. Moon?
