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  1. Nick
    Of course major leaguers are better athletes than 99% of the posters here. By that standard, yes Pedey was great athlete. Dustin was very good baseball player. But the bottom line is we paid him $28.5M per year for 4 seasons (2 of which he did not play a full season). And of course we can't predict the future. But the lookback from Henry's perspective is that he'll be cautious about giving out 8 year deals, even to a position player. He did not make contributions in 2018 when we won the world series. All your buddies can stick together, Notin, Bellhorne, Old Red and Moon, but the contract was a bust.
  2. Nick
    Say what you want, this is why you don't give out 8 year deals. You're pretty level headed guy. Apparently you didn't like my use of the words, "f***ing ********". Same goes for extending both Sale and Barnes when YOU DIDN'T have to extend them when Sox did. Is it any wonder that Henry has not allowed Bloom to approach Eovaldi with contract extension? And he's pitching well. My guess is Henry rather pay little more to make sure Eovaldi is healthy when the extension offer is made. ie after he becomes FA. You don't give out non athletic guy that stands 5'6" tall an 8 year deal.
  3. Nick
    Let's see how Hill does today. Unless he turns it around, he maybe the candidate to be replaced by Chris Sale. I anxiously wait on Paxton news.
  4. Nick
    I call f***ing Bull s*** to everyone of you that keep claiming Dustin gave us a team discount. He played 3 games in 2018, 6 games in 2019, 0 games in 2020 and 20121 Red Sox essentially paid him $110M for 4 healthy seasons, average of $28.5M per year. (obviously less if you discount the shortened 2020 season) He also ONLY played 93 games in 2015, 105 games in 2017. What a f***ing discount. Don't f***ing sugar coat it. It ended up being a BAD CONTRACT. Tell me how in the hell you're going to defend that to Henry? Same thing may ended up being applied to Chris Sale.
  5. Nick
    Jesus, all of you are really getting technical about each post. I guess words do matter. BTW, I consider Sawamura to be a journeyman because of his experience in Japan. Maybe that's wrong on my part. I'd consider every starter on Worcester roster to come pitch in the pen for us based on ineffectiveness of Sox pen. Yeah, I didn't make that clear with Winckowski. SHOOT ME. Not perfect like many of you here. Let's gang up on Nick day. I had no idea Darwinzon was struggling in the minors. My bad for opening my big mouth without little research. But if my life depended it on it, I may pick Darwinzon over couple of bullpen guys in extra inning. That's just me. I see Cordero as 'sexy' ballplayer. I see Arroyo as blue collar, lunch bucket type. Each to his own. I like players with high ceiling, especially when they are young. If you think Arroyo has higher ceiling than Cordero than we have nothing to talk about. I maybe wrong but that's just me.
  6. Nick
    I'm happy with our starters. I was thinking about the pen. Anymore you need guys with 'good stuff', especially in 10th inning. My feeling is that Brasier, Sawamura, et al has no chance to hold the score to zero. That's why I even brought up Darwinzon. Hell he may walk two batter but he can also strike out three. Kimbrel to some extent suffered from wildness the last year he was with the Sox. But he usually came in with no base runners.
  7. Nick
    When he was traded, didn't we have Beni/Betts/JBJ trio playing well?
  8. Nick
    Larry, you make a great point. I much rather see guys like Winckowski given a chance as opposed to bunch of journeymen players. I was surprised to see Darwinzon get sent down. If he comes in clean inning, I have more faith in him than half the guys in the pen.
  9. Nick
    Pedey, in his first 144 at bats, hit around .190 with OPS of .560 or so. (2006 and April of 2007). Not at all comparing Cordero to Pedey but Cordero in 2021 hit .189/.497 in 127 AB. It takes some for time to get going. He's athletic, physical, can play multiple positions (1B, LF, RF). Spare me how bad he is at 1B. 99% of us had Devers playing 1B AFTER 4 seasons or so at 3B. There's no more talk of switching positions for Devers. We all know Casas is coming at some point. I'm rooting for both Dalbec and Cordero. My eyes tell me they have higher ceiling than say Arroyo. Just my opinion. I also think Winckowski will return at some point. He's got good stuff. Let's hope it was just the 'ball' issue.
  10. Nick
    Give guys in the farm chance to pitch. Bringing back retreads such as Brasier does no good. Has he really gotten any better? I'm anxious to watch to J Winchowski pitch. I like your idea #2. Do something different. Keep doing the same thing won't cure what ills the Sox pen. Each day, I'm getting tired of Dieckman. All talk, no command.
  11. Nick
    Whitlock throws enough strikes that someone will make contact. Hopefully it's with no base runner(s).
  12. Nick
    We beat the 100 game winner Rays last year so I'm not worried about winning the division. Anxious to see what we look like with addition of Sale and Paxton. We'll probably pick up couple of players at trade deadline.
  13. Nick
    Thank you
  14. Nick
    36 pitches through 3 innings, 28 strikes.....
  15. Nick
    O's give us some trouble. Rays went 18-1 vs the Orioles last year. That's pretty amazing.
  16. Nick
    Good start for Whitlock.
  17. Nick
    Can you tell me how you did it?
  18. Nick
    If Story triples, Ruiz will have pitched for cycle.
  19. Nick
    He has the cool factor playing defense.
  20. Nick
    Free Agent Signing Story not finished.... Looking quickly at OPS leaders at each position in AL, with enough qualifying plate appearances 2B Story 1st out of 11 players qualified DH JD, 1st out of 8 players qualified 3B Devers, 2nd out of 14 players qualified (3B position is pretty well set in AL) RF JBJ, 6th out of 8 players qualified LF Verdugo, 8th out of 8 players qualified CF Kike, 9th out of 9 players qualified C only 3 catchers have enough plate appearances, Vaz is not one of the three 1B 10 players have enough plate appearances. Dalbec trails the 10th place spot by significant amount Story, Kike and JBJ are surprises for me.
  21. Nick
    You'll have to take that up with MLB.com. Don't shoot the messanger.
  22. Nick
    Red Sox: Alex Binelas, 1B/3B (No. 21) The hottest hitter in the Red Sox system for the second straight month, Binelas has batted .278/.423/.432 with six homers in his last 23 games in High-A. A third-rounder out of Louisville last July who came from the Brewers in the Hunter Renfroe trade in December, he stands out most with his power and ranks third in the High-A South Atlantic League with 10 bombs in 34 contests. Need to wait on this guy before we finalize trade evaluation of Renfroe for JBJ.
  23. Nick
    Bloom got us to within 2 games of World Series. I'd say he had a good annual review last year.
  24. Nick
    Great comeback. Maybe he wants us to carry 3 catchers. You know, better roster management.
  25. Nick
    Thanks for the update.....maybe we're lucky we didn't commit $85M.
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